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

There have been quite a bit of things going on lately. The Saturday hold was superb in terms of attendance and I’d like to thank everyone for coming and keeping the area safe. By ourselves, we held a castle against others that were going to rush us badly. Breaking 5 minutes beforehand is usually unheard of in a WoE 1 fort, but we held.

lol I wish I had a picture of that group picture we took, but I totally forgot to upload it onto my server, so I’ll see about adding it when I get home. Again, I’d really like to thank you all for attending and making our first three-in-a-row hold possible. Of course, another thanks to Neko for leading on Wednesday when I’m unfortunately at work.

That covering the conquests, I’ll move onto contests! With the birthday of Love Suicide (and myself) coming around, I figured I’d hold a few contests. So let’s begin to cover the ones that are going to be held. And here’s where I steal an image from Neko since I’m at work and can’t find any character sprites xD

MVP Shu Hunt!

That’s right! I’m bringing it back, and hopefully I’ll be doing it more often. I’ll be announcing it on the forums in a thread somewhere concerning the time it’ll be held. Most likely a Friday, Wednesday, or Sunday. Really dependent on my schedule during the week.

The rules and such are like this:

During the hunt, I’m going to either hide on my Stalker or female Alchemist somewhere in the world of RO. The places I’ll hide will have no aggressive monsters (or just really weak ones like Mantis or Hydra.) and once hidden I will not move because I will be in guild to give out hints. The hints will be 3 or 4 in number and will of course contain clues as to where I’m hiding.

The first one to find MVP Shu gains the grand prize that will vary from hunt to hunt. Second and third places get something gradually less of course. And all participants will gain their travel money back (lol please don’t hop the ship to Amatsu 10 times.)

This will continuously go on for as long as I can financially support it on a hunt to hunt basis.

Emblem Creation!

We’re going to have a contest for creating a new emblem for Love Suicide. The emblem we have now is nice and all, but we need something new I think. If you really truly like the current emblem, then post about it here with why. The guidelines are simple:

1. Keep the Love Suicide creation story in mind when making the emblem.
2. Nothing profane that would grab the negative attention of the GM’s.
3. As a personal favor, please for the love of God, do not put “LS” somewhere on the emblem. lol I’m sorry, but it just seems so bleh to me.
4. Please post the character which you would like to associate your submission with as well as their ingame class in the emblem creation contest thread.

The last of the submissions will be accepted as described in the contest thread and as for the prize…that all depends on what class you’re associating with. If you post no class, I’m going to just give a general prize to the winner and runner-up. In the event of a tie for first place, a 2nd vote will be held. In the event of a tie for runner-up, the prize will be split between contestants.

Lastly Company

Slightly backtracking, I thank you all again for the growth that you’ve helped Love Suicide with. Of course, as you see, we’re out of space in the guild and need more. I’m going to be working to make a Thors TKM (I’m very close to completion) for that purpose. I can handle the TKM, but I need help in other areas. There are spots in the guild that aren’t really being used. I need people to get in contact with, or to talk to a close representative of the ones that have been incredibly inactive.

As some may have noticed, I have taken Ray out of the guild, but the second he returns to RO, I will make space one way or another. Tsu is a case that he is still in the guild, but it’s getting harder to tell if he’s going to return. Losing a minstrel is not something I would like, but at the moment, it’s not like we technically have him. Phoenix has been gone for quite some time as well, and I’d really like him to return, which is why I need to talk with Masa on the matter. If anyone would please ask about the status of Phoenix, that would help greatly.

Lastly on the matter, I would really appreciate if we could find more active bards and wizards to come WoE’ing with us. I’m proud to say we have a large amount of breakers, but only one to serve as a precast. xD Big thanks to Zan.

Now that that’s out of the way, another issue of business I must come to. Castle drops. Usually, as I have described in an earlier thread concerning castle drops, the guild bank receives 5 shares of the liquidated assets. This week however on the Saturday we have held, I’m going to be reducing the amount just for this week as our guild bank is in somewhat of a surplus. A heavy surplus actually. What this share cut means is that each individual will gain more out of the castle drops from this Saturday. This decision is also influenced by the fact that the Saturday/Monday drops have been somewhat not up to par with what I was hoping would drop.

Soon I will be posting screenies of the things available in the guild bank and take serious requests as to the contents. A lot of what is in there are donations from fellow guildies and I hope that they’ll be treated with respect. The fact of the matter is though that we have way too many things in the bank and hardly anyone requesting. Which don’t get me wrong, is great that you don’t want handouts or something, lol but requests will be considered in a far more lax manner for the time being.

For anyone that’s still reading, I applaud your attention span. I’m not sure I’d still be reading xD

One more congratulatory note, Devil’s Advocates have come into possession of the Snow Crystal! This item however will be sold off as per Lorek’s decision. Most likely to cover the great expenditures of WoE. For now, stay gold everyone and…

Lay back and peace out under the sky,
Saishu Hane

I’d like to first thank everyone that contributed to the guild gaining recall! While Saturday’s hold didn’t amount to the alliance gaining a castle, I like that the numbers we were showing were far greater than the week prior. We have new recruits, returning old friends, and a decreasing amount of spots within the guild. With the later of those three things into consideration, I’m going to be trying to limit the amount of alt characters within the guild. This of course can be relaxed with the gaining of guild level 12 and a point in guild extension. I need all the space I can muster for active people that can help each other level and participate in WoE.

Now Speaking of WoE….

I am going to have to re-judge how I send out the shares and such. This is all depending on how many show. Due to my calculations of how shares are divided { Overall Liquidation of Treasures / ([number of attendees] + 1 + [5 shares for guild bank]) }, it’s obvious that as we have more people attend, the amount of the share goes down. Of course, it’s more likely that the shares are actually able to be created and is a safer shot.

I’ll have to be thinking of a different way to do such things depending on how many attend. How shares are divided are to be stated the minutes after WoE has ended.

It’s About Time, Huh?

…That I did another promotion for the guild, that is! lol It’s nothing incredibly fancy, but it promotes growth of the guild. The thread covering the details can be found on the Love Suicide Recruitment Contest Thread. As stated within the thread, I’m going to hope that people also take time to level the guild. As space runs out, it makes the event a tad more limited.

lol Well, my lunch break is almost over, thus ends this installment of the Love Suicide Times. Er…I can sound fancy. So stay gold everyone and…

Lay back and peace out under the sky

Yesterday the forums had two parts added on like I said would be added on. First there is the WoE Concerns section. This is where we’ll be discussing things about WoE such as the sign up area for WoE which directly relates to the supply thread.

The other area that will be used is the Guild and personal party forum. When the TKM is back, I’ll be setting up a thread for who wants to go to abyss since it’ll have to be a big party. Smaller parties are possible, but I would like for as many as possible to show up.

The A2 Flop

What is it with our prospects just flopping over like this? The issue with the alliance that we were going to team up with is this: One of the guilds in their alliance were absorbed (against the better judgment of the guild leader.) and instead they are now going to ignore the plan. I will cover this more specifically when I am able in the forums. So the plan in general is going to be scrapped. If you see an alliance looking for something more, refer them to me or discuss it with them and inform me about it.

People actually dedicated to the idea, mind you.

August Contest

Prizes are still being mailed out and such. Just had a rough day yesterday is all. So far Neko has received hers. Next month I’ll have a much greater look at exactly how many points an individual has.

That’s pretty much it this time around. I’ll be trying to collect materials for the WoE supply, so any and all help is appreciated. Stay gold everyone and…

Lay back and peace out under the sky,
Saishu Hane

As you can see, and as some of you have experienced, our alliance is meeting with another alliance to form a better force. At first, Makk (the FN Pirates leader) was for it. Then against it. Then alright for it. We all had our meeting finally and now the Baka/CV alliance is going to discuss the terms with each other.

From my understanding of what went down during the meeting…

• Turn taking will go in the motion of Alliance “A” to Alliance “B”. The alliance will decide itself who takes Wednesday and who takes Saturday WoE’s. Keep in mind that Love Suicide will have a Wednesday at some point. The system is overall better than what we had going before.
• Guild treasures are the responsibility of the holding guild or alliance.
• To avoid as much conflict as possible, the empty spot in our alliance is going to be filled with the guilds in the other alliance. This may very well mean that every WoE, there will be a migration from Love Suicide to FN Pirates or from FN Pirates to Love Suicide. This will be to reduce casualties and help the flow of command. LS or FN will be re-allied once WoE has ended. Baka’s and CV will be doing migrating from one guild to the other as well to make that one spot more worthwhile.
• By technicality, this week is supposed to be Love Suicide’s turn to hold on Saturday. I have granted permission that should CV/Baka’s want, they may have the first week in show of good faith. Regardless of whose turn it is, I would like everyone that can to attend and be on vent.

The alliance alliance has yet to be approved by all parties. If it is approved, the alliance overall will be doing a lot better. There will be more updates that I’ll work on to increase the overall output of the alliance. Possibly even holding two castles at once. I’m hoping for this to be a result in the very least. When I complete the page that should indeed help, I’ll post the link to it on the Love Suicide Forums and hope that it comes to great use.

Things are beginning to slow down for me at home. My new girlfriend just needs a bit more things until our apartment is complete and her moving process is finished. When it’s all complete, I’ll have a lot more time to be on RO. From there it should improve I should say.

I’m also going to be adapting a system of sorts from CV. Found it off of the Chaotic Vistage forums, which involves being the one to choose my guild title xD . Of course, within realistic terms. This will happen next month as I get my things in order. Speaking of which, this months contest is almost over! I’ll be mailing out prizes soon to the contestants who had earned points one way or another on the 1st of September. And that’s about it for this update! Stay gold everyone and…

Lay back and peace out under the stars,
Saishu Hane

Well, as I promised, here’s where I fill in some of the blanks to the situation thus far. So let us go down the list:

Contests

The prizes for last month are almost completely divided and I’m working on getting them out when I have time when I’m not handling the other issues that I’m about to address. I’ll admit that I’m incredibly behind with updating the actual amount of points that everyone has for this month, but I’ll try to work on that as well.

Here’s something I would really like to stress: For the contests, when a recruit is brought in, please post in the appropriate thread the following information.

• Name
• Class
• Level

This is to help make the points much easier to determine when I need to find out who recruited whom.

WoE

We are currently looking into the prospect of being an ally of an alliance. So it’ll be our alliance stacked with another alliance. This has yet to be ratified by all guild leaders, so I’m waiting for an official meeting between either guild leaders or trusted mature officers before I make any official statement. The alliance we’re considering becoming an ally of is the Chaotic Vistage and Baka’s United alliance. This plan has both of their approval as well as my own. I am just looking for the final word from Kakumei and Pirates.

A meeting on vent is likely to happen sometime in the near future (possibly even today after all my errands) and I’m going to try and get this approved. I really see no downside other than the elongated time it would take for our turn to arrive.

The way this is to work out is by mass guild temping. This is to try and support the holding guilds turn during a break so that it doesn’t leave us completely open to attack. With the way that we seem to have been recruiting, our ‘precast’ of sorts would be pretty much torn to shreds. We’re more sneaky and support based. While Pirates is somewhat a jack of all traits. Really not excellent in any one thing, but they do have varied classes. Kakumei is primarily a precasting guild from what I’ve seen. Very little in the way of breakers which is what impeded them from holding that last time. That and I suppose bad castle choices, but we all make those from time to time.

In the event that we are to ally them, I would like that no one attacks them while they’re trying to aid us. Or vice versa for that matter. Because while we will have some temping, we can’t fit them all. Just won’t happen. For us to hold a castle, we need to work together.

New Headgears

Yup, looks like the new headgears are in and boy are they weird looking. In the headgear competition thread on the iRO forums, Makk managed to be one of the twelve recipients of two new headgears to iRO. Robot Eyes and some poring headgear. Similar to the Santa Poring hat, but no hat and it jumps higher.

There are also new Dokebi wigs which let you use the skill hiding. But don’t let that fool you from thinking that your hide accessory is useless. Keep in mind the defense that you lose when you equip it. Be wise about it.

The winners of the contest will have their headgear idea implemented into RO so get ready for some new things! If I remember right, it was Makk’s Pirates Pride that made it through. lol Honestly, a copy of Captain Morgain from his fancy spiced rum, but apparently enough to win the people over.

TaeKwon Progress

My TaeKwon Master is now more geared to handle Abyss! Just shelled out 17m to someone for two of the 3 cards that I needed for my Gold Acidus killing weapon. Now all I need is for my blasted maps to reset and we’ll be gold. I’ve got some other ideas to help give our people a bit more of a push, but that requires me getting another account and leveling that up to match my other TaeKwon Master. Mostly to be a heat shield for the leechers.

Recruiting

I’ve just made a thread on the guild forums relating to the recruitment of people via screenies that I take and post up since sometimes I just can’t catch them all. I hope that it’s looked at and we are able to snag more active people.

Wrapping Up

lol It feels like I just wrote an essay in highschool. That’s basically all the issues I can think of at the top of my head. Stay gold everyone and~!…

Lay back and peace out under the sky,
Saishu Hane

lol As you can see, I’m kinda late with an update. But I have a valid excuse! I had to go into a meeting then uhh…my friend from Hawaii came up then an old guildie! Which is pretty much the reason of this post. Not as many of us showed up as I was hoping you all would. Of course, some of us have valid reasons for not attending. Kuros had some real life things to attend to, Kirawr was with her friends/parents for her last weekend before school starts, but I hope more of us show up next week.

Well, while writing this post, I was taken aside from some other things…such as finally finding a girlfriend. To the contrary of what some have thought, just because I have a girlfriend now, I am certainly not quitting RO. I’ll admit my time with it will decrease by a bit, but it certainly will not stop.

We had a big turnout from Kakumei, but mostly due to multi-clienting and old friends from another guild coming in to help out in the effort. Which are all gone now to their respective guilds. For anyone that attended WoE, you can see that Kakumei doesn’t have a castle in spite of the turnout. This is attributed to quite a few things I’d say.

• They had but one Emp breaker.
• Our turnout wasn’t bad persay, but it could have been better.
• Lack of variance of WoE’ing classes

Then during our turn, I’m sorry to say we didn’t have a good chunk of our people due to prior obligations. I’d like to give a big thank you to Danny and Kuros for showing up. I hope more of our people will show up during next week’s WoE.

I’m sorry for the whole holdup with giving out the prizes for last month. There’s been quite a few updates and such going on. I’m currently trying to work something out with Chaotic Visage relating to a new Guild Alliance thread I’m trying to promote to further our alliance. Today I’ll be trying to:

• Mail out the prizes for last month’s contest.
• Talk with the Chaotic Visage leader.
• Try to progress with the TKM’s maps resetting so more guild/alliance hunting can occur.
• Try to figure out the avatar system for this WordPress.

There’s a lot going on in the world of RO nowadays with the new headgears (some exclusive to 12 people for now) and I’ll try to make a post tomorrow outlining each of these things. ^^;; Do keep in mind though that I’m awfully busy with work and trying to sort out my bills. Speaking of which, I really need to pay for more hosting on this site. lol So stay gold everyone and….

Lay back and peace out under the sky,
Saishu Hane

Since I’m on vacation for 4 to 5 days, I’m not going to attend WoE this weekend. I’m looking forward to coming back with a whole bunch of talkings that we had a lot of people show up. Heh. Just kidding. Well, at least a decent amount that we normally have. That’ll be enough for my liking. As to where I’m going, I’m going on a house boat near Eureka in California. If you don’t know where THAT is.. then… I don’t know where it is either. Lmao. Lake Shasta. But, Yeah. I’m looking forward to having more active people and more recruiting going on while I’m away. MAKE ME HAPPY! <3

On any note, If you need me, just ask Shu (Saishu Hane, Jah Shujin) or Justin (enlight) to Text me. Or who ever has my number. I’ll be pretty much using my phone anyways, so have them text me if you need me. Also, once i get back from Vacation, I’m starting school the next day. Yes, lucky me. Monday. The 28th. Of July. Great. So, I’m not too sure if I’m actually going to be as active I was this summer. But I’ll most likely be on vent. So get vent! I’ll be happy if you talk on vent. It’s much fun and easier for us to talk, besides on iRO. :3 Besides. It’s easier for me when I’m on battle mode on my priest.

Oh, RECRUIT ! Recruiting will get us somewhere and you’ll get points. Points will be updated, like Shu said, as soon as possible. If you recruit before he updates it, you’ll most likely to see points on your name in the Love Suicide Forums. Also, WoEing will most likely help with your points.
Well, I’m off.

~Have fun and live your life to the fullest.

Kirawr.

Now I know that Kirawr was going to post, but she disconnected, so I’ll fill in the blanks. As you can guess from the name of this particular post, we have now our 3rd castle. Truthfully, it was FN Pirates turn to hold, but unluckily, Makk’s only emp breaker disconnected during the last few minutes and he issued the command that anyone that can break should break. lol What do you know, we beat Kakumei in the last few seconds.

As I believe I informed you all before, this time you have a choice between picking from my cart of goodies or gaining a share of the treasure that drops. The ones that have a share in the profit are listed as such in the guild treasures thread. Makk will also be getting a share of the guild treasure as it was his turn after all. Think of it as a stock market whatever cause Makk is getting 2 shares. The division of shares are all placed into the guild treasures. Also, I would like all of your responses before I post any further screenies on the castle drops. In any case, here’s how it’s going to work.

To start off with, think of this as a pie. At the moment, there are 8 shares of this pie. Makk currently has 2 and I currently have 2. The rest of the WoE participants have 1 share each. Choosing to hold onto your share does have the risk of losing value in comparison to the items that you’ll get to choose on, but could also have great value if we’re lucky. If you choose to sell your share for the item(s) within the cart, you know exactly what you’re getting that could verily have more value than what could come from the guild. The list of things below are what you can choose from if you choose to “sell your share” to me. Choosing from the blue boxes entitles you to two choices, the red boxes allow you one choice.

This is going to be the basic jist to how future castle holdings are going to go. Hopefully there are more to come for both us and our allies. Next week is going to be Kakumei’s turn. As they have yet to hold a castle, I’d like for as many as possible to appear for next Saturday. lol Good powpow’ing everyone! Stay gold everyone and…

Lay back and peace out under the stars
Saishu Hane

It’s great knowing that our guild is growing stronger and stronger. Recruit, Recruit, Recruit! It’ll be a blast if our guild grew much more. It shows through the catch of our lucky Guild Dungeon. It was unplanned and not thought out well, but hey! We got one. Thanks to all who attended WoE in our side, Love Suicide.

But in any case, try to use the guild dungeon while it’s there. Get loot!! Loot will be great if you sell. :3 If you can see, we got our level up. We have a few open spaces to anyone. Recruit to anyone [mainly classes we don't have. Ex: Priests-ish, Hunters, Dancers, Mages, Wizards, Linkers, ect] who needs a guild and/or who wants one. New people are welcomed everytime they’re in! ^^
Anywhos~ Post in the iRO Forums! :3 More points. It’ll definitely help us in recruiting, and noticability. [Yes, i know wrong choice of words, but hey. >.<;;]

If you need help leveling, ask me. :3 I’ll try to help you. I may not be able to help, but i’ll try. But, try leveling! There will be great opportunities to guild level once most of us are in range. Maybe a little of MVPing if we can try. ~_^ Anywhos~ over and out.

~Have fun and live your life to the fullest.
Kirawr