Day 19 - Guild of Helpers

I've banged off some more marker sets - only two more to go. So hopefully I can say that this is done the next time I post. My experiment with the power switches at the Pod 1 portal time was a bust - the power wouldn't stay on. I'm wondering if Payiferen, with it's swirl plates on the floor, may be more important. So, I'm going to try a similar experiment with all the power switches at the Payiferen portal time. I good time to try that looks like Wednesday at 20:23 KI time (10:23 pm EST).

A far more interesting thing happened anyway. Corbin, who had helped me when I lost my Great Zero link in the Nexus, had created an avatar called Helper2.0 because he needed to join my neighbourhood to do what was needed and didn't want to be deleted from his old neighbourhood. I had noticed that there was now a new neighbourhood, Helper2.0's Bevin. Corbin had soon made that Bevin private again, but it gave my an idea. Why not have a Helpers' Bevin with every member there named Helper. The purpose to help newbies would be obvious enough and helper's could even room city locations and obviously be there to lend a hand to anyone who wanted it.

I pitched the idea to Corbin and he loved it. We soon created the Guild of Helpers' of which myself (as Helper HC) Corbin (as Helper2.0) were it's first members. We weren't even finished setting things up when the first person arrived asking for help with one of the pod Ages. Obviously, this is going to work. We began discussing uniforms when someone else showed up named Tsunami. She wanted to be a helper too. She came back as Helper420 and joined. We then returned to discussing uniforms. We all had ideas but eventually settled on a simple, but recognizable, white shirt with yellow pants with each individual free to customize within those parameters. Things seem to already be up and going pretty well.

Corbin - aka: Helper2.0 - at Guild of Helpers'

While all this was going on, I noticed that the Metaphysical Club's Bevin had gone public again. I noticed this one about a week ago when I was earnestly shopping for a neighbourhood and put it on my contact again list. Unfortunately, it went private soon after. Needless to say, now seeing it public again, I scooted over there and was lucky enough to find one of its members, Garamoth, on line. I contacted him. We both had things to do but agreed to meet in a bit. Soon I had joined that neighbourhood too (this time as HCIsland).

The Metaphysical Club's Bevin advertises itself as strictly out-of-cavern. No in character stuff. Just people being together playing a game. Sounds good to me! Unfortunately, I didn't have much time to talk with Garamoth. Setting up the Guild of Helpers' took much longer than I would have imagined and by the time I had joined all these neighbourhoods, I was ready to call it a day.

HC