Guilds Suck

No really, they do. You can ask James, a friend of mine from Canada who's the GM for our allied guild, Conquest Borne. He's watching as little PvP twinks* start invading, under the wing of one of his subordinates who has got an ego the size of Asia. Half of his officers feel things are going wrong, and the other half feel things are fine.

Then of course, there's me. I'm the GM for the guild a group of friends and I started once we split off from Boomstick Syndicate. Our guild is called Unbroken. However, over the past few months it has become VERY broken. Our first GM left us after there were talks of merging with CB - she bombarded us with forum vitriol before she left - she's never coming back. Our second GM doesn't play so much anymore, because his job keeps him busy, so he passed it on to me. Incidentally, the three of us ran for a GM election (our first GM was just a default while we got established). I was the one who got the least votes, and now I'm running things. Will wonders never cease.
Anyway, other officers left to join other guilds as well. The three that were left - me, Case, and Jamie - kept on, and began to rally our 70's. We were getting folks keyed for Karazhan, and we were supposed to have our first official run tonight. People were getting psyched.
The time came around. There were six of us. Only six. Four more were needed, and two people were missing who were supposed to come (one of which was going to be the raid leader). Another person who had had a keyed lock somehow managed to do a character switch - the character has the same name, but is a shaman instead of a lock... and ISN'T KEYED.
Just as we were going to start combing our friends for filler, one of our tanks quit the raid group because he was frustrated that we couldn't get off the ground. The ones that were left in the group disbanded, and reformed a 5-man so we could run Shattered Halls in Hellfire.

That was going well enough - a few bad pulls, a couple of wipes, but nothing that we weren't used to. One of the missing members logged in, and apologized profusely - apparently he got wrapped up in RL work, and thus could not make the time. We let it slide, although I think that he could have gotten the message to someone sooner, instead of having us wait for so long.
The second member logged in. Said nothing. Then said something in the guild chat about how he was sorry, but he had to take an opportunity with a guild who was raiding full-time. Then he quit. I checked his name, and he had indeed joined up with a raiding guild - Hordish Inquisition, a guild in which I had a few friends in. I talked to one of them, and apparently this former guildie had applied on the site - none of us in Unbroken knew.

So us three officers talked to each other quietly in the officer channel. There's not much we can do right now but keep on trying to make things work. We don't like the idea of trying to run the shaman through everything again to get keyed, but we really don't have much of a choice. Our supply of 70's is running low, and although we can try to supplement from our friends, a lot of them are running Kara as well.

Case and I are bitter - Jamie probably is as well. We're disappointed that we weren't able to run, and that folks who were enthusiastic to run decided to quit on it, either from the raid or from the guild itself. We were so close to making a first attempt - so very close. And now the door has slammed shut again on our bony fingers.

With a darkened cast,
Grety

*PS: One good thing that happened today was that I got to see my friend Joe. Besides having tea and getting to see his adorable kitten Shyguy, we talked a lot about WoW. Through this talk, I confirmed what his girlfriend already was saying about twinking - that a real twink is one who uses cash from his mains to buy blue gear for PvP. Buying blues for yourself and then questing to level is not twinking. We all expressed our great loathing for twinks - my 30 paladin, when she was 29, had a guild note saying "not a twink!"... just to make things perfectly clear.

~G~