I was with Crimson Blades from foundation until around November of last year when things started to die out. We eventually died out due to players just becoming uninterested in FC events and things like that. Some of our officers tried to keep things alive, but people just weren't interested. So we left everything in the hands of a longtime member who volunteered to try and get things going again, but with the stipulation that we would not give the Master title to her because our (inactive at the time) founder wanted to maintain control in case things went south.

Well, fast forward about a week and she's demanding Master title. Founder refuses, so she and her few friends she got to join up took everything. She promoted her friends to ranks above her own (because that glitch still exists) so that they could take things they shouldn't have had permission to. Emptied the FC house and the Company chest so all that was left standing was the house (the one thing only the Master can destroy) and started her own FC.

A few weeks ago, after a few of the former officers like myself realized the new FCs we'd joined weren't going as well as we'd hoped, we decided to resurrect Crimson Blades. The FC and house were still there, so we essentially just moved back in and started rebuilding.

As far as the crazy things you heard like member usage, abandonment, forced donations, cliques... that's all news to me. Forced donations is definitely 100% inaccurate. I've made a lot of really great friends from the Crimson Blades and I'm really excited to see where we're going. If you think we sound like your kind of place, we'd be happy to have you.