Post subject: Ahem
Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 03:36 PM
*Tap tap* Is this thing on?
*Tap*
How is life treating everyone?
Any familiar faces?
I admire the new interior designing on the web-site!
Is KTF still playing a game, somewhere, out there?
Post subject: Re: Ahem
Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 01:31 AM
Hey there Becky...instead of just saying Hi I will actually answer your question. Some of the old school faces are still around, KTF as a guild is playing WoW on the hellscream server.
-Gorlab
_________________ -Rifkin, Gnome Rogue, Hellscream server
Formerly Gorlab on Prexus in EQ.
Post subject: Re: Ahem
Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 10:25 AM
o/~ I got you... under my skin... I got you... deep in the heart of me... o/~
Muahaha!
It's great to see that KTF are together! I just moved house and stumbled across an old A4 logbook that I used to use for EQ. It has so many memories inside it. Can I bore you and give a detailed account of my immense nerdiness therein?!
There are two full pages of A4 in which every single square millimetre is occupied by someone's username and password. You know what the weirdest thing is? After three, four, five years (however long it is), I can still remember most of them! I hope I'm not giving away any secrets when I recount one of the most memorable: "peateislong". Haha...
Other pages have huge lists of the contents of the guild bank, with innumerable crossings-out and additions. It reads like a bizarre catalogue from a previous century. I suppose that's actually true!
There are two pages of Swedish phrases with English translations (part of Kivi's charitable "let's attempt to teach the daft Brit another language"), and tons of maps of Velious and Luclin.
The best for me, though, is the final section of twenty-odd pages. These are totally crammed with hundreds of names, arranged into groups of six, over and over again. Each one is a raid. Some of the names really brought back memories! There are even some Team Ice-comet, and some Team Druid in there. And Team LD. Hah!
I wish that there were some way I could make it available, it's really fascinating for me.
So, now I have established that "Rifkin" is Mr. 'Lab, who is "Violet_Cow"?
Thanks for all the greetings - I hope that life is treating you all well! Who's running KTF these days?! Or is it a fully-socialist commune, with no leader? Or a republic, formed of states?! Or a totalitarian dictatorship - perhaps Papa "Anthony" Drydan has got militant and enslaved you all!
Life is very well at this end, and much the same as it was when I stopped playing, I'm quite sure! I can never escape the clutches of my university, it seems. England could be a bit sunnier, though. I think Matalynne had the best idea in emigrating to somewhere less dingy, weatherwise.
If you could tolerate it, I'd love to hear your news over the last few years. It's great to catch up!
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Post subject: Re: Ahem
Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 11:51 AM
Aye Becky, I too have a few notebooks of various things from EQ-times....usernames/passwords (ahhh...peateISlong :P)...loot calls....group assignments...heh
Right now, there's not a set leader, per se, in the guild. One of the officers (myself, Drydan, Cladnin, Nakilos, Frumple, Bam, Tpol) will have it for any given month and pass it around. There isn't really much need for the guild leader title like there was in EQ.
Frumple came around towards KTF's end in EQ. He played an Iksar monk named Frumplevernvern on Prexus. He currently plays a suicidal warrior, but is a core part of the team He hasn't lost his monkly ways, however, and still revels when he trains and wipes the raid
Since moving over to WoW, the guild has done well - in terms of accomplishments, KTF was at or near the top on the server, as usual, but with pretty much everything instanced, it's not the same level of "accomplishment" as it was in EQ. With so many strategy videos, etc, that people put out, up and coming guilds are killing mobs on their first tries quite often. As of today, no other guild is as far as we are in the current "top end" raid zone. The other 2 guilds that were on par with us, changed servers when they allowed server transfers from our PVE realm over to a new PVP realm. There are about 4-5 other alliance guilds coming up behind us though.
Things are much more laid back than they were in EQ. No 5AM phone calls telling us that NO was forming for Sol Ro or that Warders are up We raid 4 nights a week now, for an average of 4 hours each night, and we get our loot upgrades in that time, so it's all good. Raiding more than that for KTF, while providing a wee bit of extra practice, wouldn't really gain us much of anything, again, since everything is instanced and you can do it at your own pace. All 40 man raids are on set reset timers from when you last started them, so it's pretty easy to schedule and not have to figure out where we're going ot raid that night.
The only downsides to Blizzard is, like they were with Warcraft 1/2/3, Starcraft, Diablo 1/2, etc, is the very, very slow rate of development and expansion. They are running into some very hard limits right now with what they can add lootwise, while still trying to maintain balance, and draw players into the new raid zones. They are trying to prevent the mudflation that took over EQ - don't know how long they can last. The expansion is supposedly due out in November (2 years after initial release) which will increase the level limit to 70, introduce a new race for each the alliance and horde, and various other sundries.
As you can see below my messages, I'm still on all of the IM networks if you ever have the inclination to drop me a line. I'm online on them all day during the day at work, so feel free to drop me a line.
Officers: Bassor, Cladnin, Bam(ur), Marthisdil, Drydan, Frumple(vernvern)[Viotletcow], Nakilos and Tpol (New WoW member)
Members: Crysteria(Tabaea), Ganien, Quanlain, Borofin, Optiks, Rilova, Abes, Amonra, Kilerien (from Nameless Order), Reiki (from Shining Alliance), Thanatosia, Bloodfrost and Moos - being our active raiders, we have quite a few others from EQ that aren't active currently (Leya, Kivi, Haramdar, Sadoe just to name a few).
Glad to hear all is well, and to hear from you. I think the biggest memory everyone (including outside the guild) of Lotusfly is the webpage updates. No one could amount to your updates, and to date I still laugh reading them. Like Jason said, we're doing well as a guild and in the new game, but much more laid back than EQ (WoW tailors to that much more). We've been raiding here almost a year and a half now, prior some were in the beta for WoW, while a few stayed in EQ and dinked around until this came out.
...but there're not many pictures there, and it's very slow.
I've got the EF news knocking around here on an old laptop!
Thank you so much for spending the time to write what's been happening - I read it twice! It's great to hear that so many people are still together and keeping the KTF flag flying.
There's a lovely feeling in my affections for KTF. I've written a lot about you guys, since, in various places.
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