SOTM : Shade of the Moon

[dhirmadi]

Welcome to the SOTM CLan Thread. Shade of the moon is a multi gaming clan that finds it's roots in the now cancelled Dragon empires. For the past 3 years SOTM spread into various games and is active in most of them.

More you may find on our site, or may not ;)

regards

[Darksoul_]

lol SotM coming to DnL now?
great :D

*looks at Kronic* What about Rogue Spirits?

[dhirmadi]

lol SotM coming to DnL now?
great :D

After DE gone, DnL seems to be the next logical choice for SOTM as multigaming clan :)

[SotM_Gobbo]

Hi m8, gonna join the clan now somewhere around here (join for this game)
Speak 2 ya later

Gobbo

[sonsam]

yep

:think:

still angry

life goes on :liar:

[Supersam]

aye sam2 it does


time to move on....

DnL :dance:

is Kronic here? :drool:

[Darksoul_]

aye sam2 it does


time to move on....

DnL :dance:

is Kronic here? :drool:

SuperSam is Ev0l!!!

nope Kronic isnt here :)

[Supersam]

lol

he normaly finds his way into games

orge land (spelling) was the last game i saw him in.... tho i think he might have been in mir3 :eek:

i've been round a few since DE playing JO and FFXI untill i get in DnL

my uni work is increasing getting my assignments next week :(
/me looks for crying/depressed emote :boohoo: <<< that will do :D

[tuvock]

hello dhirmadi, supersam and sotm
nice to see some friendly people again

[Demagogue]

I love it when old friends get together...roar!

Seriously though, nice to see two clans set to enter DnL who I know are very capable in terms of organisation and roleplaying. Not forgetting some decent ideas regarding game development you all seem to produce. Ok I admit that 90% of Supersam's ideas are irrelevant and occasionally twisted to the point of sickness.....well different anyway (a fine fine word!), the 10% which arent are usually real gems.

[dhirmadi]

indeed true... and it is the gems that will make any game worth while playing :)

[Supersam]

hmmm

i can't help it :(


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:) long time no see tuvock

last time.. would have been Rubies of Eventide
i think :confused:

how are P.O.L these days?

[tuvock]

hey supersam
pol are still going strong

as for rubies lol i have had another go at it ,because it is free now, some one else has bought it and made it free :D

[Supersam]

lol i wouldn't put myself through all that again unless they paid me....



thats one of the games where my bug reports were completey pointless (or at least i felt they were)


which other games are P.O.L in?

SotM seems to be going more FPS lol

mmorpg world should see allot more of us after we sort the site out... no more DE portal :clap:

[tuvock]

PROPHECY OF LIGHT WEB AND FORUMS (http://prophecy.dutchy.org/index.php)

Supersam come and say hello and the games we will be playing are on the forums.

the games we are currently playing are very wide spread at the minute

speak to you soon

[Nilles]

Just saying hi :)
Nice to see acquaintances in other games, really. Hope I'll be able to join the fight soon. ;)

[alakor]

hello every body!


once again another pointless post brought to you by:

KORR

[Blacksword]

*pops over for some cookies*

Hey guys, seems a lot of the clans from DE are appearing here :)

[Nilles]

*hands kibs a cookie*
Hi mate! Nice to meet ya, I just went 1k posts on the CM forums, seems I gotta visit your thread for some sp...ah-cough...useful posting. :D

[alakor]

*pats nilles on the back*

um i think you were going to say spam.. but im not sure hehe

you should do something about that cough though, could be contagous (sp)

[Nilles]

Actually I'm having a doctors appointment on friday. Wicked thing doctors are so busy these days.

[King Ivanhoe]

Remember me? So whats happening in the SotM 'hood?

[Demagogue]

I think I remember you! Didn't you use to mop up the blood at the Circle Alliance base?
Janitor Ivanhoe....at least you cleaned up after yourself (and all those other skull-cleaving Lions)


Demagogue

[tuvock]

lol :D

[alakor]

i remember you ivanhoe, even spent a breif stint with you and the lions. good luck seeing you in beta, its always more fun to kill people you know :p

[Supersam]

yep i remember....


lol it is... more so when it's your clan leader and you missed fired :snooty:

lol i have to get back on JO need to shot people again...

[alakor]

we need to get some people on counter strike source.

[Nilles]

nah, no CS for me. Tho I am pretty eager to play HL2 :D

[Kalandorl]

Wither goest SotM, so goest I.

[tuvock]

nilles did you enjoy guild wars :D

[Nilles]

you bet I did! I hope they finish it soon. GW is exactly the type of MMO for time-limited ppl like me. ;)

[Kalandorl]

there's no such thing as a MMORPG designed for time limited people ;)

[tuvock]

there's no such thing as a MMORPG designed for time limited people ;)

you can say that again ......ive spent to many hours running around trying to lvl up for my next weapon and armour

[Tai]

Eveing ladies.

[Kalandorl]

Wow, and I thought I knew what spam is.

[Nilles]

Owned again. Tai shows the way.
Actually, is anyone here already in game? Or is it a NDA thingy?

[Kalandorl]

I'm going to assume that there's an NDA.

[alakor]

Wow, and I thought I knew what spam is.


no one realy knows what spam is, its like the highest form of mystery meat.

or its just a useless post on a thread to boost ones post count.

in either case this is no way spam, this is more of a useless waste of typing, and smileys.
:) :shhh: :rolleyes: :cool: :p ;) :D :confused: :eek: :( :mad: :dance: :clap: :god: :whistle:

ok im ready to be shot now.

[Nilles]

My question actually was if the client was already distributed and ppl were already playing. The faq states that beta already started - heck, the DE beta also had already 'started' and there were no ppl whatsoever playing because there was not client/server to do so.
But that might just be the wrong place to ask. I'll check out the game forums...

[Tai]

i wasn't spamming :p

well i was, but not to raise my postcount lol

[Nilles]

Nah Tai, there ain't that many people that rightfully claim to spam without raising their post counts. And you claim to be among them? Admit it... :p

and I'm talking crap again... I can feel it..

[alakor]

and I'm talking crap again... I can feel it..

/em hands niles toilet paper, and listeren cool strips.

i think hes gonna need them.

[Supersam]

how is everyone?

i've been really busy lately with assignments and stuff plus DE is still getting me angry...

got flu atm :( not nice, its the worse case i've had, the only thing which is worse than flu is the lemon drinks you get for them... i had to finish one which hadn't completey desloved, that in its self nearly made me sick :(

i need a mmo to play/test somthing to take my mind of uni :)

[alakor]

supersam i am playing city of heroes, but thats probably going to stop for a bit due to halo 2 coming out next week. world of war craft is saposed to go into open real soon, and there is a 14 day trial of saga of ryzom through file planet. hope you find something to help you get over the flu.

[Nilles]

Get well soon, Sam! :)
I'm currently browsing through various ads and price lists for hardware. I want to get a new Athlon XP 3000+ Barton for my old 2600+ and a new graca to swap for my Radeon 9500. I hope to finally get better clock times in JO and be able to join you on the really full servers. :)

[Kalandorl]

Halo 2 massively owns, indeed it does.

In response to earlier, I didn't even notice that this forum has post counts until i looked for it when you said there were post counts, lol.

[alakor]

in halo 2 my gamer tag is airman bum so if your interested add me to your friends list and we can get some games goin. plenty of good fun to be had.

[Kalandorl]

My gamertag is Kalandorl in case you didn't guess it, heh.

[tuvock]

Any of you guys been playing WOW ?

[Kalandorl]

I'll probably get it when it comes out, but Halo 2 has taken up all my gaming time lately.

[alakor]

i would but dont have the cash to buy myself and my wife a copy ehhe

[Kalandorl]

Well, I've heard from a friend that WoW is not the greatest of games. Apparently it's pretty much just the whole hero element in WC3 put into MMORPG format.

[alakor]

well better then SWG, thats just the whole SUCK element put into MMORPG format.

[Nilles]

Well, I haven't played WoW yet. Maybe if I can get some spare time again, I'll be able to play a month for good measure. ;)

[alakor]

this is just a sensless post, im trying to get us to page 4! hehe

















































































yup, sensless

[dhirmadi]

not all here needs to make sense as we spent again time waiting for a game to come out :)

[Nilles]

uhm, alakor, it's the number of posts and not the lenght of em that opens a new page. And if you like, you can easily adjust your settings to have this thread display about 10 pages. ^_^

[Tai]

Hi ladies.

how many registered members have you got here?
We've got 16 =/

[alakor]

uhm, alakor, it's the number of posts and not the lenght of em that opens a new page. And if you like, you can easily adjust your settings to have this thread display about 10 pages. ^_^

doh, oh well, time for another useless post.

[Nilles]

uh.. eight? ^^_
well, me might not be that many, but there's always quality over quantity, heh...

[alakor]

yeah, and if you cant tell by my posts, im quality!

[alakor]

another useless post just to say WOO HOO page 4!!!

[Nilles]

Let's ask a mod to rename this thread to "ATTENTION : CALISTAS AND art"...

[Tai]

lol, the KT thread is about 9pages long

[alakor]

lol, the KT thread is about 9pages long

that just means i need to spam more!

spam spam spam spam spamity spam!!

[Nilles]

Spam and eggs for breakfast? ^^_

[Tai]

i hate spam! :p

[alakor]

i hate spam! :p

great now were spaming about spam! :wall:

[Nilles]

can't help it...

[alakor]

oh yeah well...



"i dont mind the sun some times, the images it shows
i can taste you on my lips and smell you in my clothes
cinimon and sugary and softly spoken lies
you never know just how you look through other peoples eyes"

dont ask me where that came from, it just seemed like a good idea at the time.

[alakor]

looks like some one ate all the spam....

oh wait there was one slice left :D

[arqitt]

at least this is on the guild boards :P

SPAM!

[dhirmadi]

and sometimes we wonder what happened to the context of this thread :)

[alakor]

and sometimes we wonder what happened to the context of this thread :)

what IS the context of this thread? :confused: :think:



:vache:

wow, they have a cow smiley! thats cool hehe

[Nilles]

I think it originally was intent do bring SotM into DnL... =/

[Bourlog]

Hey anyone got spam?

Doh!

[alakor]

I think it originally was intent do bring SotM into DnL... =/

well im here, so its a start hehe

[arqitt]

/retracts spam

[Kalandorl]

stupidity appears to be contagious...

[dhirmadi]

seems vary much like it, indeed

[alakor]

seems vary much like it, indeed


i apologize, i didnt know what i was starting :D

[Supersam]

:boohoo:
well i some how got addicted to mir3 :naughty:

after a long process of trying to get myself off that game... i turn around and see not much has changed apart from the mass of assignments which i have been collecting for the past month now i just need to get them out of the way :god: :god: :god: :god:

got to take another look and DnL and see whats happening :confused:

[alakor]

maybe we shouldnt have finished off all the spam, it seems the thread died when the spam ran out, i guess it starved to death.

[dhirmadi]

rolfmao... so spam has it's purpose after all :) scary

[Tai]

hi guys :eek:

[oceaness]

lol nice one Tai kill the thread why don't you :p

He he he hello SOTM :)

[dhirmadi]

talking about killing a thread... guess we're all too busy withother live games.. canot wait for this one to come out.. it just sounds so much more emerisve than anything out there atm.

[alakor]

all the slience is hurting my ears

[dhirmadi]

problem is ther eis not much going on in this game... i find it rather quiet myself too

[dhirmadi]

finally progress.. looking forward seeing you all in game

[dhirmadi]

so, where is SOTM now. since there is so little post here? we're all busy playing some other games obviously :) never the less SotM will take part in both SoG and DnL and will attempt to grow again to a decent size inside this one game, like we done in others.

Beeing around for over 4 years now, obviously this guild has undergone change, like most of us do. the core idea still does stay the same however. We're casual gamers looking for group play, some social interaction, distraction from our jobs and in general a relaxed time with like minded people.

In game, we are probabbly going to follow neutra for the most of it and shall see where we form our home town :)

more next time

[tuvock]

hi dhirmadi just bumping ur thread

im regulary checking DNL after u told me about the news

[Marksman]

Tuv!!! Heya mate, oooh this just gets better and better :D

[tuvock]

lol hey slaine

[ansyen]

Greets from Kismet ;)

Anyone seen Jack? He's never on msn now :boohoo:

[dhirmadi]

i have not seen jack in a while, something like 4 weeks back or so. wel guys, thanks all for the warm welcome, the goal now to grow SotM back to size withing the lands of ganareth

[dhirmadi]

a small update on progress, sotm keeps its growth in other games like WoW and is now starting to gear up for SoG. While not all members will move over we will again be able to offer a solid core of people that support the guild and allow us to start with a solid fundament here in SoG/DnL.

Now what can you expect from a guild like this? We offer solid presence at moderate times, as we're all casual gamers. the main focus is on supporting eachother and playin in groups. For this purpose we will offer both forums and a teamspeak server.

What do we expect of our members? Honesty, Honor and a light for of interest. There will not be any MUST and NEED, still it is appreciated if you join us only really then when you are interested in building something up.

watch out for more announcements here on the thread about forums and other topics.

[dhirmadi]

here an extract from our guild background :)

The first sword

No item is more loved and feared, takes more lives and saves at least the same amount than the sword. It is the symbol of men and of air, of war and of justice. Hence it is a very common tool to install with magic. In all my life I have seen, what do I know, 20 different kinds of spells on swords.
Glowing, burning, flying, all cutting, screaming, singing the clans anthem backwards in an unsettling low voice, talking, and hurting beings things that cannot be hurt by normal weapons. And I am certain that there are countless more out there. One of them I list here; the First Sword.

It was on a rainy evening when I found myself in an Inn with too little crowd to entertain and too much money in my wallet to try. There I met a very old man called Willfried, Willfried the Smith. Willfried wasn’t of the brightest kind, a good-humoured towns fellow with the horizon two miles further up the street. We talked about the small things in life and I had a good time letting him hear how it’s done ‘out there’. I amazed him time and time again. But late in the evening he leaned over to me, looking about whether anyone was listening and muttered, “Now it’s me turn, to surprise ye”. Have a question which shut’m up. Makes all go silent. Question is,” He paused for dramatic effect “Whose got the first sword?”
“No one, I guess. Rusted away centuries ago. Came here with the crossing.”
He shook his head. And then he told me the story about the first sword.
I’ll take the artistic liberty to jot down my own version of the legend, since Willfried included some unnecessary details like the daily routine of his great-great-great-great grandfather.

The first sword ever made was created not made by a smith, as odd as it may seem, but by a priest.
He observed his people bickering about with other tribes (yes, tribes.
That’s about the same as clans, but with less clothing) and banging each other heads with clubs. The priest despaired at this crude form of warfare. This way his people could never dominate the others and he would never be able to spread his gospel, so he sought help from his gods.
And the gods answered, they sent him, wouldn’t you know, on a quest. He wandered off to some high mountain, climbed it, went inside it’s deepest cave, crawled down to the bottom of it, found a lake and swam to the bottom of that lake where he found a door which lead him into a deep forest (hang on, almost done) which he crossed until he arrived on a wide field of heather.
On that heather field he found a smithy. Yes, a smithy. A small cottage with a forge, anvil, some hammers and a couple of iron ingots. In Willfrieds version there are a couple of tests on the way that smithy to, which are suppose to test the priest’s virtues. But I like to collect legends, not some madman’s stories about an old wizard-priest battling demons of pure night and fire at the bottom of a lake, dying and being reborn and having drinking constests with gods.
Anyway, I digress. The priest got to work made the sword.
The fire of the forge burned away his clothes and scorched his flesh.
His hand turned to sweat, turned to blisters, turned to blood.
The heat purified the metal and the flesh together.
The priest made the sword.
For four days he did not eat, did not sleep, did not speak. (I presume that he chanted away all the time, but that doesn’t count as speaking, that’s chanting.)
And his the???? gods guided his hands.
On the morning of the fifth day it was done. That same day a large group of enemy tribals arrived and wanted to have the sword. So the priest fought them. One priest with a sword against ten, twenty, maybe thirty mighty warriors with clubs.
The fight was pretty short. Casualties: one old priest who hadn’t eaten for four days, wore no armour and held a weapon he couldn’t handle. But before he died he cast the sword into the sky and to his honour the gods turned the first sword into a star sign called ‘the first sword’. The end.
Moral?
Yes, run faster, hit harder and drink less.
But Willfried gave a small epilogue to this tale. He said that the gods did indeed craft that star sign, but they didn’t require the actual sword for that. They looked at the sword, but they didn’t use it. It fell down to the ground again and was picked up by someone. And it inspired smiths to make more swords. And those swords again inspired other to make swords. And so the swords spread all over the place until it was and probably still is the most used weapon in Fortitude. And due to its excellent craftsmanship the sword still exists. And because it was always used as an exemplary item rather than a weapon it is still in excellent shape. No dents, no corrosions, no fractures. And this item is now owned by Shade of the Moon clan. And every of their swords is based on that first sword. Every smith studies that sword for at least a year and creates ten swords in that fashion. If he has mastered the technique he may call himself a true weapon smith.
Of course there are plenty of clans and people who claim to be the best weapon smiths, but the Shade of the Moon clan claims with all right to be the one clan who bases all its swords on the first sword.
The speciality about those swords is the so-called layer technique. The first sword wasn’t crafted out of hammering one staff into a blade. Rather layers of metal where forged onto each other, hammered thin and layered again and again. Some say that a blade from the clan consists of about 200 layers! And if that is done well it allows the smith to make a sword that is lighter, sharper and harder than common swords. Mind you, not every sword in the clan is made that way. It’s a time consuming business, not to mention the money you pay for it. But those who are also make fantastic material for enchanted weapons.
The properties of the first sword remain a mystery. Some say it is unbreakable, some claim it can cut through anything with ease. Others claim that it make him who wears it the best fighter in the world. Certainly it must be a powerful item. But to now it is still not being used.
Why?
I wouldn’t know, maybe because the only person who did wield it died in an instant. I guess that’s kind of a bad start for a sword, don’t you think?

[Nilles]

Oooh... Guild Lore... ;)

[dhirmadi]

and if we manage , everything is reflected inside the game too :)