To The Good Guys

Here is a toast to the good guys. The good guys who know they're going to finish last but do so anyway.

To that time you gave away that sentimental guard to somebody who got hacked. You knew he needed it more than you did and you're right. This is for the time you helped out the hacked person, despite previous differences. Despite rivalry. Here's to you!

For all those time you spent helping out characters of the same and opposite gender without hesitation or discrimination, even though you know the character youve been helping thinks he's being helped because he's using a female account, cheers to you. Cheers to the time you saw that same female character being played by a guy, but played along anyway without a trace of rage in your heart.

I salute you for that time you got defeated in PvP by a peer who had started later than you but called it a good fight still. Here's to your complacency in what you do despite the knowledge that that guy is a botter and has gotten his strength by cheating.

Here is the grand cheer for refusing to give in to the temptation of cheating back to rival the cheaters who make this game needlessly overcompetitive. That you see less output for your works but will be able to honestly say it's been yours.

For all those loots you shared with your priest companion. For the rares you've gladly split even for your party mates. For playing fair in the MVP hunting grounds.

Here's to the day you corrected somebody's vendprice without buying it. Cheers to each and every time you said please and thank you while talking to other players. To the time you walked away from a fight. To the time to you fought and not walked away.

A grand toast to all you my friends, that in knowing there's nothing but lies in what the adults tell us. Here's to believing that cheating is cheating no matter how many people are doing it and not heeding what sour words of wretchedness would tell otherwise. Here's to not comprimising with crooked policies and corrupted laws. Smile, for your principles unscathad shall be priceless in life. Smile, for you shall not wither away in decay for submitting to what is morally unjust in exchange for survival.

Let this be the ode for you because though your kind is rarely seen, you are the type that makes playing this game still worthwhile. You give life to what is already dead. You bleed so that this game will be tolerable for the sentimental.

I have shared my time with you. And you have all but a bretheren's respect.

Here's to you, the good guys. The good guys who know they're going to finish last but do so anyway.

You'll have your time. And I guarantee you it will be worth it.

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I thought this was lost already, but I've managed to get another copy thanks to a very good friend who saved it for me. I originally wrote this for Ragnarok Online Players. I owe you one RG.