Well, I already made arrangements to meet up with my brothers for a little friendly weekend competition (at the end of the month); however, there's a bit of a catch. They took advantage of the Steam deal, and are willing to do some online matching through Steam when the time comes.
Yeah... I have a bit of a problem now. They've got their collection of games, and been advertising me to get some of them as well; let's not forget, me being the youngest of the guys, if they catch wind of my situation with my account disability, I know I have hell to deal with (reckless spending and what have you; and not letting them know about it and so forth). I'm surprised my lack of activity for the past 6 months (as evidenced by my profile) wasn't enough of a hint something was wrong.
I guess to not make this a completely bad case, I got a few relieving bits of info thanks to one of my sisters hearing about the whole Steam issue I encountered (me telling it, no exaggerations). As it turns out, she thought I was hacked the entire time, and thought I was screwed to begin with in negotiations; however, re-hearing the story, it turns out it was indeed the bank's fault, and even moreso, the whole overdraft of +600 bucks that was done was (as I was told) an illegal move done by the bank, despite being charged in pieces. So Valve wasn't at fault, and I was angry at the wrong people the entire time.
However, now there's a bigger issue; dealing with the bank. The good news, I have a contact that my sisters know that worked at a bank before, so I have some help there; I also know that I can negotiate just about anything, provided the backup and enough balls to bluff leaving the bank and have them panic and do something about the situation as to not lose a(nother) customer. Of course, I need to make sure things are setup in a way that I can make it on top, and not have to deal with any bullcrap, and only have to lose the 128-odd I need to pay back Valve for (which I am confident I CAN pay back, and don't mind losing. I've been prepared for that for ages).
The bad news: I have until the end of the month to get things with the bank dealt with (I can start things next week), and then I have to wait for Valve to handle the dispute (which takes an unknown amount of time, possibly weeks), and then I'll have missed the deals to catch up with my brothers' collections that they'd want to play against me in. That could raise some suspicions.
I'm hoping I can get enough done so that none be the wiser. Pray this works out.
Overall, to balance out this post; if things go well, I might be able to recover my Steam account this month sometime.