About
|iR|
Beginnings |
|iR|
was formed in 2006 by me (|iR|Drifter) and |iR|Soulz. Soulz was at that
time a member of RL which was defunct. We were both members of a Quake two
community called Monsterkill that was owned and
operated by inhuman.dc. Inhuman and I played quite
a bit together and he was trying to grow his community and asked me if I
would work with another member of the community to form a clan to help with
growth. I agreed and inhuman introduced me to Colous
and we formed a clan called s2n. Now s2n didn’t last long at all
members went elsewhere, and some bad decisions were made as far as who came
aboard so it was almost destined for failure from the word go. After s2n fell apart
inhuman hooked me up with Soulz and we worked together
to form clan |iR|. Not long after |iR| formed Soulz disappeared
for quite some time but the clan was established well enough that it
remained. Dervish and I continued to keep things going in Soulz
absence with the help of a few mainstays like FYATroll
and Geezer. Along the way Soulz was in and out
sometimes for a day and sometimes for a week but we kept on growing. At one
point I even left for a spell because I just wasn’t enjoying the game
but I came back just like I always do. The vast majority of
|iR| were railers only
because that was the community we were in and so the pool we had to choose
from were railers but it wasn’t long before
we started seeing some CTF and TDM players start coming to the Monsterkill servers which added a whole new aspect to the
game. Their styles were much different than ours due to the nature of the mods they played and they had absolutely no problem
adapting those styles to our mod and were very good at it. This gave us all a
new look at how we played and the strategies we used and forced us to make
changes in our own style of play. It was, without a doubt, one of the best
things that happened to the railing community. There have been
several players that passed through |iR| and either
moved to other mods or other clans, most of them
good players with good attitudes and sportsmanship. However, we have had our
fair share of folks that either had bad attitudes towards other clans that
had been our friends or were poor sports in the game itself. You just can’t
be 100% right when it comes to how people are going to act and react and we
have been wrong on several occasions. In 2008 inhuman
indicated that he was considering letting a couple of the Monsterkill
servers go which came as quite a shock to me because inhuman had always been
hard core Q2. Not long after he gave this indication we all logged on one day
to find two Monsterkill servers gone along with the
community forum. Based on the previous indications, I and many other assumed
this was the reality of those indications by inhuman. Believing that the
servers were gone for good, |iR| procured two
servers thinking we were helping the community by back-filling for the loss
of the two Monsterkill servers and making sure
everyone would still have a place to play. Well as it turned out there had
only been a server crash that caused the short term loss of the two Monsterkill servers and the forum. Inhuman got them all
back in working order in short order. Now somehow the fact that |iR| had picked up two servers was construed to mean that
we were trying to steer people away from Monsterkill
(nothing could have been further from the truth). This has apparently caused
some type of tension between Monsterkill and me
which I do not understand but I guess I don’t have to. This brings us
to where we are today. |
Rules
and Expectations |
1. This is a game, if you
can’t have fun with it, then don’t play it. 2. If you start a match with
someone, have the testicular fortitude to finish it (even if you are taking a
beating). 3. Give people the respect
they deserve, try to always take the high road. 4. Help people out when you
can, remember, someone helped you at some point. |