Well I was going through some of my old FFXI screen shots when I realized that these are 10 years old now. So I thought it would be fun to start a thread and post screen shots on their 10 year anniversary.
Today's screen shot is the birth of CKD. 10 years ago today Pirotess took a spaz and kicked me from Hokuten. I truly enjoyed pissing off Pirotess and the best way to do that was to make him feel unwanted or unpopular. I created the CobraKaiDojo pearl long before I joined Hokuten with the intention of emulating the CKD from Dark Ages of Camelot. In DAoC the CKD guild was a small group of elitist assholes that didn't need help from anyone on the server, so we intentionally pissed everyone off.
Hokuten was a huge LS and it had a great group of end game players like Koda, Ilma, Kayne, HCC, Vurin and a few others. We were all starting to hit the level cap and a few people like Vurin and Koda were starting to do HMNs with Japanese friends. They were also talking about how Japanese players made linkshells dedicated to just doing HNMs. This is when I took the opportunity to engineer a fight between Pirotess and I. The intention was to piss him off enough that he would kick me from the LS. This would make it easier to get people to join CKD since Piro was the asshole and I was just the unlucky victim of his most recent blow up. This way people didn't feel bad about leaving the Hokuten to come to CKD. I had a much harder time convincing people outside of Hokuten to join CKD. It took me like a week to convince Peejo to have her perma group join. That's how I landed Sir Reinheld.
Anyway here's the screen shot for today.
![Image](http://yarrthepirate.com/FFXI/10yearslater/pol%202004-04-27%20-%20CKD%20Origins.jpg)
I really do regret how things turned out with Ilma and HCC. I knew they were hacking almost as soon as they started, but I ended up using their hacking as the platform to blow up CKD so I could quit FFXI in piece. I wish HCC and Ilma were playing FFXIV with us. I did take things with HCC way too far so I don't blame him for holding a grudge against me.