The Short Straw

Posted by Stropp on October 28, 2006

At the beginning of the year I was playing World of Warcraft on the Windrunner server in an Alliance guild. I was having a lot of fun, the guildies were great people, and the guild was a decent friendly environment. There were a few other Aussies in the guild, but unfortunately not that many. So consequently, it was really hard to get a guild group together in the evenings, an evening raid was nigh on impossible, as was any chance of doing a BG.

Then at the beginning of the year a difficult decision was made by a few of the Aussies to come across to an Oceanic server in order to be able to do some of the things that we were unable to do on the American server. For something different, we decided to swap sides and play Horde, thus my friends Leper and Solese, and I started our characters on Khaz’goroth. We also decided to form a small guild and got the requisite number of sign ups, and The Ministry of Offence was born. Since I registered the guild, I became the Warlord (Guild Master.)

A couple of months later work, and some personal projects were taking a lot of my time, and I handed over the leadership to Leper. Leper and Solese did a marvelous job with the guild, recruiting good people, and eventually getting our membership to just over 200 accounts. (Since then the number had dropped a little, with people leaving for other guilds, and with a bunch of members departing to form their own guild.) They got us into the end game raids with alliances with other guilds, and made sure it all ran as smoothly as possible.

The other day though tragedy struck with a death in the family, and my friends made a decision to reevaluate some of their priorities and take a six month break from World of Warcraft. I sincerly wish them well in their decision and hope that whatever path they go down works out for them. They have the support of all the officers and members of the Ministry on this, and know that they can pop in on the forums (or in game) at anytime and they will be welcome.

In the meantime it was decided by the officers that we should have a new Warlord. Maybe I should have insisted on a /roll instead of a vote, but by the time the meeting was over I was the new guild master. So here I am holding the short straw. I have to admit to being a bit overwhelmed by this turn of events. It did happen pretty quickly. Just like life I guess. It can sneak up on you and whack you over the noggin by a two by four. Since the event though I feel good about this. I’ve got a lot to learn, and a new challenge. This should be fun.

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