Just to get that out of the way - anyhow fuck clearing err LoS has been busy as a one legged man in an ass kicking contest, putting the hurt on VT, Ssra and pretty much whatever else spawns - good times are back when you're past the learning curve, the tedium of farming shit, the difficuilties of counting to 3 and now can get down to the business of having fun - we're even past the GoP with massive turn out and the late night crew finally making its triumphant return... hot damn the image of Vulak just popped into my head for some reason.

We need a few mid-day ninja strikes to wash away all the good will and support we got after The Incident and things will be back to normal for the Evil Empire - preliminary reports from Skyfire give me great hope our machinations are already set to motion~

Stuck IN the door

Above the rim

Arms of Drama

Asshole of bards - Grats, Polo ccc~

Make the mod apply from RANGE, please.

Clearly, there was really only one thing to have been done...

I'd be remiss if I didn't say a word of thanks to Henric for doing an amazing job during a difficult time of transition - under his leadership we finally downed Emp and then cleared VT, all the more impressive given Henric's ramp up time was equivalent to the guild's morale at the time, essentially zero. Like Tig before him, however, Henric's moved on up in the world and is working towards making future entertainment better based on his experiences in the real world as a player and raid guild leader - can't wait to see the results.

Daelomin the Storm Reaver has stepped up and taken the conn - and again, all complaints regarding Jangos, Korelor, quad-kiting, shards, KS'ing, drama and especially Nizzar should be brought to his attention. Oh yah, so he can't hide next time Jangos gets op'd on #trade, look for Klezak. ;)

Good luck to leaders past and present - thank you.

Dopey and Blowjob

Laneser heads off to join the TW army on the 16th, wish him the best - after all, the son of bitch is probably going to drag us all in to WWIII some day with China. Don't forget the soap on a rope, d0rf.

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In this pause then of recollection, while the storm is ceasing, and the long agitated mind vibrating to a rest, let us look back on the scenes we have passed and learn from experience what is yet to be done.Never, I say, had a country so many openings to happiness as this. Her setting out in life, like the rising of a fair morning, was unclouded and promising. Her cause was good. ...It is not every country (perhaps there is not another in the world) that can boast so fair an origin.

-Thomas Paine, The Crisis, XIII

Dedication fuels the million fires of perseverance, and today, on the one year anniversary of the 9/11 events, the recovery of a nation has been nothing short of amazing in the face of sadness, loss, fear and, at times, blind hate - action, consequence, compassion and sacrifice are now very real words to a country formerly lulled into the comfortable cadence of complacency.

It is with anger, and insult, gall and indignity that I am witness to the rampant idiocy being flaunted today, and in the days since, by what amounts to Monday Morning Geopolitical Quarterbacks of meager mind and even more humble credentials; that these people breath my same air is ignominious, vaguely disturbing lest I be infected by the same manner of ignorance that could possibly see with a cold indifference or lace with sympathetic insinuations the words justified, moral or due, terrorist actions which killed so many individuals that to read the list of the dead would take more than 8 hours - but the legacy and blessing of this event is a perfect memento, however mori, one Voltaire and Madison would be proud, in our nation we allow, no - we encourage and we sanctify with a resolve that belies public and political differences, the freedom to believe whatsoever you want, to say what is in your heart, to assemble in places and in the company of our choosing, to believe, disbelieve or decry whatever religion strikes you. No other nation was founded with a charter to preserve these ideals, with underpinnings and tenets in sanguine etchings across more than 200 years, dedicated to preserving our right to disagree - for that, America and Americans are hated most in the world, that we promote unchecked thought and expression and thereby threaten the milked facade of crushed knowledge.

I, personally, could not be more proud to be hated so much - principle, integrity and honor are tangible, their cost exorbitant, but their meaning priceless, and yet endure only so long as I live up those ideals - this path is not for everyone, but perhaps the greatest tribute to 9/11 is to live your life today and revel in it.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way--in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

For true, Chuck, and the Evil Empire works the same way - take, for example, Empfest 2002 with 3 Emp runs (thx patch) - we either owned in a flawless under 23 min kill with 68 or we absolutely sucked cock and beg for more with 70 in a 43 minute fight were we legitimately lost 5 times, winning on due to some real heads up play at critical moments and rod teams of own. I won't even talk about last night's Emp, it was said you know you suck when a tank dies to blood and things were downhill from there with snake-a-mania running wild on us - thank God for cleric melee.

Asshole of cleric

Heisman

Ryan Leaf

At least we can still pull of The Money Shot,

In closing this Tale of Two Guilds, don't think we're limited to the confines of Ssra, ho no - we can pull a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Cocksucker anywhere~

03 SEPT 2002 10:20 PM

03 SEPT 2002 10:21 PM

PS: AL took two tries as well~ Some days...

Anyhow, we scored much of the good stuff along the way and especially off Emp but no fucking robe, yet - wtf? We've gotten the shaft with *2* bridles at once before, but never can catch a break. Oh well, I'm not one to whine about shit needlessly but with our luck next time will be a pair of 2hs and a bridle or something equally gay.

Some guilds took this time to crawl around VT, but the Evil Empire really needed a break (and not the Blixtevesque 2 dayer) from that place. I hear really good changes took place, but I fake LD when the guild starts to move so I couldn't really say - CoH still works but autojoin is a son of a bitch when you're trying to hide on a mule until the clearing is done. Good first step to itemize Eom's, though the very best suggestion I read on the boards was to have random AA point capsules - a terrific incentive to actually *do* the content since many raid guilds find it taxing - which leads to burn out - to grind xp for AA's, keep 60, raid and yet still have a life. The drop rate needn't be high, maybe 20%; you kill ~20 Eom's in a long night and 4 people get an AA point - seems fair to me.

This actually brings up another point - what happened to raid xp? Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems a clean and easy fix: set a toggle for chat channels: raid

;raid evil-empire

Evil-Empire is now a raid channel.

And if you're in the same raid channel as the person credited with the kill and within, say, 200% of the normal xp radial distance from the kill, then you get a portion of the xp - just turn off raid when you're done and regular xp rules take over. Sure, I'm glossing over the details like checking to make sure a solo wizard doesn't tag along and KS the raid channel for mammoth xp, rebalancing xp off boss mobs, super-groups, &c., but that's what testing and caffeine are for~

Working As Intended

Exclusive to LoS, our team of mad hackers (gr33tz to sh4wn) have uncovered some PoP loot and we're going to be the first to break it anywhere!

Warning - spoilers ahead!

And you fuckers thought bugged warders were only good for rampage

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