Postcards from Gameville

Last night some guildies and I decided to roll some Horde toons for a change of pace. We’ve done this sort of thing before, but several people wanted to do this on an RP server, which was more than fine by me. Six of us rolled new toons, created an ad hoc guild channel and proceeded to grind through our respective starting areas. On our channel, someone asked what our guild name should be if we pursue these new characters. In the middle of our conversation, something like this happened:

[4. penguins] [Eland]: afk fish crisis
[4. penguins] [Oleru]: “fish crisis”?
[4. penguins] [Oleru]: <Fish Crisis>
[4. penguins] [Panhorus]: yes
[4. penguins] [Kroos]: yes

I like the stranger guildnames over the terribly generic fantasy names. (Think: <Swords of Valor>, <The Silver Protectorate>, etc…. and I’m making those up, so if one of those is really your guild name… sorry, mate.) Something to give me more of a feel for what the character of your guild is. Something that says if you have a sense of humor about your guild name, maybe you’ll also have a sense of humor over an accidental party wipe or otherwise won’t be a prick.

But I also have a fondness for serendipity, automatic writing, accidental art, surrealism, and the like. And sometimes, just like when you might hear a turn of phrase and think, “that would make a good band name,” sometimes good guild names are accidentally found.

I’m sort of hoping we go with <Fish Crisis>, but I won’t be torn if we don’t. It seems fortuitous, for sure. <Drunken Plainstriders> was also thrown out as a version of our <Pirate Penguins> roots.