Officers

Hey present and future guildies!! ^_^ My name is Kathy and I play as Alaya(Mo/R), Bea U Tiful(Rt/Mo), Godess of Ice Cream(E/Mo)…and yea I know it's spelled wrong :P Kiana Ximena(R/Mo), Lady Deaths Fear(N/Mo), and my newest character, A Lovely Illusion(Me/Mo). As you can probably tell I enjoy being a monk (some people are just glutton for punishment, what can I say? ^_^). People I’ve played with for awhile will usually call me Alaya no matter which character I’m on and often use Kathy and Alaya interchangeably. So yeah, I’ll answer to pretty much anything…Alaya, my current character name, Kathy, “Hey you!”…I’m easy :P I’m super excited about being a member of such a great guild and I love all my former KH guildies! We had some fun times! Not to mention we were all slightly crazy….errr I mean….*clears throat* Enthusiastic!! I’m all for helping out so if anyone needs anything give me a holler in game! See you around! ^_^

Hello everyone!  My name is Sarah, and I play the character Arzu Ashurbeyli.  I also play a number of other characters with ethnically consistent names, but also the infamous Humming Porcupine to mix things up.  You might also hear people referring to me as KitKat, which is my other online alias.  I'm 25, and though I have an engineering degree, I'm back in school to change things up a bit getting my Masters in Linguistics.  Guild Wars is my first online RPG, and I've been constantly addicted for almost 3 years now.  I started playing video games back on the Commodore 64, then later when we got a super nintendo I discovered Final Fantasy and I've been an RPG girl ever since.  When not playing games, I enjoy baking a wide variety of pies, cookies, and squares which I will shower upon any unsuspecting person who drops by my house.  I also love knitting, and will often attempt to knit while monking.

I'm always up for helping anyone in-game, so just give me a shout!

Hello! My name is Dave and I´m 23 years old. I play Quiet Talen (R), Cor the Resolute (W), Cor the Reaper (D), Elros Annatar (E), Eirik Murdoson (Mo), Losgar Dorlas (A), Rumil Arien (P), and Bragol Amarth (Rt). If you see that I´ve been inactive for a few months, that´s OK! I´ve just finished a 2 months of training (wow, I hope I spelled my character´s names right!) and I´m now spending 3.5 months in Lima, Peru! I´m with a team of 5 girls, working in and around a local church helping with their needs. Teaching English, learning Spanish. It´s quite the adventure! I´ll be back in July and I hope to see you all again at that time. Have a great first half of 2008!

A blurbs, what silly little writings.  Anyways, my real name is Brad, and I am vaguely related to the other guild officers in that they are honourary family members.  That being said, I do in fact have a natural family too. In terms of being a gamer, many different kinds from board to card to cardboard to pen and paper, occasional sports (like hiking and canoeing), computer, and the odd console tend to console me in times of boredome and fun. In short, I enjoy most kinds of games.  Guild Wars has been an excellent social time, as well as an enjoyable semi-rpgish adventure.  Despite what Micah claims, he did not get me to play Guild Wars, I was already convinced to play this year, but was waiting for summer.  That being said, he was a motivating factor, as were Dave, Sarah, and Josh.  You may wonder about the screen shot, well, I don't really like cameras, and so figured it would be a bit more consistent.

Hello everyone, my name in real life is Nicolas but people usually call me Nik because it's shorter and because of the awesomeness of my warrior Si Nik (W/Mo).  I also like to play on Bloody Dupi (N/Me) or on Sinik Freestyle ( as it name says its a freestyle PvP character). Eventually you will see me around on Trish Sparda ( R/Me) but only if needed. I first discovered Guild Wars at a time when I was bored and needed a new fun game to play. So I bought the game and i really liked it, so much that I still play after almost a year. As did Zar and Arzu before him, I joined Kage Hitokiri and this is where I met them along with other really nice people that made me wanna continue playing this game, but this is another long, very long story. Anyways other than Guild Wars , I play soccer, I like to go out to do some exercising (hiking, biking, partying etc..) and I'm about to enter my last year of high school (yea I'm 17 too) which I believe will not give me alot of free time to play.
As I did throughout my 10 months of playing, I really enjoy helping people, so if you need anything just let me know.

Hello, my alias is Zar Shadowstalker, but to those who know me, mi nombre is Josh. I'm from Hell *cough* Texas. I was hooked on Guild Wars by my sister who played it all day. I would watch her play it and it payed off. My sister bought Guild Wars for me a few weeks before my birthday and I loved it. I was accepted into the guild known as Kage Hitokiri. That is where I met Arzu. After I had beaten the dearly departed Hazor Organa and the incredible Derek Brewer, I wanted to have more spaces on my account so I just bought a new one. Thus, Zar Shadowstalker was born. By the time I had created Zar, Guild Wars: Faction had come out and I only bought it for one account. So naturally, I stayed on my Factions account. That went on until one day I logged on to Zar's account and started playing in Tyria again. Since I have never had a Ranger, I decided to work with Zar and beat the game with him.

Members

Hello all, my name's Allen and I'm the Tank-In-Residence for the guild. My first tank for GW is Aelric Blackthorn, a W/E Knockdown Tank. He's mostly retired now, but still makes special cameo-appearances upon request. In addition to my various warrior builds I also have a N/Mo MM and a rather successful B/P Ranger. My hobbies include anything related to computers, technology, talking to tha ladies, as well as eating any ice cream in sight. I also handle all of the covert operations for the group, but thats a different story...

I'm just your un-stereotypical 20-something caucasian male/secret government agent currently living in/deployed to Columbia, SC who has nothing better to do in his free time than use GW as a cover for other operations while employed by whatever government agency acronym you'd like to insert here.

I really like GW because it offers a good balance of strategy, tactics, character building, and community. Most importantly, its free! I've found that this guild (and alliance) is full of great people to hang out with and get together for some mega-monster slaying ak-shun (yes, i just said "ak-shun"). 

Er...Hi, My name is Charles, I'm a distractionaholic...I love distractions and GW is my newest and most favorite distraction.
Currently I'm exploring Tyria as Arren the EMO, but before that it was DotA the W3 mod, and before that it was Neverwinter Nights, and before that was a myriad of action games where I could cut loose on all the unsuspecting fools on the wrong side of my guns.  Sarah is actually the reason I started playing GW, which I purchased in the summer of '05 but didn't take out of the box until recently...I think I was afraid it would overwhelm me...which it did.  I've been using video games as distractions since about first or second grade.  Since I'm not a fan of distractions that are tough mental challenges which make me want to rip something apart I generally strayed towards games with interesting gameplay that didn't require much planning or thought.  Only recently have I moved into the RPG world, Neverwinter Nights was my first and I enjoyed it immensely, though the staggering number of choices for my character eventually put me off to the interesting stories.  Guild Wars is much more forgiving on most tough decisions which is what drew me to it so long ago, and now here I am trying to catch up to everyone else.

Hello everyone! My name is Jamie (yes, I'm a guy) or Morgan19 online outside of Guild Wars. I'm proud to say I've played the same character, Caelie Fairweather, since the start of GW in 2005 and, although starting life as a W/R, she currently enjoys running around the world as a W/Mo. I tend to be a solitary GW gamer by nature due to my ever-random blocks of available playing time or simply my desire to explore at my own pace, but I'm thrilled to be a part of OOPS and its associated craziness!

In the real world, I'm a full-timeishly employed graphic designer and thus have discovered that one of the best parts of GW is its breathtaking scenery and the ability to capture "photographs" of said scenery... Hence my flooding of the screenshots section of the OOPS website. :) I'm constantly on the lookout for more beautiful shots and sincerely hope others enjoy viewing them in the gallery as much as I enjoy taking them.

What else... I'm a newlywed, having married my fantastic girlfriend of seven years in October 2006. We have an adorable black kitty named Cleo and currently live in the traffic-insane Northern Virginia area. My other passion in life, and has been since I was a wee kid, is LEGO. You can pick through some of my creations here:

LEGO CREATIONS!

I guess that's about it. See you all around soon!

HI. My name is Bob, I live in South Texas, and my main character that I respect most is Drahma, as I started 15 months and 975 hrs ago with her. So, I feel I owe her some loyalty. My favorite is Haiku, my Ranger, but, for some reason, I've been stuck with being called Mushu, my Paragon. Actually, I'll answer to almost anything, if I'm paying attention. I am probably the revered (or not) ancestor in this guild, and you don't really want to know how old I am. I started gaming with a TI/4A, moved to the incredibly high-powered Commodore 64, and slogged through text MUDs, finally arriving at Guild Wars, the best so far. Daughter and son-in-law play Guild Wars, and have been here with G-kids from England for the past 3 weeks. I was a reliability engineer for years, running a failure analysis lab for military computer systems, and working on retiring so I can play more. Makes my wife a bit cranky, though, as she thinks gaming incredibly boring.

Can't think of anything else without boring YOU to death, so I'll sign off.

My real name is Andrew, and I was born in St. Catharines, Canaduh. I was pleaded with by my friends Artful Nudger, Rogan of Ebertoni and Quiet Talen to join GW as an excuse for me to be able to visit with them more and also to add some excitement to my dreary existance. While I still consider myself somewhat new to the gaming world, am increasingly more excited about my involvement in said RPGs such as this. My literary inspirations include: Tolkien, Frank Herbert (DUNE), Isaac Asimov, Stephen R. Lawhead and Terry Pratchett. I consider aesthetics and appearance to be of very high importance so I made my character the darkest necro-mesmer possible, as it looks exceedingly awesome.

Mortuus joined OOPS upon seeing the rampant chaos that raged within the guild.  He straightaway instituted a communist regime and ruled OOPS with an iron fist.  After a bloody revolution, Mortuus went into hiding and hasn't been heard from since although it is suspected that his secret police still lurk in Yak's Bend, relaying information to his headquarters in exile.  To cope with his reign of terror, the guild members resorted to eating copious amounts of ice cream and throwing pickled walnuts at the picture of Mortuus that was prominently displayed within the guild hall.  When not oppressing the masses, Mortuus can be found making latch-hook rugs with vermillion flowers and yellow duckies on them.  He also is a master of the fine art of ballet and receives many compliments each day on how dashing he looks in his tutu.  Though few people know of it, he wears robotic ballet slippers to fortify his weak ankles and regularly has them repaired at Best Buy.

Synth D, once called the bestest tank is the world, has fallen far from his lofty position.  He also goes by the name DragonOutlaw or DO for short.  He neglects GW these days for his favourite pastime:  juggling pomegranites in a travelling circus.  Although he does not juggle well, the circus director keeps him along in case they run out of Lion Kibble.  When he has access to a computer he is a leet haxxor and once replaced the national security grid of Peru with a program designed to cause people to trip over their powerbars.  This program had the unfortunate side effect of causing all waffles made in the toaster to taste like soggy gym socks.  Synth struggles with a secret Hello Kitty addiction and though he has made some gains, he still cannot resist hoarding Hello Kitty merchandise.   He is on Taiwan's 10 Most Wanted list for painting a Hello Kitty mural on a government building.

Tegid is known best by his reputation as a traveling nose flute performer and escape artist. When large crowds are amassed to witness his incredible talent, he has a habit of summoning his two vanguard assistants to distract nosy critics while he disappears in a cloud of smoke. During the off-season, Tegid takes up the Spoon of Dreams as Penderwydd, and leads the heathens towards the light of mesmerizing glory. Monks are a preferred target for conversion, and will be continually plotted against until a certain, shall we say, -allotment- of baked goods is extracted.

Close family members include Arzu, the Nudger, and Rogan too, though his family status is rumoured to be an elaborate ruse to further his continuing grasps at political power within CoAF. After the broken fellowship of the Angelic Guard, Tegid finally joined OOPS in the battle against turtles. Though one of the spiritual founding fathers of OOPS, Tegid's status as a regular joe guild member is never certain, and he has conveniently avoided the vestments of responsibility as an officer for some time.

Today, Tegid is mostly seen abroad, performing concerts in popular vacation destinations such as Ettin's Back, Beacon's Perch, and the Temple of War. While adventuring, he is known to question the environmental integrity through rigorous questioning procedures learned from RoMS (iz this teh Guild Hall??!?!?!111one).

Warlock Deity resides in northern Siberia where he works as a lumberjack in the boreal forests.  When not singing songs about felling trees and the merits of being burly, he enjoys a nice home-cooked meal of borscht.  His renowned feat of uprooting a tree embedded in permafrost with nothing but his bare hands has been known to make stout Russian housewives swoon.  He joined OOPS when he nearly cooked a laptop that had been swallowed whole by the indeterminate animal he found frozen in the snow and attempted to eat for dinner.  He found the laptop when he heard the low battery beep from over top of his hearth.  The homepage was set to this very page and he ordered a copy of Guild Wars which arrived with the next supply plane.  Although usually coherent, mission failures have been known to cause him to break into regional dialect expletives that are thought to resemble the calls of the caribou.

Honourary Members

Hanny joined OOPS once when Areanet classified him as a Hazardous Substance and OOPS was charged with the responsibility of containing the damage. Most guild members still suffer bouts of madness from that dark time in the history of the guild. Luckily, we were able to convince RoMS that Hanny was a rare collectible item, and made a tidy profit which we used to fund our Skateboarding Lemur Messenger Service. Hanny can be recognised by his trademarked brand of two-paw typing. When spotted, it is best not to approach him, but to contact a containment squad. If interaction seems inevitable, you are advised to feed him cake, as this will temporarily pacify him. Hanny is known to be placated with cookies also, but reacts very badly to lead paint of the kind used on recalled childrens toys.

One day, Iron stumbled upon the Holy Pointed Stick while scoring a field goal. While he doesn't quite remember what happened after that, he's been a member of OOPS ever since. Rumor has it that some may know him as Tyler, but all agree that he makes a killer gumdrop cake. In his early years, Iron aspired to be a poet and a scholar. However, his career goals drastically changed when he witnessed his first game of football, and traded in the gentle world of academia for the brutal and deadly game of 'Fatal-Contact' Football. Although players in this lesser-known sport are known to lose limbs every day, Iron has only lost three toes and his spleen. It is believed that it is the blessing of the Holy Pointed Stick that returns him to us each day. Iron is also well-travelled and often takes extravagant vacations to exotic locations such as Hawaii and North Dakota.

Hi! My name is Jason and I play a ranger named Kelrin Whiteraven.  Sure I have other characters, but for some odd reason, I enjoy the versatility and overall "seat-of-your-pants" unpredictability of playing a ranger. I have been playing Guild Wars for over a year now (I sold my minipet, so don't ask :P) and it is the best online game I have played.  I also enjoy playing Warhammer 40k Dawn of War and the Dynasty Warrior games for PS2.  As far as personal stuff... I live in Louisville KY.  I'm an advertising professional and an aspiring fantasy writer and I love NFL Football. I even coach a flag football team for 5-7 year olds. Well that's about all I can share. If you need any help in GW, look me up.  I'm never too busy to help.

Hey, my name is Richard, and yes I'm a World of Warcraft player *ducks*. My main character is a warlock named Kelchar, and I play on Blackhand, but I've been graciously offered an honourary membership here by Arzu. I have played Guild Wars a couple times (once one a friend's account, and once during the Nightfall preview event), but I live in a house full of avid GW players, so I know more than a little about the game.
I was drawn into the world of MMORPG's by friends who had already become addicted to WoW and wished to see me suffer too. Offline I really enjoy strategy games like Civilization, and Master of Orion as well as the standby RTS's: Starcraft and Warcraft.
In the real world I'm a computer science major now in my last year of university, and I definitely have enough work to do that I shouldn't be spending my time on games :)

Hey there, I’m Jake. I’m… not really a part of OOPS, but I was forced encouraged to make a profile. I’m more commonly known as Nairo, although I do also go by the title of “Supreme General of the Aardvark Reserves”! I’m actually an officer of RoMS, an allied guild to OOPS. I often play on my Ranger, Nairo Sionuill, although I run a pretty wide gamut of professions (Although, I’m shamed to admit that I just can’t get the hang of the Ritualist or Paragon. >_>;;). Outside of GW, I enjoy listening to music. I’ll listen to almost any kind of music, as long as it’s not slow! I do favor folk music, however. Go figure, eh? I also like to draw in my spare time, although most of my work is on lined paper, and that’s apparently “unprofessional”. Feh. I also play many RPGs, like Final Fantasy, Disgaea, and Pokeymans. Finally, I do believe I have to again confess my undying love for aardvarks! The best animal ever, solely for it’s title as the first animal of the dictionary. All hail the Aardvark! So… I guess that’s it for me. Can I go now? Please?

Bonjour! My name is Steve, although I've also gone by Serge and actually prefer it. My first character is Selene Delacour (Me), and I guess she's my favourite despite really disliking the way her current outfit looks with that green colour. My other currently-made characters are Marcus Granger (W), Tara Bailey (R), Krista Rosenberg (N), Adrian Victoria (Mo), and Alicia Halliwell (E). Guild Wars is the only PC game I really play. I do like console games, but I'm finding less and less time for them. I know English, French, and Japanese at varying degrees. As long as someone talks to me in one of those three languages, we'll get along fine.

Ahoy there! My name is Milton, I used to be a part of OOPS but had to leave due to personal reasons. I might actually come back one day. At any rate, I'm best known online as Zaide mainly because three of my characters come from the Zaide lineage. I started my online gaming with Diablo, moved on to Diablo 2... then Phantasy Star Online, then I guess Guild Wars. Loved them all. I don't really do the console game thing. I've always fought for the side of awesome, or in Guild Wars... The Luxons >:3. That's right, I was never a real Kurzick. Some members know me as a self-proclaimed Forum Junkie, kind of. Alright, I ran out of things to say, peace.