It's that time again when we recognize someone for going above and beyond in contributions to the life of the guild. There were quite a few nominations this month but the officers have decided to recognize


She was nominated for being very friendly, very funny, very helpful and very knowledgeable. From running low levels through material to help them level, from looking up answers to questions, for keeping us in raiding flasks and for making us laugh even when TeamSpeak makes her sound like she's talking to us from the moon, Drua is an asset to the guild. Congratulations.

In recognition, you may pick one item from this list:  50g; one frostweave bag; one titansteel bar; one arctic fur; one crusader orb; one frozen orb; one vanity pet from the stash; 2 5-man runs of your choice; a stack of health or mana pots or buff food; a free enchant on anything; or one guild-paid repair bill after a raid.

Thanks Drua for being the wonderful person you are. Congratulations again on your recognition.

G.

I've gotten behind in posting.

We have a new officer. After a week of pondering, I decided to accept Kaitrine's offer to become Membership Officer. Her primary duty, which she's jumped into with both feet, is to make sure the roster is up-to-date. She reviews everyone's join date and makes sure alts are matched with mains. You can help by opening up your character pane in the roster and marking your mains and alts. Unfortunately, that pane is limited in what can be put there and we like to know what professions you have, too. If, as you level an alt, you decide you like one toon more than another, Kait's the person who can make Character B into your main on the roster. We have ranks for everyone, even if you don't have an authenticator. Without an authenticator, you have no bank access other than deposit. Kait has the same privileges as any other officer. If you have questions or concerns about anything we do in SD, your officers can assist you. You don't need to wait for me to log on as long as there is an officer on. In case you've forgotten, SD officers are:  Amaera, Kaitrine, Junas, Minmax, Superkind and Totorodoo.

Welcome Kaitrine.

G.

Before going to bed, I go through FB and WOW.com to see if there's anything interesting. WOWHead posted the following...



Okay folks. If you do NOT have ZG, speak up so we can get it for you. No attunement needed and it's a piece of cake to run it with as few as 5 people, the whole thing. In fact, if we have folks on this weekend, we can run it. In theory, you are to down all the bosses before hitting Hakkar, but I wonder if that's necessary now. We will need to run ZG as often as we can for those of us who would love one of these mounts. We've been doing it for 2 years and we haven't seen these drop.

This is kind of sad. I enjoyed learning this one and it's still fun to run. So, speak up if you need it. It's days are numbered.

G.

starts tonight. Maoohm is in Loch Modan at the base of the dam waiting for all of you to come take your turn at jumping. The festivies start at 8:30 p.m. server time, but I'll be on earlier and we can get started earlier if there is interest.

Remember:

• Only ONE of your toons can jump. Decide which one.
• Go only when told to. Please log onto TeamSpeak for your cue or wait for someone to let you know I'm ready. You must give me a couple minutes to process and store any videos from prior jumpers.
• You got ONE shot at this so make it a good one.
• Non-guild members, including horde friends, are welcome to come and enter a jump in the contest. Jumps will be public and everyone will be able to vote for their top three jumps.
• This is an all levels event.

If we have enough people on, we can always run something after we jump.

For those who can't make it tonight, Maoohm will be in Loch Modan on Friday and Saturday nights. No further video taping of jumps will occur after 9 p.m. on Saturday, September 4th.

Come have some absolutely ridiculous fun.

G.

As you know, the world is about to change. Places we know

will have their looks forever altered.

To mark the end of what we know as "vanilla" or "classic" WOW, Spectacular Death will hold a truly spectacular event,


beginning Tuesday, August 31st, from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. server time. One at a time, you'll jump off the front of Stonewrought Dam while I video your jump. Maoohm will be at the bottom of the dam for resurrection purposes. Maoohm will also be at the dam on Friday, September 3rd from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. and on Saturday, September 4th from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. server time. No videoing will be done after 9 p.m. on the 4th.

After everyone has jumped, all the videos will be posted to a folder in our contest section of the web site. These will be available to be viewed by the public. In another thread, people will vote for the best jump. The three top vote getters win prizes. 1st prize is 75g, a glacial bag and a vanity pet from our stash. 2nd prize is 50g and your choice of a glacial bag or a vanity pet. 3rd prize is 25g and your choice of a frostweave bag or a vanity pet.

Videos will be posted by Sunday, September 5th and voting will start on Monday, September 6th. Voting continues until I log off on Saturday evening, September 11th. The winners will be announced on Sunday, September 12th.


Additional Rules:  You enter only ONE of your toons. Decide which one looks the best and go with that.
                             Come during designated jumping hours. No taping of jumps will be done at any other time.
                             Wait your turn and jump when indicated. I have to condense the videos and store them in a separate folder. Please be patient.
                             Officers reserve the right to refuse participation to anyone being disruptive. If you are in Spectacular Death, disrupting this event is grounds for demotion.
                             Our horde friends coming will not be provided a rez unless they can bring someone capable of doing that. I suggest they do so. It's a long run back. Trust me on this.
                             You have ONE JUMP. PERIOD. There are no "do-overs".

The winners will be those with the most votes so figure out a way to make your jump memorable. I will be inviting a variety of non-guild people.

What's the point to this? Um...do we NEED a point?

Any questions? Talk to me or, for those horde reading this, send an in-game letter to Heilandcoo.

Gimm