I'm not talking about the small list on the left, or a St. Bernard to bring you a flask of mead.
There is the game-job of being a Guide, providing, to some extent, assistance to players. It sounds like a very fulfilling way to spend time in the game if you are not into the grind-to-60-as-fast-as-possible mode.
If I remember correctly, there is one Guide program for SOE, and in the application, you specify what game you are focused on. You then have to answer trivia and lore questions to prove your knowledge base. Then the interview, approval, etc.
I've never seen one, called one, or heard of one. What form does a guide take? Any special abilities or super-powers? How much help can a guide actually give? Anyone have a guide story?
I know what the web site says about what a guide can do, but has anyone ever actually SEEN one?
Disclaimer: Guides are forbidden from divulging information about being a guide, but this info will be just between us.
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Interesting this should come up. Just last night I was playing (on Antonia Bayle) and looking for a sage to craft an adept 3 for me. Any time I did /who <anything> all this person 'Vima' showed up but she was anonymous.
Eventually I asked if she was looking for sage work and she said "no, i'm a guide, I always show up when you do /who"
So, later I was walking around in east freeport at the docks and I saw her standing there. Her named showed as 'Guide Vima'. I walked over and waved. We both stayed in character the whole time but I inspected her and she was a gnome and was wearing only a guide robe and guide slippers. They were a really cool green color that I don't remember seeing before.
She asked me if I knew how to solve the problem when the screen shakes. I /boggled and asked her "screen shakes?" and she said something along the lines of "yes, when you do experiments and the bowl doesn't like the acid you had in there before and it explodes and the protective screen shakes"
I explained to her that most of my experiments end up "like this" and changed to my bone form.
We tried to get a few others in character to play along but no one seemed interested. Eventually she sent me a tell that she had to go "take care of something" and she was gone.
That was my first and only experience with a guide.
Edited, Wed Nov 16 17:51:22 2005 by klyia
Eventually I asked if she was looking for sage work and she said "no, i'm a guide, I always show up when you do /who"
So, later I was walking around in east freeport at the docks and I saw her standing there. Her named showed as 'Guide Vima'. I walked over and waved. We both stayed in character the whole time but I inspected her and she was a gnome and was wearing only a guide robe and guide slippers. They were a really cool green color that I don't remember seeing before.
She asked me if I knew how to solve the problem when the screen shakes. I /boggled and asked her "screen shakes?" and she said something along the lines of "yes, when you do experiments and the bowl doesn't like the acid you had in there before and it explodes and the protective screen shakes"
I explained to her that most of my experiments end up "like this" and changed to my bone form.
We tried to get a few others in character to play along but no one seemed interested. Eventually she sent me a tell that she had to go "take care of something" and she was gone.
That was my first and only experience with a guide.
Edited, Wed Nov 16 17:51:22 2005 by klyia
Speaking of being in character. When that bowl shakes and I cringe from the pain of failure I now doe a feign death. I wait a few seconds and then stand up. Feigning death doesn't stop the crafting and I can even craft while feigning.
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i have no interest in being a game guide
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