Mergers

This past Wednesday, I called a guild meeting to discuss a few things. One of which was the 25 man raid and one of which was the general attitude of everyone. All in all I think things went well and we seemed to get our point across. I supposed only time will tell as we are running what appears to be the last of our joint venture with Shattered Dreams this Sunday.

I'm kind of disappointed about that, but Sacred Pack has some wonderful opportunities arising and I'm looking forward to the future. I just hate leaving our friends behind. But what can I say? Seems they, well several of them, don't want to put forth the effort that raiding requires...hard core or not.

I won't go into detail because I don't want anyone to have a bad image of Shattered Dreams, they really are a wonderful group of people and we'll continue to do things with them. Heck, I talked to Mourningside for quite a while last night and he and I decided we're going to watch a chick flick and see who's the bigger sap. Yea, don't ask. :-P

In any case, merger, yep...topic of choice.

So Wednesday right before the meeting, Nakar asked me who Gherig was. Well, kind of odd, but I told him he was a friend of Teacc and Zara's. He said that he wanted to talk to me or Kroff but that any officer would do. I didn't know this at the time, but he was trying to catch us before our meeting so we could talk about it then. He wasn't online when I got on though and didn't get on til after the meeting had taken place and Raid 2 was underway.

But he did eventually log on and immediately whispered me. Asked if I had heard he wanted to talk to me and I said yea, but I had no clue what about. He wanted to talk in vent so we both hopped on and he dove right in. He explained that his guild was made up of about 10 people, all buddies of his that he had been gaming with for about 10 years. He said they knew that they weren't going to get any bigger and they were wondering if we would be interested in taking them in. Not exactly a merger, but more of a absorbing I guess. He told me they were all former hard core EQ raiders and they knew their stuff. Went down the list of what classes and specs he had and reassured me again they were great guys that just wanted to raid. Zara had told him we were having some trouble with our current arrangement and he thought now would be a good time to approach us about it.

I was kind of taken aback at the offer. I mean, this was the guy that turned me down for a permanent ten man spot in my raid for dps or healing. I honestly thought we had done something to upset him. But here he was, offering to bring ten guys into our fold with no other requests than to raid. Now were we bigger, I would be hesitant to bring them in as we might not possibly have spots for them. But since we are in this situation with Shattered Dreams...ten guys is half of the raid. Ten guys would give us 25 raiders for a full guild raid.

Awesome!

So I talked to all my officers and it was unanimous...we're all for it. Spoke with Gherig last night and he said to give him a week or so to make sure all of his people were good with it as some were on Spring Break and he would get back to me.

/sigh of content

In a little over a weeks time it's possible Sacred Pack could have a full guild raid with some of our friends to fill in the missing spots. I'm extremely excited. The future looks bright.