Echoes of Chaos

This weekend Ruebella, Grokthul, Salindy, Illiam and Goldee visited Ann Arbor’s Zingerman’s Creamery to learn how to make mozzarella. We made 4 things of mozzarella total; 2 batches of fresh mozzarella, mozzarella with myrtle wrapped around it and the last one was a burrata. We stopped in the bakery to get some bread to go with all the cheese we are taking home.

Next we went to Krazy Jim’s Blimpy Burger for some food. Illiam got a ten patty burger! The onion rings were amazing and were a favorite for everyone!

Monday nights are our “Help a Lowbie Night”.  Last Monday myself, Illiam, Islodalm and Monatelo assisted our lowbie friend Blackdawn through Hellfire Ramparts and Blood Furnace. It went pretty quick and was fun just to goof around and smack easy things around. Blackdawn is getting used to working in a group after soloing for so long but he did very well.

Last Sunday we ran an impromptu game of Deadmines Dress Up following the rules on Bellweather’s post. Ruebella, Grokthul, Illiam, Sumiss and myself all stripped down and ran though the instance picking up and wearing clothing as we got it.

I did just horrible. I didn’t get a single thing I could wear until we got to the pirates so I was naked and punching things for most the instance. At least my hand to hand skill leveled nicely. Everyone else did pretty well. Rue and Grok both had 5 points, Summis had 6 and Illiam was our winner with 8 pieces of wearables.

What to do when you’re in Deadmine’s gear and standing around in Westfall? Why go attack the Alliance town of course! Above is the picture of our attack on the guards. I can’t imagine what the little ally lowbies thought of half naked Horde 70s hanging around. It didn’t take long for others to come and flag and we had to put on our actual gear to fight them.

Overall I think it was fun. Next time I think we should to Wailing Caverns because, as Rue had said, there’s a lot more things that drop in there.

We have the echoes google group and I think it is working fairly well and I’d like to keep it if possible as google groups aren’t blocked at work and echoesofchaos.com is. Allows me to still chat with the group while at work which is great for me, personally. It also doesn’t require anyone to go to a web site to keep up, the posting comes to you. That is good for people who simply don’t want to take the time to go read a guild web site which has been a problem for some members in the past.

The thing that’s really lacking with the google group is being able to brag about ourselves. The ability to show off pictures/screenshots of cool things we’ve done (or in Kenny’s case, show some embarrassing videos). Things like the picture of us in Hellfire wearing matching outfits, when we hit 70, guild parties at Sharon’s house etc. Things that should be celebrated and we might want to look in on again. I really wanted to create a place that we could put up pictures and stories of things we’ve done. That’s why the Echoes of Chaos site is now dressed up like a blog.

Anyone in the guild who wants to contribute to the new set up or is just curious and wants to play around is totally welcome to. You’ll need to create an account and I’ll give you rights to post your own stories and pictures. Don’t be shy! I will probably end up contributing the most but it’s more fun if stories are told from other points of view, too. And I love screenshots! Post about anything you want? Got a new purple? Found a new cool pet? Whatever you want to share, share it here with photos!

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Hello Everyone!

The latest news is that the Echoes site keeps getting hacked. Each time somethinge else is stinking wrong with it and being perfectly honest is not really worth my time and money to keep up.

I’m proposing a usergroup to keep in touch since the only part of the site that was consistantly utilized was the forums. So feel free to join this group and post your funnies, what you’re up to, photos and anything else you’d like to share.

I’ll make sure we keep all our photos and such from the old site. If there is anything in particular you would like, just let me know. I only entered email addresses I could find from the users in the old site. If anyone is missing feel free to forward the invitation to them.
Thanks!
Goldy

Here is the group’s description:

A Google group for discussions for the friends and members of the gaming guild Echoes of Chaos so everyone can keep in touch. The group name is Echoes of Chaos (EoC) and the url is http://groups.google.com/group/echoesofchaos/.