What's the Status of the Allakhazam forum-born guilds?Follow

There was "Followers of the Stars" on Firiona Vie back in 2001 or 2002. It was made up mostly of Asylum posters. We raided higher level stuff from the beginning, it was a blast. I remember having 20ish people attacking a hill giant in East Karana in our 20's or maybe teens, and raiding the spider queen in crystal caverns. We tried to do stuff like that a lot. Smasharoo was the guild leader, and his blunt posting style didn't quite fit in with the hugbox that was the Firiona Vie server messageboard. I believe he was banned from that board pretty quickly.

As we got higher levels the usual guild drama erupted, and spilled into the zam forum. You might can find the old posts in there if you go back far enough. Tacosid and Patrician seemed to have a big feud going.

Good times.

Followers of the Stars did indeed implode - or rather was nuked by the leader over some issue which I think had to do with a Vox raid. I wasn't there that time.

The bewildered remains rapidly reformed into "Shards of Chaos" which went on fairly well from there until it ran out of steam during the early PoP era. I remember scouting PoN for targets and then being unable to muster force to take them. The core players that formed it knew the existing content through to Velious and some Luclin very well. Once we got onto stuff that was completely new the momentum faltered.

Usual problems for a casual raiding guild, some people wanted hardcore and left to raid more than once a week, some people had RL and just left. Inevitably with a good scattering of forum hardcases there was drama. There were also some very good times and a lot of fun.

In the end there were about 5 of us in the Shadowhaven bank where we split the guild bank (in an alt in those days) and went our separate ways.

Quite a few had gone to FN where after rigorous testing I was allowed to follow.

I was peripherally involved with Aude Sapere on Morden Rasp (as it was then). I had a guild which was allied to them and I did group a bit with some of them. I remember a large explosion when one of them reported a duping bug and promptly got barred for trying to be helpful.

The problem (for me) with both was to some extent the transatlantic timezones. To have an event on a Sunday afternoon for the East Coast meant it was the evening for Europe and breakfast for the West Coast.

I enjoyed both Aude Sapere and Lunar Mutants.
That said I would still log into either of those toons to play if any one made it a planned get together type of event, maybe a day or two a week or the odd weekend...Again I have always enjoyed those two guilds.
Currently My FV sk is max level/aa ...and frustrated for lack of time to raid, lol.
Some things never change ;-)

After the edit:
I just logged into Cazic Thule to be hit by a small nostalgia-bomb...(Mutants)Trinmer 63 cleric, Yurta 64 sk and Herren 65 ranger all in Barren Coast and in gear that we only looted as a guild or made.

I see Mystro logged in a couple days ago, Vhrae a couple months ago and Lemony in January.
Hmm, I had forgotten we were all senior officers, lol.

I only have one toon on Povar, that is where I moved my toon from to FV. Anyway Keksh is a 68 kitty-shaman. (Not in A.S. it appears.)

Still more nostalgia, I still have some low level toons on Antonious Bayle, my very first server. Although nothing higher that low forties. Birthdates in 2003/2004.

My travels went AB>Morden Rasp>Povar>FV.
Thank you for this thread and the memories it stirred!

Edited, Jun 16th 2016 9:33pm by alwayslost

I do! A chanter that I think is languishing somewhere between 56-66. I can't even remember the character's name, but I appreciate (as an on-again, off-again player) is that UC is cool with that and doesn't unguild me if I am away for a time (present culture in some Phinegel guilds is two weeks absent = booted).

Should I feel inclined to play a chanter again, I expect that is the one I would push.

Jonwin, RL name, Paul, got laid off from his beloved job as a tour guide because of age discrimination and a pathetic, corrupt boss. He's still upset and not found any work yet. He's 62.
This economy is so awful. I am tempted to call the Historical Ventures and tell them we want to book an overnight for 60 Scouts but we want him as our guide. Then, hang up when they say he's not there anymore. Because, yeah, I'm evil.


Lee of Povar
(I play wizards and enchanters mostly.)

I don't get it... our President says the economy's doing great!

That wasn't my 2000th post. It was my 1999th. You can't go by the count displayed since that's the same for every post I ever made.

And now we are debating minutiae. Do you want to discuss how many angels fit on the head of a pin?

THIS is #2000-and-1, btw.

You know one thing that would help EQ-Allakhazam stay alive would be not getting long delays with cryptic "Proxy Error" screens half the time I try to post. It's not very reassuring... Not sure I'll ever get even to 2,500 at this pace...




Edited, Jun 22nd 2016 8:03am by Sippin

Thanks.

Thanks for the free post count boost, too. LOL