IC version found here. It is a member-only board, so not viewable by all.
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September 16th, 2011 marks the sixth anniversary of The Grim. Six long years! I was originally thinking of going on making a laundry list of accomplishments, but I felt that was just more time of me typing and not so much time of getting to the real meat of why we've reached our sixth year of existence.
Membership.
We've had great members, both current and past, and through those members we have excelled. While many people like to say "oh it was for the people", I think we truly have shown that, through our membership, we have made lifelong friends, companions, and gaming partners.
So, I felt a proper tribute would be to share with individuals who may look to our forums with some of the stories we have of our in-character and out-of-character associations as Grim, and what we remember the most.
Cheesy? Sure... but I think we've all earned a little bit of cheese on our DOOM sandwiches.
Six Years of The Grim (OOC Version)
Re: Six Years of The Grim (OOC Version)
The one IC moment that locked me into The Grim was back in vanilla, when I was leveling in Feralas with Abric. Back then, some good rogue gear dropped from the Yeti quests, but due to the frequency of Yeti's and Alliance, it was a pain in the ass to get those quests done.
Fortunately, the second day I attempted to finish them I ran into a pack of Grim mages; Grainger, Thermal, Razev, and Regnanetah, if I remember correctly. They were out grinding some stuff out, and they volunteered to help me out (without me asking for it). Effectively, we caused mass genocide on all Yeti and Alliance in the area, and I was able to both get my quest done and know that I found a guild of true bad asses.
The OOC moment that locked me in was stealing a Canadian gem. Also having an Englishman show me his junk.
Fortunately, the second day I attempted to finish them I ran into a pack of Grim mages; Grainger, Thermal, Razev, and Regnanetah, if I remember correctly. They were out grinding some stuff out, and they volunteered to help me out (without me asking for it). Effectively, we caused mass genocide on all Yeti and Alliance in the area, and I was able to both get my quest done and know that I found a guild of true bad asses.
The OOC moment that locked me in was stealing a Canadian gem. Also having an Englishman show me his junk.
Re: Six Years of The Grim (OOC Version)
For IC...well, there really wasn't much on the IC joining of The Grim for Pincus. I was in an all-druid Alliance guild on CC.
It was a week or so before TN opened, I was on some global Defense channel, and heard that someone was going to do some headstomping somewhere around Feralas, and the Sisters of Mercy were going on some defense. Well, I decided to take part on scouting out this force. What I thought may have been 5 or 6 instead was Creator (Maledictus) + his whole gang of thugs. I ran like hell to get out of there, and after a sigh from the Tauren, I got WTFPWONED by the druid Bruji (it's been a while...my spelling may be bad) until some rogue came up and did the stabby stabby.
I was proud to be part of Creator's bodycount that night. It was a lot of fun.
I then got word from Grainger that Creator was booking it to TN. Rerolled Pincus (an old archetype from my D&D days), and the rest is history.
Being part of the Grim, it was just the characters that kept it fun. Laughingcrow who actually sent chills down my spine by how well he could switch to a cult-like mindset, Lupen and the Pink Dress Incident, Syreena's fear of Pincus (and no idea WHY), the Triplets, and ZG wouldn't be the same without Warneshi.
The OOC moment. The fact that I (and a few others) who don't play as regularly...we still stick around.
Yes, we're that good.
And Google is our friend. A blast from the past:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 5887068633
It was a week or so before TN opened, I was on some global Defense channel, and heard that someone was going to do some headstomping somewhere around Feralas, and the Sisters of Mercy were going on some defense. Well, I decided to take part on scouting out this force. What I thought may have been 5 or 6 instead was Creator (Maledictus) + his whole gang of thugs. I ran like hell to get out of there, and after a sigh from the Tauren, I got WTFPWONED by the druid Bruji (it's been a while...my spelling may be bad) until some rogue came up and did the stabby stabby.
I was proud to be part of Creator's bodycount that night. It was a lot of fun.
I then got word from Grainger that Creator was booking it to TN. Rerolled Pincus (an old archetype from my D&D days), and the rest is history.
Being part of the Grim, it was just the characters that kept it fun. Laughingcrow who actually sent chills down my spine by how well he could switch to a cult-like mindset, Lupen and the Pink Dress Incident, Syreena's fear of Pincus (and no idea WHY), the Triplets, and ZG wouldn't be the same without Warneshi.
The OOC moment. The fact that I (and a few others) who don't play as regularly...we still stick around.
Yes, we're that good.
And Google is our friend. A blast from the past:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 5887068633
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Re: Six Years of The Grim (OOC Version)
I haven't been playing WoW all that long.. it's been not quite a year and a half yet. But I've played only Alliance during that time. It was The Grim that finally caused me to switch to primarily Horde.
In character, it came gradually. Most people know the reasons and I won't rehash them here, except to say that my main learned a lot during the time she was in The Grim, and made some really great friends. Enough for her to basically defect, and still to this day tries to shadow the patrols of Tol Barad.
From an OOC standpoint, I was amazed and really touched at how incredibly friendly and welcoming everyone was. Even at a very low level, and still being extremely new to the guild, I always felt very included in everything. Ashenfury in particular was deeply cool, and I was really glad he picked my character up as her inquisitor.
Even though things kind of blew up with my main character, I love the guild enough that I wanted to stick around and make a new one to take her place. I'm really glad to be a part of it all. What started off as just being a piece of an ongoing plotline Alliance side has ended up with me finding a guild that I'm really happy with, and plenty of awesome new friends.
In character, it came gradually. Most people know the reasons and I won't rehash them here, except to say that my main learned a lot during the time she was in The Grim, and made some really great friends. Enough for her to basically defect, and still to this day tries to shadow the patrols of Tol Barad.
From an OOC standpoint, I was amazed and really touched at how incredibly friendly and welcoming everyone was. Even at a very low level, and still being extremely new to the guild, I always felt very included in everything. Ashenfury in particular was deeply cool, and I was really glad he picked my character up as her inquisitor.
Even though things kind of blew up with my main character, I love the guild enough that I wanted to stick around and make a new one to take her place. I'm really glad to be a part of it all. What started off as just being a piece of an ongoing plotline Alliance side has ended up with me finding a guild that I'm really happy with, and plenty of awesome new friends.
Re: Six Years of The Grim (OOC Version)
IC: I was harassing guild members, particularly officers, about finding Yichimet who was the guild 'Seer'. I wanted to have an IC story for joining the Grim beyond 'you guys sound cool'. I had already talked to a few people through in-character whispers (In-character whispers?! WTF!) and then I was walking through Dalaran and I saw Aquizit talking to someone else. I walked up to him and greeted him as 'Hail Aquizit of the Grim' or some shit like that.
He looked at me like I slapped him. Then he asked who the fuck I was, then he asked how I knew his name and it was then at that very moment that I decided: These are my people.
OOC: Holy crap is being an inquisitor fun! Do you want some more RP? Bug your supplicants. Bored? Grab another supplicant. Feel like writing? Follow a supplicant. I could not think of a device better for enjoying RP (For me personally). That and the very first thing I did with Grim (before I got the ginvite) was walk right into Stormwind and hold the courtyard for a good half hour... yeah that was awesome!
He looked at me like I slapped him. Then he asked who the fuck I was, then he asked how I knew his name and it was then at that very moment that I decided: These are my people.
OOC: Holy crap is being an inquisitor fun! Do you want some more RP? Bug your supplicants. Bored? Grab another supplicant. Feel like writing? Follow a supplicant. I could not think of a device better for enjoying RP (For me personally). That and the very first thing I did with Grim (before I got the ginvite) was walk right into Stormwind and hold the courtyard for a good half hour... yeah that was awesome!
Re: Six Years of The Grim (OOC Version)
i was one of the first characters on the server with kharzak (previous servers were a little too warm and fuzzy so we migrated to twisting nether when it came online). anaie, me, canai's previous main, and several other of our friends joined with a naval guild whose name i can't remember. we then split to form our own pirate themed guild after a brief period of time which worked well for us
at some point we were invited to send two members to a gathering of horde guilds in the arena in org. anaie and i went (not sure if scoundrel was with us) and listened to the plan that the guilds wanted to pursue. they were in a mass group of horde and alliance guilds and planned to have a battle later that night in hilsbarad in an almost "honorable battle" sort of affair though i'm sure that one side or another would have won by finally fighting harder
two grim showed up, a female troll (i think), and an undead male. they walked to the centre of the grouping and proceeded to verbally beat down the entire room then proclaim that they would do what the horde couldn't (or something along those lines). they then walked out
the guilds quickly saddled up and moved to hilsbarad where as the two sides started to line up (couldn't see the alliance from our side) the grim appeared from behind us in taren mill and rushed the alliance lines (looked like the whole of the grim at the time or a large portion of it). the rest of the the horde guilds around us were not sure what was happening. anaie yelled at mutiny to charge over a voice chat line and he, scoundrel, me, canai's previous main, and the rest of mutiny lept ahead of the guilds just behind the grim and plowed into the alliance after the initial strike. it was a total victory
later when anaie wanted to enter the larger end game he brought up joining the grim as the best option after researching several guilds. there wasn't any disagreement per se however several members were worried about what might happen with a partial merger. in the end nearly all the officers of mutiny joined the grim en mass. many of them are still around but not in the grim having been removed since they couldn't play often enough but do still log on sometimes
that battle was the first time i saw the grim up close and not just as an individual member seen running by in the distance. i miss that battle and was glad to have been there
at some point we were invited to send two members to a gathering of horde guilds in the arena in org. anaie and i went (not sure if scoundrel was with us) and listened to the plan that the guilds wanted to pursue. they were in a mass group of horde and alliance guilds and planned to have a battle later that night in hilsbarad in an almost "honorable battle" sort of affair though i'm sure that one side or another would have won by finally fighting harder
two grim showed up, a female troll (i think), and an undead male. they walked to the centre of the grouping and proceeded to verbally beat down the entire room then proclaim that they would do what the horde couldn't (or something along those lines). they then walked out
the guilds quickly saddled up and moved to hilsbarad where as the two sides started to line up (couldn't see the alliance from our side) the grim appeared from behind us in taren mill and rushed the alliance lines (looked like the whole of the grim at the time or a large portion of it). the rest of the the horde guilds around us were not sure what was happening. anaie yelled at mutiny to charge over a voice chat line and he, scoundrel, me, canai's previous main, and the rest of mutiny lept ahead of the guilds just behind the grim and plowed into the alliance after the initial strike. it was a total victory
later when anaie wanted to enter the larger end game he brought up joining the grim as the best option after researching several guilds. there wasn't any disagreement per se however several members were worried about what might happen with a partial merger. in the end nearly all the officers of mutiny joined the grim en mass. many of them are still around but not in the grim having been removed since they couldn't play often enough but do still log on sometimes
that battle was the first time i saw the grim up close and not just as an individual member seen running by in the distance. i miss that battle and was glad to have been there
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Re: Six Years of The Grim (OOC Version)
Its been a long time. I joined the Grim at a low level and was killing in Stranglethorn, I was listening in to the Grim fighting in the new troll instance at the time, Zul'Aman, and I was suddenly attacked by this hunter, I was doing ok, but I could not catch the little bugger.. Well I guess the Grim was over in Zul'Aman at that point because all of a sudden the Hunter got a crap load of curses piled on him and he fell over dead. Pincus strolling by with the rest of the Grim at the time. I felt then I was in a good group. cemented by when I started tanking.
Flash back to the past Pincus, watching that video makes me remember how weak looking my shield and sword where back then..
Flash back to the past Pincus, watching that video makes me remember how weak looking my shield and sword where back then..
Re: Six Years of The Grim (OOC Version)
are you sure you mean zul'aman there, guduk? zul'aman came out during BC and you've been in the grim since vanilla haven't you?
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Re: Six Years of The Grim (OOC Version)
I'm relatively newblood still, in my opinion. I've only been playing Wow since the end of BC when a few of my squadmates finally convinced me to join after years of me resisting. They quit shortly thereafter. I quit wow until Wrath was released, when I decided to play it again to alleviate boredom in Afghanistan. It was then I rolled a Death Knight on Twisting Nether, because I wanted to RP.
Months later I was tired of being Alliance and transferred Inzema and Qarosimae here. Grim sounded like the best choice on the server, horde-side, so I sought them out. I finally knew I belonged here when Inzema earned his tabard. It was the inquisition, the trial, the feeling that I'd earned my place in a group of great people that made it for me.
Months later I was tired of being Alliance and transferred Inzema and Qarosimae here. Grim sounded like the best choice on the server, horde-side, so I sought them out. I finally knew I belonged here when Inzema earned his tabard. It was the inquisition, the trial, the feeling that I'd earned my place in a group of great people that made it for me.
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Re: Six Years of The Grim (OOC Version)
Going way back for me. 2nd week of the server if memory serves. When my old guild left DaoC, we voted for what kind of server we wanted in WOW. I voted for Horde PVP so obviously we went Alliance PVE. I had dropped by a few RP servers but it wasn't for me, maybe I just got unlucky but my first encounters were with what I call "world benders" people who randomly assign themselves cosmic powers in emotes...wasn't my thing... something was missing. I had always wondered how one could have a RP server in WARcraft and not be PVP... so I stayed on Stormrage... then one day they announced... a RP-PVP server... there was a whooshing sound the door slammed and Drunkan Stupor Dwarven warrior... vanished with a cry of "I'll be on TN, Horde side, look for an Orc named Bloodscream!"
So there I was week 2 of my new life in the Horde. All new to PVP servers all terrified of everything. I had managed to make it to close to 20th lvl in that time (I had no life, ok piss off.) I decided to go see how the other half lived and headed off on a great adventure to take the boat and go to the Undead city. Shortly after that I found myself in neighboring Tirisfal near the southern border with the grasslands (and PVP territory). I was questing along and minding my own Orcy business. When a fight broke out, it was awesome... you never saw THAT on my crappy ol' PVE server.
2 Dwarves and an elf attacking a Forsaken and a Tauren, with a shout of LOK'TAR OGAR! (I had a macro) I came charging over the hill and started stomping all over the elf, cause HELLO? Elf! With my help they were able to fight off the Alliance and kill them. When the fight was over I was standing on the dead elf and turning to the two Horde stangers exclaimed "HAHA! Look flat elf!"
Maledictus turned to Snowfeather and asked: " Can I keep him?"
...and that's how I joined The Grim.
So there I was week 2 of my new life in the Horde. All new to PVP servers all terrified of everything. I had managed to make it to close to 20th lvl in that time (I had no life, ok piss off.) I decided to go see how the other half lived and headed off on a great adventure to take the boat and go to the Undead city. Shortly after that I found myself in neighboring Tirisfal near the southern border with the grasslands (and PVP territory). I was questing along and minding my own Orcy business. When a fight broke out, it was awesome... you never saw THAT on my crappy ol' PVE server.
2 Dwarves and an elf attacking a Forsaken and a Tauren, with a shout of LOK'TAR OGAR! (I had a macro) I came charging over the hill and started stomping all over the elf, cause HELLO? Elf! With my help they were able to fight off the Alliance and kill them. When the fight was over I was standing on the dead elf and turning to the two Horde stangers exclaimed "HAHA! Look flat elf!"
Maledictus turned to Snowfeather and asked: " Can I keep him?"
...and that's how I joined The Grim.
Re: Six Years of The Grim (OOC Version)
Ive been thinking about this all week and I realize that my favorite rp moments with the Grim have been the drama...
The meeting with Abric and Duranor and all the Bloodelves I snuck up on was amazing. I thought it was all in character and plotted out or something but apparently it was to try and integrate the new charatcers into the Horde and the Grim. There was much IC mistrust along with a healthy dose of pvp vs. pve I think. By the end of it the Hand of the Grim (a belf) left the guild along with half our pvp team and lil ole Ctok popped out of stealth and strolled up to Duranor and Abric to offer himself in her stead. Brig was in charge back then and made me Hand and the rest is history!
My other favorite rp moment was when we finally had enough of a certain member's cross faction attitude. It seemed at worst this guy was a spy and at best ambivalent about the Mandate. In the end it was left to me to boot him. The member was a buddy of mine and he knew something like this would be coming. I gathered a few Grim, Guduk, Pincus, and Tecunuman at least were there and we summoned this guy into a world pvp arena and surrounded him. He took off his tabbard and yelled at me a bit and it was awesome. We booted him from group then beat the crap out of him....great fun.
The meeting with Abric and Duranor and all the Bloodelves I snuck up on was amazing. I thought it was all in character and plotted out or something but apparently it was to try and integrate the new charatcers into the Horde and the Grim. There was much IC mistrust along with a healthy dose of pvp vs. pve I think. By the end of it the Hand of the Grim (a belf) left the guild along with half our pvp team and lil ole Ctok popped out of stealth and strolled up to Duranor and Abric to offer himself in her stead. Brig was in charge back then and made me Hand and the rest is history!
My other favorite rp moment was when we finally had enough of a certain member's cross faction attitude. It seemed at worst this guy was a spy and at best ambivalent about the Mandate. In the end it was left to me to boot him. The member was a buddy of mine and he knew something like this would be coming. I gathered a few Grim, Guduk, Pincus, and Tecunuman at least were there and we summoned this guy into a world pvp arena and surrounded him. He took off his tabbard and yelled at me a bit and it was awesome. We booted him from group then beat the crap out of him....great fun.
Re: Six Years of The Grim (OOC Version)
I joined The Grim about three months after the guild formed.
I was questing in the Barrens when I ran into Sammuel getting picked on by a bunch of ?? level Alliance. He said they knew him and they had a bone to pick with him, and that's why they were fighting with him.
Around the same time, there was an RP story by Grim members on the WoW TN forums called The King of Rats, if I remember the title correctly. As a conclusion to that part of the story, everyone, both Horde and Alliance, were invited to a battle on Alcaz Island. I was around level 20 then. I remember death running through Dustwallow Marsh to get the flight path to Brackenwall Village where everyone was to meet that evening...then I didn't have enough money to fly out of there, so I just logged out there until it was time for the event. Even though I was level 20, I was still invited to the raid. There were at least four full Alliance raids and two full Horde raids on that tiny island. The server crashed hard, several times. It was awesome! I joined the guild a few days later.
OOC, I have made so many friends here--through chatting with them in the game, from other games, the camping trips and other meetups. I also have a wonderful husband and a beautiful son that I wouldn't have if I had never joined The Grim. :)
I was questing in the Barrens when I ran into Sammuel getting picked on by a bunch of ?? level Alliance. He said they knew him and they had a bone to pick with him, and that's why they were fighting with him.
Around the same time, there was an RP story by Grim members on the WoW TN forums called The King of Rats, if I remember the title correctly. As a conclusion to that part of the story, everyone, both Horde and Alliance, were invited to a battle on Alcaz Island. I was around level 20 then. I remember death running through Dustwallow Marsh to get the flight path to Brackenwall Village where everyone was to meet that evening...then I didn't have enough money to fly out of there, so I just logged out there until it was time for the event. Even though I was level 20, I was still invited to the raid. There were at least four full Alliance raids and two full Horde raids on that tiny island. The server crashed hard, several times. It was awesome! I joined the guild a few days later.
OOC, I have made so many friends here--through chatting with them in the game, from other games, the camping trips and other meetups. I also have a wonderful husband and a beautiful son that I wouldn't have if I had never joined The Grim. :)
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Skash_Bloodbringer
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Re: Six Years of The Grim (OOC Version)
I can honestly say I don't recall how Skash joined the Grim in the first place but oh well!
One of my earliest Grim memories is waaaaaaaaay back in the old MC days, when I was the guild armorsmith making all those wonderful FR pieces *twitch*
Anyway! Back then, I was still one of the main tanks for raids, and I still remember one encounter with Baron Geddon. The fight was going quite well until around 2/3rds of the way through when a random living bomb took out half the raid... went downhill from there until all that was left standing was me tanking him, a priest (Elajin I think his name was) and the baron, whose health you couldn't even see on the boss bar anymore! Guild chat was going nuts while we desperately tried to finish off the baron, and we did! Was an awesome fight!
One of my earliest Grim memories is waaaaaaaaay back in the old MC days, when I was the guild armorsmith making all those wonderful FR pieces *twitch*
Anyway! Back then, I was still one of the main tanks for raids, and I still remember one encounter with Baron Geddon. The fight was going quite well until around 2/3rds of the way through when a random living bomb took out half the raid... went downhill from there until all that was left standing was me tanking him, a priest (Elajin I think his name was) and the baron, whose health you couldn't even see on the boss bar anymore! Guild chat was going nuts while we desperately tried to finish off the baron, and we did! Was an awesome fight!