Becoming Apocalypse, Guild members speak out Options

[Henge]

i thought this would be a fun topic where all AT members could disclose how they became a part of our Grand organization. while also being insightful and imformative to the many new users on the forums.

So tribesmen/women, lets hear your personal story on how you became part of the

my story is easy - the Apocalypse Tribe originated with yours truely. AT has gone from a set of ideals in my mind to a wonderous nexus of the coolest people i have ever met.

[Dive]

I guess it's time for my tale....(plus a short history of AT's forum evolution)

Bryn and I got PSO back in February 2001 near launch. At the time we had only one Dreamcast so we had to fight over who got to play, we usually ended up with one person controlling the character and the other using the keyboard to curse out Sephiroths and Gokus. I started out gaming with my brother's Quake 3 clan who had moved to PSO. After they grew tired of it and went back to fragging n00bs on Q3, I drifted a while. A few RL friends got the game, but didn't play much. Bryn happened across PSOW one day and we, being fairly new to forums, mostly lurked there and posted infrequently.

Some of you may remember when PSOW had special passwords for PSOW named teams that anyone who knew the pass were encouraged to join. Looking for some distraction one late Sunday night I decided to make a PSOW team and started out in the Forest. Within minutes a Ramar named IVI joined, followed shortly by Hucast named AT Tenebrous(how's that for old school? ). They were both really cool and we played the entire F1-Falz campaign. After we smote Falz we exchanged cards and went on our way.

Later, looking through my cards I noticed IVI and Tenebrous' cards mentioned "The Apocalypse Tribe", that sounded cool and mysterious and stuck in my head. Browsing through PSOW shortly afterward I came across a post from IVI and followed a link in his sig to one of the first AT sites. I read through it and thought it was pretty cool, they had something called an AT Guarentee, which stated that AT games are 100% free of lamers and cheaters. This sounded like a decent group so I went about to find out more about this clan.

Back then AT had about 8 members and the site featured a sign up sheet, where you could petition to join the clan. I met and gamed with IVI a few more times and finally got the courage to fill out a form requesting enlistment into AT. I figured why not get the whole "online game" experience and join a clan? I talked to IVI a few more times in game and via emails, and eventually became a fulltime member.

I got to know everyone really well and we had some great times. After Version 2 died down, AT drifted apart for a few months, existing solely on a lone ezboard. Rogue announced one day that he was in the process of setting up an Ikonboard for us to use, he then asked me for some help in getting it ready. We struggled with it for a while, as it was on a free server that was bugged and laggy. Eventually the board was nuked by the server and we were once again nomads, barely clinging to the advertisement riddled ezboard.

I decided to give it another go on the free Netfirms server but the resource intensive Ikonboard proved too much for it and the board constantly timed out. At this time I had been messing about with the idea of getting AT a real paid host. I got this ready and the few remaining AT set out on a quest to locate the long missing members. I set up an Ikonboard on the new paid server and we slowly gathered our numbers once again. IVI(Claymore) and I talked about AT at great length around this time and we decided that it was time for an "All New All Different Apocalypse Tribe". I got this board up and running and many months later, AT and it's immediate family call it home.

if you read all that you deserve a