End of Summer Guild Party

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contest, game, guild, guild event, guild party, sholazar, summer, warcraft, whale shark, world of warcraft, WOW

My guild on Terokkar, The East Kingdom, had an end-of-summer party a few weeks ago.  Sorry I am just now getting around to writing about it….

The party location was the beach at Bittertide Lake, which is West of Glimmering Pillar in Sholazar Basin.

Start of the party

After the usual booze hand-outs, we started the party with a Heavy Leather Ball Contest.  Everyone was given a heavy leather ball.  The objective was to throw balls like crazy, and the person with the fewest balls left in their bags would be the winner.

This is the first time I have attempted to do this game at a party, and it didn’t really work out like I thought it would.  I don’t know if people were playing without the required number of open bag spaces (eight) or someone was afk, but we ended up having seven winners from a tie.  This is fine if you can afford that many prizes (I gave them Winterspring Cubs), but just be aware.

We then voted on best dressed for the party, which was a prize of 500g.

After that, we did another new contest: Skinny-Dipping Diver Dueling.  The rules: Standing on the slope between shallow and deep water two toons will duel under water with no gear on.  Each player starts with eight points.  If any part of the player’s body moves above water during the duel, they lose one point.  The winner of the duel receives two points.  So the highest possible score overall is ten points.

The trick to this contest was making sure people were staying on the divider between the shallow and deep parts of the lake.  If they are not following that rule, it really isn’t as challenging.  We did have one winner with ten points, and he received the Mini Mount WOW loot card.

The last contest was a number-guessing-game based on the trap door located in the lake area.  The trap door has coordinates you can see when you scroll over it.  I have been told they are some kind of Lost reference, but I have no idea.  In order to hold this contest, you need to make sure the party takes place far enough from the trap-door that players will not be able to look at it.

This is a picture of it:

Coordinates for Contest

Everyone participating had to guess a number six times- one time for each trap-door number.  The first and second numbers were between 1-10, the third and fourth numbers were between 1-20, the fifth number was between 1-25, and the sixth number was between 1-50.  Another option for the answers could be for the judge to pick their own coordinates (if you think anyone has looked before-hand to see what the answers are).  The 500g prize went to the player with the most amount of winning guesses (closest number to the answer wins each time).

After all of this, the party moved to Vashj’ir to do the whale shark kill for the achievement.  We did this at last year’s party, but we decided to do it again for newer guildies who didn’t have it.

Summer Guild Party

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gaga, game, gamer, guild, guild contest, guild party, MMO, RP, warcraft, whale shark, world of warcraft, WOW

Someone asked me last night- so why a guild party?  I explained that we have them every 3-4 months for fun and left it at that.  But again, a guild party is a good way to take a break from grinding as well as meet guildies you might not know so well.

So last night,  I hosted the “Guild Beach Par-tay” at a beach location just South of Caverns of Time in Tanaris.  I picked this location because of the events we did during the party as well as the scenic quality.  We mass summoned around 15 guildies to the beach.

I had asked people to come wearing a summer costume for a chance at a prize.  There were fire festival dresses, shorts, and bathing suits.  Many had on sunglasses, goggles, and spectracles.  I ended up not being able to pick a costume winner, so I gave away the Authentic Jr. Engineer Goggles to the winner of a roll.  Probably would have been a better idea to have an actual out-of-guild judge there for that part of the party.

I had announced also a “mystery prize” that had to be figured out.  For example- whoever does “X” at the party first wins the prize.  Since the activity was skinny-dipping first, I did give a hint when someone stripped that they were warmer.  He ended up winning that prize, which was 50g.

We also had held a sunset-themed screenshot contest on our facebook page, so that winner was picked by an inactive guildie and announced at the party.  The guildie received 300g as the prize.

Cat in the Sun

There was the usual guild performance by Lady Gaga.  Although her outfit was stunning (cindercloth set plus sandals and spectracles)  if I do say so myself, I think she might need to come up with some new material.  She did unveil the official pony keg though.

Gaga performance

I also handed out crafted heavy leather balls to each guildie, but during the party I forgot to have this contest.  It was supposed to be a throwing frenzy for 30secs.  I was going to give the companion pet prize of Lil’ Smoky to the guildie who received the most balls in bag, but this contest could be done in many different ways.

The major draw to the beach portion of the party was the Lemmings 310 contest.  We had all guildies fly up to a cliff, jump off and die.  The winner was the guildie who landed the farthest away.  He actually passed the prize, which was 310 riding money, to the second place person though.  This was a lot of fun, but thank goodness for mass ressurection!

Party Body Pile

We then traveled to another water area- Vashj’ir zone- to kill the whale shark!  This skull NPC must be kited while everyone kills him.  Best to run if you get aggro, and we did have some deaths.  Everyone got the achievement for it though, which is shown in the screenshot here:

After Achievement

Everyone who attended the party was sent savory deviate delights by mail as a parting gift.  Overall lots of fun!

EDIT: Mtdewme made a guild movie- the 2nd part covers this party.  If you want to see it go here.