Breakfast Topic: WTB guild silliness, PST
by Krystalle Voecks 
May 28th 2007 at 8:00AM
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Well, okay, maybe not buy, but I'm all about trading stories! For example, it's my belief that some of the best World of Warcraft posts never see the light of day. Why? Because they're closeted on guild forums, safe from prying eyes. But you know you all have seen them. These threads take on Legendary Thread status within our respective guilds, and grow into in-jokes over time.
Here's one of my favorite of the recent posts I've seen on my guild's forums that has exploded into a truly silly string of "contest" posts. This original post was made by my Rogue class leader when he was looking for a Blinkstrike to call his very own.
Enter the "Win a Free Pocket Rogue" Sweepstakes!
That's right! A bright shiny Pocket Rogue can now be yours!
Just imagine: having your own private Rogue to farm materials*, gold, or reputation** for you! He slices! He dices! He uses other skills too!
To enter, just send [Blinkstrike] to J via in-game mail or hand it to him in person! Every entry is a winner!***
OFFICIAL CONTEST RULES:
1. Only guild members or friends of the guild may enter the sweepstakes. I don't want to hear about someone selling this item in /trade or on the AH, unless they're selling it for less than 1000G.
2. I'm happily married, and for all most of you know, I'm a one-eyed sanitation worker from Philadelphia...so you can just put those thoughts right out of your head.
3. The contest winner will have their choice of one of the following prizes: 3000 Gold, to be paid in daily installments; the completion of their Aldor or Scryer faction grind via BOE drops; crafting materials of the winner's choice equating (FMV) to 3000 Gold which can be reasonably acquired by a solo Rogue; any reasonable combination of the three agreed on by both the winner and yours-truly.
4. I'm well aware of the theorycraft surrounding the weapons I choose. My current MH is arguably "better" than [Blinkstrike]...but my current MH also looks like rock-candy-ass with a hilt.
5. The contest will end once any of the following conditions are met: a) someone comes up with this drop and contacts me; b) I find the drop myself; c) I find it on the AH at a price I can afford.
6. For anyone who hasn't gotten the gist of this yet: this is basically a vanity weapon for me, but I'd like folks to know I'm looking for it in case someone in the guild (or one of our friends) gets hold of one. I am serious about the compensation, though.
* I don't have any gathering professions whatsoever. Herbs, ore, skins, and so forth are prohibited.
** Certain factions (i.e. all of them except the Aldor and the Scryer) prohibited.
*** Only the first entry is a winner, actually. I'm only looking for one of these. See the "Official Contest Rules" for more details.
Now I know I cannot be the only person out there with some truly silly guild mates. Share some guild forum post silliness with the rest of us and help us pass Monday morning with some laughs! (By the way, I am so not responsible if folks get in trouble for laughing out loud -- and thereby get busted for being on WoW Insider!)
Filed under: Guilds, Odds and ends, Breakfast Topics, Humor
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
bwest0526 May 28th 2007 9:22AM
Well...I have a story but it is of my EQ guild back in the day and I am sure now only a few remember it. Silliness that started as a misstell.
The story: our guild was recently reformed after the previous guild leader left and the person who I thought was actually the guild leader took over as guild leader. We had our first guild meeting and we had a few fairly new members in the guild, well there was a ack story about the "new" guild leader and the old guild leader had a thing going on and things went sour and she had left. So as we are having this meeting some heated discussion is going on with older members about our new guild leader taking over and the sort. Mean while I am in private tells (whispers in WoW) and all of a sudden one of our newer members goes up to stand next to the new guild leader and reveals herself as the old guild leader (totaly in a new toon and nobody knew it was her..quite shocking) I mean for a game and a whole bunch of toons standing around you wouldn't think you could feel the tension, but all the chat stopped, /guild chat, /say chat, and even /ooc chat! Nobody was saying a word, you could literally FEEL the tension. At the same time this was happening I had been in my private tells talking crap to a friend and he had said something to which I responed (and I quote) "F**K You!" BUT I didn't do it in the /tell I did it in the /guild chat...in which nothing had been said in over a minute. I quickly apologized and said "sorry, xtell!" (meaning miss tell). All you could see in /guild chat was a line of ROFLMAO/ROFL/LOL and a few "Nice job Tazz, way to break up the Tension!" From then on we had a running joke that I was not allowed in guild chat during Guild meetings even though I was the Raid officer! LOL I still laugh about it to this day when I think of that moment and the harassment I got for it for years to come. I hope the "silliness" will continue once I am playing WoW again!
Angelcorpse May 28th 2007 1:22PM
i dunno if this counts as funny or scary but to me it was funny...
Ever since hitting lvl60 I wanted to get the Vis'Kag the Bloodletter sword from Onyxia. And so time went on and my guild finally got the manpower and everyone suited up for the run. And about half way through clearing the beginning mobs I'm on teamspeak just chatting about how i hope this sword drops.
As we get to her we chatted about strats and such and went in for the kill. It took us three tries but we did it. As we all gazed at the chat channel for what dropped, I sat in silence just waiting.
A hush came over the teamspeak...
and the Vis'kag dropped from her. I was so HAPPY!! I chanted over TS "NO ONE BID ON IT DAMMIT!!"
I bid a few dkp on it just be fair. And then someone bid twice the amount I did before. 3 weeks worth of dkp saving for good insurance of the sword being mine and someone bid on it.
I was furious so I went on teamspeak to curse out this person....
[just I was about to start swearing and raising hell, a young guildie logs on teampseak and says hello. He didnt have his headphones on yet....]
"..."Who the f*** bid on my f****** sword. I want that damn F***** sword. I didnt do anything for the past f****** weeks just for this....."
I get a whisper from the gm to cool it which i did. and then a voice came over teamspeak chewing me out for swearing and sorts. Here it was the young guildie's mom. and knowing mothers it went on for like 5-10 minutes..lol.
But ever since then when we did Onyxia or even anything else my end of TS was muted.
bob May 28th 2007 3:20PM
one of my guildies has been in another's trash bag for almost a year. he was stalking him.
TyphoidTimmy May 29th 2007 3:36PM
I got a reputation really quickly around an old guild thanks to a veritable 'breaking of the ice' in a bad way.
I was invited to a guild by a friend on a server with a large reputation as one of the 'hardcore' variety. Friendly, professional players with a sense to shut up when you needed to shut up and so on. Apparently, I really shook some pillars immediately with a well placed comment...
I was about a week in when I logged on to find the guild getting ready for a Ony run with the raid leader explaining the fight over the TS. My friend was in the guild channel so I was whispering him at the time but was not participating in the run...just listening in.
It was about this time I started to really notice something about the raid leader....mainly how his voice had a certain octave and he kept lisping his 'r'...so much like a certain favorite online cartoon character.
Me: /w "Does he know he sounds like H.."
Friend: /w "I dunno...but I would not ask him anyway since he is leading the raid"
Me: /w "How the hell can anyone not hear him and think it?"
Friend: /w "Shrug...why don't you ask him in TS?" Apparently he was joking...for which I did not notice.
About that time, raid leader finishes up strategy talk and asks "Ok, any qwestions, comments, reqwests?"
I speak up "Yes, one request please."
"Go ahead then..."
"Can you please say "Welcome to Homestar Runner.com"?
Silence....only punctuated by a /w WTF are you doing?? from my friend.
Then uproarious laughter over TS along with "Good GOD...he does sound like Homestar! I never noticed!" and much /w LOL from several members.
Raid Leader silenced the channel and said "Any OTHER qwestions not related to who I sound like?"
then a pause and a 'Aw what the hell...Welcome to Homestar Wunner.com...there are you happy??"
Swear to god, dead perfect match.
He left a few months after but a few old timers will come back with a reminder asking our current guild/raid leader to say 'Welcome to Homestar Runner.com' and much mirth is had.
SirCasey May 29th 2007 3:37PM
Backstory:
I'd invited the person to the guild the day before, saying that it's a guild of nice people and thought they would be a good fit. I was wrong.
The person was a lvl 19 NE hunter and claimed they had a 60 shaman on a different server. Most guildies guess eBay is involved in that somehow.
You guys will have to look at the JPG to see the guild chat that a guildie took a screenshot of:
http://www.celticriver.com/wow/perfect_blur.jpg
Jaffer Jun 12th 2007 4:12AM
@5. OMG, that is one of the best things I've read in sow long.
one member of my guild made a gnome alt. the whole idea of him was to be a bastard to everyone he sees. we even went far enough to make a rank in the guild called "gnome fool" and bann that rank from posting in /g chat.
because of this one character we (as an alliance guild) kill as many gnomes as we can. we don't have DKP, he have GKP (gnome kill points)
basic breakdown.
1 point for picking on a gnome.
1 additional point for breaking a sap/sheep
1 additional point if the sap/sheep is a horde player
1 additional point if the sap/sheep kills the gnome
1 additional point if the gnome whispers you about it
so as you can see, you can get up to 5 points per gnome.