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IRC Nickname: His Lordship Group: Founder Posts: 6029 Member No.: 1 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 129    | The clan history had been outdated by one year.
I have just completed it to the present day.
If I have missed anything significant, please alert me.
I want a fairly comprehensive history of WG.
Below is that history which I have just added. A little short of 12 months.
| QUOTE | Early 2008
His Lordship left for Europe in early 2008, for 6 weeks. During that time, Dorcha3377 was given leadership, and the clan basically froze. In London, His Lordship hosted a real life meeting. Nine members turned up and together the clan visited JaGeX offices, and later at night went out and had some less legal fun. In the meantime, those members that weren't enjoying the IRL meeting were slowly decaying, waiting for His Lordship to return from the trip to Europe. By the end of the six weeks, WG leadership was inactive, along with the remaining members. His Lordship spent a full month rousing the clan back into activity. The clan website was now several months out of date and needed immediate attention.
A forum switch from z6 to wg.com happened when the leadership purchased a private server. Previously, the new forums kept going down because of a fault with the hosting company. With the new forums came new activity and morale lifted. The clan began a winning streak in clan wars once more and recruitment sped up massively. The biggest change was the merging of the sectors. After one month, WG had almost doubled in size and had grown massive levels. Growth like this was unprecedented. WG had never improved so quickly in such a short space of time. Dorcha3377 stepped down from the council a few weeks after His Lordship's return.
However, His Lordship was overworked and abused, and not offered any help by the membership. Under this pressure, he decided to step down from leadership for good, appointing Abmanju to be the new Primary Leader. Under Abmanju, WG continued it's winning streak, and growth continued steadily. His Lordship would remain in the background, working on the clan website and the recruitment material, and would slowly phase out into retirement. Abmanju and the current council of Stokenut, Darkzero101 and Snowzak, kept WG on a similar path, and started an alliance with The Death Monkeighs, and existing ally of TBE. And, after 6 long months, the clan website was updated.
As WG now owned its own private server, the clan forum technician, Robbiethe1st, was able to create substantial modifications to the forums, including Teamspeak monitors, better skins, and generally more control. The wilderness was still non-PvP, and the clan world began to shrink, and WG along with it. Many members knew they would never see the maxed option wars again. The clan continued growing following its slump due to His Lordship's six week vacation. This came only a few weeks after the WG warlord Snowzak retired.
Under Abmanju, WG continued its growth slowly and steadily. His Lordship was still there on the sidelines, easing into retirement slowly, in case he was needed. However, after His Lordship banned a trial member (Crucio01), several members protested against the alleged power abuse and the rights of the founder's rank. Consequently a big fight ensued and His Lordship cut off his ties with WG completely.
Mid 2008
It was June now, and Abmanju was the primary leader of WG. The clan was sailing smoothly, but not growing as quickly as it once had. After a short while, Abmanju was fighting his own council and there was general leadership disagreement. Some of the members were bickering and not obeying the council, seeing it as week and divided. RSC at this time had hosted the Clan Wars Premiere League, taking to the Clan Wars Arena that replaced the wilderness. WG did extremely well in these categories, although the leadership was not keen to re-enter a second season after members were complaining about the league being too demanding. The clan ran out of motivation to war in the league, and attendance started to fall. Following on from this, the clan began to slump, and Abs took the decline personally.
When August came, His Lordship held a second real life meeting in Paris, as part of his own personal holiday. Those who attended were His Lordship, Snowzak, Dhboy123 (from the Divine Forces), and Bassism. Bassism was really the only member with direct relations to WG, but the meeting is still considered to be a WG meeting. During the meeting, the group played some pranks on Runescape community and WG, and spent the night on a pub crawl.
It was approaching the end of August. The clan was still strong, but Abmanju was having difficulties running the clan, and fighting his council along the way. Several council members (explicitly Robertw56 and Darkzero101) had already posted two weeks notice and were on their way out, another council member, Theevildead2, was retiring to emeritus, and Abmanju was very close to posting his own. The community was getting strained. In a last attempt to save the clan from a morale-breaking situation, Abmanju asked His Lordship to return to WG. His Lordship refused at first, and then after requests from several members, reluctantly took back the position.
Late 2008
Fortunately, in the four months where His Lordship was out of leadership, Abmanju managed to sustain the clan and avoided any disaster. The clan was in a decent shape and under His Lordship, underwent some reparations and recruitment. Upon his return, Lordship made a rather controversial move by the clan world's opinion. He distributed a WG T-Shirt to the members for no profit, and then to the clan community, to fund the cost of the servers. The shirt was a huge success. 40 were sold within a month, and then dozens more over the next few months. Immediately after this, elections were held to replace the outgoing council of Robertw56, Darkzero101, and Theevildead2. Kingrandy0 and Anatcrafter were elected into the council.
Leading up to the end of the year, several key elements in the clan's life changed. Firstly, the creation of a private clan leader forum gave the clan members a more intimate relationship with JaGeX, and many clan members were unmuted through His Lordship's request on the private forum. Soon after this, PvP worlds were released. All of a sudden, the clan world sprung back to life and things were getting into full swing. Through His Lordship's judgmental error, WG was slow to take to PVP, and so was a step behind. Recruitment suffered for several months, while WG remained in the Clan Wars Arena, and the rest of the clan world was migrating to PVP worlds. At the same time as this update, WG's initials were uncensored. For almost 2 years, the initials WG were censored over Runescape. To commemorate the decensorship of the clan's initials, the members put together a public party for the clan world. On top of all this, the clan lost its warlord, Dalejamesw, who left for DF. he was, at the time, the most loved member in the clan. WG held an appreciation event for him on his way out. Following his departure, Mugger84 and Arsenalfan32 were elected into the council as co-warlords.
December was approaching now. December was always a vibrant month for WG; the anniversary became the central element of clan life. The 2008 annicersary was a success, despite the attempts made by SE to crash. The dozens of events were executed with perfection, and the participating members enjoyed the festivities, that lasted for the entire month. Dalejamesw at this time, began inviting himself to WG events and making a fool of himself, and he lost favour with WG and was demoted from ex-member rank to clan friend.
In the background of all this, Robbie was continuing his forum work. By the end of 2008, the WG forums had become the best functioning clan forums in the Runescape clan world. GuardianScore was released as well as other major features. It was clear that WG would never switch forums again.
Early 2009
The early days of 2009 were somewhat weak days in comparison to the clan's noble history. To begin, 3v0lution_X, an ally of WG, was torn in a leadership rift, and soon collapsed, and out of it, two new clans were formed. The alliance was terminated. At this time, a new system of applications was created, in order to improve the flow of applications. The first weekend of the year saw WG attain rank #10 on the RAW list of top CWA clans, a big achievement indeed. There were two major victories in the early part of the year. A victory against CR, and a victory against RE. These two official RAW wins affirmed to everyone that WG had plenty of strength... but the clan was still lagging behind the rest of the clan world... who were now all competant in PVP. Awakening to this, WG immediately began taking steps to become more PVP-conscious. One of the early attempts to do this, was His Lordship's siding with The Titans clan, against Violent Resolution, who had angered much of the clan world by crashing fights and flaming. Lordship pleged WG to the cause of counter-crashing VR. This meant crashing VR's planned fight with DF. These two clans were the two strongest clans of the day, and going against either of them would be dangerous for WG. Ex-WG-Warlord Dalejamesw, now in DF, made many threats against WG, causing him to get banned. In the end, His Lordship conceded to the expressed wishes of his co-leaders, and abandoned the cause, but not before VR directed much anger toward WG. Mugger84, the warlord of the time, was instrumental in ceasing the hostilities. We will never know what would have happened if WG continued their plege to the Titans, but as a result of pulling out, WG lost an opportunity to dive deep into the realm of PVP... though admittedly we were saved from VR's vengeance.
As February came about, long-time member Gorgemaster was elected into the council. At this time, WG started stepping into PVP. His Lordship left for Vietnam, and the clan was placed in the hands of the second-in-charge, Kingrandy0. Randy, alongside Mugger84 and Arsenalfan32, saw to it that PVP was given more attention. WG, after so many years, abandoned the full-out war. It was now PKRI's. CWA would only be on occassion, with Megaraids becoming the feature event of the clan's weekend. His Lordship hoped intently, that the full-out war would make a comeback. Mid February came around, and all of a sudden, there grew a tension between the leaders and the clan members. The central figure in this saga was Mugger84, who found himself getting harrassed by several clan members, and fighting back. Events started to lack, as the leadership circle pushed for greater PVP activity. His Lordship, at this time, introduced new set raid times to be strictly adhered to. But it was too little. Too many members had become disgruntled with the clan's lack of progress. In the course of two days, the clan lost almost 20 members, who quit at the same time, including Mugger84, the warlord, who banned himself. It was afterward that the leadership found out that Mugger was a puppet for Dalejamesw, and had been leaking secure leadership information to Dalejamesw.
WG was left with a core of loyal members, upon which everything had to be rebuilt and improved. Counting his blessings, Lordship began work promptly. The council would remain lacking, considering the great betrayal of Mugger to his clan. Poor timing also saw Anatcrafter leave the council reasons due to lack of time to lead. His Lordship could no longer allow the council to maintain such a high turnover rate. Promotions into the council would be more difficult than ever.
Following the mass leavings, His Lordship renewed the clan server, and upgraded the clan website, working hard on recruitment. Kingrandy0 and Gorgemaster would together work on bringing the JaGeX cup to WG, and remind the clan that there was more to Wildguard than PVP. The clan had suffered big blows, but as this very history has shown, WG's resilience and ability to recover swiftly is its great strength. |
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IRC Nickname: Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 7306 Member No.: 47 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 343 | One thing I noticed off hand is you didn't mention the IRL alliance with DF though not sure if you want to include that or not. Interesting read since I didn't remember or know of all of it especially at the leadership level. 
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IRC Nickname: His Lordship Group: Founder Posts: 6029 Member No.: 1 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 129 | It was a joke XD
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IRC Nickname: Hyperion Group: Ex-Member Posts: 1636 Member No.: 978 Joined: June 23, 2008 Total Events Attended: 141 | Wow, that was actually a good read.
Apparently I joined right after some hard times.
mugger..... mugger mugger mugger...... what a douche.
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IRC Nickname: [Randy] Group: Raid Leader Posts: 5065 Member No.: 16 Joined: December 29, 2007 Total Events Attended: 499 | 1. Me and Anat arent in there
2. Spelling: and the clan was placed in the kands of the second-in-charge, Kingrandy0
Lolz, nice though
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IRC Nickname: Mickey Group: Emeritus Posts: 5305 Member No.: 48 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 282 | I thought Dale was only General council? And you left Rob, the warlord, out :S
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IRC Nickname: Tnuac Group: Emeritus Posts: 1806 Member No.: 51 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 58 | Wow, didn't know that much had happened. Surprise about dalejamesw and mugger84.
Ah well, we're on the up now, let's keep it up (y) Play it like the old times
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~Aetas: carpe diem quam minimum credula postero~
"Seize the day and place no trust in tomorrow"
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IRC Nickname: His Lordship Group: Founder Posts: 6029 Member No.: 1 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 129 | Fixed most of the spelling errors on the website version.
Can't be fucked editing the forum version.
Thanks for alerting me to the Mickey.
Randy, when did you and Anat get elected in?
And what are Rob's dates?
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IRC Nickname: Group: Ex-Member Posts: 201 Member No.: 1646 Joined: January 18, 2009 Total Events Attended: 6 | You didn't mention the epic fail of a council in summer 2008.
ROBERTW56
DARKZERO101
DALEJAMESW
THEEVILDEAD2
TMAL34
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Originally Joined WG August 19, 2005
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IRC Nickname: His Lordship Group: Founder Posts: 6029 Member No.: 1 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 129 | Tmal I'm going to have to edit your list for dramatic effect.
ABMANJU
ROBERTW56
DARKZERO101
DALEJAMESW
THEEVILDEAD2
TMAL34
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IRC Nickname: Wayne|Eregion2 Group: Emeritus Posts: 3087 Member No.: 156 Joined: January 25, 2008 Total Events Attended: 8 | Um... it appears that nobody can do anything right unless you're holding their hand after reading that. If there's a leadership issue, whoever is in charge gets blamed for it unless it's you, then it's something that just inexplicably happened for no apparent reason. 
I had thirty seconds to right this so sorry if it's a bit harsh, no time to spare for revisions. 
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IRC Nickname: His Lordship Group: Founder Posts: 6029 Member No.: 1 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 129 | Ok fair point.
I do write quite biased and I'll admit that.
Offer an alternative history and I'll take it into full consideration.
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IRC Nickname: Ranma344 Group: Emeritus Posts: 759 Member No.: 78 Joined: January 1, 2008 Total Events Attended: 24 | I don't get a mention for flaming the hell out of EVERYONE? lol
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IRC Nickname: Colin Group: Ex-Member Posts: 2039 Member No.: 68 Joined: December 31, 2007 Total Events Attended: 69 | You forgot the part where I was the greatest member of all time tbh.
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Proud WG member from January 2006 - Fall 2009 |
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IRC Nickname: Karlfischer Group: Ex-Member Posts: 664 Member No.: 124 Joined: January 12, 2008 Total Events Attended: 55 | | QUOTE (His Lordship @ March 23, 2009 05:41 pm) | Ok fair point.
I do write quite biased and I'll admit that.
Offer an alternative history and I'll take it into full consideration. |
Yeah, it is a little biased of course, but overall it is a very good history. I think it is actually a fairly accurate statement to say that much of the time the clan succeeds because you are holding our collective hand, especially when you have people as undependable as Mugger, Dale, or Robert to work with. The obvious exception is Abs, who you do give credit to as keeping the clan going quite strong, even though we did run out of steam near the end of CWPL. One thing that might deserve greater attention to is the divisions we had between skillers vs. fighters, and then emeritus vs. actives. However, it will be quite hard to divulge this part of our history without having some kind of bias. --------------------   |
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IRC Nickname: Gorgemaster Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 9840 Member No.: 3 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 540 | Woooo mentioned in WG history for evermore, for ever remembered 
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IRC Nickname: Indivi2you Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 5361 Member No.: 43 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 623 | | QUOTE (Kingrandy0 @ March 23, 2009 11:48 am) | 1. Me and Anat arent in there
2. Spelling: and the clan was placed in the kands of the second-in-charge, Kingrandy0
Lolz, nice though |
Anat and I* How ironic... Lol I realized now that 2008 was a very hectic year. -------------------- The First, The Last, and the Only ~FLONever say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. ~Michael Jordan      |
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IRC Nickname: bto Group: Emeritus Posts: 3815 Member No.: 196 Joined: February 3, 2008 Total Events Attended: 332 | No matter how good the history is written, nothing can ever truly represent the good times with friends
Looks good to me.
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Ex-WG Warlord
"It is our direction, not our intentions, that lead us to our destinations." |
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IRC Nickname: DZ Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 2991 Member No.: 18 Joined: December 29, 2007 Total Events Attended: 238 | | QUOTE (Tmal34 @ March 23, 2009 05:02 pm) | You didn't mention the epic fail of a council in summer 2008.
ROBERTW56
DARKZERO101
DALEJAMESW
THEEVILDEAD2
TMAL34 |
The only fail of that council were you and Rob. Everyone else was good!
Only problem I see is "Several council members (explicitly Robertw56 and Darkzero101) had already posted two weeks notice and were on their way out", it should be Tmal and I, Rob left like a month after we did. It's in the Mid 2008 part.
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Now back to the good part!
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IRC Nickname: Zemus Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 2786 Member No.: 128 Joined: January 12, 2008 Total Events Attended: 275 | read it all, looks good 
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IRC Nickname: megajayson Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 9246 Member No.: 423 Joined: April 4, 2008 Total Events Attended: 216 | good read
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Fifteen percent concentrated power of will
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name!
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IRC Nickname: [JC] Group: Emeritus Posts: 3320 Member No.: 23 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 147 | And I left like a month after Rob lol
If I recall correctly Dale posted his 2 weeks not long after mine.
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Old awards wat
Most Mature & Most Honourable
Most Dedicated|IRC Freak|Best Emeritus
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IRC Nickname: Gorgemaster Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 9840 Member No.: 3 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 540 | | QUOTE (Darkzero101 @ March 23, 2009 08:54 pm) | | QUOTE (Tmal34 @ March 23, 2009 05:02 pm) | You didn't mention the epic fail of a council in summer 2008.
ROBERTW56
DARKZERO101
DALEJAMESW
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TMAL34 |
The only fail of that council were you and Rob. Everyone else was good!
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Everyone else was good?? Dale is the biggest fgt this clan has ever seen.... him and Mugger... But yah- DZ + Evil F T W !!! -------------------- |
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IRC Nickname: Lefty Group: Emeritus Posts: 3340 Member No.: 1055 Joined: June 30, 2008 Total Events Attended: 211 | "On top of all this, the clan lost its warlord, Dalejamesw, who left for DF. he was, at the time, the most loved member in the clan."
I never knew that Dale was the warlord. I don't know if you edited this on the WG site. Also capitalize the 'h' in "he".
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IRC Nickname: Rexibit0 Group: Guest Posts: 91 Member No.: 1765 Joined: March 15, 2009 Total Events Attended: 2 | 2008 was a very eventful year.
One thing, you might start removing wg.com in place of the actual domain name. Wg.com doesn't point to this site and it could confuse people. I know it did me when someone said it in IRC about where the site was to a new applicant and I was.
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