The plantation fan overhead rotated lazily and mostly ineffectively, occasionally trying hard to muster enough energy to riffle the corner of the newspaper I was reading.  The heat on this island was as oppressive as the jungle was dangerous.  Otomai in the summer can be lovely, splashing in the waves once you clear the beaches of coral and shoo the crabs away.  The heat can also slam you down into a hammock on your veranda and keep you there, drowsily wishing for a cocktail to appear in the hand of someone whose only desire was to fulfil all your wishes.

And yet, lazing away the afternoon wasn’t on my agenda today.   My kit sat on a chair as I perused the paper, waiting for the local taxi to trundle up.  I’d packed the night before and had read up on the new mission.  If I was a betting person, I’d bank on bloodshed being spilled before night’s end.  Despite this being a select, highly-trained and adaptable crew .. shit could get real.  Skeunk wasn’t famous for giving away over his dofuses like so many hotel lotions.  Polite wasn’t a concept that he knew, although legend said he could occasionally be generous to those who bested him.  We were about to make the attempt.   God have mercy on our souls.

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This week saw ShadowDancer make an appearance and the return of Ferrahballah who was excitedly dashing around investigating old haunts.  We said a fond farewell to Sunburn who returns to school and promises to visit our forums.  Give her some stuff to visit.  Let’s see some action on the boards!

Congratulations are in order for two of our members, Fish-Stick and Oralind.   Fishie and Ora have reached the 150 mile marker.  Sooo … time to hand over the keys to the executive washroom, Intuo.

The old guy hobbled into view slowly, stopping briefly to adjust himself as old men sometimes do when they’ve lost their sense of public propriety, then continued on down the street.  As he neared the patio where I was taking in the sunshine and a bit of people watching along with my morning tea, I could hear that he was humming to himself.  He looked up and at me, waved his cane and nearly toppled over.  I repressed a chuckle, but I did give him bright smile.  He took that as a cue to introduce himself.  Erfoc he said he was looking for the SE guild hall, then pulled out a small flask from a rather cavernous pocket.  He winked and waved it in my direction with a questioning look.  Natrually, I accepted.   The  drink was smooth and well aged … like my new friend.  Welcome to SE, Erfoc.

In other news, we’ve dungeoned with Intuo and Wikeon this week and  Hailwing dropped by to bestow gifts on various folks.  Both myself and Fish-stick have acquired full Soft Oak sets with the help of many generous guild members.   Blocking Oralind’s shot has been elevated to a guild sport, Peique continues to menace the denizens of Kwismas Taiga and Fish-stick has been elevated to Proctector status.

The gusty little zephyrs played tag around the evergreens on Kwismas Island, sending sprays of glitter everywhere and chilling the cheeks of the heroic adventures making their way to the Superlative Exemplar guild hall.  Inside, steam rose off the kettle of kittenfish burbling away on a back burner.  Cups of hot cocoa were set out for the new recruits to wrap their frozen fingers around.

Muha began introductions, blushed as Cryptical leaned over to whisper in her ear, but continued on …

Cryptical wasn’t sporting the usual poker face for a cool cat.   At 192, he looks to be a fierce opponent with the tip of one ear broken and displaying a motley assortment of scars, yet his eyes gave him away, fairly glowing as he followed Muha’s every move.

KilnTyme, Cryptical’s brother, unslung his quiver of arrows and hung them up on a peg beside the door for easy access on the way out.  There looked to be some special arrowheads poking out of the leather case .. our level 162 cra will bear close watching.

Hellz-Wolfe‘s battered quiver went up beside it, looking much rougher.  He winked at us, asked if there was a bwork beer handy, slung a leg over a kitchen chair and took a long draw from the mug before checking around to see if he knew any of us from his kollosium exploits.

-TheNox- paused in the doorway, a bit uncertain of the welcome in a roomful of white wings.  Wikeon’s eye lit up, however; having a new brother of the red order will mean a lot, and the two of them were quickly chatting happily about inns and brothels of Brakmar.  Closing in on the end levels in the game, TheNox is a friendly sort of fellow, willing to lend a hand wherever, especially if it involves a Brakmarian brothel.

Pharos was almost easy to overlook in the crowd of tall folk.  A quiet type .. unusual for the highly exuberant eneripsa race, our 112 healer looks like he’s seen a few hard roads.  He’s recently returned, like myself, from a long, lonnnnnnnnnnnng Dofus vacation.  Having discovered the icelands of Frigost, we’ll be sure to find him there hunting down bounties.  Mastoslob, watch your back.

Makster grinned at us and when he spoke, the venerable enutrof had a Texas twang.   Quick with wit, Makster describes himself as “older than dirt.”  Our crazy Makster has been promised riches and nubile women for joining the guild.  By Crayon, who looks to be making a return, if only he can find his password.  I’ll bet he wrote it on a wall someplace and someone came along behind him to clean up.

And finally, there’s me, Oralind.  Some of you will may remember me from the beginning of the guild.  I arrived just after our first GM left to play Guild Wars, when the legendary Gloves, Kyek, Selesa, dWeeblet were still here.   In my five-year absence, I’ve forgotten a LOT of things, so I’ll ask your patience in answering questions that every level 35 toon knows.  For those that don’t know me, I speak Canadian with a  British  Columbian accent.

If you weren’t in the guildhall when introductions were made, please give all our newcomers a warm SE welcome!

Greetings all Difficult times approach as Superlative Exemplar has seen a catastrophic decrease in governor activity. Of 5 original governors, 3 have been missing in action due to RL issues. They haven’t stepped down from the job, but nonetheless cannot commit for Dofus at this time. Though the remaining 2 governors have attempted their best, we have had difficulty in balancing Dofus with RL too.

Hence I think the time cannot be anymore appropriate to announce new governors. We have discussed suggestions made by each governor, and chose what we thought were the best to fill this role. It’s been a hard selection. But we believe we’ve made the best one, and we can only hope you may support us on this. Without much ado, we proudly announce our three newest governors:

Bigheart!

For her benevolent compassion to care recruitment

Hail!

For his thoughtfulness and enthusiasm to lead people

And last but definitely not least,

Peique!

For his kindness and omnipresence to refer to

Let’s give a round of applause, a huge congratulations to all three!

With the recent inactivity of Rushu, Superlative Exemplar was none to be avoiding the plague. Governors have gathered once again to stand up for this Ice Age and made an unanimous decision to promote recruitment (yay, democracy. It actually works!)

Let us introduce three of our new Recruitment Officers, big-heart, El-Queyle, and WorshipMe. Congratulations on your promotion guys, let those recruits keep on coming!

Today (well, actually  weeks ago. But it’s better late than never… right?) ladies and gentlemen, I introduce another candidate to our SEED.

Smashing her way to 150 Alhia has made her way to the big SEED family. And her hammer smash I think most SE’ers can attest – oh the sensation of getting smacked on the head with pain. Err healing, with Hammer Ican. But you now have hands on the epic Hammer Sheys! Show those critters the skill you’ve got from practising.

Congrats on SEED Alh!

Good day to you all, we have another SEED announcement to make shortly after our last one! The pandas of panda of SE,  Thyfatone has attained the epic phase status recently. Thyfatone marks our first follower of the Pandawan of Superlative Exemplar. It’s been long… but a worthwhile journey! In the midst of his Panda rivals Thesenuts and Sytry racked through the levels of epic phase, Thyfatone had waited patiently until his time had come. And it has arrived!

Congratulations to the big level 150 mark Thy! Your full class set is available to you now for some more haxage.