And now for something completely different... since retiring I've been doing some reminiscing. I thought, hey, why not go through my reincs and guilds and list what I've accomplished, etc. for each. So here goes... alchemists: got all potions before the guild got more combos and new materials, so I'm short a few now. barbarian: never done, intrigued by the rep system though, could see myself in a reinc just to do barb elder. bard: got all spells kbh'd except for the most recent player luck fucking spell melody of misadventurer. never had the heart to do a full bard reinc just to get that spell kbh'd. also, got a couple top end instruments made as well. beastmaster: after dinking with mounts in knights, no plans on ever reincing into that guild. mounts = the suck for a casual player. bmage: not open yet. cavalier: never done it, should have for the current knight reinc. cavaliers need knights and vice-versa. channellers: done this when it was still in civ background. had all of the guild quests, but I'm sure those are reset by now, same with my rep earned. not a bad little guild, good as a support but not as a primary. highly considered doing a psi-channeller reinc. until the BatMud: The Fuck-over. (and yes, you'll see me say that a few more times) civ_fighters: never done, pondered this with a full bard/merchie reinc combo, decided to go with knights instead. since learned this combo would have rocked harder than doing knights guild. civmage: just a short time reinc for a few levels, not much to say about this guild other than this was before the blast masteries were added to the guild. at the time I was in, I was the only one in the guild. conjurer: done this guild before the rep system. when I was in between jobs after getting laid off, I did a mage-conju reinc for Ewige. my goodness did I have fun then. crimson: did a fighter as my very first guild joining the game. well, this is the closest to it since 2 conversions. no plans on going back unless I had done that barbie reinc. druids: never done it. back in the day when I thought about it, I didn't want to deal with player leads and dealing with griefing assholes in charge of the guild. still no interest unless someone funded me to do a tarm-druid reinc. knight: currently reinced in, completely underpowered without cavaliers guild. got all rep except for the capture the mob final rep. then I ran out of motivation to complete and then BatMud: The Fuck-over (see, here it is again!) would still have knowledge rep if I ever reinc out. lord_chaos: my first guild after conversion 95-96. I joined it because Ikar and I were good friends. still my favorite in my heart, even in spite of the fucked up rep overhaul several years ago which basically made my blade rep of several years get tuned to nada. still got a top 10 blade yet though, over 200k souls in it. may yet reinc into it one last time for kick-off into full-on oblivion retirement. mage: done this reinc once before the rep system came into being. I did 'ok' merchant: shit, if you love solo-able, non-timed, thinking quests/rep system, look no further. I love the hell out of this guild too thanks to the efforts of Melemkor. got tier 2 belt and all but lvl 6 ship and brig quests (since I never could get ahold of the shipbuilding armors). second favorite only to locs monk: done this pre-conv. 95-96 back when a dragonified monk with martial arts at 100 would destroy stuff. haven't done new one, in fact, never done a single good_relig reinc since conversion 96. never appealled to me for some reason. navigator: once did 5 lvl reinc back before the explore % cap. nun: would have love to have done this guild when I was unemployed and could waste 12 hours a day questing. now, this guild is out of the question. still interests me to this day though. I'm a sucker for questing rep systems. priests: never done a full on priest reinc. always partial to support loc. guess I never wanted to do habos. psionicist: did this guild once before, had some komd. wouldn't mind doing that channeller with this guild reinc for exp. well, before BatMud: The Fuck-over. ranger: never done it, don't plan on it, since the rep quests are pretty brain-dead, grind the repeat macro style. the exact opposite of what I look for in questing systems reaver: guild intrigues me, the very next reinc was going to be a reaver/loc reinc., then, yes, you guess it, BatMud:The Fuck-over occurred. much sadness. runecarvers/runemages: never tried it, no interest sabres: never done a full reinc, always done 1 level while in civ reincs to monger sabre points for easy events. love-love the rep system by doing events. pretty much broken now due to BatMud: The Fuck-Over at the moment. samurai: heh, I knew the original wizard (Mastermind) personally that was going to do this guild. that was, uhm, 14-15 years ago? instead, we get this new continent system. yeah, good choice there arches. serv_oxtoth (assume new necros): never did the old necros, but good friend did. wish I had before the conversion hit. pretty nifty. squires: meh. spiders: never done it, thought lightly about a reinc or 2, never panned out. tarmalen: did healer levels in the pre-96 conversion, back when we had healer crystals. I loved logging on just to heal for some easy money. I miss those crystals. *sniff* templar: never done it, rep system was never enough to entice me to join up. tiger: always done this as a full guild to pair up with loc. had some nice rep, I'm sure is long gone now. too bad claw got nerfed along with dim mak. wanderers: *laugh* what a fucking joke. someday, someone will wake up who gives a damn about casual players and the vast time sink of boredom that travel is at the moment. other misc guilds: tree navs, nope! wish I had though, e-z money. imm: pondered it, now I have no reason to contribute to a game that I don't enjoy playing. infernal knight: ooh, it rocked, but I didn't join it. should have in retrospect. shaman: didn't last long, was pretty bs though from what I recall. Whew! And I'm about out of space, so signing off, and thanks for reading this far, you brave soul you! Tonight's blog entry brought to you by "Upside Down" Diana Ross Shit, forgot thieves. Never done them (I wasn't cool enough to get invited). Had a good friend with them. Nifty guild once true steal got nerfed a bit. Then triple backstab got the tunepole, and the guild imploded. Do remember getting my sbs stolen off of me by Radagast. I think shortly thereafter slotted armors stopped being so easy to be "removed by a thief by walking through the room".