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FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 2003
The End : Farewells - Caddorin
We all had big goals and dreams when we started FR, it seemed easy to do, new levels, similar people, more hp/ac/mana, but unfortunately, dreams are unreachable sometimes. The biggest problem with new guilds, I've come to learn, is to develop a good solid player base, FC/FR, never really had one. To kill "X" uber mob, you need usually 24 of the right classes with good gear, or in newer guilds, probably 30-36. FC had just about 28-32, FR had 25ish, then later 18ish, then 10ish. We never got the solid player base we needed and even with what knowledge the officers had to kill "X" uber, it doesn't matter, you need bodies, bodies we didn't have.

FR got up to just about NToV level at our peak, but sadly, that peak lasted for about 3 days, before our numbers dwindled down to nothing. Getting hardcore players, people who actively log on is difficult, to those guilds who have good player bases that are relatively new, I salute you and your ability to perservere even through the hardships of dealing with lack of numbers. Really, the two guilds with whom I have the most respect for that are relatively new are Stinkio's Nocturnal Soul and Dalcos' Rising of Light. They stuck it through and got pretty big, they found the right players and eventually grew up, my luck however, isn't like that unfortunately.

So yeh, again, FR is only but a passing memory on the server e'ci, very few will remember who we were, but, regardless, those who do and to those whom I worked with everyday, thank you and good luck. I will be moving on from server e'ci, my work here is done, I no longer have the patience and will to work with such a crowded server, with so many guilds of equal levels on different tiers that just makes life nearly impossible.

I thank those who stuck it out to the very end and to those that left earlier, I apologize that FR was never able to fulfil your wishes. And now, I bid you all Adieu.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2003
Growing Pains - Caddorin
It's been awhile since I last updated, mostly because I'm a lazy bum. In the past 3 weeks or so, we've killed Vaniki 2x, Velk/Lord Bob again, Servitor a few times, farmed ToV a bit, Va`Dyn again and other crap.

We're right now in the midst of trying to weed out the good from the bad. Being a new guild and while being "Final Companions Resurrected" we hardly have any old FC. Celestial Tempest after they died went to FC, so we had a good crew of 58+, but FR is a half dozen of FC as officers and the rest are a bunch of people that we've come to know rather well and done a lot of stuff with.

We grew rather fast, FR that is, but I assumed it was too good to be true. About 2 weeks ago, we attempted Ikatiar the Venom, after having killed Velketor flawlessly with 20ish and Vaniki after 3 gates (/rude). We had everything set up perfect, it was getting late, but we were on the grind and we were all awake and set. But, shit happens unfortunately, we got Ikatiar single after having attempted to pull him for about 1 hour, but our puller stood up accidently and Ikatiar pathed out due to "Blood aggro" and basically aggroed a whole section of NToV we weren't expecting and we died, fast. Very fast. 30 people dead in say... 15 seconds or less. After this happened, our activity roster became that of crap, people stopped logging in, whatever. So yeh, we lost a good portion of members, but now, we're growing up again, more difficultly now, but more cautious also.

Gone forever are those loot whores and self-centered players. We got a good group of people working together to try to achieve what we all want to hit, working from scratch to NToV and later on Emp/VT or something. It's not going to take a day or 1 week to get this all to happen, but it will damned be sure that this will happen faster than what FC did. We'll be in North clearing it all minus Vulak Ring within 3 months or less.

It's not going to be easy or fast, but we're going to do it and we're looking to get anyone who wants to be apart of something that wasn't "uber" to begin with. Something that required LOTS of work to get that far. If you're looking to join our ranks, to be FR, to have a tag and to be damn proud of the fact that we do stuff legit and don't zerg shit, come learn more about us, raid with us and if you're wanting and we're wanting, join us.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 01, 2003
2 Bottles of Beer and 1 Bottle of Whine - Moving up yo~ - Caddorin @ 02:16 PST
It takes some guilds 1 year to make a dent in NToV, it takes other guilds 6 months to make a dent in NToV, it took FC 4 months to kill Ikatiar and Eashen, it took FR less than 1 month to get Eashen of the Sky to 35%. You're talking 28 people up at 2:15 AM PST and mind you, we're a EST guild mostly and we don't have half our raiding crew online. Double boxers, caffeine and lots of patience got us this far and we're not going to stop.


That's our mark, you'll see this guy's corpse soon.

Had a pretty nice few days, farmed Ssra Temple, got some Emp Key progression and finished up one Ssra Bane weapon. We found Prae up and this time Prae had some good stuff to show... :


Grats Mooni on her new hammer.

Also found Servitor of Luclin up so we killed him FC Style, 7 Adds, 17 people, 2 clerics, dead SoL, your new screenshot bit:

The Va`Dyn finally spawned and we took him out rather painlessly other than the ridiculous beginning pull in which I tried to pull Va`Dyn with 8000 Ping, thanks UCSD connection (/gofuk) and I got pwned and there was a nice little train too ^_^ (/wave 15 rocks). Also, Insanity Crawler is a bitch, period. Every single time we're about to engage him, that bastard despawns, you're ours very soon mr. crawler. Soon.


So yeh, we've been building up on strength, farming TOV and Ssra Temple, knocking on velks' Lord Bob everytime he's up and just other crap. You'll be seeing more screens of a lot of new mobs soon. Very soon.

TehBazaar


MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 2003
Velketor's Labrynth Meets FR - Caddorin @ 16:23 PST
Went to Velketor's Labrynth this weekend and found Lord Bob and Velketor up, so we gathered the troops and took down both mobs. Loot was pretty crappy, but both kills were FR firsts.

Along with feats and accomplishments, we also have the idiotic times of our gameplaying or rather "interesting" times.

TehBazaar

Oh well, I tried ;p.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2003
Vindicator and Doomshade Dead! - Caddorin @ 11:19 PST
Got Vindicator and Doomshade dead this weekend. Both kills were near flawless when we killed the mob. Doomshade we got on the first try, Vindicator we got on the second try. Good job folks!

SUNDAY, JANUARY 12, 2003
The Resurrection - Caddorin @ 17:05 PST
Final Companions has been Resurrected for a one last go in the world of Norrath. Caddorin himself has retired and now Daddun and Renadin will lead the Final Resurrection.