Kiba and me first started out as trainees fresh and new trained by B-one and other members of FH. We first worked on a chapter of R+V together, and after a few workstations kiba wandered into the spam thread were most of the staff didn't hang out in. Kiba and I cliqued right off the bat after we both complimented each others cleaning styles. And we became fast friends who often helped each other out. We worked long and hard under a staff member of our choice Kiba leaned more towards Songaka and Realost lazy cleaners who often only did high quality pre-cleans and I leaned more towards a member named Folen-Angel a speed cleaner which is where our cleaning styles started to separate . However due to problems with management FH was slowly falling apart. I was slipping away further and further the every day, the only thing keeping me in that group was my friends including kiba. A spammer named Max Mahito came back from a long hiatus and started messing up most of my workstations and reeking havoc in Kiba and B-one's life. Then JamJamstyle applied for a trainee, I being one of the active cleaners left helped teach JamJam while Kiba kept up with his amazing release records. Meanwhile Max decided it would be fun to turn against me and call me a crappy cleaner due to my release record (I just don't like making releases it's too much pressure so I let other trainees do it for me) eventually he complained about it to the Admin and I was told that I had to make more releases otherwise I couldn't be a staff member. It was 3 weeks later that my laptop crashed and I could no longer clean or even get on the internet. Evenutally I found a temp comp that I join Muda with after I found out Kiba had been passed over for a promotion instead Max was elected team leader a position Kiba created to better organize FH. But my family was in trouble so I had to give up cleaning for a little longer till I could join Muda again. <(this all took place over a span of 3 years)

Our story is bitter and long~



Joking

Well, lets see. My story takes place like 2/3 years ago. I had recently discovered the manga world (with School Days, ugh ">.>), and I inmediatly knew of an awesome manga reader called One Manga. I started reading lots of series (mostly ecchi ones :3), and so I discovered Rosario Vampire. After reading quite a lot of chapters, I liked the quality of the scans, and so I decided to join the group that was doing that serie: Franky House (FH). I registered, and I was too anxious with the idea of becoming an editor, but since in FH you account has to be approved manually, after waiting a few days I got tired and dropped the idea of becoming an editor.

A few months passed, and then, when I was gonna check OM's daily updates, I saw that it said "Naruto by Sleepyfans, Bleach by Sleepyfans, OP by Franky-House. And congratulations to FH for it's 1000th realease!" (this was the time were FH still had the man-power and resourses to deliver OP in MQ/HQ every wednesday, just like MS). I inmediately thought "Hey, this was the group I wanted to join some time ago! 1000 releases, that's freaking awesome! I have to join them!". By the time I stepped into FH again, my account had already been approved, so I inmediately went to the recruiting section and applied as a cleaner.

Of course, I don't even have to tell you guys that I didn't just suck, I was TERRIBLE! I can't really find appropiate words to explain how bad I was at cleaning. "Stinky piece of shit" still can't describe how horrible my cleans were when I first applied! (I mean, God! I couldn't even open my Photoshop properly, much less edit a single image). My senpai, called Jinx, was the poor soul that first thought me how to more or less edit a page. After like 5 or 6 failed attempts to clean multiple pages, I was finally accepted as a FH trainee.

Unfortunately, by the time I joined, FH was starting to fall apart. It took them 2 weeks to approve me, alongside other much more talented applicants, like Burn. A PM was sent to us saying that "sorry for the delay, if you wanna still be a FH editor, just reply". From the, more or less, 17 applicants, only 9 entered the bounds of the Staff section. After a few days, that number had already decreased to 4. FH no longer could compete with Sleepyfans in being the first to release OP. It's remaining active proyects at that time, all released in a slow basis, were Gantz, Kekkaishi, KTSS, R V and OP; and most of them were edited by a single staff, TheFolenAngel. Some old pro's, like Kiavik, Real0st, Songaka and B also edited, but Folen was more or less the most active member. At that time, after getting tired of my shameful attempts to clean a page for a serious and official release, I just devoted myself to TSing.

As I mentioned before, by that time FH had lost it's power concerning the OP's speedscans "market", so Real0st and B proposed a very interesting idea: FH's HQ scan-team for OP. That way, FH could own with quality instead of speed. Without knowing where I was getting myself into, I volunteered to join the HQ team, alongside some other members, like Max Mahito, Ichi15 and Burn. We were all given very special training and tests, which were all revised and corrected with Real0st's deadly hawk eye (seriously, he could find at least 10 mistakes in the most perfect HQ page ). I was forced to download Topaz (I was still cleaning with Neat Image by that time ">.<) and made some puny attempts to clean a page that turned out quite good for my level (I mean, they were overleveled, overdenoised, but it was still a very amazing progress compared to other cleaning attempts of mine). I don't even have to mention that Burn totally owned my cleaning tests with her amazing pages, to an extent I even dowloaded her pages and tried to see if I could get something similar to what she had done! [That's how we met each other and became friends! One evening, while practising my cleaning, I was super bored, so I went to the Spam section (where, as Burn already said, no staff ever used to go) and met her ^^]

Anyway, after some serious training, we all passed the "entry" exams, and were accepted in the HQ team. However, it just lasted 3 weeks before it disbanded (cleaning in HQ is super-uber demading, and that's why Real eventually got tired of it). So I decided to use my recently-adquired cleaning skills and started cleaning Psyren (an old proyect that FH used to do and had dropped before I joined. I was supposed to edit that serie with Ichi15, and of course, Ichi15 never appeared to help me ">.>). However, Ichi15 was not the only one that had became quite inactive, also all the other trainees. Burn and me were practically the only active trainees remaining. And obviosuly, the list of active proyects of FH dropped to only Psyren, OP and R V. Some time passed, and Folen got banned for making money out of releases (which is a despicable behaviour in the manga comunity). By that time, Jam joined, and he was trained by Burn cuz no-one else was active enough to do it (the only other guy that traineed the new applicants in FH was Makhan, and he was a retired staffie). However, FH was doomed. Little time passed before Jam had made his way into the Staff section, but sadly, by that time FH was only a shadow of what it used to be. I had a somewhat important argue with Songaka, the last active "old pro" of FH, and she ended quitting as well. Jam, Burn, B and me were left alone then.

Max was continuously creating threads in the staff section to make a ruckus (a "revolution"). Of course, the admins didn't give a shit about it. One day I got pissed with their "I don't give a fuck of what happens to the FH team anymore" behaviour and PMed Jam proposing him my idea of quitting FH and forming our own group. He accepted, and after deciding the name of the new group (between "Muda Scans" and "Muri Scans"), Muda Scantrad was born! The last thing I did before leaving FH was PMing Burn and tell her that I was leaving, and that I would like her to come. Thankfully, she also agreed, and that's how we all got here! ^^ [B followed us soon after, and quitted FH for good when Max was made an admin xD]