I read the Realm Consolidation FAQ, then logged into Mankrik to move my characters over. I did the first couple, and it said it would take 4 days for the transfers to go through, so I decided to wait to try the rest. I talked to my (soon to be former) guildees, and they said that attempting to play was pointless since you got disconnected every few minutes.
I logged back in early this morning to start transferring my other characters including my main, and found that Mankrik is gone along with all my characters and a few hundred thousand gold.
Did you really just delete most of my characters? Are they gone forever, or is there some way to get them back? What about the gold - is there at least some way to get that back? I read the FAQ carefully, and nowhere did it say that waiting a few days to use my free transfers would delete my characters and gold. What is going on?