It's a raid!

It was an unusual Kara run last night. Our priest had a family emergency, so our two healers were a druid and a shaman. Being missing a shackle made a lot of the trash mobs more exciting. Adding to the oddity was that we had a bear and pally tanking, three rogues, and no mages. Our sole cloth wearer for most of the run was a warlock. The unusual composition comes from the fact that we weren't sure we'd have enough people for the run (no tanks signed up), and ended up grabbing folks who logged on at the last minute.

We cleared Prince, Netherspite, and Aran. Prince took only one try, though we wiped a couple of times on the others. I got two upgrades, while anher got a total of four, so we were happy with the night's work. My big prize of the night was the Skulker's Greaves. I won these by having the most pathetic leggings out of the three rogues.

Our guild's policy on raiding is that the person who most needs an upgrade gets it. The exception is the tier 4 gear. If you already have one piece of the set, you get priority in order to get the bonus.

The cost of government?

All those rules are not free.

Another thing I like about my guild..

The Unbroken requires that all members be at least 21 years old in real life. I'm of two minds on that. The person who was once a very mature teenager chafes at the idea that people get locked out just because of age.

On the other hand, it means that we have conversations like the one last night.

A Canadian member, referring to a shaman wearing Gladiator gear: "It looks like an Orange Crush machine."

Me: "It reminds me of Tron, actually."

Followed by general agreement as well as comments on how badly I'd just dated myself. Only one guy (poor guy) didn't get the reference.

We are a band of geeks and nerds. Most of us have seen all the classic 70s and 80s nerd movies. We can quote Ghostbusters at each other. We've seen Tron. Heck, I've even managed to reference Sneakers and get away with it. Our guild master is a self-styled Lord of Nerds.

It's not a requirement to be a geek to belong, but it's a very comfy group to be a geek around.