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 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