User:Lekon551/Binary-Bard
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A summary of my Spiral Knights Experience
In April 2012, exactly a year after I started Steam and on the game's birthday (all coincidentally), I joined the game after I found out it was the 2nd face of Steam (the 1st being TF2). I dropped Puzzle Pirates and TF2 for this game, as in my eyes, it was like a combination of 2 of my (other) obsessions, BIONICLE and Poptropica (greetings, fellow Poptropicans!).
I joined a few guilds, which I both left after realising they were mostly inactive. The first I had joined because I had no clue what a guild was (this was my first proper MMO, so I didn't even know what a clan was), and the second, Knights of Demons I joined at a rare time when lots of people were on at once, not to mention that two friends I made while in the guild had left (Mudplank and Ronbaa).
I became Vanguard in August, with the help of some friends, such as Geraking and Brandondasilva. I also made a Blast Network guild called Rule Of Three, which reached #1 on the Global guilds leaderboard in the week it was made!
I founded the guild with the help of a friend called Mudplank, who originally came up with the idea for a BN guild. Mudplank was a BN pro who really did get #1 on the global leaderboards whenever he was bothered. He invited some people to the guild who were good at BN, such as Streemo, Jayypro, Chaya-Girl and others. In September or October, the main BN members left the guild to make their own BN guild. Go figure. Their reasoning still evades me...and they pretty much wrecked RoT.
Meanwhile, what started as a joke between Mudplank, Geraking, and I, accidentally ended up in Mudplank leaving the guild. Geraking decided his stay was over as well, as RoT was sinking and he might as well play the field with other guilds. As far as I know, he is still in Exalt).
I left RoT and "guildhopped", as Mizukiamaya (the current GM of my first guild, Riders Of Death) put it, to some friends' guilds (I was invited to Legend of Zelda by Doom-Dude), then I settled down in a guild called The Anonymous, as two old friends of mine were there. Doctormadra, who had taken me on my first FSC run when I was a soldier, and Sibbsan, who was a selfless person who put his guild, then friends, before almost anything else. The guild changed slightly, and the majority of members temporarily moved to a new guild called Supreme Honour Squad. Long story, you can read about it only the wiki page, probably.
After I left the last two guilds, I joined The Core Coalition sometime in May (wiki page under construction), after an invite from close friend Wolf-Sin. I became Officer after a few weeks, as I'd joined at a time when the guild's rules were changing, and I made a few friends while in there, such as Tetratension. I helped in the usual ways that an officer would, but soon I started struggling in-game, due to other issues, and I also wanted to try out other guilds. I can guarantee that The Core Coalition is one of the best small-time guilds out there, they're really friendly and supportive.
This page is dedicated to:
In this section, I dedicate this page to the people whom without the help of, I would not be here today (in no order).
Infire: My first proper friend in the game, he helped me get my rank up all the way from Squire to Knight, which would've otherwise been impossible for me, and he taught me the essential fighting skills. He no longer plays any more.
Chenglee: He sent me an invite to my first ever guild and gave me a taste of what being in a guild (with rules) was like.
Brandondasilva: My second proper friend, and now my oldest friend in-game, I met him as a Squire, while playing Random LD, and we insulted each other, at least that's what it felt like to me. We added each other a few minutes later and when I was a Knight Elite and needed cr, he sometimes brought me on FSC runs with him.
Ronbaa: Sent me an invite to my first active guild, which turned out to be an inactive guild that was coincidentally active the week I joined. He became annoying during the year and few months that followed, but I try my best to remember him for the good friend he once was, and not the arrogant fool he is now.
Killerxodia: He took me on my first IMF run, when I was a Knight, and gave me the energy necessary to create a guild, which became Rule Of Three. He gave me advice for getting through my first Shadow Lair, and helped me with a few Champion missions.
Geraking: I owe this guy a LOT, he is now my closest friend in SK. He helped me start up my new BN guild the day after creating it, even though we'd barely known each other, and he was the one keeping everything stable. The guild would've stayed standing, had I not been irresponsible at the time, but he managed to keep the hall funded for weeks after the guildhall update came out. He is now a central Officer at [[Exalt_(Guild). He lent me cr for some items, and sold me some fetishes when nobody else was willing to, we share jokes and memes from time to time, and I would not be as tough or laid-back as I am now without this guy.
Mizukiamaya/Mizuki-San: She helped me out a lot, from occasionally farming for the Punkin King to helping me with most of my Champion missions, including the Gauntlet.
Wolf-Sin: We met when he offered to come on my first SL run in September 2012, but I delayed it so much he couldn't come in the end. He helped me get my first monster pocket, and he let me join his guild, The Core Coalition, where I stayed for roughly a month.
Sibbsan: This guy is a really nice guy, I added him as a friend after a successful FSC run. Later, when I was guildless, I asked to join his guild, and he invited me. He did Winterfest runs and FSC runs with me, and he's a really fun guy to play SK with.
Ziyad-Kk/Ziyadk-Kk & Skylined: These two were fun to do FSC runs with, Ziyad, being a joker, always said, "lol, the 3 gms", as I was the GM of a successful BN guild (Rule of Three), she was the GM of a successful LD guild (League of Arcanes), and Skylined was the GM of a successful PvE guild (The Fallen). They both gave me advice for getting through my first SL run, and during the Halloween Event, both invited me whenever they found the Punkin King. I don't see much of Skylined any more, but Ziyad helped me out during the second Kataclysm event.
Eclaium: I remember adding this guy for an inside joke, because he was in a guild where my friend was a Guild Master, and he discussed the whole 5 W's and H about the SL mats, leaving me walking away wiser. I used to always spam him on Steam, but now he's gone AWOL, and nobody knows when/if he plans on returning to Cradle.
Trimium: This guy invited me to my first LD guild, Blue Storm, and gave me a taste of what it was like. (It was not to my liking. :P) There was a time when we used to apply for EoS together, but I have come to accept that they only accept people with bad histories, and not nice/funny people, otherwise Trimium would already be there.
Guild History
Riders Of Death: This was my first guild, but it was inactive at the time, so I left after roughly a week. Great guild now, though.
Knights Of Demons: My second guild was really inactive. I coincidentally joined at a time when loads of people were online. I made a few friends here, though, such as Spiroclone, Shadow-Ghost, Ronbaa, and Mudplank.
Rule Of Three: My third guild, which I created. I made it as a BN guild, with the help of Mudplank and Geraking. I made a few more friends, such as Streemz, Jayypro, and Merlinb.
The Anonymous: My fourth guild, I joined because 2 of my friends, Sibbsan and Doctormadra, who everyone calls Doc, was there. Guild problems happened, details can be found on the appropriate wiki page.
Supreme Honour Squad: Read the above for details.
The Core Coalition: A friend of mine, called Wolf-Sin, invited me to help out a bit with his guild, which was smaller in population than I expected, as they had just carried out an inactivity purge. I met a few friends there, such as Tetratension and Jeancd, and I like to think that I DID help out, but alas, all I did was add a few snarbostuffings and constantly pay the upkeep late. This guild is great for all knights, and I only left out of self-loathing and shame at my irresponsibility. I am trying to be more responsible now.
Blue Storm/Aeons/Parallax: I followed my friend Trimium around a few guilds sometime in April and May, and ended up hopping from Blue Storm, to Aeons, to Parallax, before leaving Parallax, as I am not a very avid PvP player.
Fearless Gods: I joined this guild because I had an old spam invite, and I found out a few of my friends were in this guild, such as Streemz and Fadil-Flare, who was called Fb-Shady at the time this is being written. I stayed for nearly 2 weeks, and made some more friends, such as Frosse, Rafeh-Hameed, and Kingkrystal.
Other Experiences
When I was 8 years old, I played Club Penguin. It had just been released, so it was technically not MASSIVELY multiplayer. I quit that game a year later, after Disney bought it and made over half the stuff P2P. When playing an F2P MMO, that is just overkill.
I have always liked RPGs, a reason this game appealed to me. I started playing a bunch of games by the BattleOn company, such as AdventureQuest (AQ), DragonFable (DF), MechQuest (MQ), etc etc. Unfortunately, these were not multiplayer, but then BattleOn fixed this by releasing their first MMO, AdventureQuestWorlds. It was an instant hit with BattleOn gamers, but sadly, R-L problems forced me to quit playing.
One game I did play all this time was Poptropica, a game that came out around the same time as Club Penguin, but I preferred to all other online games at the time. The developers of that game were all popular children's authors, funnily enough, such as Shannon Hale and Jeff Kinney. I played that game from 2007 to 2012, at which point I decided I'd played this game enough, and quit while I had happy memories of it. (The devs were going quite psycho on ideas for the new islands as well, IMO.)
In April 2011, while begging my older brother to help me out with the Train Robbery challenge on Wild West island on Poptropica, he offered to give me a guest pass of Team Fortress 2 to shut me up. It worked, and I made a Steam account. Win-win! Aside from the Wolfenstein games, TF2 was the first FPS I ever played, and it was the main boredom buster of that year's Ramadan.
After logging 140 hours of TF2, total, in April 2012, I was bored. I knew I wanted to try out MMOs, and Puzzle Pirates caught my attention, as I am good at them. However, the community there was tiny, as it was an unpopular game. I looked for games by the same developers, and here I am...
More About Me
Pubescent Muslim Bengali teen living in London, not a good mix. RPG lover. Bipolar, though MUCH harder to tell on the internet, phew. Lacking somewhat in common sense, so do not talk about Battle Sprites in their abbreviated form (Geraking: "I can't wait for the BS update"). Linux freak (particularly Ubuntu), Bionicle freak, ex-Poptropican, ex-TF2 pro (ex-social reject/outcast?). Grammar Nazi and OCD, another bad mix. (Did you just realise how much effort I put into making this user page look decent? I'm not just talking about the text. xD)
Why do I put all this here, you ask? Well, what are the chances of you finding this page and/or telling others, may I ask?
