Speaking of customers, is there a customer who has particularly marked Mega? 🤔
[ I'm not entirely sure how you mean Marked, so I'll try to answer this in the couple of ways that someone could marked Mega. (I'm guessing you mean left an impression on in a good/bad way and I hope I'm right! ) ] [ Granted, please keep in mind, I seldom use names when it comes to negative experiences unless it's outright to protect individuals from something really awful. But simple drama doesn't deserve me calling people out outright I feel anymore. Just isn't worth the time/effort or the added drama. ] [ Positive Mark, Mega has had a lot of these! I can't remember their name specifically as it's been years now, but I knew an Elf who use to do Technical Seminars and stuff and they put in some orders for some machinery from Mega that was in regards to farming/irrigation and power supply and it was one of his larger IC Arcano-tech projects. This person not only surprised him by giving him the chance to prove himself but was so impressed with his efforts that they actually invited Megahes (and by extension me) to be a speaker at a small Tech Meeting to Discuss Technical Ideas with other like minded individuals. I was positively floored and very humbled that I got asked to do something like that. Tbf, any time I'm ever invited to do something in a public capacity because someone else has seen how hard I work, it humbles me and leaves me with this mixed feeling of embarrassment and pride. (lol) So, that was a massive positive mark that helped launch me in the direction that's led me this far! I wish I could remember the name now, but alas, I've forgotten it sadly. :( This other positive mark, I know will have some controversy attached it is just because of their name and former associations or things brought up to them. But, they're a part of my history and while we did split ways, I grew to be a better person (or so I hope) because of those experiences and revelations after seperating. V Firebrand; They were the GM of Firebrand Enterprises for a while before they retired from WoW or at least that character/guild. But V ended up giving me a lot of Faith in myself as both a GM and as a Creative RPer after I lost a lot of faith in myself and they also put a lot of faith IC to Megahes as a Leader and Engineer as well. While he had been in leadership positions before (and obviously currently is). There was a lot of fundamental things he learned about how he wanted/didn't want to run his own business when he left Firebrand and made the FBC. While the two of them weren't best friends or anything by the end of it, V made it a point to be very hospitable to Megahes and the FBC (Both IC and OoC) and offered continued support to our enterprises in the form of sending potential clients/customers our direction on regular occasions or even a few new members from time to time. V gave Megahes and myself opportunities and chances that a lot of others weren't willing to give us at the time; so credit certainly deserves to be given in that respect and up until their group got so large that they didn't need outside work with us anymore, they routinely sent people to do business with us as well if not did business with us directly. ] [ Negative Marks; Before I go into these, both of these stains for Mega also come coupled with how players also handled situations OoC as well. So, to be open about it. I wasn't a huge fan of how they conducted themselves OoC and then the way they also handled/approached things IC was also pretty shit-birdish. (lol) That being said; both of these individuals came to join the FBC shortly after we began doing public events and posting brochures (Our earliest versions of what are now our full-fledged catalogs) and they stayed with us less than a week, just long enough to see what all was going on, get names, learn where we did things IC (such as work and keep supplies, etc.). Once they left, one of them, without any attempt to consult any of us, Meta'd that their character broke into our warehouses and stole -tons- of gear and equipment and then blackmailed us into getting it back. Mega didn't take this
well and that's when the threat of an Icicle Catheter was born. They subsequently gave it back and never showed up again. (I tried to explain to them OoC that I would have been fine with this plot if it had been discussed with me first, cause we have security in such places. But, they sort of wrote it off and never really returned. ) The other individual did similarly in time, came in and left but once they left, they suddenly began to sell tons of stuff damn near the exact same as what we were selling. I mean, down to a T, it was practically a copy paste of stuff my Members worked very hard creatively to come up with. So, we did our best to just ignore it and move on until this person started making it a point to IC harass people who came to do business with us, sometimes well within hearing range (and sometimes at public events too). They went as far as to OoC reach out to people they saw with us and tried to bash our efforts and bad mouth us to foster up RP for themselves. It never really worked mind, almost everyone told us about it and that actually caused them to want to work with us more. (Which I am truly grateful to those people for!) The couple of people that did go that way, well, it is what it is and people go where they like. All in all, despite their efforts and their mark on us IC and OoC, we still came out ahead I feel! Megahes however, made it a point to be -extremely- petty and every single time something came up about their creations, he'd drill out the questions all the way down to the basest elements, asking why some materials were picked over others. He'd just basically try to tear the designs apart in a 'I have questions' sort of format.] [ Thank you for the asks @jacobdcheshyre and apologies that it's so damn long winded! lol ]
