Hello all you Scarabs,

Ive been sitting here thinking back on the history I have with Scarab. Started thinking about back at the beginning and how things were back then. MMOs were brand new. The closest thing we had was Diablo, and Battle Net. At that point, Ultima Online hadnt come out, I hadnt meet any of the people that would form Scarab. I knew Boudica(Arithana) Elbereth, Ix and Quaser. We played together in a clan in Diablo.

well, Diablo died off and Ultima Online was just around the corner. Firing up the ole ICQ, IMs were crusing back and forth. UO went gold and El and I bought the game. We played that first day in seperate areas, this type of game being totally new to us, talking thru ICQ. I finally log off for the evening, sleep thru the night and log back in on waking up. My ICQ goes off and El is telling me about some people he meet, I need to come meet them. So I start walking in-game, trying to meet up with El and his new friends. Wandering thru the woods, I come across this player being beaten on by a tree. (Reaper) I walk up and ask if he needs help, he says no, he is building his Parry skill, and since its at 30(lol) the tree barely hurts him. I notice a name over his head, "Ozwyn". In troduce my self and we run around a bit, beating up random things and talking. Little did I know that this was one of the people El was wanting me to meet. I meet up with El and we all start talking, he ICQs me that Ozwyn is one of the people he wanted to meet. We proceed to meet the rest of the crew there, Ravenn, Venom, Hawke and Ldyhawke. After a bit of talking and such, El and I become the first recruits for the guild to be known for years to come as SCARAB.

For years, SCARAB has been together, thru UO, into Everquest(where we got our first tastes of high end encounters), then into various other games, Dark Age of Camelot being one of our more successful, though relatively short lived game. (Skal!). Through all these games, Scarab has always maintained that a person will never be forced to participate in anything they didnt want to. Alot of our players were very casual, spent time crafting or tinkering on multiple characters, or just chatting the day away. Some wanted to do the harder things in the game and did the best they could within the guild. Some decided they needed to move on to do more things inside the game. Most of these people left on very good terms and are welcomed back with open arms whenever they decided to swing thru and say hi.

The one major facet of Scarab has always been happiness of each person to the best of our abilities. Sometimes, we do really well, sometimes we dont. Always has depended on the person's desire to BE happy. We have always kept a pretty small core of Inner Circle to try and make decisions we feel are right for the well being of the guild and the people within it. Have we always agreed? Nope, thats why there arent just one or two of us. But we always try to come to the best solution for all involved, even if it means sacrificing some aspect that we enjoy. A happy medium is a pretty hard thing to find amongst 150 real people. But we as the leaders of the guild do the best we can and take the grief from those that disagree. Its part of the job, we accept it fully.

Well, this has gotten long and rambling...hasnt it?