Can we gather twelve brave fellows to hunt in the deep

There is certainly no harm in trying.

It had looked like we would be short last night so it was no major dissapointment (on the other hand, a failed graphics card seeing me without a PC until nearly 03:00 in the morning was dissapointing, but that's a subject for another thread ).

I think we need a good picture of who can make what times and then we can try to find the best fit.

I can make just about any time, but notice is what matters for me. As some will have seen from my constant failure to be of help at short notice, I just need to get things in place before getting into a long adventure.

Maybe we can get organized by using the calendar of the forum. Just put an activity/ meeting in the calendar and let people add their name or something like that.

Barowine ll be busy most sundays, tuesdays and wednesdays. That leaves mondays and thursdays for best days when I could dust of Bregowine for turttle smashing. Fridays and saturdays are usually most slent times, but maybe we could make those work too.

I shall support Aloisa here. Almost any night is doable for me, if it's announced early enough, say a week before or so. More severe limitation is my time zone (GMT+2), but I think I can work my way around it once a week. Using the forum's calendar sounds like a good idea to me. Looking forward to try this!

I second that. If announced early enough almost anything is possible in my shedule.

Cheers

Would I dare to suggest coming Thursday, 1st of November, for a retry? I tried to add the possibility of event to the calendar, but I either don't have the rights or (more likely) I just lack some essential skills.

I should be able to toss Bregowine. Need 10 more people!

What shall the starting time be? 20:00 GMT? 21:00 GMT?

I played with the calendar briefly, and it was a bit odd. It looks more like making a board post when you make an entry.

I meant to post for another try, but things went a bit wrong PC wise (I won't bore you with the details, but postal problems in the UK mean I can't even send my motherboard back for testing / replacement).

Just about any evening is fine with me.

Some of our members do not make it online until 21:00, but previously some requested an earlier time than that. It's really hard to know what's best. :-o

I will try to make a more useful contribution later after I have finished swearing at various bits of PC around the room.

I will certainly be there anyway.... even if I have to hijack my mothers PC and play on low graphics settings.

Too bad,

Count me out foor the next few weeks. Of course i wish all of you happy hunting and save some turtle soup for me.

Cheers

Sorry to hear you have problems with your hardware, Aloisa It's frustrating, I know... Great to hear you will try be with us, though I suggest we try to start GMT 21:00, and watch how it turns out. As for arranging future retries, I really strongly support the use of forum calendar for this purpose. The information of who will be online would be, in my opinion, much more easily gained from there, rather than reading through a thread. Although I must admit, that the usage of a thread adds a nice, more humane and conversational touch to the arrangement. But no pressure with that Aloisa, really, I well understand that you and your PC are " going through a difficult period", as the saying goes. I don't mean too be pushy (if I however seem like it, it's only because I'm not fluent enough with English nuances, please forgive me).

And of course, before the using of the calendar starts, would it be perhaps a good idea to fix the starting time semi-permanently to a certain value by conversating on this thread? If it seems we constanly fail to get participants at certain time, we could then tune the time here, before adding any new events to the calendar? Also, should we perhaps not limit our arranged kin efforts solely to the Turtle, but rather, instead of twelve aim to six members. This because, at the moment, according to this thread, we can at maximum have 9 companions (how apt! ), and that really means, that the scheduled time and date have to work for everyone. Of course all of us have vast networks of friends, who can help, so that propably won't be a problem and we can get a dozen, but the more we will be missing of the number of nine, the more modifiers it will add, and the more complicated the arrangements will become.

Any comments, suggestions, critic or personal insults, that have risen based to this idle rant of mine?

Ahem, I'm sorry if I flood this thread overmuch, but it seems I've found a whole new level of personal incompetence... While setting the retry date, I looked the previous month Therefore, when I said "coming Thursday, 1st of November", I of course ment coming Thursday, 29 of Oct. Hehee, very funny ... Humble apologies. Just for the record, for what day did you think you signed up, Aloisa and Bregowine? Coming Sunday or Thursday?

Also good news: I learned how to use calendar. I added the event for Thursday, and will add one for Monday, if that seems more potientional candidate. If no disapprovals are voiced, I will enter 21:00 GMT as a starting time. Those willing to participate, please feel free to sign up.

Ooops. Without paying enough attention to the date I assumed it to be a week on Thursday (which it clearly isn't as I see now that's the 5th).

When I made a test event on the Calendar I was expecting to receive some kind of alert when the time was up. I remember a long time ago Fafnir said it didn't really live up to his expectations and that's why we didn't use it much... I guess that is what he meant. It still will help to make the date clear though so is of some use.

I am promised to something this Thursday... and usually would be on Monday too but if Monday looks likely for enough people to gather then I could pass on it for a week. Generally I would be doing something on each Monday and Thursday, but when there is notice for an event I will leave them clear if they are the only days others can make. Others of the Kin are likely to be promised to raids on those days too (and hopefully more Kin members soon once the beast of radiance armour has been overcome... how I sometimes wish that one would go away).

Hello again,
I found my way back to your Forum =P

Anyway I could join with my champion or loremaster if you need more DPS :-)

Glad to have you back with us, Feantur *smiles and waves*. You're most welcome!

Thank you for your answer, Aloisa - and flexibility. I appreciate if you can be available on Monday 2nd or Thursday the 5th! It seems that we won't get too many kin members to try kin run tonight, so there was luckily no great harm done with my lack of skills of reading calendar *phew*. When we get more information of other members' regular schedules, we could perhaps *checks that Bregowine isn't around* consider changing of the week day, especially if great many of our members would be regularly willing to accompany us at some other night than that of Thursday or Monday. The current days are based solely upon Bregowine's schedule, since it's only known limiting factor so far. Of course, changing the week day would then mean an immeasurably loss of a stout Guardian, and also that I would need to find some other back, behind which hide during fights. Oh, the burdens of life...! Nonetheless, please all feel free to comment, if you have any kind of regular schedule that prevents participation at certain nights.

Conserning the calendar, I thought that I would now add three possible dates for retry. Monday the 2nd, Thursday the 5th and Monday the 9th. First Monday is almost here, so I understand if it comes too quickly. Therefore I added the further days, so that those willing to participate could adjust their schedules accordingly. The cancellation of the events - in case of too few participants - will take place on Fridays and on Wednesdays. Fridays for Mondays, Wednesdays for Thursdays. Most propably before the noon. This is of course subject to change, if you want. I just personally wouldn't like to leave the possible Turtle-hunters hanging from a loose rope till the startig time, especially if there are plenty of those, who have logged in just for the Turtle.

To make matters more confusing *apologizing smile* the cancellation of coming Monday run won't take place until Sunday 15:00 GMT, I think. It would perhaps be too hasty to do it tomorrow -and you all know the Ents' saying of hastiness.

Gaaah, I can't add any Events to calendar at the moment! I'll get back to it after couple of hours.