I believe Raijin lead Infection. <3
I started Rs in 05 and made my first pure in 06. Sadly, during that time, I never saw a single pure clan. After the wilderness was removed, I would go to random popular clan chats for something to do while I skilled. There I eventually met a pure named Zlatha who got me to join Tyrant Pures. They lasted about 2 weeks after I joined and closed into Divinity. Then Harb0r decided to reopen Tp, but I stayed in Dy. I met some of my favorite people in Dy. There was Zom, Fire---Tiger(Atigeroffire), 2k7 Pj Boi(Rain/Doi), Phila Pker, Cody(Shotz Up), Spittles, and many other great people. I eventually became a High Council (I was a terrible rank), but after most of the people I liked their went inactive, I decided to look for a new home shortly after we beat Malice in a full out. Dy was the only clan of many I was in that I would actually leave. After I left Dy, I joined Calamity. Cy was very different from Dy, the community really wasn't the same. All I really did there was attend a few events and watch P0ke harass members (which was sometimes pretty funny). After not too long after I joined, P0ke decided he would close Cy and make a new clan. Don't remember what it was called, but it didn't end up happening. After Cy, I heard that Justin (admin from PC) was reopening Pure Annihilation. I wanted to join because I had always liked how he was against mith (lol who cares now). Pa was fun, but didn't last long. After Pa closed, I heard my friend Rain (leader of Dy) had come back to Rs and was making an LPC with Cody (also from Dy). I didn't really want to join because my cb was a bit higher, but he eventually convinced me to join. Infection was my favorite clanning experience of all. We immediately had a rivalry with a clan called Oppression which was made by another ex-Dy member named B L U N Txxx or something similar. They were roughly the same cb as us except for Blunt who would use his 80+ cb account for minis. We pretty much beat them every time and they closed after a few weeks. I got co-leader after Op closed because I'm kind of a big deal. After that rivalry there were a few road bumps like kicking a bunch of Dy members who had joined (Logan from Zenith) and kicking Trent (I think he's the Trent that leads Hi or something) for general faggotry (I still love you). Eventually its community became what I wanted as I got a few more ex-Dy to join (TIGER@@@). After Op, we had a great rivalry with a clan called Tragedy (I see you Inu/Ownnt). This eventually culminated in a full out for PCR rank which we got to do in the wilderness (Pvp wilderness). We had a few more people than them and won losing 2-3. Unfortunately, T started slumping a bit after and eventually closed, but Carpediem would rise from their ashes. We would have a few rivalries against clans like Onslaught (around the same cb as us and destroyed us, but ended up closing after a short period) and Anxiety (outleveled us a ton and used mith, but we still won a lot) led by another ex-Dy member Hormone (also Zenith, I think). Eventually a dispute broke out between a few members while my internet was out and I came back to my clan having been closed. Was pretty ******, but I eventually got over it. Some memorable members from If were Rain (founder), Cody (founder), Gina (High Council), Tiger (I think High council), Jeff (Doi/Infinite 0s, another ex-Dy, pretty sure he was our Shogun (lol)), Erik (co-leader), James, and Myk. After If closed, I joined Ascendency. A was an awesome clan. Awesome ranks, awesome community, awesome warrers. In A, all we would do was get minis for hours on end. We weren't very good in the wilderness, often tagging along on other clans' pk trips, but our organization in clan wars showed when we had our full out versus Destructive Pures. Dp had cheated (added more members to their ml than allowed (not nearly the same level as Ir vs Z full out, but still a decent amount over)), but we ended up fighting them anyway. We only managed to win a round, with the other rounds being close, but it was so awesome managing to win outnumbered by so much. After a while, we started going inactive and a large chunk of the rank/member base decided to all leave at once. We never really recovered from that and eventually closed. Some cool people I remember from A were Anthony/Alexis (lol), Ray, Spittles, Sev, Nate, Ceejay, Omni, Dan, Ven, and Jonty. After A died, I joined The Golden Gods v2. There had been a lot of ex-Tgg in Dy and the way they had talked about it had made me want to join. Unfortunately, it had also made a lot of other people want to join, a good portion of those people being incredibly annoying. It was a fun clan while it lasted, though. After Tgg, I joined Final Ownage Elite with my good friend Spittles. Foe was a new experience for me as it was my first P2P clan. My time in Foe let me attend some truly massive fights against Eop+E, Mm+Hf, and even Rot at one point (they destroyed us). I eventually lost interest in Rs a few times and got booted multiple times for inactivity (and once for not signing up for a full out I attended(**** you, Ultra)). I pretty much quit for 6 months until Omni made Archaic in January of this year. None of us really thought it would last long with the game being pretty dead, but we all made the most of it. After a month or so, I stopped playing and a day or so later Omni stepped down. That was pretty much it for Ai, but I don't think we ever actually closed. Since then I haven't played Rs, but have still stayed around forums/IRC. The game was easy to quit, but 7 years of friends is hard to just throw away, so I keep in touch with a good amount of them.