So remember how I mentioned my WoW guild's former GM, who out of nowhere decided to quite the guild and the game? Remember how I mentioned she'd transferred the guild leadership to another person in it, then took all her characters out of the guild abruptly?

Turns out she's not quitting. Instead, she's starting a new guild, because we've ruined hers and it's no longer a place she can be happy and she hates us all. She felt obligated to send the new GM a private message saying pretty much exactly all of that. Oh yeah, and she's taking her stuff. (Literally. She took the guild banner because it was "the last remnant of the guild she liked.")

Our current GM and I have two different theories on this. Our current GM believe that our ex-GM was expecting us to flounder and flail and mourn her going, and be completely ineffective for a while. Instead, when we basically said, "Good luck, have fun!" (in all sincerity, mind), then pulled together and put the guild into a *better* position than it had been, she got pissed.

My theory is something similar: She never intended to leave the game. She only claimed she was going to, and left the guild, because the rest of us stopped providing something (raiding, amusement value, goods and services, whatever) that she'd been using us for up till that point. She dumped the guild expecting us to fail -- and is pissed because we didn't.

Either way, it's the sort of revelation that just never sits well in a person's brain -- namely, that someone I had a reasonable amount of trust in and thought was a decent person has now demonstrated her actual self and feelings. It's a betrayal no matter how you slice it, and a pretty cold one at that. Frankly, it pisses me right the hell off. And it sure as hell only serves to confirm my bitter, angry cynicism.