Niltsiar: The Apology
I am a heel.
Scratch that. I am an ass.
No, to be precise, I am an assheel. Yes, I am an assheel, and I didn't even know it until this week.
Of course, I knew I could be rude. When you run a site like Dragonlance Underground, you get used to poking fun at anything and everything. After all, it's our job to satirize the Dragonlance saga, and we take to it with gusto. Sometimes, we get involved with a joke and we end up offending someone. It's a natural thing, and it's not something we normally apologize for. One of the reasons we founded this site was because people were getting too touchy about Dragonlance. We wanted to say, "Hey! Lighten up!" We still do.
The trouble comes when, in trying to be cute, we cross the line and say something very insensitive. That's what I did last week in my editorial. If you remember, I brought up Kevin James Kage's new webcomic Dalamar the Dork promising to torture him. Specifically, I said:
"He's assured us that he doesn't handle torture very well, and given sufficient application of hot irons to the soles of his feet, we're certain he'll be able to provide one comic a week. Sure he may never walk again, but there are some prices that have to be paid."
That's where I became an assheel. A day or so after my post went up, I got an email from a fellow Raistlin saying, "You know Kevin's in a wheelchair right? Was that part of the joke?"
Well didn't I just feel like a piece of sh*t.
So this is a formal apology. No, it wasn't part of the joke. I had no idea. And I certainly wouldn't have said such a thing if I'd known.
So Bard. Kevin. Mr. Kage. I'm really sorry about this whole thing, and I hope you'll forgive me for being so insensitive.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go take my hemlock.
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