At least there's a silver lining in all this. I wish you luck on your new game Silver, and at least you gained some valuable experience about trust!
I pretty much agree with what everyone else said here about the whole fiasco so I'm not going to just repeat it.
@Mortain tbh it seemed like you were instigating a lot of it... but I guess as you said you had a change of heart so that's between you & Silver. I hope you guys manage to make a great game together!