...And of course something like this has to happen while I'm busy at work and unable to take the time to post anything.  Oh well, at least it gave me the time to think over the issue without getting dragged into it right away.<br/><br/>My main opinion is that this is entirely an OOC issue, and that people need to stop trying to fix it with IC methods, because they're only making it worse.  More specifically, it looks to me like it's entirely an issue miscommunication and misinterpretation.  Both PaleEnchantress and lockepick seem to have been actively attempting to de-escalate the situation in their own way, but each one also misinterpreted what the other was doing as an attempt to escalate the situation instead, and now everybody else is starting to misinterpret things as well and it's becoming a huge mess.<br/><br/>Can we all just calm down, step away from what everyone's character is doing currently in the IC thread, and instead try to figure out exactly where this tangled little knot first started, so that we can start working from there to untangle everything?