You know, I have received over 500 E-mails in one day about this pleading to bring the The Odyssey of Hyrule back and not to give up on all my work. Some people cursed me and some praised me, but all in all there was a sense of urgency within the voices of these letters calling out for a return of lost friend.

You are probably wondering, why did I do it? Yesterday I came to message boards to talk and discovered that two people who I really felt could be called friends began a mission to expose and destroy me out of some fit of revolt. For what reason, they claimed I had an inflated ego that needed to be put into its proper place. It was said that they would stop at nothing to destroy me and prove that I am just a blithering fool. (The post has since been expunged from this board due to all the posts today) This kind of thing hurts even moreso considering I had worked on their stories and put their work on a pedistal as something to be admired. I was just a few days from electing Parsnip as a moderator on the Message Boards. I had come to that decision based on the effort he had put in on making them an interesting place to visit as well as interact. But his intentions quickly turned against me. Essentially you could liken it to helping a man who you think you can trust just to have him stab you in the back, laugh, and attempt to twist the knife deeper. So I did what I thought many people wanted. To deflate my ego, or in this case what supposedly represented my ego, my websites. In the business I'm in you live each day by the hour. Things happen and you have to deal with them, but this was one of those things that broadsides you without warning. I have received quite a hefty pile of criticism through time, for one, not answering everybody's E-mail, two, not updating the site when people demanded it, three, putting websites who went out of their way to plagarize my work without asking on a Wall of Shame, and four, making an image that makes me seem too influencial. I have never gone out of my way to put these thoughts into people's heads, nor have I asked for this kind of retribution but indeed it goes with the territory. Conversely, there have been multitudes who have praised me for the effort I put in to maintain the websites and be a voice looked up to in the internet community of gamers. I have received some very heartfelt salutations and gratitude that I can not be replaced with any monetary amount. With what was done yesterday, I, not out of crushed pride, but rather disappointment did what I thought would be best, to end a source of grief and unhappiness. Often times I looked to the internet, like video games, as an escape from the garbage I have to deal with each day. When it ceased to be something enjoyable, then I figured it would be in my best emotional interest to discontinue my association with it. But with the kind of response I received today, it made me realize something. I can not just give up and leave so many people who do enjoy the things I write about and make the Odyssey of Hyrule a place to relive the Legend of Zelda without a place to call home. I can not simply vanish into the crowd. I will not succumb to stumbling blocks in the road. I will rise above the deeds that have been done and bring to fruition my goals. If not for myself I do these things, it is for the people who deserve that compensation for the belief in a dream.

When I finish writing this, I will right what was wronged and return peace to Hyrule. The Odyssey will return, and soon Odyssey will grow even larger expanding upon the foundation of it's former self to become the domain for everything that is Zelda. I want to thank everyone who makes my sites possible and I want to apologize for this mistake I have made. It will never happen again. And yes, I forgive you IDM, and Parsnip, we all make mistakes, and to make mistakes is human.