Before I start with what I want to say about the title - for those that are waiting on Treasure Hunt things, don't worry! TGO and I have been extremely busy following the submission period, alongside some technical difficulties that required us to put more time in than we budgeted before. I'll explain more as the results go out, but know that we haven't forgotten and results are still coming - if all goes well, hopefully this month. Thanks for your patience!
As much as I want to unfortunately not talk about this, it sounds like I have no choice given the stuff I recently learned of.
About two and a half weeks ago, I decided to scroll through Funkipedia out of curiosity and stumbled across the page for Vs. Eteled: Reincarnate. When I found the page, I found that not only had the mod been leaked some time after I left, but despite the fact that my departure was made known to the team well in advance of the leak, some jerk on the team decided to leak the two songs I made for the soundtrack alongside everyone else's.
And let me make this clear: by "some time after I left", I mean that I left the team back on February 1st 2023, and this leak happened on June 11 of the same year. So clearly, the no-life jerkoff who decided to leak my stuff had not just no regard for everyone else's work, but also no regard or care for my own works that I pulled out of the mod well before things went down with the team. That, mixed with my credit in the official cancelled build showcase, is what unfortunately leads me to say officially that I was part of Eteled: Reincarnate. And before you ask - it was hands down the worst mod experience I ever had, not because of the team, but because of the constant deadlines and the only sense of joy I had working on the mod being within the first month or two when I joined (June 2022), especially since drama started soon after I joined. And we didn't even push a single product.
I hope this justifies why I'm doing this when I say: For the integrity of my own works, my songs from the Eteled Reincarnate OST will remain as lost media.
I will not give either of the two songs out for any projects, and they will not be released either officially or unofficially. I will be taking action against those who upload the music on their platforms, so consider this your warning with regards to that. On top of this, one of the songs will remain uncredited since I would like to stay as far away from this project as I can. If you also have information on who leaked the soundtrack or where the source of the leak is, please let me know so I can take appropriate action to protect my work. Otherwise, my work is to be scrapped and unused from this point onwards.
There is, however, one thing I will say. I will only take credit for one of the songs I made for one reason - the instrumental of it is uploaded here on NG already, under a different name and removing all WDY references, as I had set with the director of the mod upon my departure (I also took this opportunity to remaster it a little and add some additional effects). I uploaded it shortly after departing the team because it was something I was proud of, and still am proud of to this day, even just as an instrumental. However, I ask that it stays separated from the WDY franchise, and if you do wish to view it then don't view it as a song from WDY but instead as its own thing. And no, I don't know how or why it got attributed to someone else in the song's credits.
Thank you for understanding. I ask this is upheld out of respect, and for the love of all things, please don't leak others' work, unless you wanna tell the world that you have a microscopic particular organ.