by ASF Trinitie, 8 days ago
Kinship News: 8/31/08
New Leadership:
Let me introduce myself to you all. I'm Trinitie, Burglar and Trindal, Minstrel. I have been with ASF since October 2007. ASF was the first kin I joined and the only kin I've been in. I have been an Officer within the kin since January 2, 2008. I was promoted to Senior Officer as Master of Raids in February 2008. I was then promoted to Elder Council as First Officer in May 2008.
While I am sad to see Melwhin retire, it is my pleasure to take over leadership for All Shall Fade. I look forward to serving you all to the best of my abilities. I have an open door policy and if you need to talk to me about anything, please feel free to send me a PM here or a Tell/Mail in-game. With that said, you may see me disappear for a few weeks at the end of September as I am due with my first child then. Marithil, will be taking over my duties while I am away. Do not be discouraged as I will be popping in here and there to make sure all is well and will be back in-game as much as possible when I am able.
Your new First Officer is Marithil. While he will also remain Master of Raids, his new duties now include Dispute Handling, Kin Newsletter, and the Kin Bank. If you have a dispute with someone in kin or out of kin, please contact Marithil right away. Keep in mind if you are being harassed by someone outside of kin, submit a harassment ticket first, then contact Marithil.
Upcoming Events:
8/31: Rift Main Run (Locks 1 & 2 Complete)
9/03: Balad Gulran
9/04: Urugarth
9/05: Carn Dum
9/06: Rift Training
9/07: Rift Main
9/13: Raid Racing (see below for details)
9/20: Udunion - BG Targeted Raid
9/22: Burglar and Hunter Mentoring Class
9/25: Burglar and Hunter Mentoring Class
Kin Bank
We have lots of items in the chests in the Kin Hall. These items are being rotated out and vendored if not taken within a week. So please feel free to stop by the Kin Hall and take what you NEED, not what you want and if there is space, you can replace what you take for others to use. Keep in mind we can always use coin donations to fund upcoming events. Events can cost the bank anywhere from 1g – 5g depending on the event and the ASF Fall Festival event is upcoming soon.
Bank Balance: 8g 800s 38c
Donations
Many of you will notice there is now a PayPal donation link on the main page of the Kin's Website. This is for any monetary donations that you would like to send to me. What for, you ask? I pay $26.00 to keep the Kin website free of adds, to pay for the Kin Bank account (ASFBank), and to keep Ventrilo up and running (note: Ventrilo is actually paid for by Drwalin and I will ensure he receives his share of the donations for his part of the cost).
Donated: +$70.00
Ad-Free Website: -$21.00
ASFBank Acct: -$15.00
Balance: $24.00
Kin Relations
A reminder that Xifi is your kin relations officer. If you have feedback or suggestions for the kin, speak to him and he will bring them up at an officer meeting.
In your journey around Eriador questing, leveling and learning the game know that you're representing one of the OLDEST kins on the server. If you're fellowing with someone who is kinless, please do not hesitate to ask them to join our kin if you're enjoying fellowing with them. Your officers will be recruiting over the next few weeks and your help is appreciated as well while we grow our family.
Here are some FAQ for those of you who may be unfamiliar with our rules upon joining ASF. Please get familiar with these so you'll be well informed to answer them if asked:
- Recruits must be in kin for 14 days before becoming a member.
- Recruits must sign up on our website and fill out the application questionnaire.
- Once member status is obtained, they then have access to member privileges both on the website and ingame.
- We are apart of the Leithrim Alliance and once member status is obtained, they may visit the members forum on our website and obtain the information to join our Alliance chat channel for additional help and resources.
From the desk of Marithil, Master of Raids:
New! Raid Racing! Please
click here for the forum link and see below for details.
I am pleased to announce the creation of a new raiding activity for the kin called Raid Racing. This is will be a fun and new way to experience an old instance. The idea is simple; you have 2 or more teams of 6 get together at the entrance to a 6 man instance and run in together and see who can finish the whole area and make it back out first.
The entry free will be 500 silver for all participants except on the first race, which will be cut down to 250 silver for testing reasons. The winning team will receive the whole pot to be shared fairly among the team.
A few ground rules are as follows:
- This is a kin only activity, unless otherwise stated in the announcement of a specific race.
- Everyone must meet at the entrance to the instance at the specified time and no one may enter until all are present
- Everyone must pay your 500 silver to the designated person BEFORE you can join a team.
- Everyone must do all the of the listed bosses. The required bosses will be stated on every individual race.
- You must be of appropriate level to run the high end instances. (48 and above)
- You must have been in the instance area that you are racing at least once before you may sign up for the Racing Raid.
- When your team is finished killing the required bosses in order to win, you must be the first team out in front of the entrance again. This means the whole team, all must be there and in fellowship to win. You may disband and reinvite at the entrance, but if another fellowship comes out before you have reinvited everyone, the other team wins.
I am sure there will be addendum's to the rules as these progress.
As for picking the teams, there has been some debate in my mind on how this should be done. For the first race, everyone is to sign up in the rapid raids section of this site and the team leaders will be picked from the members, not the officers, though an officer will choose who the team captains will be. As team captain you have the right to pick your team much like elementary school sports, one at a time rotating through the team captains. The team captain is solely responsible for the picking of the team. The team captain has the choice of being the fellowship leader as well, which mean all the decisions of the the actual run will be his or hers. However the team captain may also choose to give the fellowship leader position to someone else.
The idea here is so that you don't have the officers, or main raiders as captains. This is in place so they can't just pick from people they run with and can do these runs in 30 minuets with. Trying to level the field so that we may make it fair and easier so that everyone feels welcome and has a real chance to win.
The first of these Raid Races will be Urugarth. The only bosses that have to be killed are as follows;
Athpukh - Warg Keepers Token
Gruglok - Sigil of War
Lagmas - Badge of Command
You must prove that you have killed those bosses by bringing back their class specific drops and posting them in kin chat as proof. At this point I know that you can cheat and already have the item in your inventory and just say you killed him, but please please, keep this fair and fun so that all may enjoy and have a chance at winning. Remember, if 12 people sign up at 500 silver a pop, the winners get a gold each! At the end of the race please wait at the entrance for all teams to come out and you may hand out the class items to those who need them on the teams.
For this first run, if you sign up here on the site for the race, send your 250 silver to me, Marithil, entitled Raid Race fee. I will handle the money for this first run.
Have fun out there!
~Trinitie
by Melwhin, 27 days ago
To All Members, Officers, and Friends of All Shall Fade.
Dear Friends,
It is my deepest regret to inform you that I have chosen to step down as leader of All Shall Fade, after nearly a year of leading this wonderful kin. This decision was one of the hardest I have ever had to make, but in the end I feel it is the right thing to do. My time with this kin has been special, and my choice to resign has nothing to do with the kin. Real life responsibilities and a general tiredness with the game and some of the development choices are the primary reasons for my retirement. I am taking an extended break from the game, at least until the October release of Mines of Moria, and I doubt I will ever be back to the game in my previous capacity. This considered, it felt the natural choice to turn over my responsibilities to someone else.
Before I go, I just wanted to take the opportunity to thank all of you who I have known and considered a friend throughout my LOTRO experience. I’m sure all of you know who you are. I have learned so much and have had countless good times with so many of you, I can’t list everyone I would want to thank right now. I certainly couldn’t go without mentioning the officers of this kin, past and present, who have helped me through some challenging times with the kin. I can’t thank you guys enough for the work you’ve put in to making this kin so great.
Our kin’s new leader will be Trinitie, who is more than capable in so many ways. All of you should be able to approach her with anything, just like you did with me.
Thank you all, and goodbye.
~ Melwhin
Leanidis
Marithil
