First up, as you've probably noticed (and the main reason this is a separate post), I've changed my name. This has been something I've been thinking of doing for almost 6 months now, in some ways I've grown out of Storme Hawk, and in others I just prefer Novastorme. Also you can still contact me on stormehawk@gmail.com and thestormehawk@gmail.com, my Novastorme gmail is full of spammy emails from various games I have and I'm too lazy to change it.

Now, if you'd asked me on Wednesday, or even Thursday, what doxxing was I'd of honestly replied, "no idea." Before the actions of the Discord made its way onto the Board I had no idea about it, that there was a law against it, or anything like that really. I mean it was always one of those unspoken rules in my other community, but I never ran into any problems with it there, although then again we didn't really do idle chatter.

I'm saying this, not because I want to try and dodge some of the blame, or the 'disappointment' or whatever we're calling it now, but to give you some idea of, perhaps, why I didn't try and stop it as much as I could have done. Not that I really could have done a lot sitting in my Uni library at the time if I'm completely honest, although part of me is wondering where I would be in all this if I hadn't logged on to Discord and had simply concentrated on my work (my answer to that will come at a later point, probably not even in this post at all).

Still, I want to formally apologise to July. I tried not to get caught up in the witch hunt that occurred, not that I knew that that was what it was at that point in time. I tried to have some discussion surrounding the current rules, and in typing those out and through just generally not paying enough attention to the Discord I made the mistake of perhaps not sticking up for you, or your rights as much as I perhaps should have tried to do. I didn't realise what was fully going on, I didn't realise that sitting back and not really concentrating on it was not okay, hell I didn't even realise it was your full name at the top of the screenshot or your picture attached to your messages in it. But that doesn't excuse me, I should have realised that what was going on wasn't right, and as much as I wanted your side of things, just to look at and compare (for I always try and look at all sides of an argument before making a decision), I should of tried to stop what did happen from happening at all, and I should know from previous times that even in the pursuit of knowledge some things are inexcusable.

Ix, I'm sorry. I can't really form anything else into words, or how I feel into words. Just know you're not alone, if you ever need to talk to someone (and this goes to everyone reading this as well), and I'm around, let me know and I don't mind. I will listen and, if you want me to, I will help, I will contact and talk to whoever you want me to talk to, or I will keep what you want a secret to my dying breath (if it comes to that), I don't mind.

Novastorme, signing off
(Man it feels weird yet so nice to say that)