Hmm. You could almost think of us as the keepers of the portal from the OOC world to the IC one.
To use a surface analogy... in the Society for Creative Anachronism, the events are all IC, but before hand, and on site, there's support for people getting ready to step into that IC space, everything from loaning basic garb to the casual folks, to helping people develop elaborate personas.
That's us, sitting on the occasionally very blurry but very large, gap between OOC and IC, and helping people cross without too much chaos.
And K'laa is right, it's not so much an organized structured group, as it is a gathering of ideology and mutual support. But, myself, I feel very strongly that there is a need for such a gathering. Over the last few years of Uru, I've heard many people say they felt the sense of "D'ni is Real" and being seeped in the Fiction of D'ni had grown faded, and that trying to be 'in cavern' (not even doing a storyline, but just being in cavern) was an uphill battle, because it wasn't the norm of behavior. So the immersive types became isolated, or just gave up. I don't want to see this continue, and become aggrivated by the lack on Cyan-run story, in MORE.
It's an interesting dichotomy... some people won't take things seriously unless they're labeled a Guild, other people have very strict ideas of what should be a Guild.
Having seen first hand what happens when an official Guild is named, even when something else already exists with the same basic job *shrug* This very easily could go back to being the Immersive D'ni Explorers Assosiaction as it was before, but then would it get the same amount of attention, or be shuffled off into the background cause it wasn't a Guild? Stuff to ponder.
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