A New Kind of Guild

Every once in a while, the blog (yes, this one) comes up as a topic of conversation in guildchat. Usually, someone thinks I should write about them (they don’t really want me to write about them, they just think they do) or I didn’t properly emphasize their role in a successful guild adventure.

Like that nice epic weapon I got a few weeks back. It was one of the guild dudes that gave the wrong directions to our camp and sent me running hellbent into that named NPC’s lap. Although, as he remembers it now, he did that on purpose.

Our involuntarily-elected guildleader wondered aloud one night, what the future of gaming and blogging will hold. Maybe every guild will have an active blogger in its ranks, or taken further, maybe entire guilds will have bloggers as members.

I think we can all agree that would be disastrous:

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Suspiro

Gosh I get tired of this shit three months after launch:

Sigh

Maybe my memory has fogged more than I think, but I could swear that EverQuest-Classic (SIX YEARS AGO) didn’t have this kind of hardware/database/login (whateverthefuck) issues after three months. And I’m only picking on EverQuest because that was SIX YEARS AGO.

Surely there’s been advancements since then.

Screenshot Wednesday

There’s this series of Alliance quests in World of Warcraft where players have to talk to this Stormwind NPC who’s posing as a cheese vendor. He’s mixed up in this mess where Stormwind diplomats and royalty are missing — it’s a real rat’s nest of treachery and power struggles.

Cheez Wiz

He’s one of those quest NPCs where noobs are constantly asking his location. “For the last time, he’s in the fucking cheese shop, I know that sounds ridiculous — someone with such valuable insider information about the plot against Stormwind is living out a quiet retirement as a Cheese wiz, but it’s true, nevertheless!”

CheeseMaster

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