jjn3
04-17-2007, 09:09 AM
<p>My Friends of Norrath</p><p>A (very) long time ago in Ultima, a single gamer passed away; this person was well known on our server, and I cannot remember what the circumstances of the passing were. What I do remember vividly was what the response of the people on our server was. </p><p>This person's guild petitioned a GM to place a monument to this individual within the virtual world. As part of this, a server-wide vigil was held. Life literally stopped on the server for a brief time (with almost no exceptions). </p><p>As most of you know, yesterday a tragedy occurred in Virginia that took the lives of many sons, daughters and faculty members of Virginia Tech. While I had no family or friends there, I found the pictures of medical personnel and law officers carrying these children from the buildings to be particularly painful. This is the second time in the near past where our children have been thoughtlessly taken away from us in a senseless act of violence. It seems we are in violent times, as our children our being taken by wars abroad, and senseless violence at home.</p><p>Sanctus Covenir will hold a non-denominational vigil, guild-wide, to recognize not only these children and the faculty, but all of our children everywhere who are perishing due to war and violence on Sunday April 22 at 8:00pm EST. We will sponsor five minutes of peace on the Unrest server to honor these children, the faculty, and our soldiers abroad (who are also our children) who are surrendering their lives to this trend of violence. I ask that each of you speak with your guilds, and support this effort Norrath wide.</p><p>Safe travels my friends.</p><p>Guerney of Sanctus Covenir</p>