The guilds creation caused great stirr in the PK Community in Europa. Just a month or two before, I drew out plans for another guild in which I'd try to get every PK included and onto the stone in a bid to counter the masses of blues. I however, did not want to lead the guild, so I left Piourk (The GM of ELR) and Poe (The GM of PHT). Looking back it was a ridiculous thought of me to ever get something like that to work, but it helped me meet some great people (and not so great:P) so despite its failure, was a great sucess for us.
We were the first to break away from EPK, and indeed leave the small ties we had with ELR behind. We didn't like the route EPK had become, there was too much star room camping which was never my intetion for the guild, so we left. Calix, Slamer and I were all stat pk's (56kers!~) so that kind of thing really wasn't our style. It wasn't long before our good friends from EPK slowly joined us. By that, I don't mean mass recruiting, but a handful of good friends we made from other guilds or have known in the past. From then on the guild went from strength to strength, enjoying both highly sucessful times to go with the poor and harsh affects of statloss in a scrolled up world. P16 changed the way of PKing forever, argueably for the better.
Fighting wise, P16 was a great time, it was never dominated by one guild, no guild had the numbers to dominate the whole shard. There was a whole new breed of PvPers coming through, and this led to a much more competitive enviroment. It didn't take us long before we had our share of enemies (and soon an ally in the form of PHT).
We saw our dungeon as Shame. Although it had no champ spawns, for a stat pk, it has a lot of good memories. It also helped Calix just happened to own the house closest to Shame! (Not that we used this for house hiding before anyone gets the wrong idea!). Shame was always buzzing in p16 and could often have some great fights. Probably our greatest enemies of that era was NDK/NDR, and we often had skirmishes with them.
Some we won, others we lost, but we could always be guarenteed a fight. Even if it did mean fighting their runic dexer all days~ In those days, we considered NDK/NDR to be our secondary enemy.
Our biggest and best enemy of the time, was Vem. They were for sure one of the better guilds on Europa, who we had great respect for, their ability and coordination was superb.
(Eeek I lost the pic I had of them ><)
Outside of the competitive battles, we had our lesser enemies (I mean that in a more friendly term!
) A PvM guild with a handful of PvPers, in the form of EEV. We had a few good fights with them in our time.
Aside from our proper enemies, we had other jobs to do on Europa, like take over spawns, or certainly hamper them. Often we were outnumbered very heavily, but we certainly caused small dents in some spawns.
Aside from the Dungeon PKing and champ spawns, we often went out above land and fight, even on crazy amount of shorts. There was a big problem on Europa with Choas shrine campers, reskilling the reds who got tele'd there, so it was always a good spot to take out a few blues.
We simply didn't care about shorts, thats what made us different from other guilds. We were most definetly a guild of Soloists P16, very rarely we'd run in a group of 5 or more.
Aside from the PKing, we were often game for a laugh, or show off. On our days off you could often see us posing for various magazines outside Dungeon entrances
We weren't always out to destruct and kill everything in sight, we had a good relationship with the player run towns in fel, and would happily defend them any time there was problems.
We were of course always game for Player events, this was XLordX's wedding, with a GM present. The fights were welcomed, originally I-C and PHT were there to protect them, but that soon changed and war began ^^
However, after all the events, the Pking, the enmies, the friends, there was a new Era, AoS. The end of stat pking, and PvP as we knew it. We lost several good members, and a lot of us quit for a short period of time, including myself. We tried various PR shards,
Hubris :
Reet :
Defiance :
In true I-C Form though, all of us almost always returned, this all meant change of alliances among other things, no longer were we allied with PHT, despite having many friends there, but EEV.
This of course, gave us chances to stir up fel a bit, and hopefully make it more interesting for others.
I-C vs DCL (Roleplayers) :
I-C vs Grd (Roleplayers) :
Of course we helped at player run quests,
as well as make OSI ones more challenging^^
We tried our hand at factions, not always sucessful though^^
Ultimately though, Pking is where we were at, its what we are best at and know. Over the course of AoS we have recruited members, mainly as replacements for old members who've since quit (and some have returned *shock horror:P*)
So I will leave you with a few shots, that take us right up until we moved to DF. (Ofc I've missed some stuff, but as good as you'll get for now^^)
Oh and one pic from last christmas...
Die this Christmas and you'll be doing even worse.. ;(
Nixon
The Pre-AI times were nice...in that times it was a really good i-c vs blue history. It was really big fun. Thx for bringing me that memories back 