It’s our birthday! | June 14, 2011 · General News · Comments Off · Tags: ,

5 years go by so fast!  But time flies when you have such amazing people to spend it with.  Happy birthday to us!  Though our official guild birthday is on June 15th, official festivities will commence on June 25th.  As well, prizes will be awarded for those that participated in last week’s Vanquish Challenge!  Come out and celebrate with us! There will be games, more contests and much fun for all.  Check the alliance forum for more details  :D


New site is live! | January 26, 2011 · General News · (No comments) · Tags: , ,

Well, I mean, it doesn’t look new, but if you check under the hood of this baby, we’ve got tons more power to take us into the next phase of OOPSdom!  We’re still working on updating the content a bit, but as far as you’re concerned.  You should be wowed.  Like, seriously impressed!  And if you’re not impressed, well, here’s a picture of an impressive warthog.

You tell'em, Pumbaa!

And if you haven’t yet noticed, excitement for GW2 is building.  We may see the release of this elusive sequel in 2011!  So get ready, fill up that Hall of Monuments, and join us for general mayhem in-game!   Also, we are recruiting again, so if you’re looking for a place to call home and want to check us out, head on over to our Recruiting Page for instructions.

-Arzu


New Site Backend! | January 18, 2011 · Uncategorized · (No comments) ·

Hey everyone, its Spiegel! The site is under a little construction as I work on migrating it to a new system for Arzu to use and post with. We are working on a few things to make it easier on her, and add a little functionality for guild members. The theme will stay the same and it will look just the same, so there shouldn’t be too much trouble.

Stay tuned for more!

-Spiegel Tivrusky


More Craziness and Adventures | January 12, 2011 · Uncategorized · (No comments) ·

Dying in strange places since 2006

OOPS takes FoW by STORM

For Battle. For Glory. For Ice Cream!

Tonight, a brave team of OOPS members conquered the mighty Fissure of Woe, with nothing but sheer determination, and their mighty witticisms. The plains of the Fissure were deemed to be filled with Pointed Sticks, and thus claimed as Guild Territory. Tegid and Raina were the front line of the group and engaged the enemies with their stinging quips. And sharp pointy…weapony thingies. The Burning Inferno Trio of Zanzara, Ita, and Mialynne made sure all shadow creatures were properly cooked to regulation standards. All golden eggs collected during the evening are purported to be hard boiled, and the chocolate bunnies somewhat liquid. Ita claims this was all carefully planned for tomorrow’s guild breakfast of hard-boiled golden eggs with chocolate sauce which he is offering to all alliance members that have paid their OOPS tax. Also attending the FoW road trip was our fantastic ranger Garryn aka “Live Bait” and on the monkish side of things, the A team, Arzu and Alaya aka “Super Squishy Monkies”. The Shadow Beasts and Abyssals were practically throwing their valuables at these adventurers, and each came away with a bursting inventory. A highlight of the trip was a Ventrilo Guest Appearance by 4 year old Rowan, an OOPSer in training. Raina was called away early, and Ita reports that his treasure earnings increased significantly in her absence. Although Raina was not able to be present for the Official Documenting Photo shown above taken at the end of the evening, a skilled artist’s representation of her has been added into the picture. Truly, the likeness is remarkable.

Various and Sundry Updates

The Monks vs. Mesmers battle last month ended in a crushing defeat for the mesmers. The Embries has cried foul play, and demands a rematch. Further details will be revealed in the official account soon to come on the Chronicles of Auspicious Fate site.

OOPS has welcomed several new members into its highly disorganized ranks! Congratulations to Raina, Mystic, and Durfaxa for being able to survive the complete chaos of this guild’s recruiting process. May you increase in entropy as the guild slowly erodes your sanity.

Last month’s OOPS Award of OOPSness goes to Zanzara for singlehandedly fending off a bus. Though she sustained injuries in her battle, we are happy to report that she is fully recovered and ready to battle more fiends of public transportation. You go, Zan! Show them the true fury of a British grandma.


RoMS and OOPS Proudly Present | January 11, 2011 · Uncategorized · (No comments) ·

If you thought the Penderwydd Wars were epic, think again.

Mesmers vs Monks

On February 24, Rain Over Pebbles will lead a team of Monks against The Embries’ team of Mesmers in the battle that will forever change the Chronicles of Auspicious Fate.

It’s Time to Choose Your Side.

Time TBA
OOPS Guildhall

Space is limited so SIGN UP NOW!

Other notable announcements

A fond farewell to our friends in [tMC] and [PoE] who have gone to pursue a different direction. Be sure to wish them luck, and feel free to give them a shout if you ever need help with a mission or quest. We’ve also started bringing back our weekend Tombs/SF adventures, so keep an eye on guild announcements to see when the next one of those is going to happen. Also, wonder why you’ve been a member for a while and still aren’t featured on our Members page? Probably because you haven’t sent in a profile yet. If you want to know how to go about it, check out the FAQ at the top of the page. Lastly, though there isn’t enough space to mention all the awesome people who’ve braved our application process and joined us since the summer, we’re becoming quite the international guild and I’d like to highlight our Eurpoean contingent of Zanzara, Misty, Bob, Kira, Chuck, and Robin. OOPS is taking over more continents! Mwahaha! And the word on the street is that we might even have a theme song soon. Nothing can keep us from our lemur-assisted world domination now!

Comings and Goings (15/09/07)
It’s been a busy month for the Order Of Pointed Sticks! As the title says, it’s been a month of comings and goings. We’ll start with the comings since they’re altogether much fun!

New Members!
We’ve had the opportunity to welcome a number of people as part of our OOPS family this past month. First we inducted Ztnual of Israel, up-and-coming NFL prostar, then The Gourmet Bean, resident pizza expert and Caelie Fairweather, photographer extraordinaire! Then we had the excitement of adding Trassius Quill, official keeper of the OOPS Messenger Lemurs, and Mialynne Cerell, who is just awesome and doesn’t need any further introduction than that.

On the ‘going’ side we wish farewell to Carl who has gone to seek his fortune in the world of PvP guilds. Best of luck to you! Keep in touch and don’t forget to join us for missions and quests! We also have an especially sad goodbye as Mortuus has gone to start a four-year term with the Canadian Armed Forces. As such, he won’t be playing much Guild Wars, but hopefully he’ll remember to visit us when he has time off. We miss you already, Mortuus! Don’t get assigned to too many dangerous places, and come back to us safely.

And back tot the comings, we’ve had two more guilds join our alliance! They are the Broken Face Brigade [BFB] and the Moodle Conspiracy [tMC]. It’s been so fun to have them in the alliance, and we’re really lucky to have such fantastic allies. The Moodles have been the subject of much commotion in the alliance lately. Want to know what this whole Moodle craze is all about? Loden from RoMS has written a series of very informative articles for the alliance front page that may serve to enlighten (but will likely just further confuse) you.

Events
August was kicked off by the epic Battle of the Penderwydd between Aidan and Tegid (Click here to see the event poster). It was a mighty battle fought courageously by both but in the end, it was Aidan who came out victorious, and claimed once and for all (until next time) the title of Penderwydd and High Bard of OOPS! Fyo from RoMS wrote up a fantastic article covering this event, which can be found here.

This event in turn instigated an all mesmer full-out battle known as the Battle of the Penderwydd Hooligans wherein the formerly defeated Tegid gave an absorbing lecture on his stunning good looks, and teams of mesmers battled to the death. Though the Embries could not attend, many rallied for each side and Tegid led his team to victory! News coverage of this exciting event can be found here.

September will be jam-packed full of events that everyone can be involved in too! Be sure not to miss the Moodle Hunt ’07 on September 5th, and the Craft Contest of Craftiness and Creativity!. Those are only a couple highlights, and you’re encouraged to check out the Calendar to find out when events are happening or to schedule one of your own.

Does the news never end? Apparently not since this little webmistress keeps procrastinating and putting off updating the website so that when she does there’s a million things to write about >_< *ahem* So……where was I? Ah yes, Teamspeak! If you’re one of those people who likes to chat with your guildmates on VoIP rather than trying to type things out and inadvertantly getting killed while deciding how to spell ‘sesqu-centennial’ then Teamspeak is exactly what you need! It’s absolutely free to download, and all you need to do is send an email to Anna from FoD to get your exclusive login info! Instructions on how to do this can be found here.

Lastly, the August Pointed Stick Award goes to Drahma for gathering three generations of his family online to play GW together. Congrats Drahma! You rock! For your prize, you get the prestige of winning this vastly prestigious award!