Founding Month

[Tiberius Fireskull]

'twas July 31st, 2009. Billy and I had left a guild to create another. We weren't sure what we would do with it. We just wanted to run our own. We had dreams of becoming great leaders, of become Caribbean legends! We thought we could do it. The guild started off a bit rough. It was called Pirate Guild 488887. We decided to name the guild Shadow Sorcerors. We wanted Shadow in the name, you see, and we were quite fond of our dolls and staffs, so we decided to call ourselves Sorcerors, just spelled differently from the actual word, Sorcerers. The guild was simple at first. Not very active though. It was hard in the early days, but after a while, very slowly, it became great. It became the best guild in the Caribbean. During the journey, you and I had to go through hardships and friendships, love and hate, drama and laughter, but we got here. We made it. It is now closing on two years since Billy and I sat on Cuba and made that guild. It has changed so much, I can't even name everything. But one thing is for certain. It became one of the best guilds in the Caribbean



(Thanks Crestshot!)

When I founded Shadow Sorcerors, I had no idea that it would end up like this. Who knew that I would meet all you new people? Who knew that we would end up being good enough to get this amazing subforum here? Who knew that we would become as close as brothers and sisters? Who knew that we would be a guild to stand the test of time? I can tell you now, I did not, but I'm glad we did. And to celebrate our founding, we are going to be having a month long event, known simply as our Founding Month. Every week will have a different theme to it, none of them being the same. I assure you, there will not be a time when you are bored, except for when you are not online!

Week 1: Recruitment Week

From Friday, July 1st to Saturday, July 9th (the first week of July), we will be going on a campaign to see if we can really do some growing! We are a guild who doesn't do very much open recruiting, but I believe that if we do it just a bit, it can benefit us in both Quality and Quantity. EVERYONE can participate, even if you are a member! As a member, you can ask your friends if they want to join our guild, and then if they say yes, you can have a veteran or officer invite them in. Some rules for recruiting that I have, so that it doesn't turn into chaos:

First of all, do NOT invite people randomly! This is the worst way to recruit, from my experience. Occasionally you'll get someone good, but most of the time it will get you someone who doesn't want to be involved with the guild and will usually just sink into a corner and leave the guild later. Try as best you can to actually get to know the person a bit before inviting them. They can be your friend, or someone you got to know while sailing or looting. Just make sure that you know this person a bit. I will go into more detail about how to recruit and some good advice a bit later, when the event comes up.

Next, please avoid Abassa Tortuga. We all know what kind of people dwell there. Usually not the nicest. I shouldn't need to elaborate further.

Also, I'd prefer that you invited people that were unlimited access, above level 10ish. This is not because I want us to discriminate against low levels or basics, but merely because from my experience, people that are lower levels or basic access do not always stay very active. But, if you do meet someone who you think will make a good addition to our guild, who is a lower level or is basic, feel free to invite them. This is mainly to prevent members from joining our guild that will go inactive quickly.

Lastly, YOU are responsible for the people you invite. If you are inviting members who are causing drama, I want YOU to take care of it. You should know that we do not accept these kinds of people. If it happens once, I'll let you off with a warning. If it happens more than that, I will have a talk with you and possibly demote you. Also, make sure that you assist in helping the newer members get used to and understand the guild. You are required to tell them the rules before inviting them in, and it is good if you explain to them what the guild does, who the Senior Officers and Co-guildmasters are, etc. etc.

Hopefully doing this will be a positive thing for our guild, but if it gets out of hand I will cancel it. I don't think that it will, but I am telling you this from now. Also, I need you all to give the effort. Even if you invite just one person, that's fine! As long as I know you're trying. And now...

Week 2: Mini-Event Week

What better way to have our newer members from the recruitment week get to know the guild than to have them do a bunch of events with them? From Sunday, July 10th to Saturday, July 16th, we will be having DAILY Mini-Events! In charge of this will be our Party Officer, Christopher (or James Greasepaine on POF) along with his assistants (The wind-instrument-playing clowns, and Dog Gunmorgan). Each day a new event will take place at 4pm Eastern, with the meeting spot being announced at the previous event and on POF. These events will be great bonding time for everyone, and it will be a lot of fun. Events will vary from Poker, to raiding, to random dancing. They will be posted on this thread and/or the Mini-Event thread. This week should be quite straightforward. Note that if at any time you do not want to come to one of these events, you do not have to. On that same note, I don't want you to not participate at all.

Week 3: Ranking Week

This event is something I haven't tried before. I'd like to see how it goes. From Sunday, July 17th to Saturday, July 23rd, our guild's goal is to get to the top of the boards! Each day I would like to focus on a different area of the boards (one day be Enemies Defeated, next day be Ships Sunk, next day be PvP Wins: Mayhem, etc.), as we can then concentrate our power into one area. Two things to say about ranking: First off, there are two ways to rank to get to the top of the boards: There is the way where you can go sit in Port Royal Graveyard for four hours straight, getting 0-1 rep per kill, lucky if a loot pouch drops. OR you can do it the more fun way, and go raid Tormenta with your guildmates, getting lots of rep and perhaps even picking up a nice weapon or piece of clothing. I highly recommend doing the later, as it is more fun and it will do something for you. I don't want this week's event to be boring for you, so if you do rank, do that. If you don't want to rank, you don't need to. I know from experience that ranking gets boring, even after a short period of time. However, again, I do want you to participate.

Week 4: Guild Pride Week

And to top everything off, we'll have a week of guild pride, from Sunday, July 24th to Sunday, July 31st! You all know how to do it. Do it whichever way you like, you can go stand on Abassa Tortuga, flexing with thought bubbles saying "HAIL TO THE SHADOW SORCERORS!", you can go and show pride to the chickens in Smasho's den, or you can go to Andaba and SvS in a huge fleet, yelling out HTTSS in Privateer Chat. Wear Black and Red, show your love for the guild, do whatever you want to get the guild out there. Make everyone realize that we're the best guild out there! Heck, show some guild pride in real life or in other games (like Dog, Billy and I have done sometimes... I need to post screens of that ) if you want. That gets the guild name out not just in POTCO, but to the whole world. You guys can do whatever you want for this, just make sure its the best you can do.

August 1st: Anniversary Party!

Now what would the Founding Month be without a huge Anniversary Party to top it all off? On Monday, August 1st at 8pm Eastern, we will have our huge anniversary party! There will be signing (hopefully not Billy singing about me...), dancing (Appropriate Dancing!), drinks (you only know you've had too much when you've run out!), and games (I lost.)! More will be discussed about this party when it gets closer, but you will need to put it on your calendars mates!

For those of you that fell asleep after the first paragraph, here are the basic W's.

What: The Shadow Sorcerors Founding Month!
Who: The Shadow Sorcerors Guild, but if you are outside and you'd like to join in, feel free!
When: The whole month of July!
Where: TBA for each event. Most do not require a specific place.
Why: Don't you dare ask why! We are the Shadow Sorcerors! This is the month of our founding! We must celebrate it!

[Mr. Awesome]

Awesome idea Davy! even though I probably will not be here for all the events I will try to make as many as I can...

I joined the SS about two months ago on a little pirate named Red Beard... And I never played on him much except during events... Yet in the little time that I was playing on him I made many friends in this guild, and about a month ago I decided that it was time to join the SS for good, and all I have to say is, it was the best decision I have made in-game since buying Unlimited Access.

Oh and I already showed some guild pride at Disney






HAIL TO THE SHADOW SORCERORS!!!!!!!!!

[HammyTheSquirrel]

I agree with MA... it was the best decision I have ever made since buying Unlimited! Comparing this guild to multiple others I have been in... this one is by far the best. The previous guild I was in was Blades Eclipse.... thought it was good, but found out it sucked after I saw many guildmates get booted for no reason and found myself booted too! I asked the GM (who I had friended) about it, but I think he just put me on ignore. Then he deleted me from his friends list! Strangely enough,... when I had logged on, it was the first time I had logged on in a while and had just made up my mind to leave Blades Eclipse to join the Sorcerors. This will be one of those guilds that I doubt I will ever leave.

HAIL TO THE SHADOW SORCERORS GUILD!!!

[Captain Sharktooth]

Can we rank for more than just a week, pl0x?

I'm glad I was able to be taken in to should an outstanding guild.... I had no idea anyone could have this much fun playing a simple game. And in short, joining the Sorcerors was one of the best choices I've made.

[Tiberius Fireskull]

Originally Posted by Captain Sharktooth

And in short, joining the Shorcerors was one of the best choices I've made.

I thought it was a requirement that my officers know how to spell the name of our guild correctly...

Mates, if you have any questions at all regarding Founding Month, feel free to ask and I will answer. Oh, and I think that I may just have a sort of crummy surprise for you all on our Anniversary day.... No mates, its not rum or meat.

[Christopher]

Well mates, it looks like I have a (disgusting) idea! NO PANTS DAY!!! Yeah, thats right. :P No pants, at all. Seriously, no pants, running around an island with no pants. For the entire day, no pants. Pants... pants... pants...

[HammyTheSquirrel]

rofl... with swift foot glitch on... O_o

[SEAKING23]

Just hope nobody looks up....

All i can say is:
HAIL TO THE SHADOW SORCERORS!!!!

[Captain Sharktooth]

Originally Posted by Davy Fireskull

I thought it was a requirement that my officers know how to spell the name of our guild correctly...

Mates, if you have any questions at all regarding Founding Month, feel free to ask and I will answer. Oh, and I think that I may just have a sort of crummy surprise for you all on our Anniversary day.... No mates, its not rum or meat.

Well I was gonna put 'Shadow Sorcerors' but I decided to only put Sorcerors, I guess I didn't erase all of the 'Shadow' part.

[Tiberius Fireskull]

Recruitment Week starts TODAY! Let's see if our guild can do some growing mates! I've already explained everything to you, but if you have questions, feel free to ask!

[HammyTheSquirrel]

So are you starting it off at the meeting tomorrow? This shall be fun.

[Tiberius Fireskull]

Everyone remember that this is still Recruitment week! Try to see if you can get your friends to join, or people you've looted with, anyone you think can contribute to this guild!

[Sam Bladebeard]

We've got a huge and awesome month ahead mates!!! Just don't forget for recruitment week to choose yer new mates carefully and profit of this week to recruit as much as ye can cause ye know that except for this week we will recruit pretty rarely.
Have a good Founding Month!!

[Tiberius Fireskull]

Recruitment Week is over now mates, tomorrow starts Mini-Event Week! Sometime today or tomorrow, Mr. Greasepaine will post the schedule for the Mini-Events. We're going to have everything from Tavern Takeover to No-Pants Day (yes, we were serious about that).

[HammyTheSquirrel]

WOOT!!! NO PANTS!!! We should have a no pants, swift foot glitch, tavern takeover! This will be a good week...