The Rogues' Guild

"Pray for lag...because nothing else will save you." -Bishop, RGc1

The Guild's online gaming activities actually had a couple of predecessors, in a sense, in the form of the two clans I had founded before (though Bishop and Pirsin weren't involved in either much more than when I needed a hand because other players wouldn't show up at clan matches). In '99 I had founded the TvGI clan (don't ask me what it stood for; I can't remember), which I later reformed as the IAF (Imperial Allied Forces), which managed to break the Top 10 of the Rainbow Six clan ladders (mainly done by myself, because other members tended to no-show, or I had help from Guild co-founder Bishop, known then as Thorne, who himself was often plagued with technical problems). After moving over to Rogue Spear, I disbanded the IAF (which at that point was really just me anyways), and Bishop, along with Pirsin (who was using a name at that time that I can't remember) and I (now going by Murdoc) formed the Rogues' Guild. The Guild, with just us three (for the most part) hit number one on the Rogue Spear clan ladder of the same league that the IAF had hit #5 on in Rainbow Six, and managed to hold on to it for a month (it was in the match where we became number one that I, playing alone after Bishop got disconnected and could never get back in, earned my current and longtime namesake 2Cold Scorpio. It involved a shotgun and a sniper rifle, and 40 seconds of time elapsed, at the end of which were two disgruntled men saying I was cold...hence I became 2Cold, and took on my zodiac sign to finish off what would be my longtime callsign. I actually didn't know it was a wrestler's name at the time. lol

Eventually, we started working on the Rites of War mod (which was never completed due to how utterly ambitious the project was, and school was starting to take a lot of time), and I was beta-testing several other mods. Around this time, we dropped off the clan ladders and just played for fun. It was in this time that the infamous 9 second game occurred...I dropped one grenade off the roof of Killhouse, and wiped out the entire opposing team of four about nine seconds after the game began. As far as I know, its the shortest Rogue Spear match ever that didn't involve any technical difficulties.

The Guild was never officially involved in AvP in a clan sense; I won one tourney, and Bishop and I hunted bugs for fun.

It might be worth noting that we all three did all these things up to this point with a 28k dial-up Internet connection. Amazing, I say.

During my downtime, the Guild went into a hiatus (our online gaming activities, anyways), though Pirsin and Bishop represented the Guild well (and still do) in World of Warcraft as members of Hellstorm (so called because it's hard to name yourself "The Guild" when the game is filled with guilds) and freelance in Battlefield 2142 while I carried on the Guild name in Star Wars: Battlefront 1 & 2 on line on the PS2.

Bishop, Pirsin, and I have all been best friends for over a decade, and it was us three who put the Guild together, and its something that'll never come apart. I've reformed the clan part of it here on Steam for pride and old-time's sake (I have no real intention of trying to climb any more ladders or enter any more tournaments); we're just doing this for fun now. =) Long live the Guild!

-2Cold Scorpio, Rogues' Guild class 1A
January 23, 2008