Wookiees Unite

I joined a guild today. It’s all wookiees!

It’s a whole new world when you’re in the guild. Before I joined, I teamed with a bunch of guys last night… we went to Yavin 4 and fought some gonzo monsters. It was the first time I’d really done a extended group, and it was great.

Anyway, I joined their guild today, and I’m in a guild meeting right now. It’s fascinating… I’ve never been in a networked virtual meeting of this sophistication. It’s spatial, multimodal… an amazing representation of a meeting hall. We’re obeying Robert’s rules of order and working down the agenda, with the meeting officials up on a stage.

The guild breaks down this “power-gamer/role-player” dichotomy you see all the time… people are very invested in leveling up, both for their own good and for that of the guild, but they’re also interested in being true to the universe and to how Wookiees have been defined in the SW universe before Galaxies. The guild has a warfaring side and likes PvP but clearly situates it within a view of the fiction, and balances it against the needs of the player city.

My guild is on a different planet, several stops away from Corellia, so I had to move my stuff. I’ve accumulated a lot of junk already. I now have two houses, one in my guild’s city and another on Corellia. Guess I need to put the latter one up for sale.

It was a very enlightening weekend, and Wookiee armor rolls to live this week, so the fun is just beginning…