What different/Strange guilds have you been in?Follow

My brother and his then-girlfriend started an evil-only roleplay encouraged guild on Rodcet Nife server <Rise of Darkness>. Something like 140+ characters at one point and probably 90 of them were necromancers. I started out as a human rogue but got convinced to be a dark elf enchanter to "support guild efforts". Guild was a bit more successful in content when they opened it up a bit... but it was more fun with the narrow vision. He and I have revived that guild (just for us to dabble) on a couple of occasions on different servers. The original guild died in 2004, but I still remember other players like Ubeen, Galfos, Xetnifien, Senenuala (could never spell it right and didn't here), Auronio, Gravens and Dragonnok. Oh and the 7 year old girl we had in the guild with a purple froglok paladin named Purplehaze (or something close to that). Her paladin skills > mine to this day.

I have a defunct playerkiller guild on Trakanon server called <Red is Best> that never really took off, granted we didn't even try to recruit. Got lots of puzzled tells from people though.

I was in a progression guild called <Kicking Snakes> when snakes still kicked in EQ. That was a cool bunch, but it fizzled out not long after I got caught up in level to the main core. TSS was new content at this time.

I have some alts in the old, old Allakhazam poster guild <Aude Sapere> (did I spell that right?) which I basically was in when only Jonwin and Alwayslost were logging in with any regularity. What's neat about that guild is the way-back Zam connections that still have characters parked there. <Lunar Mutant Rights Now> is similar in that it was a whim born out of a thread discussion here... I mostly credit Jophiel. That was a fun couple of months pushing Luclin content. We got strongly to the 50s with a core, but lacked numbers/enthusiasm to push further (with in-era gear only from Luclin we kind of capped ourselves out without much bigger numbers).

I have an enchanter in <Unholy Czars> which is not a strange or weird guild per say, but has the cool habit of not deleting membership until it's been a real long time. It's very cool to login to a guild with 2000+ members and many have been active in the last year (at least last time I checked). I think Jonwin is still playing in there too.

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I've run into Swiftwulfe (a monk I knew from Rodcet Nife days being in some guilds together) years later when mergers of mergers reunited characters I had moved long away. He'd kept my old main's name on his friends list for like 7 years... that was really cool actually. I'm going to see if I can find him. You've inspired me KC13.



Edited, Nov 16th 2015 7:16pm by snailish

Funny story.. my first night in EQ >ever<, I lost my corpse under the trees in Kelethin. A couple nice folks came to my aid, and spent about half an hour looking (even though we never found it), and then quite a while answering questions I had. Shout out to Tiliani and Martle, I'm sure you'll never see this, but thanks. Anyway, I added them to my friends list (the first entries), and would occasionally send them a tell and catch up on things, and thank them again for their kindness.

Well, many years later (I wanna say 2006 or 2007), I hit my friends key, and who's logged in, but Martle! I sent him a tell, and blew his mind, he had just logged in for the first time in years, and couldn't believe that someone he new was sending him a tell.

Those old times I miss. The game is fun for me these days, but nothing comes close to what it was way back when :)

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So what I hear is... KC13 and Grove want to start an all-Iksar guild.

What server?

I had a similar experience with my 2nd ever char, also on 7th Hammer. My Dark Elf Necromancer, Darlokki, lost his corpse in Nektulos. I was frantically running around when I got a tell saying the corpse had decayed. Then, another saying to meet at the Neriak entrance. There, I met another DE Necro and was given a ton of items. I wish I could remember her name, but what I do remember was her guild, The Dark Exile. She must have been the one and only nice member as over the years, guilds I have been a member of, had several "run ins" with said TDE. No matter, I had and always will have a soft spot for them due to that one member.

Edited, Nov 18th 2015 11:25am by KC13

I have been playing EQ now since March 2000, and except for a short break have always been an EQ addict! I too was on the Seventh Hammer, and remember a lot of the Guilds that were on that Server during its time.
My first guild was called <Jesters of Norrath> and was comprised mostly of RL friends, with names I also still have in my friends list with the hope of one day seeing pop up. Amdeng, Hooke, Dimmsumm, Ciani, Sardaan, Azzkikr was a few of the many friends I had there!! <Disciples of the Void> was my 2nd Guild, and was a big part of forming the first on 7th Hammer server Coalition of Planar Progression (CPP), which was designed to help non raiding members of Seventh Hammer to progress through PoP.! I soon transitioned to <Savage Arms> and became a full time raider until I retired in 2008.
Back before PoTime became and Instance, there were battles to see who could complete the Tier 1 Trails faster to see which guild got to progress to Tier 2. Aditunnas, GL of Savage Arms and the GL of TDE used to always get into zone wide /shout and /ooc arguments about which guild was there first and who was going to raid those old PoP zones! Lots of laughs when I look back on it now!!
I may forget some, but, between The Dark Exile (TDE), Fires Within, Forged Souls, Savage Arms, Lunacy Unbound, and Diligence, that pretty much was the top tier Raiding Guilds on 7th Hammer from 2001 till they merged with Lanys sometime after I left. I didn't return to playing till 2012.
I remember a guild named Mithrilmoon Mystics from back then also. Always thought that was a cool name for a Guild.

Way the heck back in the day there was Sisters of Saryrn, an all female guild (on Saryrn, naturally). You didn't have to be a woman in real life to join but you did have to have a female character and, of course, act respectfully in the guild to the other members. I spent a short stint there with my first real main, a human female cleric of Erollisi Marr but they weren't especially active, mostly just a smallish casual chat guild.

There was an all-girl guild on 7th also.... Amazon Storm maybe? Can't remember for sure, but Amazon was in the name.

Sisterhood of Roses was an all female good race guild on druzzil ro. It was quite successful for 4 or 5 years.

Legion of Grobb was an all troll guild on druzzil ro. With no healers, it only lasted a few months but was fun watching 40 or 50 trolls run around kunark.