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[The Gold & Glory Newsletter]
growing stronger every day
Week Month of... January (2016).
"But Jaliqai," you say. "You're late with this week's newsletter! Again!"
To which I say: ".......yes. again."
But we've a reason for that! Simply put, as much as we would like to keep putting out weekly newsletters, they just eat up way too much time that we think we could be funneling into others things -- like fun events and RP, for starters! As such, I've decided to bump these babies up to monthly reports coming up towards the end of one month / beginning of the next.
And with that being said, let's get right to it! We've got a lot of ground to cover!
Since opening our doors, we've been consistently picking up new members left and right -- to a degree we clearly hadn't anticipated! As such, we've had to change our recruitment process just a little bit. Before, we would ask that you apply to the FC website and then we would contact you ASAP about setting up a standard recruitment RP. However, much like the idea of the weekly newsletters.. While it is a great idea conceptually, it was such a time sink that we didn't have time to get to other organizational and RP obligations that we had to fulfill.
As such, this is our New & Improved Recruitment Procedureâ„¢:
1.) Go to our website and read over the information there. Most importantly, make sure you read our General OOC Code of Conduct and our new Chat Moderation & 'Safe Word' Policies.
2.) Once you feel like you know enough about us and our expectations to know you want to apply, fill out our Recruitment Application. It is broken down into a slightly expanded OOC questionnaire, as well as an IC section. And it is here where things have really changed.
We now offer new applicants two options for getting both OOC and ICly recruited into the Guild ASAP, as well as keeping the officers' schedules relatively freed up from the timesink and monotony of the same ol' so-I-saw-your-flier-and-want-an-interview RP five times a week.
The first option is Fast Track Recruitment, where you will complete a short in-character interview with an NPC who will jot down your responses and ICly pass them off to Leadership for review. Once your application is OOCly accepted, you can ICly assume that your application was accepted as well.
For people who have more complex ideas of how they want to get involved with Gold & Glory, we also offer the Recruitment RP option. You just tell us a bit about what sort of scenario you had in mind for how your character could end up involved with us, a bit about your availability, and we'll try to work out a time to RP that out with you ASAP!
So far, we're happy to say that these options seem to be working out great for us being able to get people into the RP scene with us quickly while Myna and I aren't constantly feeling overwhelmed, scheduling a handful of RP interviews each week. Everyone wins!
As I've said, Gold & Glory has been growing exponentially since we opened our doors. In particular, two of our branches have seen a lot of interest: The Bounty Hunting branch and the Treasure Hunting branch. Meanwhile, other branches like Medical and Clerical haven't been seeing the same growth.
With that in mind, we will be temporarily halting all recruitment of individuals who wish to be placed into the Bounty Hunting and/or Treasure Hunting branches so that the current members of those branches can settle and find their footing. You're still welcomed to apply to the FC under these branches. Just understand that you'll be placed on a waiting list until they reopen in, hopefully, a couple of weeks. The only exception to this wait list are currently personal friends of existing FC members, branch swaps of current members, and the alts of current members.
The Bounty Hunting and Treasure Hunting branches' waitlist will begin on Saturday, February 6th, 2016 @ 11:59PM Central US Time. Currently, it is unknown when it will reopen, but plan for at least a couple weeks of closure with potential re-opening around March.
Meanwhile, we're really looking to push for more recruitment into our Medical branch! Right now we've just got Akay'a Zhwan as our very talented Branch Leader, plus a few other characters preparing to branch-swap. But as we start taking on more and more jobs, we'll be taking on more and more injuries. So whether your character is an alchemical / traditional healer, an aetheric healer, a field/battle medic, etc., we would be absolutely delighted to have you!
We would like to take a moment to announce two OOC promotions within the FC: Tyo Amariyo and Tsubatai Gharl will be taking up their new mantles as official Event Planners / DMs for Gold & Glory! They've already been great and proactive about working with us to get the ball rolling on figuring out systems for us to use and getting plotlines rolling, so we're all really looking forward to working with them and seeing what they bring to the table!
With the success that was the Golden Gala behind us now, we've ever got our eyes on the future. The future, of course, being Valentione's Day where Gold & Glory will be hosting the first (hopefully!) annual Hunters of Love Blind Date Auction open RP event!
Since we're never ones to follow the standard formula for events, you can expect things to work fairly differenlyt for this auction. Unlike normal date auctions where you know exactly who you're bidding on, this auction will have an exciting element of surprise! Instead of bidding on the auctionees themselves, you'll be bidding on items near and dear to their hearts that they've secretly put up to represent themselves in some form or fashion, and the date they are offering.
So, got your eyes on a certain Gold & Glory member that you want to spend some time with? Better be figuring out exactly what their item is! But if you don't want to leave it to chance, well.. Rumor has it that we will have one single Gilded Rose up for auction to start off the evening, the winning bidder of which will be able to pick their date directly!
This date auction will be using real gil, and we will be expecting payment up front. Refunds will only be offered on a case by case basis if it is shown that a <HUNT> member has not fulfilled their end of the date bargain (without having good cause, i.e. the buyer attempting to coerce or pressure them into unwanted ERP, etc). All proceeds will go back to the Gold & Glory coffers for our Large House Dream fund so that we can provide our own venue for future community RP events, as well as prizes and costs for putting on said events!
After the date auction's conclusion, we will be having a mixer / social in Wineport, followed afterwards by a more casual after party back at the Bountiful Chest. More details about the event as a whole will be released in the near future, so Please Look Forward To It!
To which I say: ".......yes. again."
But we've a reason for that! Simply put, as much as we would like to keep putting out weekly newsletters, they just eat up way too much time that we think we could be funneling into others things -- like fun events and RP, for starters! As such, I've decided to bump these babies up to monthly reports coming up towards the end of one month / beginning of the next.
And with that being said, let's get right to it! We've got a lot of ground to cover!
application procedure updates
Since opening our doors, we've been consistently picking up new members left and right -- to a degree we clearly hadn't anticipated! As such, we've had to change our recruitment process just a little bit. Before, we would ask that you apply to the FC website and then we would contact you ASAP about setting up a standard recruitment RP. However, much like the idea of the weekly newsletters.. While it is a great idea conceptually, it was such a time sink that we didn't have time to get to other organizational and RP obligations that we had to fulfill.
As such, this is our New & Improved Recruitment Procedureâ„¢:
1.) Go to our website and read over the information there. Most importantly, make sure you read our General OOC Code of Conduct and our new Chat Moderation & 'Safe Word' Policies.
2.) Once you feel like you know enough about us and our expectations to know you want to apply, fill out our Recruitment Application. It is broken down into a slightly expanded OOC questionnaire, as well as an IC section. And it is here where things have really changed.
We now offer new applicants two options for getting both OOC and ICly recruited into the Guild ASAP, as well as keeping the officers' schedules relatively freed up from the timesink and monotony of the same ol' so-I-saw-your-flier-and-want-an-interview RP five times a week.
The first option is Fast Track Recruitment, where you will complete a short in-character interview with an NPC who will jot down your responses and ICly pass them off to Leadership for review. Once your application is OOCly accepted, you can ICly assume that your application was accepted as well.
For people who have more complex ideas of how they want to get involved with Gold & Glory, we also offer the Recruitment RP option. You just tell us a bit about what sort of scenario you had in mind for how your character could end up involved with us, a bit about your availability, and we'll try to work out a time to RP that out with you ASAP!
So far, we're happy to say that these options seem to be working out great for us being able to get people into the RP scene with us quickly while Myna and I aren't constantly feeling overwhelmed, scheduling a handful of RP interviews each week. Everyone wins!
recruitment updates
As I've said, Gold & Glory has been growing exponentially since we opened our doors. In particular, two of our branches have seen a lot of interest: The Bounty Hunting branch and the Treasure Hunting branch. Meanwhile, other branches like Medical and Clerical haven't been seeing the same growth.
With that in mind, we will be temporarily halting all recruitment of individuals who wish to be placed into the Bounty Hunting and/or Treasure Hunting branches so that the current members of those branches can settle and find their footing. You're still welcomed to apply to the FC under these branches. Just understand that you'll be placed on a waiting list until they reopen in, hopefully, a couple of weeks. The only exception to this wait list are currently personal friends of existing FC members, branch swaps of current members, and the alts of current members.
The Bounty Hunting and Treasure Hunting branches' waitlist will begin on Saturday, February 6th, 2016 @ 11:59PM Central US Time. Currently, it is unknown when it will reopen, but plan for at least a couple weeks of closure with potential re-opening around March.
Meanwhile, we're really looking to push for more recruitment into our Medical branch! Right now we've just got Akay'a Zhwan as our very talented Branch Leader, plus a few other characters preparing to branch-swap. But as we start taking on more and more jobs, we'll be taking on more and more injuries. So whether your character is an alchemical / traditional healer, an aetheric healer, a field/battle medic, etc., we would be absolutely delighted to have you!
ooc promotions
We would like to take a moment to announce two OOC promotions within the FC: Tyo Amariyo and Tsubatai Gharl will be taking up their new mantles as official Event Planners / DMs for Gold & Glory! They've already been great and proactive about working with us to get the ball rolling on figuring out systems for us to use and getting plotlines rolling, so we're all really looking forward to working with them and seeing what they bring to the table!
hunters of love: a blind date auction!
With the success that was the Golden Gala behind us now, we've ever got our eyes on the future. The future, of course, being Valentione's Day where Gold & Glory will be hosting the first (hopefully!) annual Hunters of Love Blind Date Auction open RP event!
Since we're never ones to follow the standard formula for events, you can expect things to work fairly differenlyt for this auction. Unlike normal date auctions where you know exactly who you're bidding on, this auction will have an exciting element of surprise! Instead of bidding on the auctionees themselves, you'll be bidding on items near and dear to their hearts that they've secretly put up to represent themselves in some form or fashion, and the date they are offering.
So, got your eyes on a certain Gold & Glory member that you want to spend some time with? Better be figuring out exactly what their item is! But if you don't want to leave it to chance, well.. Rumor has it that we will have one single Gilded Rose up for auction to start off the evening, the winning bidder of which will be able to pick their date directly!
This date auction will be using real gil, and we will be expecting payment up front. Refunds will only be offered on a case by case basis if it is shown that a <HUNT> member has not fulfilled their end of the date bargain (without having good cause, i.e. the buyer attempting to coerce or pressure them into unwanted ERP, etc). All proceeds will go back to the Gold & Glory coffers for our Large House Dream fund so that we can provide our own venue for future community RP events, as well as prizes and costs for putting on said events!
After the date auction's conclusion, we will be having a mixer / social in Wineport, followed afterwards by a more casual after party back at the Bountiful Chest. More details about the event as a whole will be released in the near future, so Please Look Forward To It!
