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

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