Hiyas!

Well, my new tickertape machine still hasn’t come yet, and rather than bore you all with more stuff about me, I will keep it short and sweet. Update 5 arrived, and already our guild members are hard at work trying to raise our Guild Level. Leader Envinyatar has told the guild that he would like to bypass the Windspyre Sparrow airship and go straight for the larger Falcon. The game mechanics may prevent that; we aren’t sure if you have to get the smaller ship first (two different sources give two different answers), but after the rocky start from Turbine (the Guild Renown system shut down after the first day for a period of about 48 hours) we are chugging along, with our guild at almost Level 9 as of my last log-off (we need GL50 for the Falcon, and GL20 for the smaller Sparrow). And thanks to a HUGELY generous donation on the part of Envin, as well as large donations from myself and others, we are about half-way to the platinum goal of 3.6 million needed for the Falcon airship (we could buy three Sparrows right now, and almost get the fourth). Every member of the Brigade is working hard to get renown points; many of us giving up endquest rewards to select the renown sigils that are sometimes offered by the quest givers.

The Brigade has welcomed several new members into our ranks over the last two weeks. Vaidd and his lady fair Lualin have become a part of the family, as well as Valaneshka (a new entertaining author on our own website), Kalalu, and Xavtiln. Members Mosby and Callasta, who came to DDO from Lord of the Rings Online (where Mosby headed the guild there) have left us to join their transplanted LOTRO guild (the Palantiri) but both have continued to team with Brigadiers, along with other members of their guild. Envin plans to create a new chat channel that will be available to us, the Palantiri, and any other guilds that we develop close ties with. This will allow members of all the allied guilds a means of communicating with each other and setting up quests together.

I want to take a second to welcome Chorya to the officership of the Brigade. Like I did oh so long ago (was it really only March?) Chorya has impressed the guild’s leadership with her gung-ho attitude and desire to help in a very short time, and the veteran officers like Santus and Envin see a lot of potential for her in the future. Gratz!

I know that I said I didn’t want to talk about my own character’s news, but I have to thank Jessiko, Glew and Envinyatar (along with Mosby and Callasta and Peter from the Palantiri, and also some PuG players like Gutz, Diego and Aztec) for helping me with some quests these last few days. Beladi has now been flagged for the Vault of Night raid, completed the Threnal Ruins quest chain (and got my Worldshaper cloak), and made Level 12 along the way. Hugs to all for the fun runs!

Maybe not as short and sweet as I thought it would be when I started typing this, but another issue put to bed. Hopefully, I will finally get that tickertape machine this week and get some news from the other players. Even if I don’t, I think I will share an excerpt from one of Valaneshka’s stories with you next time. She is really quite good.

Seeyas next time!