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[align=center][/align] [align=center][The Gold & Glory Newsletter][/align] [align=center]guess who is terrible at remembering newsletters?[/align] [align=center]Month Months of... February & March (2016).[/align] [align=justify]I am absolutely terrible at remembering to post these things. With so much going on with the Guild and whatnot, time flies and before you know it you have two months of newsletters and updates backlogged. Whoops. Anyhoo, let's get to the good stuff! [align=center] recruitment status update[/align] While Gold & Glory hasn't decided on an exact, official date to reopen its doors again, we can faithfully say this: Recruitment will be re-opening Soon™! We think we've got most everyone in the Guild pretty well settled by now and we're starting to hit our stride. So hopefully, within the next couple days, you'll be seeing a post go up announcing when our recruitment will re-open! That said, we're also looking at re-vamping our Recruitment and New Member Orientation process! When we re-open recruitment, we'll be sure to make everyone aware of those particular changes as well! [align=center] branch leaders appointed![/align] Finally, we've managed to pin down leaders for all of our branches within the Guild, and there's not a single soul amongst them that isn't just perfect for the job! So that said, I would like to announce our official roster of Branch Leaders! Bounty Hunting Branch: Klarimel Surtsthalsyn. Treasure Hunting Branch: Syerra Faolchu. Intelligence & Strategy Branch: Naoh Tayoon. Medical Branch: Akay'a Zhwan. Clerical Branch: Ryssmyna Syvinmhaswyn. Our fearless leaders will be meeting tonight to get all our apkallus in a row, and once the dust settles, we look forward to bringing the Guild even more structure and organization -- not to mention a whole host of new events to fill up the calendar! [align=center] community events[/align] Now, it's time for an update on our community events. As advertised during our last newsletter, G&G was planning on hosting a Valentione's Day Blind Date Auction & Mixer. Unfortunately, due to a number of real-life complications, we ended up having to cancel that event and instead spend our day celebrating Valentione's with a private reception for the recent wedding of Tsubatai Gharl and Chiyo Malaguld. But never a group to let such things get us down, we turned right back around and put together an ambitious Hatchingtide Egg Hunt event! We had an astounding nineteen total volunteers hiding out in the Dravanian Forelands passing out eggs and chocolates to Hatchingtide hunters, and though the participant turn out was lower than expected (likely due to scheduling conflicts), it seemed that everyone that participated really enjoyed the event. Not to mention the millions of gil worth of prizes that were handed out to our winners! As for what the future holds? We've not got plans set in stone yet, but I have heard whispers of an impending Gold & Glory Beach Festival sometime in the next few weeks.. Keep an ear out! [/align]

The Qulaan tribe is still very much alive and active! Some in-character updates... A shift of power in the tribal hierarchy has occurred! Former Tribal Leader Jaliqai has willingly abdicated her spot for personal reasons, and her cousin Saraghul now sits at the top. For those same personal reasons, Jaliqai herself now sits -- at least temporarily -- at the bottom of the social ladder. Not to mention that it appears that the tribe will soon be finding itself with a new member: not another long-lost Qulaani, but a certain displaced Iriq. OOC / Recruitment-wise, we're still sitting at semi-open. If you're interested in creating a Qulaani, please contact me OOCly beforehand so we can work it out. Likewise, the tribe is beginning to inch away from the strict rules of the past to keep its treasured bloodline and traditions alive for future generations. As such, the Qulaan tribe is potentially open to taking in non-Qulaani members. However, this really requires some talking and extensive RP, so if that's a route you're interested in, be sure to let me know!

Love this idea! Consider Jaliqai of the Qulaan tribe interested in participating in Heart & Home! (Might also nab a Merchant spot, but not sure at the moment. I'll let you know soon!)

No worries! Right now I'm hoping to maybe reopen around the end of March or beginning of April. But ultimately we'll have to wait and see! Sorry about that!

Just wanted to drop a quick line here to let everyone know that the Hunter's of Love Blind Date Auction & Mixer event has been canceled! Long story short, we've just had a number of pesky, annoying setbacks this month -- real life commitments eating up precious time, sicknesses of the event planners, and things along those lines -- that have set us too far behind schedule to still be able to pump out a quality, entertaining event for everyone. You know what they say: when it rains, it pours! Rather than stressing ourselves to death and still delivering a half-finished event that would go over like a lead balloon, we're choosing to cancel and just celebrate Valentione's Day as an FC. But never fear! Gold & Glory will be back in a few months' time with a Hatchingtide event that you'll definitely not want to miss!

Tentative time right now is 6PM PDT / 8PM CDT / 9PM EDT!

[align=center][/align] [align=center]HUNTERS OF LOVE: Blind Date Auction & Mixer! Valentione’s Event hosted by Gold & Glory Hunter’s Guild.[/align] It’s that time of year again when Gold & Glory is gearing up to hold its bi-monthly public holiday RP event! This month, the Guild will be hosting its first annual Valentione’s Day Event: Hunters of Love: A Blind Date Auction & Mixer! Date: February 26th, 2016. (Friday) Time: (Official event time TBA soon!) Location: Eastern La Noscea, Wineport. In this Blind Date Auction, we’ll be selling off items that are near and dear to the Guild’s most eligible* members to the highest bidders! Those interested will offer their gil to buy up these items and the lovingly** crafted dates, put together by the auctionees themselves, that go with them! But therein lies the catch: as the name of the event suggests, you’ll be bidding blind! Once all the items are sold, money’s traded hands, and the dust settles, your lovely hostesses will be announcing whose date each lucky winner has won! For those individuals that don’t like the idea of a little bit of guesswork and intrigue in their date auction, our first item up for bid for the night will be one gilded rose, which will allow the lucky winner to choose their date from all the assembled auctionees! A few things to keep in mind about this date auction: This auction will feature real, actual gil! Gold & Glory is officially saving for a future upgrade to a Large House to be able to bring bigger and better events to the community, and so all profits from the auction will go towards that goal and keeping future events going as well! Closer to time, hopefully a few days after Valentine’s Day proper, we’ll be posting a list of the individuals who are going to be up for bidding as well as some information about them and why you should try to figure out which item and date are theirs! Likewise, around the same time, we will also be posting a separate list of what the items / date hints are. So if you’re the type that would rather bid on the dates or items themselves instead of trying to go for a specific individual, this will interest you! Please be aware that these dates are not necessarily romantic in nature, and auctionees are not obligated to provide sexually-themed RP. The type and the limits to the date are expressly up to the judgment of the auctionee themselves. If it is brought to our attention that you have unduly pressured an auctionee into RP they are not comfortable with, they are not obligated to carry out their date with you and the bid will not be refunded. Immediately after the completion of the auction, we’ll be hanging around Wineport for a while longer for a Mixer! Talk with your fellow event-goers, mingle, mix, make a connection! Gold & Glory will be providing a holiday-themed menu of drinks and dishes again, as well as short in-character Tarot Card readings for both Couples and Singles***! We’re still a ways out from event day and so we’re still working on finalizing the final details. So we encourage you, if you’re at all interested, to keep your eyes peeled on posts and additions to this thread and/or updates on our FC tumblr -- for-gold-and-glory -- in the coming days! As soon as information is finalized, it will be made available! [align=center]Happy Valentione’s Day from us at Gold & Glory Hunter’s Guild![/align] * Gold & Glory does not guarantee that auctionees are all eligible singles. ** Love not guaranteed. *** Tentatively planning, pending members’ availability to do readings.

Just a quick update! As of today, February 7th, 2016, our Leadership has voted to temporarily close all recruitment instead of just recruitment for Bounty Hunter and Treasure Hunting branches. Now that we've got a decent sized group, we're going to work on getting everyone settled in and everything in working, running order. Note that if you've already talked to be prior to this post about applying, you're still welcomed to do so! We just won't be accepting any more applications for the time being, after those few apps that we were waiting on. Recruitment will reopen when we are all settled, but we can't give an exact time frame! If you're interested, you can still submit an app and we'll add it to the waiting list and review it when we reopen!

Not sure about the rest, but just chiming in to remind you that your friendly local Auri are not 'descended from', 'half', or in any other way related to dragons or voidsent! Those were just the inspirations that the developers took to design them, but there's no actual lore connection between them! c:

[align=center][/align] [align=center][The Gold & Glory Newsletter][/align] [align=center]growing stronger every day[/align] [align=center]Week Month of... January (2016).[/align] [align=justify]"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! [align=center] application procedure updates[/align] 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 Procedure™: 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! [align=center] recruitment updates[/align] 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! [align=center] ooc promotions[/align] 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! [align=center] hunters of love: a blind date auction![/align] 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 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! [/align]

I love this prompt. :'D Jaliqai Qulaan: Tribal lizardlady has broken babymaker, gets really angry, loses her family and friends, becomes an alcoholic, makes terrible decisions, un-becomes an alcoholic (sort of), moves, starts a company, and finds friends and family again. Unsurprisingly, babymaker still appears broken. Oh, and feelings.

...when you're creating a new Xaela and you don't jive with any of the existing named tribes, so you create your own. ...when what starts as a super simple head cannon for said player-made tribe steadily grows and evolves. ...when that growing idea leads you to spending a week doing research on other cultures and writing out an extension compendium of lore for the player-tribe you have created. ...when super small, inconsequential details come up in the course of casual RP and you have to stop and think really, really hard of a legitimate, character-developing story for why you added that detail. ...in fact, pretty much every small detail about your character has a deep and development-driven reason for existing, and you've probably written a drabble about it. a very detailed drabble. for what is literally just a very small detail that will probably never have any significant bearing on any RP ever.

[align=center]Awkwardly stuck in the middle, trying to figure it out.. ...aaaaand a dash of this. [/align]

Likewise, Team G&G may end up with a spot or two to duty finder. The event happened to fall at the same time as an OOC FC event of ours, which I didn't realized until earlier this week, and people may or may not be too intoxicated to make it. So they may be able to accommodate some people needing teams!

Just make the organization into something like The Ministry of Silly Walks, of the Order of the Regal Flan Enthusiasts. The humor of it was that the prompt is literally the basis of Jaliqai and Myna's interactions.

Been laughing at these at work today, and most have had me rolling for mostly inside joke reasons. But this one really got me because of how duh it is: "Jaliqai is the leader of an organization. Ryssmyna is their loyal second in command." .......yes. Thank you for the inspiration there, RP Generator.

Just happened to remember that I haven't posted an activity post in a while and we're due for one for this month! We're now up to eight total Qulaani characters: Jaliqai, Tsenxer, Maqali (Kaltia), Arukh, Saraghul, Sargerel, Nasyamar, and Dhargan. As of right now, recruitment can be considered to be semi-closed. Meaning that if you're interested in creating a Qulaani, you must contact me beforehand. Since we've only recently got this influx of new characters, we'd like to get settled with the little family we have -- but we're also still open to people that have really clear ideas for a character concept and background connections!

I'd also like to throw up the official Gold & Glory team up for the hunting event. We've got a lot of interest, so we will have all four team spots filled (unless something happens). And I will be on Team RedSteel personally, competing independently from the FC. (If that is okay!)

[align=center][/align] [align=center][The Gold & Glory Newsletter][/align] [align=center]a strong finish, a fresh beginning[/align] [align=center]Week of... Dec. 27th, 2015 - January 2nd, 2016.[/align] [align=justify]"But Jaliqai," you say. "You're late with this week's newsletter!" To which I say: ".......yes." All joking aside, this week has been super, super busy for everyone, and double that for Gold & Glory! Not only that, but I've decided to follow a slightly different newsletter schedule -- writing up the happenings of the week in hindsight towards its end, rather than writing about the previous week at the start of the next! That said, it's time to get on with it! Keep reading for details about our week! [align=center] changes to the branches[/align] In addition to taking on a heaping handful of new members -- more on that soon! -- we've shifted around our branch's name just a bit to be a little less corny a little more accurate as to what they do. As such, the changes are as follows. Hunters of Bounties (prev.) became, simply, the Bounty Hunting Branch. Hunters of Whispers (prev.) became, simply, the Intelligence & Strategy Branch. Hunters of Treasures (prev.) became, simply, the Treasure Hunting Branch. Hunters of Coin (prev.) became, simply, the Crafting & Mercantile Branch. No change to either the Medical Branch or Clerical Branch. Speaking of changes, we have a promotion (IC) to announce! Because of her hard work making sure that all the new Bounty Hunting branch recruits are up to snuff, Klarimel Surtsthalsyn has been promoted to Bounty Hunting Branch Leader! Congratulations, Klar! (Now please don't kill all our recruits!) [align=center] new members & recruitment[/align] Admittedly, we had to slack a little bit towards the beginning of the week in regards to recruitment, what with the final preparations for the Golden Gala eating up all of our time. However, as soon as the Gala finished, it was right back into recruitment we dove! This week, we ICly welcomed the following new members: Aeron Volkova -- Intelligence & Strategy Branch J'aeda Rhenli -- Treasure Hunting Branch Vexlu Dhoro -- Bounty Hunting Branch J'salha Khah -- Bounty Hunting Branch Tatsu Kaisuri -- Intelligence & Strategy Branch Ryanti Veanysus -- Intelligence & Strategy Branch Tyo Amariyo -- Bounty Hunting Branch In addition, we've seen two individuals pass their initial recruitment trial and be promoted to full-fledged, contract-signing members of the Guild: Ishex Huvomoix and Qadan Hotgo! We've still got another handful of recruits in the works OOCly, which we're steadily working through the list to get settled in with the FC. Likewise, if you yourself are interested in joining up with Gold & Glory Hunter's Guild, you can find our recruitment application HERE! [align=center] the golden gala: a glorious success![/align] On December 30th, we held our first official public event: The Golden Gala. To say that the even was an amazing success would be a vast understatement! People poured out of the wood works into the Gold Court for an evening of socializing, good food, and gift-stealing fun, and we couldn't have been more pleased with the overwhelming turn-out and show of support! We also had a survey going during the event to gather feedback to use when planning our next large scale event. I just wanted to share one piece of data that we received: [align=center][/align] All forty-two people the responded to the survey said that they had a great time, and we are absolutely humbled and thrilled to hear it! Seriously, everyone, we're over-the-moon that everyone seemed to have such a great time, because we definitely had fun putting it on for you! I also wanted to take a minute to congratulate some of our big winners from the evening! Gwyn Trahaern -- Wind-up Ifrit Minion! Reppu Hijiri -- Fat Cat Minion! Rido Kurisu -- Littlefoot Minion! Tywyll’ra Stumog -- Survey Grand Prize, Winner's Choice Art Commission! Alexaria Whiteraven -- Survey Runner Up, Chibi Commission! Y'dyalani Kyar -- Survey Runner Up, Chibi Commission! Finally, I want to give a special shout out and thanks to West O'hteco and the rest of Crescent FC for helping out with the event! It was a great relief to have some extra hands on board to serve guests, and West herself did an amazing job of engaging people for photographs -- sets of which you can see HERE and HERE! With that, our Golden Gala comes to a close, most assuredly to return next Starlight season! In the meantime, we've already begun preparation (well ahead of the fact, this time!) for our next big event: Valentione's Day! Keep your eyes peeled (and your gilpurses ready) for more details in the next few weeks! [align=center] the bountiful chest is hiring![/align] Finally, we've got one last announcement to make: The Bountiful Chest is looking for tavern staff! You don't have to join the FC, and we don't expect you to center your whole RP life around us. But we are looking for people who want to help us make the tavern feel more alive and who will assist us on our incoming Tavern Nights and other Public RP events! If you're at all interested, check out Ryssmyna's flier HERE. [align=center] happy heavensturn from gold & glory![/align] Gold & Glory hopes that everyone had a Glorious Heavensturn, and that the year to come is even more Bountiful than the last! [/align]

Just wanted to post and add that people interested don't necessarily have to join the Gold & Glory FC to be a server at the tavern. (Though they're certainly more than welcomed to!) If you already have another FC, we can just pass you one of our IC/OOC link pearls. Like Myna said, we'll be doing Tavern Nights in the near future that will require some additional staff to help. Not to mention that we'll be doing even more public rp events like the Golden Gala where we will need servers. (Heck, we're already planning our Valentines event!) Even failing that, anyone who is interested is more than welcome to swing by our house for RP at any time, but we don't expect you to hang out there 24/7. We generally have a couple people at least flitting about, so RP isn't hard to come by -- especially when there is alcohol involved. Just give a call out over the LS when you want to RP to let people know you'll be behind the bar.

[align=center]Golden Gala Survey Art Raffle (Our winners have been chosen!)[/align] [align=justify]Thank you to everyone that not only attended our Golden Gala, but double thank you to everyone who took the time to answer our survey with their opinions on the event and such! We really, really appreciate the feedback as this was the first public event that Myna and I have ever put together -- and super last minute, at that! -- so this will be valuable in putting together even better events for everyone in the future! That said, we've put everyone who answered the survey and provided a name into the pool and randomized to pick our three raffle winners! So without further adieu... FIRST PLACE . . . . . Tywyll'ra Stumog -- Winner's Choice! SECOND PLACE . . . . . Alexaria Whiteraven -- One super adorable chibi! THIRD PLACE . . . . . Y'dyalani Kyar -- One super adorable chibi! (Proof of fairness screenshot located here!) Congratulation to our winners! Myna will be in contact with you about claiming your prizes. And with that said.. We're officially putting this year's Golden Gala to rest! It was a huge success, especially with the help of Crescent FC in serving, screenshots, and promotion, and we are super glad that everyone enjoyed themselves! Needless to say, the Golden Gala will be returning next year with even more mouth-water food emotes and hilarious White Oliphant prizes! But until then..[/align] [align=center]We hope everyone has a Golden & Glorious New Year![/align]

[align=center]Roughly two hours until event time, and Gold & Glory will be ready to open up the Golden Gala for all![/align]

[align=center]A bump to not only remind people that the Gala is tomorrow, but also.. ..to reveal our menu of food and drink to be served at the Gala![/align] [align=center](Click for the full-sized versions!)[/align] [align=center]http://puu.sh/mdeZ9/14e7aa2507.png[/img] http://puu.sh/mdf8Z/523fc44690.jpg[/img][/align]

We're totally fine with alts! It's our goal to try and keep FC storylines from focusing or relying too heavily on one person or any small group, anyway, so it shouldn't be a problem at all if you switch between alts!

Quoting you all to let you guys know that the list of gift descriptions is up! Take a look at the post above this one when you get a chance so that you have an idea going into the event which gift(s) you're interested in going after!