Screenies from Day!

woot! Daylin figured out how to get some screenshots emailed to me! He's got some good ones here! I love the one where he is, as Crow would say, "goin fairy." lol! Enjoy!

A couple changes here

Hi, everyone. We started having some issues with the online guild calendar. Therefore, I have made some changes. You will now find a guild calendar if you scroll down to the bottom of this page. I will be starting a calendar category on the forum, and would ask that if you have something you would like to have posted on the calendar, that you please post it there. I'll get it up on the guild calendar for you.

In addition, I've added a feed so that you can see, access, and post on the guild forums directly from this page. The forum is located at the bottom of this page under the calendar. Of course, you can always go straight to the forum page, as well, which may suit you better. Play around. Decide what you like. Enjoy.

Many thanks!!!

Kara raid cancelled for tonight. Officer's meeting.

F.Y.I. there will be no Kara raiding tonight. Instead, Listra has called an officer's meeting for 9:00 server time. Officers should plan to attend.

Learning to Fly

Is there anything like it? I remember when I first got my flight form and Bricco and I did nothing but play around and fly for over an hour. It's some of the best stuff in the game, imho! I teamed up with Mantisa the other day for some of the utter tedium that is the Nesingwary questing in Nagrand. She was 68 already (69? sorry, Manti, I don't remember) and already had flight form. But the poor girl didn't know how to fly UP yet! So I acquainted her with her space bar and things were off to the highest of heights. As we soared and swooped and free fell in caster form (wheeeeeee!!!) I was reminded of how fun this game could be when you were doing nothing at all goal oriented, doing nothing but fun. I recommend. Grats, Manti! Fly on, sister Dru! =)

Cuddle Time

Yes, cuddle time. Yesterday I logged on in Stormwind and... how lucky am I? Traenei was standing right behind me giving me hugs. Aw, cuddle time. And cuddle we did. And then... things started happening. People NOTICED the dog and the cat all cuddled up. And commented. A lot. We definitely drew a crowd of onlookers. Some comments were appreciative, some not so much. We were heckled and things were not so cozy as people tried to cope with the interspecies cuddles. (We had some real freakouts at one point when we turned into caster form and people saw that both toons were... male. LOL.) So we, obviously being of greater wit by far, heckled back until receded from the scene. Listra came along and lent her support, comeraderie and generally made things better immensely. T built a cozy fire.

And then... different things started happening. Listra hopped on her Dru and laid down with us.

Then we were joined, mind you we made NO invitation, by just random toons. Laying down. In the streets of Stormwind. With us.

I think at my highest count there were five toons outside of us three who were laying down and cuddling with us. It was fascinating, bizarre behavior. They even took ownership of cuddle time in their own way, inviting people on trade to come cuddle.

Which, of course, was our cue to leave. I mean, how cozy is it when the whole world is invited? Cuddle time had run its course. But I surely miss it now that it's over. T puts off tremendous cuddle magnetism, you know. The whole thing has stayed with me, though, and still is a puzzle to me. What drew people invest part of their $15/mo. to stop and watch us, to mock us, to join us in a bizarre monkey-see-monkey-do-fest? I don't know. But clearly, clearly, cuddle time GOT to people. In the constant violence of World of Warcraft, something as simple and sweet as a little cuddle was striking on a large scale. Thanks for the cuddles T and Listra and whoever else you are out there in Duskwood. Thanks for the love.

Gates of Fire

When a warrior fights not for himself,
but for his brothers,
when his most passionately sought goal
is neither glory nor his own life’s preservation,
but to spend his substance for them,
his comrades,
not to abandon them,
not to prove unworthy of them,
then his heart has truly achieved contempt for death
and with that he transcends himself
and his actions touch the sublime.

~ Gates of Fire, Stephen Pressfield

I'd like to thank Vonya of http://egotisticalpriest.omen-guild.net/ for sharing this stirring work.

Let's Begin.

Everyone else: "Crow what are you doing!!!?"
Crow: "Muwahaha/giggle/chuckle."
-In a recent escapade into Strat to get another pally mount, Crow took to gathering up whole cul-de-sacs (4 or so groups of 10) at a time. We could hardly keep up. With him.

3 Cheers for the guy with the athletic mount!

Everyone, please welcome Humbah as a new blogger here on the guild website! He doesn't know he's the new blogger yet, but after, yes AFTER, I make this announcement here I'm emailing him to tell him so. See, Humbah keeps sending me all this wonderful stuff to put up here. So... he can post it himself! =) I'm sure he's going to be a wonderful addition to the blog. Healer power ftw!

p.s. if any other officer wants to sign up as a blogger to keep the latest news up to date here, please send me an email at syllysyll@gmail.com. =P

Beware out there!!!

F.Y.I., guildies... My husband is active on a gaming message board and told me about a post there that there are viruses flying around WOW sites. Specifically named were Thottbot, Wowhead, and Alakazham. The post said that you don't even need to click on the ads on these sites to get the virus, you just have to mouse over them and can get infected. So if you go to these sites, be super careful about where your mouse pointer is at!!!

Is Bry buying dinner for us all?

Cause she's going to be RICH! Congratulations to Bryandra, who won both the forum posting contest AND the Kara raid group name contest! She'll be receiving TWO primal mights, farmed by the Solidarity officers. Bry posted the most on the forums of all the members this week. And, although we are going to vote on the winning name for the raid group, Bry's was the only entry from a non-officer, so we decided she is the winner of the contest! Voting for the raid name will take place on a poll in the contest category on the guild forum through Wednesday, March 19 at 9pm server. Make sure you vote, or Porche is going to stack it so we're called the wall eyed pikes. lol!

Grats to Remie!

Grats to our newest Kara warrior, Remie! He helped us kill Curator and Illhoof tonight. woot! =)

blog roll

Hi, guys. I just added a new feature on the right hand column here on the blog page, a blog roll. Just some blogs of note that you might enjoy reading. I, of course, frequent the dru blogs and am not as familiar with other types, although I found many that I thought you'd like. However, any blogs that you adore that I didn't add, email to me at syllysyll@gmail.com. I'll get em up for ya!
Smoochies!

Screenshots from Humbah

Ok, y'all... Humbah hooked me up with a treasure trove of screen shots for your enjoyment. Below are his shots and his descriptions... enjoy!!! =)

"I'm an avid Screen-Shotter. So I went through the hundred or so and picked out a few I thought you might like.


A Screen shot of what NOT to be.

Bric and Metacrow two-manning a boss in Stratholme (or whatever that instance is in EPL, the big burning city). Good stuff.

a shot of Daylin kicking the piss out of ZF. You know that stair sequence, yeah, he did that all at once.

The two elekk shots are good times with Trae..or was it Tel? I can never keep it straight. Anyway, fountain, SW, lots of elekks.

Figure it out...I can't remember that one, guess you'll have to figure it out. Oh, that's right, figure out WHERE I am.

Jerry Garcia's 'shroom in Zangarmarsh. I was tying to think up a witty chat bubble to have over my head when I took the pic, but coldn't think of one. I have the coordinates for it so I can take a new pic if you want.

a shot of just about the coolest debuff ever. It was....in BEM I think....

A pic of what happens when Porche gets pissed at RFK? SFK? that one in the barrens, on the left side of the path as you come from...ratchet?"

Awesome, Humbah!!! Thanks so much!

One thing... isn't the hookah on the mushroom an Alice in Wonderland reference, rather than a Jerry Garcia one? Or maybe a bit of both? .....

"For some minutes [the Caterpillar] puffed away without speaking, but at last it unfolded its arms, took the hookah out of its mouth again and said, 'So you think you're changed, do you?' 'I'm afraid I am, sir,' said Alice: 'I can't remember things as I used - and I don't keep the same size for ten minutes together!' 'Can't remember what things?' said the Caterpillar."
Lewis Carrol Alices Adventures in Wonderland

Talk about too much to drink....

don't tell bricco... he'll be so crushed. rofl!

Officers Meeting Notes 3/9/08

wow, that's a fine looking shot of the guild officers! lol. Not everyone could make it, but Mcmanager, Bricco, Daylin, Porchelynn, Listra, Traenei, Syll, and Humbah are in the pic. Missing are Duh, Naurah and Telroon.

Hey, hey, guildies! Listen up!

The officers had a meeting today to discuss some organizational issues, raiding issues, and ways to further strengthen and unite the guild. Here are some of the things we decided to put in place:

1) Officers on call:

The officers are going to try to sign up to make themselves available to guildies for help with quests, instances, etc. Officers will try to sign up for this on the guild calendar (look to the right on this page for a link to the guild calendar) and will also try to change the guild message of the day to let you all know that they are "on call". If you need help questing, getting gear, instancing, whatever, just send a whisper to the officer on duty and we'll help you to get it done!

2) The officers are working on building and implementing a second Karazhan raid group. If you are interested in being part of the second group and are nearing or at level 70, please let us know, as we are trying to plan for the future.

3) In the meantime, we will be rotating eligible players in and out of the current Karazhan group. This mostly applies to dps and possibly tanks right now, as we are short on healers in the guild. We will be starting a thread in the guild forum (there's a link to the right on this page for the guild forum) where each week you can sign up if you want to run Kara, and let us know which bosses you need drops from. We will do our best to get people in to fight the bosses they need. However, a couple of things need to happen for this to work.

a) if you are scheduled to go to Kara, you need to be up and ready to go at the raid start time. Gear fixed, potions in your bag, ready for a summons. If you are scheduled to go but are not on within 10 minutes of the start time of the raid, don't be surprised or upset if we have to give your spot to someone else waiting to go.

b) if you are scheduled to rotate in for a boss in Kara, you need to be standing by outside of Kara. It's fine if you park your toon outside of Kara and jump on an alt or something, but you need to be ready to jump in at a moment's notice so that we can keep the run going. Many of us are parents or work, or whatever, so we can't have the runs drag out or not much will get accomplished.

c) if you are interested in running Kara but are not sure about your gear or abilities, check the forums for posts there on Kara requirements. We're not drawing a line in the sand anywhere, but there are links there to threads in the world of warcraft forums that should give you an idea of what you will need to get started. If you want to run and you're not ready, go to the WOW armory, find out what gear you need and where it drops, and let us know and we'll set up runs for you to work on your drops on non-Kara days.

4) We're running not one, but two guild contests! wooties! One will be a forum posting contest, and the other will be a contest to choose the new name for the Kara raid team! Prize is a Primal Might for each contest, so make sure you check the guild forum for rules! (again, there's a link to the guild forums on the right side of this page.

Grats to Wishful!

Grats to Wish on his (her? damn tranny toons... who would roll one?) first Kara run tonight! Forgot to get a screen shot but Wish was tearing it up. Helped down Atunemen and Moroes. Warlocks represent!

Curator? DEAD!

Woot! tonight the guild killed Curator AND Ilihoof in Kara, both for the first time... That's us standing at Curator's dead feet. For those keeping track, that's 6 of 10 bosses we've killed in there so far. Can you say ftw??????

Screen shots! Bring em on!

Listra sent me this pic of the guildies in a HUGE pile of dead gators in Black Morass... all I can say is where was I with my skinning knife? /sob!

Send your screenshots to me at Syllysyll@gmail.com and I'll get them up! wooties!