ISHCA OTI CEVIL ILLU MI NATI Anniversary

[Franghasea]

Greetings! A year ago today a small group of gamers wandered away from the busy and well traveled path and started a new guild. On this otherwise private observance, I am publicly acknowledging this great group of people.

Thank you Emers, Laralyn, Missfire, Preciousring, Lookana, Deckson, Llewynia, Eliwen, Tektoh, Spitzs, and Mitenauch (with special mention to Vexious! and Rwildes) for making DDO time amazing. I am grateful that each of you choose to be a part of the zany, zergfesting, pikefesting, drinking gaming, potentially video creating, raidapalooza maddess that we enjoy whenever we log on.

We were founded simply to promote enjoyable gaming with a great group of unique personalities, bereft of drama. This was to allow everyone to team zerg or individually sniff (::cough:: or pike) to achieve their own personal goals while supporting each other in theirs. The one founding team goal we had was to reach guild level 150. We originally only wanted to maximize the buffs on the ship, we did not care about being a guild with 200 in their name.

Then those tenish days of 50% bonus to guild renown occurred during Christmas 2015 and suddenly we were 46 levels up from when the event started. Now at level 152, the color of the guild name above everyone's head didn't feel quite right. So 11 months and 3 days from the beginning of it all, laughing and having a great time along the way, we hit 200 in the wee hours of the morning.

Wait...I seem to remember there ARE heroic levels.

In closing, from our massive guild quote book I am sharing a random chat that sums us up quite well. It begins with another idle rant by Emers and a then concise summary of Emers' ramblings by Spitzs:

10/16/2015
(Party: [Party] Emers: There may be a day when we forsake all bonds of fellowship
(Party: [Party] Emers: BUT TODAY IS NOT THAT DAY
(Party: [Party] Emers: STAND!
(Party: [Party] Emers: CHAOTIC EVIL ILLUMINATI!
(Party: [Party] Spitzs: umm beer is good


Thank you for taking the time to read this,
and again thanx to those of you in the Illuminati!

Franghasea

[Tumani]

Grats good people all around

[Emers-Lochingvyrr]

10/16/2015
(Party: [Party] Emers: There may be a day when we forsake all bonds of fellowship
(Party: [Party] Emers: BUT TODAY IS NOT THAT DAY
(Party: [Party] Emers: STAND!
(Party: [Party] Emers: CHAOTIC EVIL ILLUMINATI!
(Party: [Party] Spitzs: umm beer is good

Lmao that was a good raid. Also a good way to answer the 3rd most popular question I get: what does your guild name mean xD

I'll just add the two pence of thank you to all the great friends from other guilds that add to the game in ways that any other aspect of a game can never provide: community.

Thank you to friends in Nightwalkers, Death N Despair, Bluelight, Death Knights of the Underworld, and Order of the Emerald Claw.

[Brokenlink]

The commrodery and fellowship so many of us have in Chaotic Evil and ddo with our zaney elitist Zerg group is the best! Here's to another 6 years of memories!

~Mitenauch