Pig and Whistle Society

Overview

freearticlearticle The Pig & Whistle Society, also known as the Pig & Whistle Explorers Society or the Pig & Whistle Drunken Explorers Society (and of course, the Pig and Whistle Society), is a World of Warcraft guild for members of the RPG.net forums.

It is a sister guild of sorts to the Blacksky Company. While the two guilds are by no means friendly in game, out of game they should be friendly and cooperative.

The Pig and Whistle Society is an Alliance-side guild, based on the North American Kirin Tor Roleplaying server. The RPGnet channel (joined by typing "/join RPGnet") is the best place for people to meet who haven't yet been introduced into the guild.

Members are expected to assist each other, and to be civil to each other out of character. Normal speech is to be used (no leet-speak!), and all efforts to correct spelling, grammar, punctuation, and capitalization will be appreciated.

News and discussion about the guild will take place in the Video Games Open forum on RPG.net. Relevant topics will begin with the [P&W Society] tag.

The Pig & Whistle Society is in an alliance with two other smaller guilds, Lost Twilight and Virtue. This is primarily to organize raids and end game content, although if you see a member of those two guilds, feel free to say hi. 78819384110719415137172

In-Game Background

Eli Langston formed The Pig & Whistle Explorers Society over 200 years ago, as a gentleman's club of sorts; a group of noblemen, adventurers, rogues, explorers and ne'er do wells centered in the famous pub in Stormwind. Over the course of the Society's storied history the charter has changed hands many times, lost in gambling matches, sold to get rid of debt, taken over by overzealous members. No one actually knows the entire history of the Society.

About 30 years ago, Giz'nit Cranksprocket, a goblin in the employ of the Venture Company, won the leadership of the Pig & Whistle Society in a rigged game of cards. Giz'nit turned the Society into more of a professional treasure hunter's organization, with members traveling to dangerous remote places in search of the fabulous wealth rumored to be hidden there.

Upon forcibly retiring a decade ago, Giz'nit passed the reigns of the Society on to Olaf Ironbeard, the Society's bravest explorer. Olaf was last seen heading to the Isle of Dread two years ago. After his disappearance, the Pig & Whistle Explorers Society went their separate ways, some milling about, others travelling the world on their own. The Society was thought disbanded.

Last year Nyssala, a night elf who had barely left the forest confines of her home, discovered a dwarven corpse in a Furbolg cavern in Darkshore. Investigating, she found a piece of parchment on the body. The paper proclaimed it's bearer as owner and administrator of the Pig & Whistle Explorers Society. Not sure what to do with this, she sent word out that old members could return and new members were welcome; and she set out to Stormwind City, where the Society began two centuries ago.

Now the Pig & Whistle Society has taken on more of it's original flavor. Members are free to travel the world largely as they see fit, seeking out lost and ancient treasures, uncovering mysteries, exploring dangerous locales, and traveling the world in search of adventure, fame and fortune.

Recently Nyssala stepped down as head of the Pig and Whistle Society, promoting Manaan to head of the Society. The society has continued to prosper, holding meetings in ever more remote and dangerous locations.

Officers

Each class has a guild officer that represents their class. Officers will have invitational powers, as well as access to the officers' notes and players' notes (to add new RPGnet handles if they invite). Officers will be responsible for organizing trips into instances that the players in their respective classes need, keeping discipline in the ranks, and, if the guild gets too big for the Guild Master to handle minor issues and grievances himself, they will represent the general needs of players in their class.

All officers' alts will be promoted to World Traveler, which will be, in effect, identical to the Officer rank. The only distinction is for roleplaying, and to keep track of which class each officer represents.

At present time, all officers are selected by the Guild Master. At some future time, a more democratic process may take place, especially as more and more power is divested into the positions as the guild grows and becomes more influential.

The current officers are as follows:

Player Name	Character Name	Rank	Class
Dorchadas	Manaan	Guild Master	Druid
Uriany	Yannah	Quartermaster	N/A
CyanideBreathmint	Bloodfoot	Officer	Druid
MonkeyWrench	Deleila	Officer	Mage
Uriany	Velwynn	Officer	Hunter
E. Deirdre Brooks	Ashleye	Officer	Warlock
Dastard	Darryl	Officer	Rogue
Gaming_Butterfly	Nelanith	Officer	Warrior
JustinCognito	Rabier	Officer	Paladin
mostlyjoe	Wyder	Officer	Priest

Guild Roster

See Pig and Whistle Society:Members

Guild Bank

The Guild Bank can be viewed at http://pandw.g0g.net/bank.html. The Pig & Whistle Explorer's Society's Quartermaster is Yannah. The bank will be updated every Thursday evening.

Requests for items from the bank can be mailed to Yannah within WoW, or sent as a PM to uriany on RPG.net.

Additionally, the Pig & Whistle Society will pay for your Guild Tabard and help pay for your mount. The Guild will provide 1 Gold for a Tabard, and up to 80 Gold for a mount and training. We will pay this out to one character per player, unless you pay it back, at which point the money is open to another one of your characters.

Guild Rules

The following rules are meant to help with the enjoyment of all. Please read them, and respect them. If any of them are issues for you, contact your guild officer, or Nyssala directly.

Roleplaying

This is a guild of roleplayers, for the most part, and the server we play on is a Roleplaying server. All names of characters are expected to be within reasonable bounds for that race, per the rules of the server. Roleplaying is strictly optional, but encouraged.

It is suggested that players use the flagRSP addon, although it is not by any means required. It will allow you to add a surname and an outer description that other users of the addon will be able to see. Also, a backstory for your character is not required, but recommended to aid in your roleplaying style. As of the 1.9 update, flagRSP is an "outdated" add-on but still perfectly functional.

All /says and /yells are to be completely in character (IC), with no exceptions. Also, /guild chat is expected to be IC.

/party speak is typically a mix of out-of-character (OOC) speak and IC speak. This may change in the future as the guild's partying becomes more and more specific.

OOC speech is best kept in private tells, and in the RPGnet channel.

Officer speech will also be a mix of IC and OOC, as appropriate by the situation.

Looting Rules

All Bind on Pickup (BoP) items are to be passed on, and discussed afterward. Any roll on a Bind on Pickup item, or any taking of one without discussion and agreement from all party members, is considered EXTREMELY rude etiquette in World of Warcraft, almost to a punishable level.

All Bind on Equip (BoE) items can be rolled on as normal. Only roll Need if you are going to wear that item immediately. Roll Greed if you want it for some other purpose, including selling, disenchanting, sending to alts, saving for later use, or sending to the guild bank. Hit Pass if you don't want to bother with the item at all. If, after the roll is done, someone determines they can use it right away, the item should be given to the person; not doing so is considered quite rude.

If there are any disputes, the highest-ranking officer present, or the Group Leader if no/multiple officers are present, will make all decisions. If there is a grievance in looting etiquette, it should be brought to an Officer, or an officer of a higher rank, if an Officer is the infracting party.

Further discussion and explanation of these rules can be found in the World of Warcraft:Tips article.

Guild Events Manager

Guild Events Manager is an addon to allow the easier scheduling of instances, meetings, and other P&W events. While it isn't (and will never be) required, it makes scheduling events much easier than starting threads on RPG.net due to the ability to dynamically check it while in game.

After installing the addon, click the options tab and join the "guild" and "ktevent" channels. ktevent will use one of the allowed channels and is primarily used for raiding/high level dungeons, so lower-level characters and those for whom channel space is at a premium due to addons may ignore it if they prefer. The listing will update dynamically, so it may take some time to fill up. Check the members tab if you are unsure it is working--it should say "guild-pig and whistle society" as a sub-tab and display a list of the members online currently using GEM.