The Black Sheep - a GW2 Roleplaying Guild

So I've come to a decision. I had already invested in Guild Wars 2, but had no plans to let my City of Heroes account fade. I was using GW2 as my weekday "when I have a minute to log in" MMO, and CoH as my weekend "I'm going to play for a couple hours" MMO. This has been my play pattern for years, with various other games cycling through the first spot, while CoH maintained its grip on the second spot.

Here's the thing. I know some of the folks at ArenaNet, and they're good people. I can't blame them for this, even if the timing suggests that the launch of their game may have influenced NCSoft's decision. I'm not going to close down my account there, and I'm not going to try to scare people away from it. The fact is, it's a fantastic game, and ArenaNet clearly learned a ton of lessons from City of Heroes, and then took them a step further.

I know it's not a decent substitute, but I'm going to try anyway. I have a little Guild that's just me and a handful of friends. I think there are six of us right now. Some of them are Roleplayers, some of them aren't. I've talked it over with them though, and I'm going to throw the doors open.

The Black Sheep is an international mercenary company based out of Lion's Arch. Its commander, Melchior Caradoc, is a young nobleman who used to be an officer in the Krytan Ministry Guard before an explosive falling out with Commander Serentine. Much of the Black Sheep's work is pro bono, and actually bankrolled by Melchior personally. He has deep pockets and makes sure the company is always well compensated, but every so often has to take a "real" job to keep things afloat. Currently, the Black Sheep have general peacekeeping contracts with all six major cities, and keeps steady work clearing monsters out of farmer's fields, rounding up bandits, and other simple work that local law enforcement is too overwhelmed to keep up with.

The name is a two-part reference. Originally, I liked the sound of Delita's Nanten Black Sheep in Final Fantasy Tactics. But the Guild in its oldest form started as a RP group on Final Fantasy XI, full of exiles and outcasts whose decisions had put them at odds with their native governments. Those Black Sheep were determined to do what was right for the whole world, even if it negatively impacted their homelands. The modern Black Sheep will have less of an overt theme of betrayal for the greater good, but still seems like a good place for an exodus from City of Heroes.

As for the guild itself, the concept should be pretty friendly to most "standard adventurers", but if you've got something that breaks the mold we can talk it out. The Black Sheep are politically and socially well-connected, and could count as members or allies people from very diverse walks of life.

One thing to note... I'm trying to keep the Guild relatively family friendly. No Erotic RP in guild (what you do in private is your business, of course), keep Profanity to a PG-13 maximum, no OOC discussion of controversial topics like Politics and Religion. Before I decided to open this thing to CoH exiles, I was going to make it an "Old People Guild" for those of us who are a little fed up with teenage internet culture. If you've built your whole online persona around being edgy and offensive, dancing the razor's edge of social boundaries, you won't be a good fit here. Your character is allowed to be a jackass, but I want players who know how to play nice with each other OOC.

Server: Tarnished Coast. It's the primary unofficial North American Roleplaying Server.
Guild Officers: Currently Melchior.2135 (me, Leader) and a couple others I'll list here as soon as I get clearance to put their global names up.

I'm working on a more detailed recruitment page, and I'll update this thread when it's ready. For now, check out http://www.guildwars2roleplayers.com/ for more information about the RP community that's building up there. Even if my group doesn't sound like your style, I'm sure you can find something!

Oh yeah... Lunaticia and Eisenzahn are both being reincarnated there. I'm not sure how the story works out, but I intend those characters to be clear continuations of their counterparts here.

Um... too soon dude... too soon.

Yes we really only blame NCSoft for the shutdown.
But personally I ain't paying 'em another penny for anything under thier ageis.

Nothing personal to GW2... just the folks they hang with...

SithRose just messaged me in GW2. She ran Agent Storm and a few others, and the Technocratic Union SG. She's not a VIP right now, and has no way of becoming one obviously, so she can't post directly here. She's playing on the "Sanctum of Rall" Sever, but would love to Guest on Tarnished Coast for RP. Her in-game handle is Sithrose5168, and she's SithRose on Steam. Her husband, @tenaveran is also there as Tenaveran.9364.