Sunday, September 16, 2007
State of the Marauders.
This is an broadcast update for all Marauders. In the long absence of activity, our guild is now liquidated and information about members is largely unknown. I am here to provide information, as well as tell you of a project that I have been thinking of.
First off, I will be speaking about the State of the Founders. For all who do not know, or have forgotten, the Marauders was founded by the Original 6. That is, Alvin (SgtPouwell), Me (Leo), Justin (CptFoley), Gordo (Agent), Oli (Saburo) and Cindy (Takeshi88). 5 of us are still active and part of the Marauders guild. Oli however is on hiatus of her position as Founder to focus on her studies.
The last member, Cindy, otherwise known to Marauders as Takeshi88, is largely inactive, and by this time far too busy to be involved with the guild. Though unofficially, but effectively, Cindy is no longer a member in Marauders. However, she will still be remembered in memoriam as one of us.
Next, though I realise most of you do not hold much for the guild, it being an online guild and all, as well as the busyness of your lives, I strongly hope that your ties will remain with the Marauders in all endevours you participate in. Remember our Modus Operandi: Never Give Up, Stick Together, Work As One. I say this is so as practically all of our already small memberbase has been more or less alienated and we are now left with once again, little to work with.
To this end, I'd like to propose a project to all of you. This project, is to see Marauders not becoming just a small guild of a single game, but a clan tag. It is not a overly huge project, but more of a small experiment. The idea is for the blog to becoming a small community hub, where members would talk, group, party and then go for gaming sessions. It would also be a review hub, where people can come along and read about thoughts of a game that a member has played. A person need not be a hardcore chiongster player, Marauders does not call for that. You can play any type of game you'd like for any length of time, at your own pace. I have but one request. I would like, for all of you, whenever you decide to participate in any game, be it MMO or Offline, to give details of it, to any of the founders. We will then post this info on the blog. I'd also like for you to, whereever possible, find people to play with you in your games. We do not wish for you to force your friends to play with you, a simple question would suffice. Please then help your friend register with us, so as to expand our roster. Furthermore, we do not ask for all members to be playing the same game as the rest. Some shards might decide to pursue some other game, and that is totally fine. We only ask for you to inform one of the founders where we would then update our information as well as provide some advice.
Lastly, I also strongly support activities OUTSIDE of the game world, so to this end, I also hope to add small subsections for other things, reviews on a book, what movie to watch, lifestyle, news, funny things and my favourite, the Random Board. To this end, a forum is better for facilitation. I'd also like for any willing and free kind soul to help set up a forum for Marauder use.
In the long run, we hope that the Marauders guild, can be a strong social community network for you and your friends.
Thank You for Reading This! (seriously, if you actually managed to read through all of this text, you must be one badass person. =] )
- Leo
