Negative Guild

[Bloo Driver]

I'll try and make this as succint as possible. For this, raiding means anything that is an organized group attempting content that requires 10+ people. If you are raiding with us, these are the rules you will follow. I don't want to say "no exceptions" because eventually someone is going to come up with a valid reason for breaking one of these rules. Instead, I will say -

DO NOT ASSUME EXCEPTIONS WILL BE MADE FOR YOU.

If there's a problem, ask and we'll see what we can do about accomodating you reasonably.

1) TeamSpeak/Ventrillo
- Get the TS/Vent info. Be logged into it for the duration of the raid. Listen to what the raid leader says.

- Keep TS/Vent clear unless you are the raid leader or someone the raid leader asks to make announcements or speak over TS/Vent. Each raid leader will take care of making clear who is and who is not allowed to speak. Raidchat should be fine for making penis jokes and / or asking actual pertinent questions.

2) Being on Time
- Know that there is a difference between the "first pull" time and the "invites go out at..." times. Raid leaders will be logged in to answer questions and start organizing people at the "invite" time. "First pull" time means exactly that - if that is not the time we are ready to murder things, there's a problem.

- Arrive repaired and ready with whatever doodads, reagents, neccessary equipment, etc, you will need for the duration of the event.

- If you are late, you get no share (DKP points or claim) of anything that drops between "first pull" time and when you show up. It will be as if you were not there, because you weren't.

- If no one knows where you are and it's raid start time, you will be replaced. If you worked out being late with the raid leader but are more than 15 minutes later than your agreement and there is an alternate available, you will be replaced. Raid leaders are *not* bound to hold your raid spot if you let them know you are going to be late, but they may. This is completely their call from raid to raid.

- Starting early is good, but not mandatory. Most every raid starts with a somewhat dull clearing of trash mobs. If we *can* get a jump on that, that's great - it usually means we'll be able to get further than we might otherwise anticipate. If we are able to start early, we will but this will not penalize anyone who is not there yet but arrives on time. For example, if we start early in MC and a BoE Nightslayer piece drops, the Raid Leader will take it and note which players are early or on time. When it comes time to distribute that piece of loot, all Rogues who were early or on time are eligible (if they have the points, of course) to make a bid for the item, and all players who were early or on time will get the DKP point kickback for the item.

3) Staying For the Duration
- When you sign up for a raid, understand that there is no 100% guarantee that we will be ready to leave at the exact minute the raid is scheduled. The Raid Leader is responsible for making sure the raid ends as close to that as possible - this may mean that the raid will be called off a little bit early to avoid going too far over, but it also means we may leave at 10:10 instead of 10:00. If a raid is scheduled to end at 9pm and we are in the middle of a fight at 9pm, it is not okay to log out at that moment and say "well the schedule said we'd be done right then so nyah".

- AFK times will be given at decent intervals so you don't have to have a catheter at your desk. These are the times it's okay to get up, get on the phone, get a drink, etc etc. I do not want to see any more "sorry afk for dinner" in the middle of a raid. Things will of course come up that you will have no choice to take care of (ex: "afk apartment on fire") but these should be rare and if you're gone for more than five minutes outside a break point you're gonna get kicked from the raid. There are multiple parts in every raid that someone sitting in a bad position can potentially wipe us, so just getting up and putting your guy on auto-follow for 10 minutes isn't going to be ok.

4) Train yo skillz, playah
- Over the course of leveling up your toon, you might find it cost sexually potent to skip Training certain skills in order to save a little money. I didn't bother training Faerie Fire and Pounce on my druid because they were pretty much crap for solo'ing. However, once you reach raiding level, the most inane crap will come up. The Raid Leader has to assume you have trained every non-talent skill available to your class. If you don't have a non-talent skill trained and the Raid Leader calls on you to use it, this is one of the times an assumption is not a screw up on the problem of the assumption-maker.
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Don't say another Goddamn word. Up until now, I've been polite. If you say anything else - word one - I will kill myself. And when my tainted spirit finds its destination, I will topple the master of that dark place. From my black throne, I will lash together a machine of bone and blood, and fueled by my hatred for you this fear engine will bore a hole between this world and that one.

When it begins, you will hear the sound of children screaming, as though from a great distance. A smoking orb of nothing will grow above your bed, and from it will emerge a thousand starving crows. As I slip through the widening maw in my new form, you will catch only a glimpse of my radiance before you are incinerated. Then, as tears of bubbling pitch stream down my face, my dark work will begin.

I will open one of my six mouths, and I will sing the song that ends the Earth.

- Tycho, Penny Arcade

[Norbert]

afk translating war and peace to klingon.

[Bloo Driver]

[Rich]

is lolirl a klingon word
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Never criticize a man until you walk a mile in their shoes. Then not only are you a mile away, but you got their shoes.

[Prospera]

Would it be too much of a "duh" to say people should be on time with whatever reagents they need for the raid?
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[Bloo Driver]

Yah I should add that in. derp.
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Don't say another Goddamn word. Up until now, I've been polite. If you say anything else - word one - I will kill myself. And when my tainted spirit finds its destination, I will topple the master of that dark place. From my black throne, I will lash together a machine of bone and blood, and fueled by my hatred for you this fear engine will bore a hole between this world and that one.

When it begins, you will hear the sound of children screaming, as though from a great distance. A smoking orb of nothing will grow above your bed, and from it will emerge a thousand starving crows. As I slip through the widening maw in my new form, you will catch only a glimpse of my radiance before you are incinerated. Then, as tears of bubbling pitch stream down my face, my dark work will begin.

I will open one of my six mouths, and I will sing the song that ends the Earth.

- Tycho, Penny Arcade

[Bloo Driver]

Bump for adding point #4 about training skills.
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Don't say another Goddamn word. Up until now, I've been polite. If you say anything else - word one - I will kill myself. And when my tainted spirit finds its destination, I will topple the master of that dark place. From my black throne, I will lash together a machine of bone and blood, and fueled by my hatred for you this fear engine will bore a hole between this world and that one.

When it begins, you will hear the sound of children screaming, as though from a great distance. A smoking orb of nothing will grow above your bed, and from it will emerge a thousand starving crows. As I slip through the widening maw in my new form, you will catch only a glimpse of my radiance before you are incinerated. Then, as tears of bubbling pitch stream down my face, my dark work will begin.

I will open one of my six mouths, and I will sing the song that ends the Earth.

- Tycho, Penny Arcade

[Bloo Driver]

[Rich]

5) Do not heal the raid using the little touchpad on your laptop instead of a mouse. <-- SHOULD ALSO BE RELEVANT

Baseball knows who I am talking about.
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Never criticize a man until you walk a mile in their shoes. Then not only are you a mile away, but you got their shoes.