Dead Can Dance Killing Fields

[spiritdance]

Origins
Dead Can Dance was formed from the ashes of Last Rites on the Unrest server which suffered from a lack of structure and the leadership's desire for power, riches and 'the ladies'. Dead Can Dance has no "leader", instead opting for an officer core who all share equal power. The founding members came together to prosper as a guild and team not individually. Leadership, teamwork, cooperation, going the extra mile, enthusiasm... These words can be found frequently in the chat logs of that faithful evening on December 4, 2005.

Dead Can Dance is currently only active on the Nagafen PvP server, although the guild does technically still exist on Unrest.

Some Ideals and Statements:
By helping and encouraging members to advance and prosper, the guild also advances and prospers.

Guild First - In all things, the good of the guild trumps the good of an individual. If a guildie needs your help while you are in a pickup group, you should drop group and go help.

Every member of the guild, from initiate to Senior member is important.

Higher level guildies have more responsibilities to both the guild as a whole and lower level guildies. Offering help and suggestions is partly how you achieved your rank.

Disputes will be handled fairly and without partiality.

A guild with 20 good players who are on a lot and work together is better than a guild with 10 good dedicated players and 100 other players who don't give a shit. It's quality over quantity.

Although we would like to do more end game raiding, both PvP and PvE. we will not allow people in the guild just to have the numbers to do it. We should get our guildies tricked out with the best gear possible, by whatever means we can. Instances, Tokens, and if it works out raiding. A raiding alliance may be in the works, but it won't happen at the expense of our identity.

Would we like to be an "Uber" guild? Sure. If we aren't, do we really care? No. We are here to have fun playing the game, talking with friends both new and old in Ventrilo or Teamspeak, and to get as much cool stuff as we can.

Drama? Keep it the hell out of the Guild.

Shit talking? Not by our Guild members. We are all adults, we need to act like adults. If you get bashed, make a mature argument, then drop it. At all times guildies need to remember they represent the guild by wearing our tag. Rise above the bullshit.

PvP - At this point, PvP is not a big part of what we do. Seldom do we form groups to go out PvPing. We treat it as an added element of gameplay... "We need to get to Ho'Lou to progress our class hat quest, how do we get past the x3 at the cloud platform?" PvP can be considered an "intelligent" mob (at least a "little" smarter than npc mobs). If we run into a good fight on our way somewhere, hell yeah we'll engage.

Hacking/Exploiting - ABSOLUTELY NOT TOLERATED! If you have to resort to this type of activity to enjoy the game, we have NO use for you. If we find you exploiting or hacking, you will be removed from the guild. If we only suspect it, you will be confronted for an explanation. We hope that the guild rank progression will weed out any bad apples before they get to be full members. (EQ2 Maps is NOT considered an exploit by SOE, nor the guild)

This is a game... it *has* to be fun.

Dead Can Dance Rank Structure