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

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

Well, our castle holding is almost up and the shares are all in place. For Makk, Kuros and Neko, now is your chance to pick and choose between the guild treasures. The total estimate in zeny that we’ll have per share will be decided after the drops tonight. On my break at work tomorrow I’ll calculate everything out and find out how much a share is worth. Which will be mailed to the character of your choosing. Unless you don’t tell me a character, then it goes to your character in the guild (or in Makk’s case, his smith no matter what).

Tomorrow I’ll be making another post consisting of the full list of drops. Some things you won’t be able to claim due to the limited cost of your share at the moment (unless a God item drops tonight….that’d be cool…). At the same time I’ll post up the estimated cost of the items that are going to be going up for sale. The cost of the share will also be displayed and you can deduct the cost of the item from your share. If an item overshoots the price of your share, then you’ll have to make up the difference in zeny. My forger will then mail out the dividends to the others.

I hope you made good use of the guild dungeon while it was available and that we can get another castle on our next turn. Thank you again everyone for attending and contributing! Keep in mind that the guild contest is still going for this month. I’ve yet to tally the scores since tax experience keeps changing, but I will update the points on recruits, forum bumps, and WoE attendances as soon as possible! That’s it for now, so stay gold everyone and….

Lay back and peace out under the stars
Saishu Hane