Important GUILD NEWS!!!!!!!
ALL Guildies/friends please click here- I’ve decided to explain what happened in a formal letter.
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44 Days & Nights….and counting.
Locklear after 28 hours of WOTLK Beta
November 13th– only 44 days to go til the expansion comes out and I cannot wait. I’m <insert any adjective>! My focus in the coming weeks is to level up one of my alts- I have a mage, paladin, shaman and druid. My Paladin is the closest at 50 but I find them to be pretty darn boring, I may focus on my Mage (Husker) who is sitting at 45 (?). Tossing huge DPS bolts of Fire and.or. Ice has always been appealing to me…and the sound of “Arcane” damage maybe too cool to pass up. I just need some help from the guild/friends and will happily return the favor. The new talent tree’s look promising as well as all the feedback from the BETA testers, Blizzard has a Gem on their hands so I hope they don’t go and f-it up. I was there when they killed Star Wars Galaxies, when EQ2 came out and when City of Heroes just simply lost it. We are talking about a completely different game company though with Blizzard…(knocks on wood).
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Last week we had Sindan roll some particularly winsome rolls in Karazahn. He won 3 Epics in a row and one was a T4. The officers; Phrozen, Phreezin, Ivanvonivan and Tyiako all agreed it’s not fair that one person would get all the loot from a single run, I agreed. It’s not fair seeing loot drop and go to someone who needs it more or is more deserving*. We now have an updated loot guideline and rule as follows. I will also list out examples of what X factors may play into this. If you have issues with this new rule please talk to me or the listed officers above before going off the deep end and kill little kittens.
- If an epic drops during Kara (specifically Kara) and it’s an item that will benefit you you may roll and if you win it you cannot roll again that night**. i.e. Tuesday fresh run and a your a priest and a healer item drops you roll against 2 other healers and win, that’s it for the night you cannot roll again. **If you are the only cloth healer and its class specific (no else needs it or rolls for it) then you CAN get the item. The ONE NIGHT rule does not apply if no one else needs it.
- If you have alts like I do- and your class is needed, you can roll like anyone else. i.e. One night I’m on with my healer and I win a roll, later that run we need Devo my Lock for Oz or Shade - epic drops and I roll against another and win I still can roll.
- If, god forbib…all night long all that drops is PLATE and we only have 1 Plate wearer, he/she can roll/win it outright without regard to the ONE Loot rule. Exception being if they do NOT need the item we will simply shard it.
- Class Specific drop, new rule does NOT apply IF there is only one person in raid that can use it. i.e. Lastnight a Mage class epic dropped for Phreezin (frost spec) she was able to get the item because she was spec’d for it and it was class specific,– rule did not apply. If 3 mages rolled for it and needed it — rule applies.
These new updates are hopefully an easy fix to a sometimes complex issue when raiding, we just want to ensure the guild has fair rules and for our guild core members to benefit for the time and effort they put into the game/guild.
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This coming Saturday is the STV Arena Guild vs. Guild event at 5 pm ST. What this means is our “The Old School” guild will have set/mixed teams based on level vs. other teams from “The Old School Academy”. I will post more info tonight but basically you step into the arena and it’s game on. 5g or 10g entry fee for prizes (see/pst “Ivanvonivan” ingame for direct information) I believe the rules are simple- no Potions/Elixirs or Scrolls to be used and no outside healing (don’t think that’s possible…)
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Congrats to our local token Colombian Logtar (not really token since he holds his own and is an enigma unto himself, just sounded cool) on hitting level 69 in the Wonderful World of Warcraft. Although he has been courted by his friends in the past to give WoW a whirl (using as many “W”’s as I can), he refused knowing full well he may be addicted along with 11 million other players. Lo-and-behold I ask him to join our Old School guild and with some intimate conversations with his wife he joined up. So just over 4 months ago he started up a Warrior and lastnight hit the near current pinnacle of levels (until the expax). Most of his levels, the early and mid levels were groups, pugs and instances, the latter levels he mostly pugg’ed it or Solo quested. He did it the Old School way! Earned the levels by getting to KNOW his character, skills, talents both Protection and DPS. Some, if not everyone says that “It’s Just a Game” demeaning the value of games yet they do play them. I believe that games are more than games but direct relations and synergies one has in their ‘real lives’. He worked hard to achieve his goal. We as a guild work hard to achieve goals. MMO’s are goal oriented based games where one can directly see the result of cause and effect. That is why I think these type of games are so addicting, it’s relatively easy to level up and gear up as it has a built in social structure to do so AND social aspects incorporated into the game where one can make friends or enemies. Most people want to be good at whatever they do and these games allow you to do so despite obvious obstacles of physicality and social barriers. Logtar/John has come full circle with his MMO experience for WoW, he’s seen the good/bad and frackin ugly. I look forward to seeing him Main Tank and Off Tank for our guild. Great Work Log!
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November 13th 2008, usually Blizzard does not make such bold announcements but rather states “It’s ready, when it’s ready”. I will be out of town that week so I will miss the BUZZ, Lag and bitching/praising that will ensue for that week and beyond. I hope it’s as good as it looks!
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God Particle
CERN pushed the ON button today and we seem to still here on earth…..or are we? As the CERN scientists and collab’s get more and more comfortable smashing proton beams together they plan and increasing the energy. “Small steps Sparks, Small Steps”….~ Contact I love the name they gave the particle they are trying to find or even better, not find. The God Particle. More links here and here.
While I have not a single clue on how they are doing this research I’m all for it even if they create a black hole, mini or not that swallows up the earth and our solar system, I wish I could be there to see it. Touring the 17 mile radius facility would be a great vacation, imo. Plus the chance we (Man) could alter reality or change the face of our planet?? That’s friggin cool!
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MAD Posters!
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Guild Update Fall 2008
This past weekend we we’re able to buy our 5th Guild Bank tab for just a mere 2500 gold. The next tab will run 5000g and I don’t see us doing that, seems a bit expensive. Many thanks to all who have added their hard earned gold to the bank. Since we are not planning on buying another tab I think we can use the gold (as it builds up) for mounts, respec’s and items of excellent quality. I think Mounts for Guildies is a fine idea but has a lot of issues if it goes wrong. I believe if you are under 60 you need to earn the mount yourself without taking from the guild bank. Base mounts (non-epic) for 60+ I would be ok with–typically costs about 1000g + or - depending on your reputation. I would also only consider us funding mounts to those whom have been in the guild for an extended period of time. (3+ months of active guild participation). I see no need to fund someone whose only been in the guild a couple weeks let alone never helps, participates. Please reply to my thoughts and suggestions here in the message area or email ingame or simply talk to me ingame. I am very open to other suggestions and ideas what we should use the gold/guildbank funds for.
Rules– please see the rules tab on this blog if you are new to the guild, they are there for all to follow and obide. Simplified version is it comes down to mutual respect among your guildmates. Please NOTE our guild rules are NOT the same as our sister guild The Old School Academy and your rank in said guild does NOT transfer to ours except you go to “Senior Officer” vs. “New Recruit”. This changed recently due to the fact we have no clue how long you were in TOSA with they have literally hundreds of members. Moving up in rank is pretty straight forward, participate, help and being mature will get you ranked up, being needy, pushy and wallflower-like will get you nada.
Progression — We have been making our weekly runs at Kara but still are in need of solid guildies to show up *including myself*. “Pugging” it up for spots on Heals and Tank I understand but we should never have to find DPS/Melee. (but we do). I have made efforts to recruit new members, please take the initiative and recruit some on your own. If your in an instance (pug or otherwise) and enjoy being around players who KNOW THEIR ROLE** just ask them in a tell if they’d like to give our guild a try. My little ’schpeil’ goes a little like this… “We’re looking for new recruits to join us, we’re a casual but focused guild but are in need of new players, we have a 2 week trial to see if there’s a fit…” Try it. Nothing to lose. So, let’s continue to use the Group Calendar and sign up! Let’s get used to working with eachother and HAVE PATIENCE (Kettle calling Black)…of which my patience as of late needs to be worked on. I will try to practice what I preach but moreover YOU NEED TO KNOW YOUR ROLE. If you cannot hold the aggro, cannot heal in time, cannot pull the mobs correctly, cannot sheep/sap/trap - mostly cannot listen and learn you might consider a new game. =D j/k. But am I ? I never claimed to be 1337 or the best of the best, only I do know the basic and intermediate ways to play nearly all classes in WoW. With that, I know when someone is doing something wrong, I usually keep it to myself and drop hints but at this stage in the game (3 years) and your 70 you should KNOW how to PLAY. If you don’t, please tell us so we KNOW and will understand much more when you break that Sheep or forget to KICK something. I think we shall have a guild meeting dedicated to AIRING OUT our guildmate greivances. I’ve gotten several tells from various members about others and while it’s normal to have issues we do need to get them settled or at least try to work on them.
Wrath of the Lich King – **changes it all** Some of you we’re here before the expansion, of those who were KNOW that when it came out it changed the face of Raiding and Loot. The end game instances of pre-BC loot were literally obsolete overnight by GREEN BC gear. While I do not have a source to refer to a good hunch is this will happen again with the Lich King expansion. What does that mean to me/us? For me it means I’m not all gung-ho about Kara. It means I’m going to farm rep and gold vs. Kara. Kara maybe obsolete once the expansion goes live. Or not. Know one knows but I recall my friends dedicating whole weekends in NAXX, ZG, AQ and were at eachothers throats trying to make raids work. I don’t want that. I will be there for our Weeklies but I’d rather focus on helping others hit the 70 mark so we CAN ALL progress as a guild. For us as a guild I’d like us to help eachother KNOW HOW TO PLAY their toon in a group and/or raid setting. Be patient on Kara runs, make mistakes, talk to eachother about what you and they can do to make it right, critique each other without drama. Do more Heroics as a guild! (starting to sound like McCain…”FIGHT FIGHT WITH ME!!!…” *pukes*
Let’s shoot for a Guild Meeting on Sept 10th at 9pm Server time. We will meet at the SLAUGHTERED LAMB Tavern in the Mage Quarter.
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Mrs. Knight
Picture Courtesy of Logtar!
Welp, we finally did it after nearly 5 years of courtship, loveship, hardship and funship. Wedding was a smashing success even with the Thunderstorm! (We love Storms) Thanks to everyone who attended, helped, witnessed our event. We greatly appreciate having our friends along for the ride.
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Alo’s parents, sister and other family members arrived earlier this week. My father and friend fly in today at the worlds most convenient airport (no joke, our airport is by far the most efficient well planned one ever…) our day is going to be filled with driving, cleaning, cooking, talkings, driving, picking up/dropping off, cleaning, rehearsing, driving and tons of SMILING. I’m very excited too! It’s often been said one’s life can be summarized in maybe a dozen moments, and I believe today and tomorrow will among those.
Despite my lack of sleep in the past week (minus lastnight as I slept like a baby…..) I’ve been relatively calm and relaxed, I try not to stress on things and really have not (besides lack of money– paying for a wedding isn’t exactly cheap brothas and sistas)..had anything major mess up my mood. For all of that I point at my soon to be wife AlixAndria. She runs the show and her initiative and drive to get things done was a key element that drove me to be madly in love with her. I count on her for so many things in our day to day lives, many things I simply wouldn’t trust anyone to handle…but I do with her. I appreciate everything she is and everything she’s not as well as everything shes going to be.
I hope our friends and family enjoy our celebration this week and share in our life experiences on down the road. Alix and I both love and admire our friends and family and are blessed to have such down to earth real people friends. Thank You!
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Spend it with them. Alix, being very wise made some sage like commentary a few weeks ago about her kids and going to pick them up, drop them off at their friends houses, events. I, being the cranky defensive step-dad-to be …wait I need to end this run-on sentence. OK, I was noticing how her kids friends parents NEVER picked up her kids to do things. Never swung by, dropped off or even (seems) to offer it. I spoke up a couple times saying how it’s not fair for us *Alix* to being doing all the driving. She replied that she only has a few years or less to have time with them before there out of the house and on their own. That stopped my bitching and I agreed. Our oldest live in is a Senior in HS this year and if things go according to plan- she will be moving out around this time next year for Florida (Culinary School). 1 down and 2 to go. She’s a bright smart funny full of life step daughter (I don’t like that term– so I’ll just call her my daughter)– so ya my Daughter will be leaving us next year and the time spent dropping her off, picking her up is small potatoes.
My son, whom recently moved in with us started a new school (middle) and so far so good, granted it’s the first week seems to be happy. We are trying to focus him more on school and homework as last year was pretty much a failure (he lived with his mother….). He’s a good kid with a great heart as long as you don’t expect anything in the present department, gifts or sharing food. He’s a bastard when it comes to food. He’s nearly 6ft tall and just grew a 1/2 shoe size in the past 4 weeks to be wearing size 11.5 shoe and will eat you out of the house in a matter of days. I’m going to be keeping an eye on his food intake at school as one can track every purchase they make as they have to basically use a pass code when they buy food. That gets tracked online for me to see and If I need to can email the lunch ladies and cut him off from certain foods and snacks. My son isn’t fat per se - I think he’s right around 180 lbs. But ya gotta watch him…
My daughter-daughter is quickly catching up in the height department but remains boney and self-conscience of her weight. Yes, I will blame the media, music vids, friends and pop culture on her weight. She’s picky what she eats minus; hot dogs and dessert. She won’t have any type of red sauce on her pasta- instead she’ll take it without and add a little bit of butter. She loves Fettucini Alfredo and Mac n Cheese but will not eat Chicken unless it’s in a nugget form or strips. Just this week we let her start wearing a thin line of eyeliner….this is her first time in a public school (and my son) so she’s stoked she can do normal things. Catholic schools have certain rules like no make-up, same clothes (which is fine imo– school uniforms), 40 hours of community service for kids (ours had over 200 hrs this past year working at a Assisted Living Center for the past 2 years) , tithing, parent mandatory volunteering, 30 fund raisers per calendar year, tithing, and more tithing.
I, sometimes get perplexed at the thought of God being broke. =D I think parochial schools are great, if you can afford them. We are very fortunate (not really…) that we live in if not the best top 20 school districts in the USA for public schools– Blue Valley, Olathe & Shawnee Mission School districts– which are well funded and if anyone asks where our tax dollars go all one has to do is look to 160th and Antioch at Blue Valley West High School. Johnson County get’s a lot of Hater press but if you want to have your kids going to an elitist public school- Johnson County is the place to be. (If you are really LOADED they go to the State Line Prep School Barstow where the tuition alone is more than Kansas University (out of state)- with that 99.9% of them go to College and most go to Ivy League). Sometimes (if not a lot) money is a good thing.
So with this new school year we have high hopes and our only wishes if for our kids to get great grades and being happy….along with smatterings of sports, music and being a kid. I try to tell them this time in their lives is among or will be the best times in their lives. You only have 5 things you need to worry about as a teen.
1. Good Grades
2. Homework
3. Chores
4. Stay out of trouble
5. Don’t get pregnant or get someone pregnant and/or STD’s.
Simple enough.
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Thanks Mom & Dad!
My mother passed away spring of 2006 from nearly 40 years of smoking 2 packs a day. Lung, followed by brain cancer is among the worst ways to lose someone as it’s long and drawn out. I really lost her just before her chemo treatments. I’ve always thought ones birthday should be celebrated more as a thank you for your mother and father. We should simply have a day of less importance being born and more of a thank you for mom and dad making the effort, accident or not for giving me life. It’s still very painful for me at times without having my mother around, to call- we talked nearly every day prior to 2006 as she was lonely from moving around alot and my fathers hours working. She had her faults like everyone else and hindsight very typical ones; over bearing, over opinionated, nosey, stubborn and moody. Much like me. =D
The good qualities are numerous, generous, loving, empathy and confident. Although not much for huggy/kissy mothering she loved me and my sister with everything a mother could. My father and her provided me an extremely happy childhood. Meager lower income but if one doesn’t know the difference it doesn’t matter, we had family trips every summer and spring. Swimming and camps in the summertime, mom would make Sunday Pot Roast, my father taught me all about lawn care (priming me). as well as learning techniques for drawing and art. I would literally spend my winter months in his art studio going over huge art books. Micheangelo, DaVinci, Hopper, Pollack, Frank Lloyd, Picasso, Monet as well as current trends (at the time the 70’s and 80’s). I would get high off his markers and listen to American Top 40 every sunday morning sitting at his drafting table. It was simply amazing. My time spent in his Studio was golden.
For me, life having a meaning is to have a family. To create life with someone you love and have children of your own, I’ve been blessed to have done this with my two wonderfully crazy kids. 50% ain’t bad! I’ve been doubly blessed to have found Alo whom I will be marrying next week. I get to not only marry someone with qualities that could make this an extra-extra long blog post but I get to be a part of her family.
I was born on August 19th 1971 at 7:14 p.m. in Omaha Nebraska @ Mercy Hospital by Doctor Brown– who coincidentally I was next to when he delivered my own Son at the same Hospital–and also coincidentally just across the street no less than 100 yards my mother is buried, I love you Mom and Dad, thanks for having me.
Your Son,
NTK3
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The levels of Geekdom
While eating BOOGAS at Tanners today a topic of discussion, while brief, was interesting (to me). Levels of geekdom, nerdness, freak. Let’s first go over the terminology because there seems to be several so your mileage may and will vary. I’m a new nerd, new in that my gaming nerdness started back in 1993 with Magic the Gathering. Prior to that I collected (still do) comic books…collecing comics is more geek than nerd. That was the extent of geekdom before 1993, comic books and loved certain genres of science fiction…but I never read novels just comics, Carl Sagan (COSMOS!) and Douglas Adams.
After my learning and playing of Magic I moved onto the novels of the lore of MtG as well as playing other Collectible Card Games like; WYVERN, Star Trek, Star Wars, Illuminati, Highlander, Call of Cthulu, Doomtrooper (one of my favs) and a few others, I tried all except Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh as that would put me at a level of play and geekdom to which wouldn’t grasp. Or would want to. So, my focus on the genre of CCG’s last to this day, as well as my love for all things Star Wars, Science Fiction, Comics (of which is or has crossed over to mainstream, good thing? No…but that’s another blog),
- Classic Nerd : glasses/contacts, plays Dungeons and Dragons, has at one point in time had conversations in basic, plays online games but very very picky and snobbish. Remembers his first computer and probably still has it somewhere in moms house. Plays MUD from time to time. Social skills are limited to close knit friends and weary of crowds.
- New Age Nerd : Plays MMO’s but the old ones like Everquest. Refuses to play new games on the basis of it costing too much money but has no problems buying $493.00 worth of used Warhammer Miniatures (already painted).
- Live Action Role Playing Nerd: For those who don’t know what a LARP is…it someone who acts out the physical attributes with others. Just think back when you we’re 8 years old playing Army/Cowboys & Indians/Barbies but over the age of 15. Most are in thier late 30’s. These people are very very serious about games and roleplaying. They are also scary depending on the type of roleplaying they’re doing. They will book their conventions at hotels and take it over, literally. I give mad props to these people because they don’t a fuck what you or society thinks of them, these are the purists of nerds/geeks. Here’s an example…….
- MUD Nerd: These are the online versions of a Dungeon and Dragons player. They literally make things up in a game without using anything except the power of words. No graphics, no flash…just their brains and a sometimes loose set of rules. It would drive me NUTS doin this (I did in 1990 for 1 month..I quit due to sex, drugs and slam dancing). MUD stands for Mutli-User Dungeon. — here’s an example…..
- Warhammer/Lead Nerds: these are very close to the DnD nerds in that they are using little figurines that they can paint themselves or have someone else paint them. This endeavor into gaming is among the most expensive where collections usually start around $500.00 + just recently (past 5 years) a smart marketing guy came up with the el cheapo version of Clix and variances. Instead of pewter/lead figurines it’s made out of little plastic figures on top of a base for the mechanics of the game. Strength/Power/Abilities. I’ve not tried this one as like most things in gaming I can’t do it half asses and with my monies for gaming goes to MMO’s and Magic…well my money is stretched to my limit on comfort level. These type of gamers/nerds are hardcore, how could you not be when it’s basically playing with barbies…but with swords and guns. (Think grown up GI JOE).
- “Ohh looks it’s SHINEY!” nerd– this would resemble my gaming/nerding style. I will try most new games for awhile then simply quit them unless they have that addictive crack feeling to them (Like WoW and MtG). These types will go from game to game like you should change your underwear– everyday. They also tend to master the game very quickly but with that get very bored and need more options. I have 5 level 70’s in WoW and 4 more in their upper 40s…in that aspect of being bored or needing change, I got that covered.
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End of the world coming…
If only they would wait til after we’re married…..
and IF I’m right someone owes me a BLACK n TAN in the next life……….
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