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November 28, 2001
The Guild that keeps on!
Zanthor, known to some of you as our own “Travis,” posted the following tribute to the BS&R guild at the Online Gaming Comments and News, here.
- The Guild that keeps on!
As time goes by, games come and games go, but faster yet, the guilds within change, come and go, with every day another rises and another falls. In a twist of irony, I ran across Nobody the other day, and due to some events today, I decided to look up the old Britannia Search and Rescue website. Sure enough, it was still there. It's news looks to be updated monthly, and the spirit lives on, the guild will always be part of Britannia!
As I look down the site, and browse thru it, I find myself thinking back to the fun we all had back in "the day". Sure, it wasn't always fun, and sometimes we just got had, but it was always together, and always as friends.
I looked down the list, and saw familiar names, names like Calvin, the man who got me into the guild, for his noble actions in the Cove Orc Fort proved to me that he was a man of action (And a pretty good PVPer! We smoked that box bomber!) Names like Duncan Idaho, the nutcase who wore nothing but plate pants and carried newbie reagents so the PK's wouldn't get anything from him, James Ensor, a mage of some renown, even thou he and Calvin shared an account at the time, Black Lung, a man who was in BS&R and had helped me many times, before I ever knew who or what BS&R was about, Mr. Christiansen was another who had bailed me out of many jams....
PapaMan, Big Bub, MasterOfPuppets, Archangel, Jarlaxle, Hugh, Lucina Juno, and countless others... All comrads in arms, all who cringed with me at the cry of Corp Por, and who charged into battle to defend those less prepared.
We died often, we won more often, we drove the scourge from the dungeons and helped those who we could. It was a glorious time, but it was plagued with strife, murder and blood.
Would I go back and do it again? Damn skippy! I'd not give up these times, it was fun beyond belief, yet at the same time, there is a greater peace of knowing that the worst you have to worry about is an Ogre Lord, when you are hunting them!
But it all boils down to what really makes a game great, and guilds like BS&R are a HUGE part of that.
To those who wear the Orange, we salute you!
Travis T. Tailor
Grandmaster Mage
Travis removes his tall straw hat and salutes in fond memory of times past, and a glimmer in his eye of times to come.
And maybe one of these days, I'll write the Bio of Travis T. Tailor... it's a good one!
Posted by Keith at 12:00 PM