Archive | February 22 2023 | Nick LS Whelan
Once upon a time I ran a World of Warcraft guild on the Silver Hand server. It was my primary social outlet during the awkward transition from homeschooled kid to adult living on my own. <Entelechy> was a good bunch, for the most part. We had a lot of fun role playing, venturing into dungeons, and sitting in ventrillo chit chatting together. We also got tangled up in all the predictable sorts of high-stakes relationships that chrocially online young adults are wont to. The highs were high, and the lows were so low that sometimes I wonder if I'd be a more well adjusted individual if I'd needed to find a more local social outlet for myself. But regardless of anything: this guild is how I met my spouse, so I will never regret it. <3
Because I am me, I made a website for the guild. You see, that's what the truly 1337 guilds did back in my day. Also, building websites is fun! I built dozens of sites like this one. I enjoyed working out the site's appearance and filling it with enough #content to make it appear functional, but actually maintaining websites is a skill I didn't develop until I started my D&D blog. Looking at the most recent update (below this one), I stopped updating things when <Entelechy> was still in its nacent stage. Look at me down there, celebrating that we can clear level 50 dungeons with ease, my goodness. Before the guild broke up we were clearing Karazhan semi-regularly.
In adapting these old files for presentation as an archive integrated into linkskywalker.com, I've attempted to find the best compromises between preserving it as it was, and making it functional on the modern web. The CSS and HTML are absolutely god-awful back here. Yuck!
Also: I share this website knowing that it's full of cringe. By saying I know it's cringe I make it less cringe for me to post it…right?
Signing off,
~Nick LS Whelan / Sentai "The Corpseseeker" Grehsk
Holy Crap! | November 10 2007 | Sentai Grehsk
So, yeah, I haven't updated this site in awhile--but not for lack of activity within Entelechy! Our numbers have swelled to over 50 accounts, with more and more of them being active participants in guild activities all the time. Several higher level characters have joined the guild as well, allowing us to run just about any instance lower than the mid 50s with relative ease. As more of our members progress through the game, that cap will only rise. RP has also remained a strong focus for the guild, and the attendance at our weekly meetings is growing all the time. In fact, our growth has been SO exponential and shocking that I'm going to need to promote more officers just to help me deal with it all. Hope you're all enjoying yourselves, and don't forget to check out the forums! I'd love to see more of my guild buddies outside of the game. ^_^
Signing off,
~The Corpseseeker
wh00t | SEPTEMBER 30 2007 | Sentai Grehsk
So I'm much more optimistic this week than I was last week. If all goes well, the url of this page may just be in the guild message of the day within the next 5 or 6
hours. At this point I'm looking at a solid design, and a damn good start on content. Hopefully the forums don't decide to be a bitch to work with...but it should be okay--for now. I'd like
to apologise in advance to all Internet Explorer users for my forum. It'll work for you just fine, don't get me wrong, but it won't look at pretty as it should. Mostly because I made a few
nubbish mistakes while working on my design tweaks, and forgot to cross platform test everything. As a result a few things might look a little off. While we're on the subject, may I suggest that all of you IE users start using a REAL browser. Anyway, back to work. Have fun everybody!
Signing off,
~The Corpseseeker
Week 1 | SEPTEMBER 22 2007 | Sentai Grehsk
Well the site has gone a bit slower than I was hoping, and let me be completely honest, it's all my fault. I've been lazy, slothful, and even a bit of a procrastinator. I dunno guys, I just don't have the drive right now. A tiny bit burned out I suppose. I will try to do better friends. You deserve it.
Signing off,
~The Corpseseeker
Hello There | SEPTEMBER 15 2007 | Sentai Grehsk
Well Entelechy has certainly managed to get off the ground and become a full blown guild, moreso than Heroes of Twilight (my previous guild) ever was. So I think it's about time I get started on a hub for members to visit and communicate through while not on World of Warcraft itself. Thus we have what you see here--the start of a website which I hope to finish very soon. I'm very busy a lot of the time, so I'd like to apologise if this ends up taking longer than anticipated, but I promise you I will try my best to make something that we can all be proud of here. Aaaand with that, I don't see as there is much left to say. See you in the game.
Signing off,
~The Corpseseeker
