The trips to SS can easily be summed up to this:
Fistandanti tells the guild, 'back from crash'
Novethir tells the guild, 'wb '
Novethir tells the guild, 'WHAT ??????? i say wb to a chanty ?? i'm sick'

And like this:
Ashigaru tells the guild, 'ehlane cannot enter'
Ronginy tells the guild, 'evening all'
Ashigaru tells the guild, 'are you flagged?'

They can also be confusing:
Lollaorn tells the guild, 'now ya acting like mimbos'
Dexzar tells the guild, 'mimbos?'
Desideratus tells the guild, 'accept rez - begin motorboating - argh! chest hairs!'
Ashigaru tells the guild, 'rofl des'
Dexzar tells the guild, 'lmao'
Taiyah tells the guild, 'mimbos is a cross between a bimbo and something?? lol'
Ashigaru tells the guild, 'or for the larger endowment.. submarining'
Lollaorn tells the guild, 'man bimbo'
Sonal tells the guild, 'mimbo ?'

On the other hand, some things never change:
Taiyah tells the guild, 'ah NC push, god i've missed this....'


And on Tuesday, the trip ended like this:
Sonal tells the guild, 'woooot'
Medpack tells the guild, 'WOOT!!!!!!!!!!'
Actael tells the guild, 'WOOOOOOTTTTTT'
Daasu tells the guild, 'wow! Just WOW US!'
Dexzar tells the guild, 'WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!'
Knerrar tells the guild, 'YEEEEA'HAAAAAAAAAAAAA=))'
Tellmir tells the guild, 'Grats guys'
Dummis tells the guild, 'finaly '
Skarshar tells the guild, 'alot spamm!'
Gorgoroth tells the guild, 'FUUUUUUUUUUUCKKKKKKKK YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS'
Tibbou tells the guild, 'byebye SS !'
Kubaba tells the guild, 'died my ass off, but finished HOT'
Ashigaru tells the guild, 'and we did it in 2 nights. awesome'
Kubaba tells the guild, 'soo where is my chest pls'
Daasu tells the guild, 'In front of your back?'
Desideratus tells the guild, 'between your shoulders and your stomach Kuba'

Grats NC on beating HoT

Islands of Sand

After a VoA break, we went back to the zone with the scary stair and confusing doors.

Monsark tells the guild, 'hehe where is the door ? )'
Krasna tells the guild, 'can always join another time : )'
Kolbayn tells the guild, 'where do we go in the tower bit?'
Desideratus tells the guild, 'up three floors, theres an open door. click it'

Then it's easy - well, for some it is.
Koldanar tells ncteam:5, 'pretty easy to be honest'
Tykol tells ncteam:5, 'just gotta remember to run'
Borum tells ncteam:5, 'It should be impossible to die to the sandstorms'
Faldoom tells ncteam:5, '4 deaths on that one'


But, of course:



Elements of a dream

Koldanar tells the raid, 'raid come to me pls'
Sonal tells the guild, 'kold either go pink or change to a barb - quite hard to see u '
Dexzar tells the guild, 'Hiding behind the guild banner stick :/'

The Dream Master's eyes stare blankly, and its mouth chatters with a wooden clacking. 'Welcome, welcome! You have come to play!
Yes indeed, we have....
Monsark tells the guild, 'allready 6666 puppets down.....can we have fun too now plz ? ))'
Daclergy tells the guild, 'stop dying'
Borum tells the guild, 'Start healing'

Doing the puzzles aren't bad, if everything goes right.
Giskard tells the guild, 'puzzle grp cant talk but they are making progress for sure '
Aspect tells the guild, 'double puppets!'
Koldanar tells the raid, 'First puzzle down!'

Koldanar tells the raid, 'wipe guys'
Brighteagle tells the raid, 'if you cannot keep puzzle team alive we will always fail'
Benadebx tells the guild, 'GUYS'
Benadebx tells the guild, 'DONT STEP ON THE PADS'
Borum tells the raid, 'ASSIST ON <> [ a green dream avenger ] <>'
Koldanar tells the raid, 'Reset'


Guess we need some more training....

We decided to go pay Master Hemlock and his friends a visit. It went fairly well (for us, not for them) even if there were a lot of flies running around for awhile. But finally:



Well, it was a bit too early to do something else, so we went for a trip to the sky. Apparently the surroundings made our minds cloudy:

Monsark tells the guild, 'how you see "corners " in sky ?? ))'
Brighteagle tells the guild, 'you think outside the box'
Lerash tells the guild, 'same way as the corners in a circular room'
Trixxter tells ncshm:3, 'this is pretty trippy'
Kolbayn tells the guild, 'am I supposed to see nothing much?''
Kubaba tells the guild, 'i am dizzy'
Lerash tells the guild, 'you can look at me mate '

Well, not sure that it was that last comment that did it, but;

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Still to early for an early bath, but at least not to early to go swimming. Oh wait, are there sharks here?
Now, the most exiting part of this fight, was the looting....


Escapedeath tells the raid, 'Kiters be ready to kite those hungry sharks please'
Brighteagle tells the raid, 'all Stay at banner unless you are looting'
Brighteagle tells ncteam:5, 'and Tyk dies'
Tykus tells ncteam:5, 'what a dumb idea'
Zind tells ncteam:5, 'ill try to drop them over here with fd..'
Brighteagle tells the raid, 'if you win, Loot fast'
Brighteagle tells ncteam:5, 'they are pathing back'
Zind tells ncteam:5, 'zind down as well'
Benadebx tells the raid, 'Grats Monsark Sea Gem, Adornment of the Companion (1)'
Monsark tells the guild, 'where is chest plz ? )'
Sonal tells the guild, 'where the sharks'
Sonal tells the guild, 'mons / mooey dead'

Beast Domain down!



With a raidforce that looked about right we decided to give Beast Domain another go. This is one of thoes fights that all about DPS and Control sprinkled with a heavy dose of healing. After a warmup try with tanks splatting left and right in true lemming style we desided to buckle up and show what NC spirit is all about - and behold:

Another NC 1st!

Gratz all on our first VoA tier3 boss takedown. (remember to click book!)

Nordlys Crusaders Guild leadership is delighted to announce that Janinu has been added to our illustrious roster of Lifetime Members

Liftetime membership is conferred on retiring members who have:
through their hard work, dedication, efforts and achievements, made a substantial positive contribution to the guild

Janinu has been with the guild for almost nine years and throughout that time has maintained a raid attendance of almost 100 per cent throughout that time - a truly outstanding contribution.
(not to mention, back in the day being a willing helper on all the flagging and epic-getting events we used to run.)

We are, quite rightly, pretty good at acknowledging the achievements of the leaders who help run the guild and raids, but perhaps less so those quieter members who turn out week in, week out, regardless of target, to make sure we can achieve those goals - of which we are all so proud.

Janinu is now our longest-serving active member and while we are very sorry to lose her (and hope she comes back soon!) we are very pleased to say a very big thank-you and congratulations on Lifetime Membership


The Officer Team