Great Guild, or GREATEST guild? I'm the Judge

[SeguagnalStaump]

As the real leader of Blackmoor Defenders (shhh its a secret) I'd just like to say its a pleasure to have Llewndyn in our guild. As for his son; if I had known it was his son I would never have joined that raid. Kid is crazy and if he ever greases us into a lava pit again I will run with him and keep him in a perpetual cloud of ice storms until I fry his video card.

[Llewndyn]

I think I have some twilight mithral full plate he can have.

He just got off and then back on timer, had 0 issues filling either, our next goal is to have him live past part 4.. I think a bunch of forumites know who my kid is :P

And don't even play about mithral armor, he would be all over that in a heartbeat.

As for the guild, not sure if the guy who said that knew he was my kid, to me doesn't matter, and those two guildies he greased didn't think it was funny when he did it but later when I told them it was him while they were talking about it in guild chat thought it was hilarious and went out of their way to run stuff with him... that's total class.

Who's AoK? :P

[Llewndyn]

I wish I was in game to help out. But....glad your son got thru it finally.

Though...not sure why he didnt shout out on guild chat first....or did you drop the ball and not get him in the family.... :-)

T.

He asked, I will PM names later, I think his altoholism is over and he has a few solid prospects

[Burtle]

I too know something about siring an imp: mine danced Smatt in the Von5 blade trap!

Not to mention himself in part 5 of shroud..heh... guess that's what he gets for not double checking his belts..heh

[elixer1]

As the real leader of Blackmoor Defenders (shhh its a secret)

Shhhh Seg! THACO going to figure out we stole the keys to the airship and wrapped it around Aussircaex.

[SwampYankee]

Not to mention himself in part 5 of shroud..heh... guess that's what he gets for not double checking his belts..heh

Love it!

[elixer1]

One of our guildies got knocked out of the game due to a monitor failure, so another one of our guildies sent him one!

Awesome! Now that is guild support!

[MownDown]

I need to meet up with your kid and teach him the finer points of griefing parties... there are loads of things that wouldnt occur to most ppl that are just hilarious.... i dont know how many ppl i have made rage quit in part 1 of shroud....

[theKman]

Best Guild on the Server, Nay, on ANY server

I wanna share a story. A story with love, intrigue, resourcefulness, blind faith, and the determination to see something through.A story of one's trials and tribulations, of a long, arduous road with nary a sight of the promised land, a journey fraught with danger, usually death, but this time ending in sweet victory.

A story, my friends, about the Shroud.

The Shroud, a raid near and dear to our hearts, a cruel mistress that you must visit again and again in order to attain the nirvana that is greensteel, a tight lipped, unwavering bastion of happiness that is both a digital Mecca to new players and the darkest depths of Mordor, the very face of the term "grind" to hardened veterans. To those who can 1 or 2 or even 6 or 7 man this quest, this may come as a shock.

My son loves DDO. LOVES it. He has gotten in trouble for logging into it at 3 in the morning on school days, he has very strictly imposed time limits on how long he can play that he constantly protests and attempts to circumvent ( we have to do that or he would not know what the sun was), when he gets into trouble that is the most severe punishment he gets, and to him the most inhumane.

My son is also a terrible player. This is a constant source of entertainment to everyone that sees him play, including himself. I have tried to help him, he likes his build and used the lesser heart I gave him TP for something else, because he hasn't changed. He enjoys that he annoys people with his antics and unorthodox build. He is running a halfling wizard that usually wears full plate armor, wields either a bastard sword and a mace or a quarterstaff, usually no other armor whatsoever, and has 140 HP fully buffed. He is not rude, I am usually nearby when he is on there and dont allow that, but he is well known on Ghallanda and in my guild for his LFGs and disdain for other people's perfect runs. My favorite is a couple guildies joined a group he was in, he greased them into a lava pit, they were like "***?!" and he said something like "cry, cry, cry" and then jumped in with them, effectively causing a wipe. This was before they knew he was my demon spawn. This.. needs to become your ritual to entry to the guild.. hit up your leaders for it.. "You wanna join our guild.. come on a run in ______ with us then"

Anyway, enough back story, the Shroud. My son has been trying to get through the Shroud for about 2 months now. He has never made it past part 2. I have sat there many a night while he gets blamed, over and over, for ruining the entire raid, and he is not lying, apparently ONE little gimped wizard is enough to completely fail the entire raid. I have also seen him on numerous times ask for help finding the crystal or asking what to do only to be insulted or outright ignored, and then when no one is on crystal or banging portals down fast enough or what have you, blame it on him and then ragequit. This is not one or two times. This has been going on for 2 months. Now before I go on and place the blame on everyone else, he is gimped. 100% so. He loves his toon. He is always courteous and listens when told to do something. That being said, in a mission where a caster is critical, he is not the caster you are looking for.

Anyway, he puts up an LFg looking for Shroudies, and says in said LFG he is new, even though I am willing to bet he has done more shrouds than me at this point. One of my guildies, who I don't think knows he is my kid, says something like "Uh oh, <mykid> has a group up :P" to which I reply glumly the aforementioned paragraphs. And this, my friends and raptured listeners, is where this story turns inspirational.

All of the upper level guys not on timer in my guild drop what they are doing and join his group that had no one in it because of his reputation. I am out of town on business, but his mom said he was grinning from ear to ear when he saw all of us coming. Long story short (too late) we completed his first Shroud ever for him. Did he die? NUMEROUS times. Did we still finish with him standing alive and well after part 5? Yep. My wife told me he had been acting glum because I was out of town and usually we nerd it up on DDO or Nazi Zombies (what can I say, I'm a great father figure) and he had no one to talk to really because his brothers dont care for DDO, and she said he was talking excitedly the rest of the night about how cool Aerritrikos was and how awesome that mission was and how he couldn't wait to to tell me about it and how cool my guild was because no one called him stupid or a noob or insulted his family heritage because he dared to die. To me, that is the sign of a great guild, nay, the greatest guild: one that not only still has me as a member even after I show that I am in no way a competent player, but one that is willing to be patient, willing to help someone out at the drop of a hat. Sure we don't have the reknown a lot of bigger guilds have, and probably due to my playstyle maybe not the best reputation when it comes to zerging or completing without idiot deaths (though I will point out I am the only one that does that, STILL cannot do relic of a sovereing past without falling into that lava pit just around the first bend), but in my mind they are still the classiest guild on this server, and I have been in a few different guilds so I can make blanket statements like that. Props here to your Guild. Its what makes being in a guild worthwhile.

Blackmoor Defenders, I salute you.

As a guild leader myself, I Salute the Blackmoor Defenders for their Heart
+1 for the story also

[Calebro]

I too know something about siring an imp: mine danced Smatt in the Von5 blade trap!

I got a buddy the other night on the way to VoD. He jumped, I followed, waited for the right moment, and BAM! Slow descent right into the orange light with him screaming and cussing the whole time because he saw his fate slowly approaching.
It was GLORIOUS!

[voodoogroves]

Great story man; my daughter wants to start playing and I'm decidely nervous ... hopefully good experiences like that will find her too.