Lament for the Raid Leader

Snow has been our raid leader since World of Warcraft released the new patch last year. It is not easy to be organize a group of people online, especially everyone has his own schedule for the day. Some work during the day; some have to take night shift; some are students and disappear before the exams; some are engineers and have to work overtime without warning in advance. Sometimes we do not have enough people before the set time, then the raid leader just has to figure out a way to make it happen, either to recruit some strangers, or other sort. It is a very tedious work.

I went to Canada to travel, thus was absent for a whole month. After I returned, I only saw Snow once, and he simply disappeared. I know he is a nurse and works at different shifts. Maybe he has to be busy with his baby and spend more time with the family, or maybe he just needs to have a rest, and leaves the computer for a while.

This evening, he signed on, and told us this shocking news. Conversation is as followed:

Me: Snow~
Me: Please use your handsomeness to save us~~ (this is his slogan when we defeated each boss in the game for the very first time: OMG, I use my handsomeness to save the world again.)
Snow: @@
Me: Touched? :D
Snow: I may not be able to play game again
Me: @.@?
Snow: my fingers are so stiff.
Me: What happened?
Dog: I thought you are having rehab?
Snow: More problems with the tendom and scar (Can't translate those medical terms)
Snow: It's like 2 or 3 tendons tangle together
Dog: Was the operation not done well?
Snow: It's hard to have full recovery. Improvement at most.

Then Snow explains more about his condition, how much pain he had when he took us to Ulduar, how he decided to go to the doctor, after he could not grip the equipment at work any longer. It is just a sad moment for me to realize, maybe our raid team will be gone. If no one stands out to re-organize, we may just have to see if any other team has any vacancy for us, and try to fit into another group. It is sad, however, especially for Snow. We all know how passionate he is in gaming.