Guild Wars 2

Well we completed 3 of 4 paths, and one of those 3 another half a time due to the game update!

Next week we delve into the new live story, as well as exploring some in the land of Orr!

Crazy kids, doing 3 Arah paths in a day. Crazy, crazy kids. I heard they made a shirt in remembrance of this event.

Don’t forget that you are recruited for the next Arah to end them All event!

We had three groups in the new Live Story event last night! It was a blast! We are building up some progression groups for fractals, and doing dungeons every night! We had a fun time in Arah Path 4 too (Lupy down on first try wooo!)

We have people in WvW daily, and a great turnout for our RP PVP Gladiatoral event. Here’s a brief video that Scya put together from it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeXPLYxsK4o#t=0

The musical icebreaker to break them all is upon us! In honor of Transgender Day of Remembrance, Remnants of Hope is hosting a Karaoke event tonight! Lots of music and fun to be had for everyone to get to know each other beyond our own games!

Lots of great events going on this week! Dungeons, achieves, WvW, Rp!! You name it, we are doing it… even been talk about some caroling coming to a major city near you soon! Come check out the guild at www.remnantsofhope.com or send me a message in game for more information on how to join our multi-gaming community!!!

Zekowah!

Who thought that Karaoke night would keep going for almost 4 hours! That was truly a blast!

Tayte the pink charr will be car-car-caroling!

Karaoke night was a blast! I can’t wait for caroling! A big pink char singing Silent Night makes me laugh lol

you’re on tarnished coast?i’m on erdon terrace but your guild sounds really, cool! i’d love to join! how do i go about applying?

Yes we are on Tarnished Coast server! You can find out more about our guild at www.remnantsofhope.com/gw2 .. that is always where you can put in an application there as well. If you have more questions feel free to message me in game.

Pictionary Night tonight was a hoot Thanks all who came!!! The Remnants of Hope hosts lots of fun social games within the community! For more information please visit http://www.remnantsofhope.com/gw2 and/or message me in game!

Guild Bounty? Check. Guild Puzzle? Check. Leveling Party? Check! Yep we did all that this weekend while having a blast! Thanks for all that came out to the events or just kept us laughing in guild chat and TS3!

Had an awesome time running Fractals tonight with the guild! Currently level 13 – Personally cannot wait to get to level 80! RoH is such a great community filled with people from all walks of life.

If you are interested in joining a community that has been long standing since June 7, 2009, checkout our website @ www.remnantsofhope.com and fill out an application today!

So excited for caroling with the guild in a few weeks! And this just in! Telana is one of the slowest levelers ever! <3

Happy Holidays to everyone!

Guild missions tonight at 9PM! Have fun everyone who is attending!

Had a silly blast running a Fractal the other night with Asti, Endwalker, Tayte and Raiiya the other day! Wasn’t expecting to even log into the game that night, but the warm welcomes and encouragements to do scary fractals made me want to come… well worth it!

Another group managed to get the same new fractal as us.. here’s a picture of *Aravail, BeardManly, Appleveedub, Aryiis, and Tayte * standing victorious!

Now everyone knows that Remnants accepts Charr!

(It’s a good thing! We are so very cuddly!)

Of course we accept Charr lol we need someone to stand behind in battle

Community Spotlight! (part 1)

1. What is your forum name? You’re real name too if your comfortable sharing it!
Forum name: Beljora
Real Name: Koby

2. What game(s) do you play with the Remnants of Hope, and who is your main character in the game(s)?
So far I’ve played GW2 and FFXIV . I’ve been recently eyeing SW:ToR since that starfighter update…

3. How did you end up with the Remnants of Hope?
Aidyn, Dahkeus, and Applegate invited me… and then pretty much texted me every day ’til I finished the requirements, lol. Glad they did that though.

4. What is your favorite in-game memory from your time in the community?
Probably various memories RPing in FFXIV so far…. I remember in a recent RP event Theodinn Ravenshield was tossing people potions to heal their wounds during a huge battle. At the end of the battle our NPC captain was stabbed through the chest by the Kobold Chief and fell dead on the ground… Most of our characters were shocked and on the verge of tears and Theo is like “Did you try a potion?” “Here, I have this potion, give it to him.” and Xha’li grabs him and is like “HE’S DEAD!!” It made me laugh out loud so hard, though I know it was emotional in-character.

5. What about your favorite memory from the time we spend outside the games?
Has to be when I wrote the proposal for the FFXIV division. Tension was high because a lot of people had very legitimate concerns for adding a new division, and they didn’t mind expressing them to me. I decided I would still fight hard for this new division, because I knew my time on GW2 was pretty much done, and I would have to leave the guild due to inactivity unless I could get a FFXIV division instituted.

6. Is it Pot-A-toe or Pot-a-toe?
Potatoe. Obviously.

7. What object would you say you simply could not live without and why?
PC/tablet/smartphone/car are too unoriginal and boring, right…? Excepting those obvious things… I bought a water-pick for cleaning between my teeth sometime back. It’s the kind of thing that seems like a complete gimmick, but it’s so kitten good at cleaning around a permanent brace on the back of my teeth. I dunno how I ever got on without it.

8. Favorite TV show and why?
Game of Thrones (I’m sorry Firefly, it was close). There’s just so many angles to this show, so much to discuss and think about: motivations, relationships, politics… and I feel like I understand it more every single time I watch it, so I certainly get my money’s worth for blu-rays. I didn’t start reading the book series until I became a fan of the show, so I’ve only read the first two books ‘cause I don’t want to ruin season 4 myself. I know, I can’t call myself a true fan now, but, hey, I only ever said I was a fan of the show.

9. Zombie Pirates or Space Ninjas and why?
Close call…. but… I ultimately have to go with Space Ninjas. Sure, zombie pirates are great, but there’s only so many unique stories you can create before roaming the high seas eating brains will eventually wear thin. Space Ninjas however have infinite planets they can travel to and they can change the course of galactic warfare in an instance. The Weabiles have captured the Emperor of Reycon and are forcing him to sign a treaty that will end hostilities in the gamma section for a millennium!? Oh, ****, space shuriken through the heart!

10. If you could be any mythical creature or monster what would it be and why?
Hm, probably a Phoenix. They drew a good hand from the mythical creature deck. Immortal andawesome-looking.

Community Spotlight (part 2)

11. Favorite Book or series and why?
I read a lot of non-fiction economic and science books, some of which would probably qualify as my favorites…….. but I wont bore you with those.

I’ve read Mark Twain’s Joan of Arc several times. It’s a pretty easy read like you’d expect of Twain, but, unexpectedly, it has a very serious tone (a small witty phrase here and there, but never overly sardonic like most of his books). It’s a story of a (real-life) illiterate 17 year old girl from a 1-horse town at the edge of France who manages to become the Commander and Chief of France (yes, while still 17) and restores most of France to Charles VII from absolutely nothing (a treaty had literally declared absolute surrender, handing France over to the English on Charles VI’s death). She is captured by the English about 2 years later, tortured into admitting that it is sin to wear men’s clothing and subsequently burned alive. Twain takes liberties, but most of the dialogue after her capture is taken verbatim from court transcripts. It blows my mind every time I try to fathom that it’s based on true events.

12. You get together with some members from RoH in real life, what do you do?
I actually DID get together with some RoH members (Applegate, Azerial, and Kain) in real life not that long ago. We went to the Renaissance (thank you, spellcheck) faire. We watched a few shows, Azerial and Kain bought some pretty awesome outfits (though… how many times do you really get to use them…), I nearly froze to death because I didn’t know it was 40 degrees out when I left (It’s Texas… and it was like 75 two days before), but it was a lot of fun! Also, I’ve met Aidyn before. We mostly played Super Smash Brothers Melee. Oh, and I went with Applegate, Aidyn and Aidyn’s brother to a metalwork festival around here… They seemed pretty disappointed in it if I remember right, but I thought it was pretty interesting myself.

13. Can you dance, and if so what’s your favorite dance move?
God no.

14. Favorite song and why?
Oh man, this is, by far, the hardest question… I’m a huge classical music fan and could go on all day about it.

While not technically a ‘song’ I would say Schuberts Piano Sonata in B flat edges out the win for me.
I once heard it described that the low trill in the left hand represents Schubert’s impending death from typhoid fever. The low trill returns frequently and somewhat out of place in the otherwise straightforward but beautiful melody, as if to remind him of its presence. The melody then repeated louder, but this time where you’d expect to hear the low trill you instead hear a defiant series of chords played. Finally, during the development section the low trill and melody mix and give the melody a much darker mood. Granted, we don’t actually know what Schubert was thinking with that piece, but that explanation of the trill has stuck with me every time I’ve listened to it.

Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde comes in a close second
It’s been analyzed to death by smarter people than me, so I’ll spare you an explanation on that one.
Those and pretty much anything from the Romantic period I’ll love, really. Or post-modern.

I’m a big fan of musical theatre as well.

And pretty much anything by Ricky Ian Gordon.
I met him once and he was so nice to me despite me being stupidly nervous.

I also like Bluegrass fusion.

I listen to J-Pop to practice my Japanese listening skills.
I became a pretty big fan of Kalafina while listening to various J-Pop artists.
And while the music itself doesn’t really blow me away, Nagi Yanagi’s voice from Supercell is unreal.
The composer didn’t use real human voices in his musikittenil he came across a video of Nagi singing karaoke.

15. Lastly, and most importantly, what is it about this community you love the most?
I love how varied people’s interests and ideas are, but that we can all talk to each other in such a respectful way. Like I wrote in one of the recruitment posts, “It’s a rare environment where members can discuss Call of Duty with as much respect to one another as when we discuss AD&D RP.” It allows me to be exposed to things I normally wouldn’t be, like games or music that aren’t my usual genre. I also like that we can argue our various visions for the guild that we all love and put things behind us once official decisions are made. I dunno if it’s applications scaring trolls away or what, but I just generally find a higher caliber of people in this guild than I normally come across on the ’net!

Remnants! Our forums are currently down due to transferring them to the new server.
There is however a Shoutbox on the homepage now for easy communication. See you all on the forums soon! http://remnantsofhope.com/

the forums are down still (for now) but the main site is up for anyone wanting to check out the site. If you would like to apply to join our awesome community please keep checking back for the forums to come back live.

Evening!

Just a few announcements.

Our Forums are back up and running to its fullest capacity. So if you are interested in applying to the Remnants of Hope, now would be the perfect time! Stop by our forums, register an account, and fill out the GW2 Application today! http://remnantsofhope.com/boards/

In addition, our wonderful RP Assistant Kain is hosting our first ever RP Academy: Basics event tonight at 9:30pm EST!

Thank you!

Another RP Academy is being hosted by our lovely RP Assistant Kain at 9:30pm EST.

Interested in applying to Remnants of Hope? Stop by our forums today and submit an application! www.remnantsofhope.com/boards

Woohooo New Year has come! We are having a blast completing the Winter’s Day and NIghtmare achieves as well as working on map completion. WvW is coming soon (all the holidays kinda halted a lot while we spent time with our families)….

Come join us! http://www.remnantsofhope.com/gw2

I am proud to announce this week’s community spotlight!!!! Appleveedub!
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1. What is your character’s name?

My forum name is Appleveedub, while my real name is Avery.

2. What games do you play with RoH?

I play Guild Wars 2 currently.

3. What aspect of the game do you enjoy the most? (PVE PVP or RP)
I enjoy all the aspects of the game, PvE has a very different end game than most MMOs and it’s interesting. PvP is very enjoyable in Guild Wars 2, especially with the whole WvWvW thing. RP is my favorite. The scenery is beautiful, towns/cities are full of NPCs and hidden rooms, lots of beautiful sights, the long and rich lore that makes up the Guild Wars universe. It all makes for worth while role play and story creation.


3. How long have you been a part of this community?

I have been a member since October 22nd of 2013.

4. What is your favorite memory that has happened within the community?
When we had the pictionary night and I was the only one to get the word “marble”. The first word I said was astronaut and the second was marble, so everyone followed up with astronaut. I thought it was hilarious when Velok asked me how I went from astronaut to marble.


5. If you could change one thing about the guild, what would it be?
Probably the use of TeamSpeak 3. I wasn’t always a fan of TeamSpeak, but I’ve grown used to it. Otherwise I have nothing I would change.

6. If you could bring back one game from the past and play with this community what would it be and why?
MMO? Toontown, as it was my first MMO and because I would get to throw cake at their faces. Any game? Crash Racing on the Playstation 1 because the races would be the equivalent to Mario Kart, but I know how to play Crash!

7. French toast, pancakes, or waffles?
Pancake & waffle sandwich. No French toast!

8. If you were going to a deserted island and could only take 1 person and 3 items, who and what would they be?
I would take a woman of my choice, a spear, a book on how to live in the wild and a book on herbal medicine. This would all lead up to me creating my own island civilization and army to take over the world! HAHAHA! Ahem Yes.

RP lore event tonight! Leveling/exploration run tomorrow!! COE and AE runs scheduled for this week! Guild missions on Thursday! Who’s coming with us!! Super busy week coming up!

So I’ve been with Remnants of Hope for about two years now, and during that time, this community has become like a second family to me. I’ve met some truly amazing people here: friendly, funny, helpful, and just a ton of fun to be around. I started as as Swtor player, but when that game began to get a little stale to me, I decided to start playing GW2 as well. Since then, I’ve been totally hooked, in no small part because of the great people I get to play with. Whether you’re into leveling parties, dungeons, guild missions, jumping puzzles, RP, or just random shenanigans, there’s always something fun going on!

Bump for an awesome guild!!!!

Our PvP Officer Streps ran a WvW Event last night that was very successful! 17+ people showed up to participate. From what I’ve heard, the group had a blast!

Events are run on a daily basis. Ranging from PvP, RP, and PvE events. If you are interested in applying to RoH, visit our website and submit an application!

http://remnantsofhope.com/

The WvW event was indeed a blast! After a quick lesson on combos, we jumped into the Borderlands and claimed lots of land for TC!

Here are some pics:
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EU player here, currently on Blackgate. Looking for an US home that has a few EU players also.
Let me know, thx.

Hi there! We do have a few EU players. I can’t really tell you how many off the top of my head but we do have some. There are people on in the guild at all hours either because of their time zone or because some of us just don’t sleep like normal people! Hope this answers what you are looking for. Please check the site for more information or feel free to send me a message in game!

And the grind to level 80 begins!

If you are interested in joining a top-notch guild that runs RP, PVP, and PVE events, checkout the Remnants of Hope and submit an application!

http://remnantsofhope.com/

Telana: I’m going to have 2 level 2’s before you get there! But leveling parties on Sundays are there for you

Love to level and kick back and have a good time? Check us out as we have great events for every aspect of the game!!

http://www.remnantsofhope.com/gw2