Journeys with Jaye

DRAX and the Llamabait

We’ve had a pretty large influx of members in Revelry and Honor recently. Without fail, the most common question asked, is, “what the eff do I do with all these vampire incisors?”

But right after that, the question I always hear is, “where does the rank of Llamabait come from?”

Well, let me tell you a story!

About three years ago, RnH was playing Vanguard, and we were neck deep in lumber, tiles, and stucco, as we slowly prepared to build a guild hall on Keejay Cove.

To build a guild hall, you not only needed the building materials and the coin, but also the paperwork. (Yes, red tape does exist in virtual worlds!) To get the right papers, our guild needed to complete parleys through the diplomacy system, which was a type of card game. But even though we had a few diplomacy experts in guild, the sheer volume of cards we needed for the guild hall was extremely daunting.

I had just about traded my soul to line up a brickmaker, so I was pretty much out of options when it came to working some trades for diplomacy cards. And while our guild was working hard to chip away at it, we only had one person in guild that was high enough to get the high level cards.

Unfortunately, without the cards, we couldn’t get the guild hall plot commission from the Sultan of Aghram. No commission – no plot. So we were rapidly approaching the release date of guild halls, and we were faced with the possibility of having to watch other guilds scoop up plots, including the one we wanted.

And then, as I was sitting in Mekalia, furiously dip’ing with the horrid gnomes, I got a tell from Faunis, our high level diplomat and officer. He met a really nice ranger named Drax, from the guild Mystic Llamaherders, and the two of them were working out trades to help us get the high level cards we needed.

Over the course of the next few days, Drax actually ended up donating many high level, hard to get cards that enabled us to get the commission we needed. Paper in hand, we got our plot!

But our real reward was soon after, when Drax decided to come join our guild. And in tribute, we used his old guild’s name as inspiration for our rank for alts – Llamabait. The name seemed oddly appropriate, and it’s stuck with us ever since, all the way from Telon to Norrath.

Happily, Drax has stuck with us as well. He’s sporting a red mushroom these days, but he’s still the quiet hero for us when things are looking grim. Whether it’s coming to help tank the Sisters in Hate, or being the fastest clicker on the block in Lair to cure blindness, Drax often helps put us over the top.

And just like a true illusionist, he’s always changing himself into strange things. My favorite is when he turns himself into a mender bot and runs to where the bot will be summoned. The result is a flurry of “Hail, Draxer,” followed by “DRAX NOT AGAIN! @#%!@%%”

So that’s the story of how a guild hall plot, a stack of diplomacy cards, and a former Mystic Llamaherder brought us the rank of Llamabait. Thank you DRAX!

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