<Hospice>

[Zephys]

Hospice is a support-focused guild available to the public, our primary function being what we call our "Wambulance" service, which amounts to specialized teams of porters and clerics that are prepared to dive deep if they must to get you your XP back.

We just formed yesterday, so we're eagerly recruiting. We're taking all classes, but have a keen interest in Druids, Wizards, and Clerics to facilitate Wambulance operations. Rogues, Bards, Necros, and Chanters are also appreciated for their utility in especially difficult recoveries. We will accept low level characters; we also serve as a leveling guild internally.

Our discord is available for public use at https://discord.gg/2HtmvBNdQz .
Sign on and keep us company while we wait.

Here's a thing we already wrote for our discord.
Our Services, in order of usual priority:

"The Wambulance"/Danger Rezzes: What we live for. There's no place in the mortal realms our top officers can't retrieve your corpse. We will delve your dungeon and get you back on your feet in a safe place. Tips in the "Nonzero" range are greatly appreciated.
We'll rez you if you died in a boring place too, we guess.
Ports: Our wizards and druids do prioritize the transport of clerics to rezzes in need, but we offer port services on a "pay what you want" standard.
Shop Runs: Catch one of our agents when things are slow and they might be willing to come facilitate loot liquidation services. Rates are to be discussed between you at that time.
Buffs: Members without anything to do will be eager to delve your dungeon to deliver that much needed SLN to your idiot tank.
Healers (and other members) LFG: We're not going to hoard a supply of healers with ready access to ports. Level with our guys, and they'll have better rezzes for you in the future. Consider that an LFG Hospice member can probably make it across the world and bind there in short order.
(Raid support and/or logistic services): We have ambitions along these lines, but we'll need a much fuller and established guild roster first.

Our current leadership amounts to Amaryllis, Vurnon, Daiquri, and their various alts. PST or check us out on discord to work with us, or even to sign on yourself.

[Zephys]

Absolus has been brought on as an officer and can now also be reached for guild invites.

[cd288]

Interested to see where this goes considering similar guilds have been tried before. Fingers crossed for you guys

[douglas1999]

I don't see how this can work. People who die in hard-to-reach places are necessarily more likely to know somebody who can res them for free. And you can always just /w all 50 60 cleric and offer them money for a res. I think most people just eat the death and grind it back up, unless it's like a chain death situation. I think this could be viable for chain dying, but otherwise not so much

[Xersius]

I bet to differ. Think about a scenario where your raid wipes in PoH/F and they assist with recovery for a set fee.

[Master Roshi]

best of luck, it could be like a / all dial a rez one day!

[BarnabusCollins]

Just call it Port N Res

/who all port

[Zoolander]

this is a nice task for players who reached end content since there is nothing else to do than to zerg dragons once a week.

[Zephys]

this is a nice task for players who reached end content since there is nothing else to do than to zerg dragons once a week.

I was hoping to recruit more elderly clerics than I successfully have so far, but we're slowly building up.

[mcoy]

I won't change my Guild affiliation, but I'm always happy to help out. Mcoy on both blue/green (but green is just 90% as I haven't hit 56 yet).

-Mcoy

[Fammaden]

Its unfortunate that many of these numbskull gamer dudes won't have the word hospice in their vocabulary, and will instead read it as " 'ho spice ". But best of luck.

[Zephys]

Our discord is open to the public, and you don't need any guild affiliation to work with our members. Shoot us a tell if you need us in-game.

[Zephys]

Try red asap

Are there still plans for the red99 community?

[Nuggie]

These guys were trio'ing kedge ent this evening(USA PST). They looked like they were having fun. +1

They were /anon instead of /role. -1

Net neutral.

[Zephys]

If you catch operatives with their tag missing, it could mean we're hiding our shame because we don't have any active rezzers clocked in, or more likely it could just mean we're chasing down a camp, Levelling some recruits, or are otherwise too busy (or perhaps intoxicated!) to fulfill "on-the-clock" duties.

[Tunabros]

Are there still plans for the red99 community?

they have been abandoned

[Zephys]

WTB Rez for red server plans

[chowdah555]

I definitely kept reading it as separate words thinking your guild name was Ho Spice. After understanding your mission statement now, I see where I went wrong!

[Zephys]

Didn't help that the founding members are all elf ladies

[Baler]

I've had close friends who've had relatives and parents go through hospice.
It's very hard on families.

You should really reconsider that guild name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospice

[Master Roshi]

There are people who aren't free in the world, does <Freedom> need to rename itself too?

People have been killed in Riots, can we go after <Riot> next?

Stop letting words trigger you, it's not an insult to those on hospice. Cancel culture is so meh.

[Skarne]

It’s hilarious to me how the old man is offended by the word hospice

[Tunabros]

If it offends you, don't think about it and they clearly didn't have the motive of naming

it "Hospice" to trigger hurtful memories

no need to cancel people

same thing with this forum, we all put 9/11 in polls and knowing that it took many

American and Middle Eastern lives, we still take it as a joke and know that it isn't

intentional to trigggering hurtful or harmful memories etc

[Fammaden]

Its kind of a bad name for the guild though, since the connotation is end of life care where you are just being made as comfortable as possible right before you die. But this is a guild that involves bringing people back to life and helping them get back on their feet and back into the game. Doesn't really fit.

[Master Roshi]

Think of it as "Ho Spice" then, and move on. As if the guild names on this server have ever been accurate.

I don't use a phone number to "Dial" a port, so lets rename it Whisper a Port? lul

[Scalem]

I've had close friends who've had relatives and parents go through hospice.
It's very hard on families.

You should really reconsider that guild name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospice

My uncle was killed by Seal Team while he was sleeping in his home can we cancel that guild too?

[Swish]

I don't use a phone number to "Dial" a port, so lets rename it Whisper a Port? lul

It's a good point, not very roleplay is it?

[Zephys]

Concerning our guild name:
We are waiting to you to die, and making people's time in this world comfortable in the meantime. We apologize for the efficacy of our chosen name.

[Nuggie]

Think of it as "Ho Spice" then, and move on. As if the guild names on this server have ever been accurate.

I don't use a phone number to "Dial" a port, so lets rename it Whisper a Port? lul

You must be from WoW. In the EQ universe it would be "Tell a port" (get it?)

[Master Roshi]

You must be from WoW. In the EQ universe it would be "Tell a port" (get it?)

100% true, as I wrote Whisper I had a terrible feeling of betrayal to the gods of Norrath.

[Nomadic Plainswalker]

Great idea! best of luck!

[Videri]

The good people of <Hospice> sure are getting their steps in all over Kunark, let me tell you. I bet they need additional clerics to make the rounds.

[Baler]

amazing how sick and disgusting people in this community are that they will justify hospice as being a good thing.

@staff this is your community.

[Noselacri]

what the fuck are you talking about

[Master Roshi]

Hospice in of itself IS a good thing, it's much better than just sending somebody off on a raft and forgetting they exist so they die alone without any comfort.

The same premise could be brought to Chemotherapy, it's during a difficult time for somebody but it is in-fact a good thing.

You're being too emotional in your thinking to the point of irrationality to think a guild name on a emulated server for a 20 year old game will somehow cause harm to people who know somebody who is related to somebody who was on Hospice.

[Scalem]

what the fuck are you talking about

He's some triggered old man being upset that a guild is named Hospice because he's lost people in hospice care.

[Baler]

Knowing a family member will not live, sometimes a young family member. Is not a good thing, it's a very difficult thing for families.

knowing there is no cure or way to save their life.

Thanks for the reminder of that. (sarcasm)

[Master Roshi]

You are funny, to get triggered about one topic while mocking mental illness in your signature.

[Baler]

You are funny, to get triggered about one topic while mocking mental illness in your signature.

Mocking mental illness? Fuck You
Mental illness isn't taken seriously enough, for you to say that i'm mocking mental illness for pointing out that P99 is a safe haven for people suffering from this is wrong.

How can you be such a disgusting person to think I'd joke about mental illness after you call hospice a good thing. what the fuck is wrong with you.

congrats if I get banned for this post, I meant all of it.

[Master Roshi]

You think Hospice is a bad thing? It's a service to provide peace and comfort to those terminally ill. Where is your brain?

And your signature is mocking mental illness, unless you truly believe that P99 is a safe haven for those mentally Ill.

[Baler]

You think Hospice is a bad thing? It's a service to provide peace and comfort to those terminally ill. Where is your brain?

Tell that to a mother and father who lose their child and can't do anything to fix it.:mad:

[Master Roshi]

Hospice had nothing to do with the diagnosis and eventual passing of their child, it was a service utilized to help ease those suffering.

Without it you'd have people suffering until their last breath, sometimes even alone. Hospice is a great service and those Hosp[ice workers are some of the bravest and most caring workers out there.

[Baler]

I know what hospice is. You seem to have totally avoided my point in favor of re-explaining what hospice is 30 times.

We don't need a constant reminder of death.

[Master Roshi]

You had no reasonable point, your rational of blaming hospice for death is flawed. Meanwhile you just pretend your signature doesn't have anything to do with mocking mental illness still.

If you're going to call people out on offensive messaging, you out to hold yourself to the same standard.

[Baler]

You're letting a personal bias towards me cloud your judgement on this.

I'm not a guild tag that gets used in game and on the forums. You can put me on ignore if you don't like what I post. I can't put <Hospice> on ignore.

edit: my signature is not mocking mental illness. No part of it is mocking something that should be taken more seriously, as i said before and have said many times on this forum.

I can't control how you perceive things. If your perception of a simple sentence is that it's offensive I can't fix that despite the sentence not being offensive. The word Hospice however is a reminder of death.

[Videri]

For what it's worth, in my opinion, you're off on this one, Baler.
Secondly, I believe <Hospice> intends this to be their guild recruitment thread and you all are cluttering it with an argument. If you wish to discuss the guild, you may make your own thread. We should not be discussing this guild in this thread.

[Baler]

Green guild threads go here: https://www.project1999.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=18
Don't ask me why, I was one of the first to ask for a proper green guild section.

This is Green and Teal Discussion

[Zephys]

I welcome a dedicated <Hospice> RnF thread. Ask the kids in HK about Percival.

P99 truly is hospice AND shelter to the mentally infirm.

Also started the guild thread here because the guild section specifically says "Blue guilds". Potatus is correct in that we are desperately recruiting. Getting way more requests than we can presently handle.

[Baler]

Zephys I commend you on what your doing and goals. It's just the name isn't,.. acceptable.
Keep on rezing and saving people exp!

[Zephys]

Kpop isn't acceptable and it's not going anywhere. I promise Green Norrath a similar experience.

[Frug]

Tell that to a mother and father who lose their child and can't do anything to fix it.:mad:

I lost my father recently, and I'm unbelievably thankful hospice was available to him and they were there.

You're off your rocker on this one, Baler. Let it go.

[Scalem]

What a weird hill to choose to die on Baler. You should honestly take a break from the forums and the game. If you can’t handle being reminded that Hospice is actually a good fucking service for the terminally ill you got issues.

Keep up the recruitment and services Hospice. I’ve used you guys once now and am a big fan. Much better version of Dial A Port.

[Master Roshi]

Baler,

If you read this I want to apologize for perhaps conflating this discussion to more drama then it needed to become. You are a far more established member of this community than myself and I don’t want to see you feel unwelcome or upset due to conflicting view points from myself.

I wish everyone well in this thread, it’s been a hell of a year.

[cd288]

Trumps loss has finally fully unhinged Baler

[GnomeCaptain]

In the interest of seeing Ama's service guild succeed (and for standing up for logic and decency in the face of hysterical sophistry) I suggest that the guild's current name is a hindrance to the guild's success.

Why?

1. The name doesn't at all reflect the service.

The service the guild provides is the diametric opposite of the service a hospice provides. When a client enters hospice care they are alive. They only decline thereafter. The hospice's service concludes when the client passes.

This is the opposite of the guild's service. It begins with 'death' and concludes upon renewed 'life.'


2. The name will - despite what bored, angry sophists have to say - bum just about everyone out.

Personally I want the guild to succeed, and have since Ama and Daiq were my guildies and came up with the Wambulance idea.

Nevertheless recently I've seen a few Hospice members in game and each time I did I thought "Why on earth would anyone choose that name?"

And I moved away from them so as to not be reminded of so many extremely unpleasant memories.

This is rational behavior. This is not hysterical toxic cancel culture or any other contrived marxist nonsense.

I promise there are few other words in the English language which have the capacity to evoke for so many so many sad memories as 'hospice.'




You don't have to name the guild "Rainbows and Resses" but I think it'd be a step in the right direction.

Even Wambulance would be a nice name, but (as with the current name) would require some significant marketing for the purpose of letting people know what you do - though without the added challenge of overcoming an overwhelmingly negative connotation.

Dial a Port doesn't have to do this, the name speaks for itself.

[GnomeCaptain]

we all put 9/11 in polls and knowing that it took many

American and Middle Eastern lives

That 'day' did not take any lives whatsoever. 9/11 didn't hurt anyone. It comes along every year.

Perhaps you are unaware, but 9/11 is a reference to Sept. 11, 2001.

On that day a collaboration of pious arab muslims - in accordance with the teachings of the koran & hadith and inspired by the life of mohammed - engaged in the terrorist mass-murder of thousands of non-muslim Americans.

Try not to twist history (and especially the history of this event) with politically-correct prevarication and ignorance.

To do so conceals the truth, provides cover for the murderers, and encourages more pious muslim activity (aka terrorism).

It is also an insult to their victims.

[Vizax_Xaziv]

Hey word of advice: get yourself some BARDS interested in the guild as well! Help them Clerics run around and also navigate dungeons if needed!

Anyways great service! Safe travels, sir!

[Vizax_Xaziv]

Hospice in of itself IS a good thing, it's much better than just sending somebody off on a raft and forgetting they exist so they die alone without any comfort.

The same premise could be brought to Chemotherapy, it's during a difficult time for somebody but it is in-fact a good thing.

You're being too emotional in your thinking to the point of irrationality to think a guild name on a emulated server for a 20 year old game will somehow cause harm to people who know somebody who is related to somebody who was on Hospice.
Hospice nurses are earthly angels. And they are incredibly mentally-tough. My mother's a life-lobg RN but she only lasted two years working hospice. She had a tremendous amount of guilt anytime she was on vacation knowing that on her return some of her patients might not be there anymore.

Anyone runs into a nurse please thank them for their work (especially over the last 10 months)

[Tunabros]

2020 has made some soft people

[norova]

Can someone from <Dementia> please pass guild leader role over to Baler

[N0tClassic]

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[BlackBellamy]

Thanks Hospice! Very much appreciated.

[Castle2.0]

For people uncomfortable with a guild name that doesn't actually break the naming rules, may I suggest /shownames <off/1/2/3/4/5/6> as a solution.

Hospice is a synonym with palliative care. It's true, it doesn't really match what <Hospice> has set out to do. But it's their guild and they can choose a poor name if it doesn't break the naming rules.

I'd have chosen <复活> or <Fuhuo> the Chinese word for resurrection. Maybe <Second Life> or <New Life> or <Dial-a-Rez>

Good luck with <Hospice>

I had a similar idea with a twist. I guess I'll see how you guys do first.

[Zwieback]

Hate the name.

[BiG SiP]

Baler is like 75 years old. Cut him a break lads.

[Zephys]

I have to admit I've garnered almost enjoyment from this thread as actually providing Hospice services. After some pressure from within and without, I've determined that I have no intentions of changing the guild name at this time. All of the pressure I have gotten have included anecdotal personal experiences or LITERALLY the phrase "Do better".

Unless you catch us droppin reavers in CoM, I'm calling the bad publicity "Any publicity", which is good publicity.

Please god roll baby clerics, we will hook you up.

[BiG SiP]

https://i.imgur.com/QQsUoNs.jpg

[Wall O Lead]

Ohh, that's just good ole Baler, playing victim again. I see he moved off from that IN-GAME doxxing thing... I like the new direction... censorship. Very nice. I find it very hard to believe he isn't some master troll, chasing some weird outrage fetish. If you are... Good on you, very well done. If you're not, put down the mouse and keyboard/step away from the computer. This is your intervention, you have a problem.

[silo32]

<Nerd Down Halp>

[Zephys]

<Nerd Down Halp>

[Master Roshi]

<What would Jesus do>

[Tunabros]

<Imagine Wiping>

[adichi]

these guys are just awesome, they'll rez anywhere any time. they've saved me and friends of mine many times, i appreciate you guys and love your services. will always /who all hospice whenever i need a rez :)