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The Earthbound is a guild focused on team work, communication, and community building (in no particular order), usually in MMOs but also in other games. We are currently active mostly in WoW (Dragonmaw, Horde side) and STOR (The Swiftsure, Imperial side).

In game initiates: you are not members yet. You still need to follow the "How to join" section- no exceptions! Keep in mind that you do not fill out an application without a sponsor, and that your application will be viewable by all full members. Applications can fail, so do it right the first time!

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First Open RP-PvP Event on Basilisk Crag, hosted by The Earthbound

, May 12, 12 3:51 PM.

We may be only a theme guild, but we've done more work for the RP-PvP community-wise than any other guild. Our first event was more on the RP side, but it's helped us get an idea of the numbers we can pull for future events that'll be a bit more geared towards PvP! As expected, we had some no shows, but Oxi came out early to host some duels. Amazonia dominated the RP at the slave auction, but Semantic Thought walked away with one of our slaves (hope they're a good fit, Lavender.Lilac!). Enigma apparently came out, but decided to stick to lesser known parts that may need to be explored during future events.

SWTOR: Better than a free trial

, Mar 29, 12 8:46 PM.

Thanks to a wonderful individual on our server, our guild now has access to a high level account with not one but two max level Imperial characters. Blu collars+ who qualify can try out SWTOR at the level cap, with a good amount of max level epic gear, as either a tank/melee stealth dps or healer/caster dps. Full details in the SWTOR Blu Collar forums.

And of course, thanks again to The Swiftsure SWTOR server! The game may not support world pvp, but the player base has shown that we don't pvp for nothing ;)

Terminal Tuesdays for The Swiftsure!

, Mar 16, 12 2:21 AM.

For those who remember us on Dragonmaw in WoW (where many of us still are), we've brought back Friday Night Fights in a lighter way to help out our SWTOR server, The Swiftsure. We call it Terminal Tuesdays, and all it asks is that folks come out to Ilum on Tuesdays for pvp, either for the world pvp objectives or to queue in the pvp zone to take advantage of the PvP buff.

And we're not alone, either. Methodology's given us support, Nova Corps has sent folks out, and Respected and Despised showed up Tuesday and several days after that... and this was for our first event. Our server's actually working together to keep world pvp alive. Combined with being an active 24/7 server thanks to the Oceanic guilds, The Swiftsure has established itself as one of the servers to choose for SWTOR.

The Earthbound Receives High Praises!

, Feb 13, 12 6:10 AM.

A bit of info on this image. TERA Online has a little something called "praise." About every 18 hours, players can award "praise" to guilds. All it does is show that a guild's done something cool for you. It doesn't DO anything, it's just a way players can reward guilds that are doing a good job.

Now, look at the numbers and dates. There's only a few guilds that have more praise votes than members, and only 1 that wasn't made on the first day of beta (guess who that was ;P). Most of the guilds on that list didn't spam for members (some did). Several guilds on the list (which we won't mention) spammed their own guild chat to get members to vote.

So, how did The Earthbound end up as #16? I won't lie- the only full members of the guild (Den, Tammy, Crawling, and Phantom) voted 2 times each. We won't deny it. We had 5 other people join us, but we never spammed for recruits; all had to pass a simple brain check, which believe it or not, several people failed and were denied an invite (it's closed beta, so we were more casual, but we do have our standards). Some left, but of the ones that joined, 3 voted for us (and 1 was an ally from our Mumble server- Hi Mute!).

The remaining 7? From random members of the community, some of which were guilded. We helped people with quests, information, and advice. We told them about the praise system and how to use it, but only after letting them know they could vote again the next day. Most people didn't care. Others then notified us that their guild had been spamming to vote them up but didn't know how to do it, so were using our advice to vote for their own guilds. After all that, 7 people, outside our guild, still took just a little bit of time to show us that we were making a difference. Lots of work, little in-game reward, but a great feeling.

Thanks CBT1 Serpentis Isle!

Next stop, TERA!

, Feb 10, 12 4:02 AM.

The WoW guild's still chugging along in Dragon Soul. The TOR guild is still leading the Ilum ops group for several hours a day and trying to guild the low level warzones on The Swiftsure despite our small size. Our next stop is TERA Online! Check the "other games" section to keep track of us!

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