Tonight was a splendid last WoE for me. Fights everywhere, people dying, a mishap at the end. I’ve been playing this game for over 5 years now and it’s time that I say goodbye. The guild will remain intact. Those that leave, will leave. Those that stay, will stay. If you hold a castle, Just tell me and I’ll come on to gather up goodies for you (because no, I will not be giving my account to anyone).

It’s been a very grand road for me, however lonely it may have been behind this screen. It has been one delightful show filled with ups and downs. With more downs than up’s which is what is influencing my direction away from this game. My inexperience of ‘04, the near suicide of someone in ‘05, my disappearance due to my move in ‘07 (or was that ‘06?), the exodus of ‘09. Far….far…too many losses.

The game has taken its toll on me. I would not be who I am today without it though (for better or worse). I thank all of you who have been apart of it, even if you were part of what was the problem. Because without all of this happening, I have taken a look at myself and discovered I need something that a game can’t deliver. I will still be playing games and such, vent will still be available to those that would like to use it, I’ll even leave my Facebook for those that want to keep in touch and find out what I’m playing or doing, but I will be seeing the outside world. I don’t know with who since I don’t know anyone really that is into the same stuff that want someone like me hanging around.

As I write this I am reminded of Leon Faith (the old leader of Kitsune). lol I’m sure I won’t leave as big a mark on the game as he will, but I do hope that I’m not forgotten. This is the end for me. I hope you all find what it is that you’re looking for as well. If you’ve found it, keep it safe. Because there are those less fortunate that would kill to be in your shoes. This is the last time you’re going to see me say this on this site. Stay gold everyone and…

Lay back and peace out under the stars.

Sincerely,
Darrell Byron Enrico Davies (A.K.A Saishu Hane)

With a heap load of neglect in terms of updating due to recent events, we’ve entered into an alliance with AE ( The remake of Imperial Order whose name I can still not remember) and BU (Baka’s United)! The meetings were fast, there were no huge objections against the alliance that were voiced, and the terms for the most part were discussed. lol I really should have updated this to say this earlier, but I’ve been quite busy since my work hours have been extended.

The order and terms of holding are as follows:

1. Turns are on a weekly basis
2. Turns in order are LS, AE, then BU. So this week is ours.
3. During WoE, vent hostings will be on our vent during LS and BU’s vent during AE and BU’s turns. Vent information can be found here. If unable to see it, you need to register on the forums and either speak to me or have an officer validate your LS guildmanship.
4. As with alliances like this, only the guild leader of the holding week may give the command to break a castle. Please refrain from breaking castles randomly as this restricts our breaking capacity endgame.

Guild Title Auction

As there was some delay on it being set up, the auction is proceeding from the 5th to the 10th. Once the month is over, on the 1st, the auction will resume as it normally would and winners of the auction will receive items to make up for the lost days based on what the end result of the auction is in terms of points used.

Recruitment Points

I’d like to thank those that have been recruiting, but alas! No one is actually fessing up for being responsible for the recruitment! This makes guild points impossible to distribute so you can’t quite increase your point total. The Recruitment Pickup Center is a good place to post with a screenie or name of who you picked up!

There have been a lot of things going on lately. So with what time I have, I’m going to try and cover as many points for the lot of you. Some good, some bad. So since no one is around to tell me what you’d rather hear first, I’ll start off with the bad news and finish with the good since that’s what I would rather do. Also, as a precursor, I’m fully aware that it’s April Fools Day. This post is in no way, shape, or form an attempt to trick anyone.

Alliance Split

You read that header right. The alliance is splitting as Devil’s Advocate’s decided to pull me into a meeting last night to state that they’re leaving the alliance. Later on, I found that they have already allied to Faction. This bullocks caught the Love Suicide attendees off guard, but myself personally, I saw this coming months in advance around the time of some of the first joint meetings while Lorek was in Poland. Of course, there was no way for me to know who they were going to ally with, there’s been a lot of association between Lorek and Darton as of late.

Which brings me to another point. While it was stated that Lorek wouldn’t hand the information to get onto our vent, I’ve still seen some unsavory people enter. While no trouble was started and it wasn’t Lorek who handed the information, it goes to show that there are people out there with the vent information. Soon I’m going to be changing that information. Might be today, might be a few days from now.

As for what is left of the alliance, from what I’ve heard from Lorek via the recorded meeting, Instinct is going on break or something. I’ll need to talk to their officers or something to see just what they plan on doing since DA is apparently not keeping them.

What does this change? Really not all too much. Towards the time they split off to “get back to their roots”, which never seemed to happen, alliance teamwork consisted of maybe seeing Lorek or Eggroll in the ending minutes. Other than that, nothing much has changed. We may either work co-op with Instinct or keep things going as we have been. Only thing now is that we have one more guild to worry about.

Guild Point System Released!

That’s right! I finally got off my arse and organized the guild point system and released it. This involved many hours of calculation and distraction and I’m hoping that it’s used for the greater benefit of the guild. Especially ones with gear that isn’t so good and could use improvements.

Speaking of which, the auction thread for guild titles is released today as it’s the 1st of the month!

The system is going to have more ways to earn points as soon as I work out the kinks for the entire lot of it all. Namely, one of the ways is going to involve guild tax and the other will involve recruitment. Point values however are still being touched on.

lol Also, I’m out of time. So my bad for not putting a fancy image or something to distract you. xD I’ll do it next time. Promise! Stay gold everyone and…

Lay back and peace out under the sky,
Saishu Hane

You bet! We have snagged the very first God piece that Love Suicide has ever seen! The Wheel of the Unknown is the piece and there is currently a discussion thread up in the forums concerning its future. I won’t disclose any of the information on here as the aforementioned thread is in a section that only guildies and allies can see. You can toss your two cents in on that thread and help decide where this item is going since you all worked long and hard for it.

The list of participants will be disclosed officially once I return home from work. This will help you know that you do indeed have mail coming to your character once the castle drops sell off. I really gotta make an official post where it states just what is done with the items. One that won’t be pushed down by other posts I make. All in all, if you were attending WoE that day, expect something.

Yeah…I know I’m Lazy

As you can tell, I haven’t quite organized the bloody guild point system. I blame raydrics! I need that freakin card! lol I’m going to give it a shot tonight though. Hopefully tonight a lot happens ( tehe and maybe another wheel would be nice ) but for now, stay gold everyone and…

Lay back and peace out under the sky,
Saishu Hane

As you may have seen yourself, we are temporarily allied to Instinct. This was a move that was discussed through myself, Rea, Lorek, Gen, and Mike. The entire meeting was discussing the temporary alliances with both Instinct and Equilibrium, but I stated the issues that were had when Equilibrium was brought up. So that will not be happening unless the guild turns opinion around.

The trial running period will be somewhere in the ballpark of 2-3 weeks. During this period, we will be running the first hour together and the 2nd hour we will split apart and attempt holds on our own individual castles. Most likely, we will all be in a single vent channel to make the first hour a bit more understandable. If this is the case, then please keep random talk to a minimum as it will be hard to hear where we are going and what we’re doing. Personally, I’m going to suggest middle Valk as our first rushing area. Lots of people, lots of fighting, lots of practice. It’ll certainly help with our organizational skills.

Events Page and The Point System

lol I’m sure you can see that at the moment, I’ve been so lazy that the events page has not been made yet. I’ll try to stop being so blasted lazy so that it’s more in line. Additionally, I’m going to be making a new page for guild item turn-in’s. The point system will be drawn up as soon as possible. I’ve already got a few ideas in mind that should indefinitely help. Any opinions and suggestions are always welcome on the matter to improve the overall scheme of things.

Tehe, images are good. Ahem. How I imagine the point system working involves the guild bank and the guild titles. Along the lines of:

Point gain = ((Base Item Cost x Number of Items) / 1,000) + (Zeny Donation To Bank / 1,000)

As you can see, each point you have is basically 1k zeny. There is a limit on things that can be donated and taken of course. For one; only items that someone (or the guild as a whole) could find useful would be accepted. Random quest items are accepted all depending on what quest and the item amount. Depending on how much of a response that this gets, I will be starting a third account to house the items (to which, it will probably be full of smiths and alchemists). The ability for the items to be confused with my own personal stock could be too high and cause a ruckus later on so this course is going to be taken in all likelihood.

Secondly; one that has points cannot withdraw zeny from the guild bank. Due to the bank not being replenished since our last castle hold, this option is on hold until we establish ourselves more prominently and gain a growing bank.

Lastly; while I’m not going to heavily enforce this last one, I do ask you take it into consideration. There are, in spite what some may think, some rare equips within the guild bank that I’m going to be putting on the point listings. Some of them are class specific. I would hope that you only take what you need for a character you use often (which I should hope is the one within the guild) as some others may need that item as their main instead of someone snagging it for an alt character.

Each item in the bank will be assigned a point value and point tallies will be drawn up for each person who donates an item/zeny. At the end of every week values will be researched for each individual item and marked on the point conversion page. Granted it’s not going to have a bunch of fancy forms and such, but eventually I will get that working for you all so it’s not as difficult to find what it is that you’re trading to see the values. The exact time will all depend on the numbers of the Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. So one of those three days will serve as an updating time, but only the major items will be marked down such as Stems and Blue Herbs.

Two Main Officers = Three Shu’s?!

There are two main guild officers as you may know. Neko ( Wild~Rose ) and Danny ( :+:Danny:+: ). Both of which now have access to my account and are given authority to use it during Wednesday WoE’s. If one is not on, the other has the capability to run WoE in my absence due to my work. I would hope that you all give them the same respect you would give me during a WoE (er…make that more. How many times have you all said I’m lame? xD )

I will be handing the purchasing of supplies the day beforehand and making sure that you all have what’s needed. The exception of which are white potions, green potions and traps. These things can become too heavy and can be purchased at the tool shop nearby.

lol Okay, I’m pretty sure this is all I had to bring up at the moment. Stay gold everyone and…

Lay back and peace out under the stars,
Saishu Hane

As you may have noticed, we hit another guild level last night! However, I was too trashed from lack of sleep (on top of being busy) to actually put the point into guild extension. Two more levels and we’re done with that skill. From there, I will either be going towards Sharp Gaze or Permanent Development. Of which, Sharp Gaze is probably the smarter route.

Leveling tomorrow is still very open for Thors. Do keep in mind however that the level limit is 88-98 and that wearing a fire armor is an absolute must because if you get hit with a fireball without it, depending on your build, it has the capability to drop you in one blow.

Site Updates

Soon I’m going to be doing some maintenance on this site to include a page that has all of the events that we currently have running. Expect it to be somewhat primitive until I get something good and fancy going, kay? Also, I have really got to update the members page since Neko gave me her information she wanted up like ages ago.

Another thing that I’m going to be doing is adding users on this site for those that are in the guild and registered on the forums. Your username and password will depend on your username in the forums unless you PM me in the forums with a requested set. Just in case someone wants to post about a certain issue on this site in comparison to the guild forums. lol I don’t know, more involvement isn’t a bad thing.

Summon Summon Summon!

As today is the last day (from what I’ve heard) of the Geffen Tower Summoner event, I want to get some people that have yet to do it and people that have done it for one last trio of MvP summons. What I’ll be trying to summon (with the help of 3 people that have not done the quest, volunteers please) is Golden Thief Bug once and Tao Gunka once.

I’m hoping for people to be on today at about 7PM PST to begin doing the quest. If we really need it, I can use my alt account to cover the summons. Instructions to get into the room will be handled once we gather a group as it involves a password that we input on the spot. If we’ve got a good amount of people attending, then we’ll try out another MvP on for size. Maybe Moonlight Flower or Phreeoni. Since I’ve got one more Convex Mirror left, finding it will not be a problem.

That’s about it for this post! Stay gold everyone and…

Lay back and peace out under the sky,
Saishu Hane

It’s almost the weekend and a guild level is upon us! Due to the fact that I’ve been falling asleep on accident for the past couple of days, we don’t have that level yet. lol I’ll see to it this weekend. I hope that the lot of you can attend the days at Thors for some uber leveling!

Not many issues to discuss in this posting, all of the things that were gathered from the previous holding are sold off, so the people that attended WoE on the 14th, please check your mail! There should be about 1m waiting for you. Of course, check the mail of the character you attended on. Stay gold everyone and…

Lay back and peace out under the stars,
Saishu Hane

After talking and asking more about your take on the LS/EQ stand alone alliance, apparently there is more disapproval this time around. This means that I’m going to everyone that didn’t want to ally and find out their reasons for not wanting it to happen. I know a few of you the first time around were indifferent towards the matter. For the most part, everyone seemed cool about it besides zan and if I remember right, Mayhem. This time there are apparently those that would leave the guild over going into an alliance with them.

I do not particularly appreciate having used all this time going into meetings, writing up proposals, and overall losing a lot of time to actually play the game to find out only now that your decisions were actually “no”.

Treasures

On a lighter note, the treasures from the Saturday hold are finished in their collection. They’re really very good and we will be omitting one of the shares due to recent events due to some leaving. The shares will be mailed to the character that you attended on, so after today, start checking your mail.

EXP!

This week, the server has double exp going! I’m going to be trying to run in Thors as much as possible for those 85-95 depending on who is available. If you know priests/high priests in the 80+ range, you are welcome to ask for a party for thors. I just ask that you have fire armor prepared as you will undoubtedly die if you don’t have it.

Do keep in mind though that I am not a bank. Me taking you to Thors means that I personally spend about $10 in kafra points and about 1m an hour in pots. So please take that into consideration. If you are able to go, you undoubtedly will get a lot of experience unless you just wander off without the group. Levels 88-90 whooshed by fairly quick on my TKM that was on 50% tax.

Leveling of the Guild

Considering this week will be double experience and that the guild is only 24m away from a level, we’ll be having our new guild level pretty soon. Possibly even today if I go at it hardcore.

Not much else I don’t think. Off the top of my head that is. So stay gold everyone and…

Lay back and peace out under the sky,
Saishu Hane

Well, as you all know, the hold from Saturday was a success and the following are going to have shares mailed to them as soon as the treasures are gathered and sold off.

• baladbird lee
• Du Chocolat
• -=Polar=-
• *~Tsu
• .:SilverStorm:.
• Bloodstone Mayhem
• Lady Skadi
• Myrek
• Tainted39
• Emuishere
• Shadow Python
• +Eithne+
• :+:Danny:+:

And of course myself. We already have a buyer for the OCA’s that drop so when we get them, I’ll be selling them to him unless one of you wants otherwise. If you want any of the drops from the Lunia 1 Castle then you’ll get your share taken off of the price of the item. This way it’s a tad easier and the other guildies get their shares from it as well.

Equilibrium Talks

I’ve been a tad too busy to handle talks with Equilibrium’s leader. Once I do get talks with them settled down, I’ll see if we’ll have that stand alone alliance going with them. It should help with the overall holding and such and improve both of our chances at the hold in the end. There are a few ways that we were going to handle this:

1. We would switch off weeks and alternate between who does the holding on a week to week basis. Saturday and Wednesday included.
2. Having Love Suicide hold on the Saturdays and have Equilibrium hold on Wednesdays. With the current numbers and capabilities, this seems most ideal to get us both a castle when the time comes.

Now of course, both sides have their up’s and down’s. With plan number 1, we put Love Suicide on a potential downfall in terms of money when it comes to the guild bank. This can be rectified with me hunting my ass off to fill in the blanks. I don’t want the guild bank to suffer, so at the moment, I’m hunting in Bathories so that we don’t have that kind of shortage of funds due to bomb costs.

Plan number two gives Equilibrium a bit less of everything. As I can’t be there due to work, Neko can’t handle her High Priest, a Biochemist, and my Stalker all at once. This puts Equilibrium at a disadvantage. You all know that Wednesdays usually get a lower attendance by nearly all guilds in general since the time falls in a spot where we work and such. Well, at least on the West Coast.

However, with Equilibrium’s current casting, they are unable to break or put stalling abilities in place such as Close Confine or Ankle Snare. We can fill in the traps, but as of now, we need aida~ or someone else to handle the Close Confine. Traps can be handled by my alt account hunter (which I seriously need to level for SP).

For those that are unaware to what they have, they have mostly Scholars and High Priests. As far as I’ve seen, there are no breakers, so we would have to have one of our breakers temp with them during their holds to break for them while my Stalker is parked outside to rush in directly after the break.

The overall workings of how we would handle each WoE would of course be entirely dependent on which classes, and how many of which, that we see in a hold. It would help to see this more on a WoE to WoE basis to make sure the consistency can be counted on.

A bit of the Shu’s life freed

As a good deal of you may know, I no longer have a girlfriend so a lot of the time that was used to spend time with her is now freed up. So I’ll have a lot more time on RO now. A hell of a lot more time. Depending on what I’m doing and such, I’ll be holding more events and such. Speaking of which…

Hide and Seek

We’re doing yet another installment of hide and seek coming in today! lol I know it’s a bit of short notice, so depending on the turnout today, I’ll be holding it on February the 9th. Going by the attention span of last hide and seek, I’ll be holding 3 rounds of it before I stop. The prizes of course are all random and I should hope that the participants will come to me afterwards to get back the traveling money xD last time no one told me anything and just ended the event without ever really saying that they would be ending the participation. This pretty much ends my little report on the happenings that’s been going on lately. If I think of more, I’ll post it up. Stay gold everyone and…

Lay back and peace out under the sky,
Saishu Hane

Well, I bet you all have been wonder just what was going to happen with the treasure from Wednesday where we were invariably given a castle to hold onto with basically no struggle involved. If you didn’t know, the server was having issues where it would crash whenever a sinx used Meteor Assault. Don’t know why seeing as how it’s been working perfectly all this time, but there you go.

The treasures from our hold these past few days have been pretty great. So I’ve been thinking that technically it was the hold from last Saturday, but it did exclude the people from Wednesday that were coming and wanted to WoE. So first off, I need to comprise a list from Neko on who was there during Wednesday WoE and Combine it with my current list of who was there on Saturday. The people that weren’t there on Saturday, but there on Wednesday are going to be put onto the same list and the shares will be divided like that. Hopefully the list is comprised soon as I have already begun selling off the items. Also, you will have to forgive me as I am keeping one of the equips within the guild bank. This is the slotted Legion Plate Armor that I’m going to reserve for a dedicated crusader or paladin.

Again, as it is with every WoE hold you can inquire as to what treasures we have and then you will have a bit of a discount with your share being deducted from the overall price of the item. Uni has already done as such with the first Baseball Cap that we managed to get (lol and sorry, the other two that we managed to get have already sold off). That’s pretty much it for this post, so stay gold everyone and…

Lay back and peace out under the sky,
Saishu Hane