[A] Stormwind Operations

What does this mean? Well we are recruiting!

What are we recruiting? Well we are looking for more rogues, a healer, a few well trained warriors, a mage and a warlock. Further information about us, what we seek and our rules is posted below.
We also now accept more or less all classes as long as they are human and fit in..

Our rules may seem strickt but they are there for a reason.

Each new member will be followed up like mentioned below.

If you fit the bill and accept the rules and know how to rp/want to try it out. Gives us an application on our forum, poke us ooc or ic.. Interviewes will be done.


About us! (official knowledge)

What are we?

Stormwind Operations is a guild who in character works to serve and protect Stormwind with the blessing and cooperation of the Stormwind Council. Some may know them as agents of SI:7, but also others outside the guild work as SI:7 agents.

We consist of special trained rogue agents, who does not just limit them selves to the walls of the city but also at times goes outside to get needed work done. We also have some or will have some none rogues in the guild and they are with us for very specific reasons.

Agents sent out on a mission will be carrying a dark tabard, with a vague Lion printed on it which refers to Stormwind. But there will be times when our agents also wears the tabard within the city when on official guard duty and other things. When off duty and without the “working outfit” and tabard the person will be using its real character name/or yet another false one.

The Stormwind Operations is an organisation created by Ivan Zarev. He created it because he thought Stormwind could use some extra hands regarding the defence of Stormwind.

But these aren't just some common hands, no. Stormwind Operations is consisting out of the best rogues you can find in town. Assassins, spies, thieves, intelligence gatherers, you name it. The rogues who are able to join this organisation are good at what they do. They will make a better place out of Stormwind, the easy way or the harsh way.


Who do we let in?

We accept all classes to the guild that can wear leather, with one exception which is Death Knights. Why don’t we allow Death Knights in the guild?
There is also a matter of races. We accept mainly humans, but an exception can be made if you are able to convince us otherwise, both IC and OOC.

The king gives all Death Knights his forgiveness but letting someone who has committed such an awful treason against the city, the king can not be let into SI:7 as for that they can not be trusted. It is our duty to ensure that even our fellow alliance members does not get corrupted and we do our best to keep an eye on anyone, villains, cultists, beggars, nobles and ministers of the city.

What kind of classes do we let in?

We mainly need a hard core of rogues for obvious reasons. But if we find a mage, a warlock and a healer with a good ic reasons for joining us we are seeking one of each or even more. We also want some meat shield = warriors/dins


You fit in our guild if:

You search and manage to find and make role-play happen on your own and don’t ask for new tasks or things to do all the time. Tasks, lists of wanted people, which includes wanted information of the doings of these people will be provided and updated continuously.

Which means that if a character spends 90 percent of his or her online time pvping or pveing and nearly or hardly ever role-plays the person isn’t really fitted to be in the guild
Maybe not casual RP is needed, but at least being on events.
However: If a person let's say plays 1-2 hours a day. And 90% of that times tries to RP. I think he/she is fit for the guild.

Good to know:

The members should be free to work on their own as long as they don’t break the rules or policy of our guild. The guilds rules should come first regardless of IC and OOC desires the player may have to do a certain action. We are few, and if we go out and get ours selves corrupted, without a darn bloody good reason then there is no point in keeping the member among us.

If any character in the guild breaks the guidelines or rules published on the forum, it wont just be suspended but not be allowed on duty until deemed fit to be on duty, in the worst case scenarios it might be a guild kick.

Any major decisions that involves public knowledge of our views or doings will be confidential unless told other wise. Your character should support the members of the guild, before even considering showing loyalty to another order in any case or matter.

Any new member will face a trial period that will vary depending on their online activity, the time their set “trainers” or “supervisors” have for them. Each new member will be closely followed up by a higher ranked member in their first week/weeks within the guild. That way we will all get to know each other a lot better.

Our guild chat is ooc, beyond messengers, letters, reports and meeting face to face or working as back ups for each other we have no IC items that allows contact other members over distance.

Reports should come in frequently through letters, a GHI item or the forum. If you post on the forum you save me Indranie a lot of extra work. As the forum should be used actively and will be used to hand out tasks/assignments, updates on “solved” cases, progress, list of wanted people, and other important ic knowledge.

Sometimes fire must be face with fire. We will obey the laws of the city but we are also to protect the interest of our alliance, our people and the council. This may at times mean that we too much break some of the laws set. People can vanish. ((Not official))

We are allowed to show our selves walking the streets in our uniforms, we are allowed to use stealth for spying reasons, vanishing if needed to escape but.. Not if an enemy is close by or we are outnumbered. As God rping wont be tolerated.

If we find our selves in a case that gets public and much attention we will do our best to use common sense. This means that you should rather take a beating ic, then to end up spamming ooc emotes. All forms of ooc content should be given through a whisper in a polite manner. Be blunt and honest by all means but no @!*% throwing. Keep to the point. If its impossible to solve the matter, then leave it be.

With this it also means new and more members. That must unless they are significantly exceptional role-players make an application, go through and IC and OOC interview.

Where can you find us?

We have an office in the SI:7 building in Old Town, our head quarters (that we do not visit too often as our main business is within Stormwind and with the Council), beyond that we are also stationed throughout the lands.

For IC contact with us find us IC or leave a letter addressed to SI:7 at our office in Stormwind. ((Which means that OOC you send it to one of our members you have seen online or leave a message here at the forum. ))

For OOC contact with us regarding recruitment or questions about us whisper any member online and if he or she can not answer your question you will be contacted by one of the other members. Do know new recruits may not know everything and it might take time for someone else to get online to talk to you.

Dresscode:

You can wear what ever you want, but as we're a rogue based guild, you -must- have a leather'ish assassin like gear to wear. When you are not on duty any normal/causal gear will work. A mask is a need, and we do not expect you to have one if you are not high enough levelled to retrieve one. But when you are, a mask and proper gear will be expected.


Some examples of what you could do in our guild

Intelligence gathering: Gathering information because you were sent on a specific task to find out something, spying on people, things you hear by accident. All these things are good to write down and report back about.


Tactical assassinations (World -PvP, though w-pvp is definitely not something we will do often)

Tactical capturing - Spying - Inspections - Arresting -Keeping the streets of SW safe ( including Duskwood / Redridge / Westfall ) -Aiding "guard" guilds -Inspecting "non evil" guilds as well, to make sure they don't break the law or anything -Guild meetings every second week -Weekly reports at the council

Our officers will provide with events by the use of people outside the guild, event coming from the previously mentioned work we will do, and also of course by the use of some well hidden alts as time goes by.

Addons:

We would like you to get at least GHI/Flag Rsp2
We recruit experienced and decent role players, but new role players who are willing to learn are free to join as well. All our members should have a flag rsp addon stating the difference of name when wearing and not wearing our tabard and the uniform.

That way we will all recall the “on duty” name for the other members.

As long you're mature really and know about both written and unwritten RP rules.
If you are in doubt of the rules regarding Roleplay ask us or do us a favour and check out the RP policy made by blizzard found here:

http://www.wow-europe.com/en/policy/roleplaying.html

What will we do and provide our guildies with as officers of SWO and what will our guild do in general:

Our guild will like the Guild concept states hunt down, spy on, gather evidence and information about any cultists or individuals suspected of corruption. In some ways in our hidden agenda we will work as an inquisition to clean the Eastern Kingdoms from the corruption amongst our own.

Our officers will plan events, make them, be at them and not just hunt for cultist all the time. We expect our members to be able to rp on their own, seek out and make rp on their own as well as doing the tasks given, attempt to gather the information desired about the people we consider as wanted.

From time to time the council will provide us as a whole with tasks to do as well.

Any member of the guild is allowed to make events. We will also use alts of our own to create events for our members and of course when possible make events with other individuals and or guilds.
Any member can post ideas of events and so on our forum or tell an officer.

We will have one member at least attending the council meetings Tuesday at nine bells (2100 gt) every week. Anyone attending should make notes and give reports of the matters addressed at the meeting.

Looking good. G'luck.

Best of luck with this, I think it deserves to draw some interest

I wonder if they keep files on the citizens of Stormwind and other political figures...*ponders*

I am working on the archive on our forum and I am also looking for old information to put there. But it takes time.

Naaaaaah, just need a few skilled individuals with... talent in "receiving" information.

Just a few? Hmm 10 rogues in total would be a few:P And also some other classes added to that and we will be in heaven:) Plus Zarev and Porter would be happy when they return

*Lurks in the background*

Its a great guild and its a shame Ivan left, but I hope it gets more members in it Indranie! Good luck

It is a shame indeed but we havent given up and we will not give up right away:)

Whats new with us:

1. New leadership.
2. New hidden agenda.
3. Well as this is a public forum and our deeds are to be hidden from the world and not broadcasted it means one simple thing.. If you at all liked what you have read about us here but might have wanted us to be a little more "bad-evil-coldhearted - merciless" you name it.. Well then we might just be what you are looking for. More I can not say. Register at our forum, poke us ingame. Do be aware most of us are off and on a lot due to work and such also at the evening/night. So if you only are online between 09gt - 2100 gt.. Then applying on the forum might be the easiest way to go:) For any IC talks, poke any of us. For an actual ic interview poke Ariden,Indranie or me.

I forgot.

We take in -all- classes now. But and this is a huge but.. No DK's. Same reason as before. We prefer humans only. If you have a bloody good reason to join even if not human, please do try. But I wont make any promises on that part. We do how ever have some Kaldorei on our "pay roll" outside the organisation. So if you simply want to aid.. Arrangements can be made.

Are you good at keeping your identity hidden? Can you do what ever is needed for the sake of your King and our council? Are you able to break the law, kill your own mother if needed, and leave the rest of the world in blessed ignorance of how you made the world a safer place to be?

Can you keep every name memorized so that you never use the wrong name at the wrong time, betraying your fellow defenders of the kingdom? Can you alter your voice, change your ways of talking and moving.. Enough for us to find use for you?

Will you mercilessly draw your blades, give your life for your King?
Does the smell of blood fill you with peace inside your heart? Or are you the soft one, who kills of need but cries later on? Either way.. We need the kind of men and women who can without being seen, without loosing their victims, gather enough of them.. One by one…To make sure that no one feels safe again when our name is spoken, or tabards are seen. For behind the Stormwind Operations are those who in time will be known with many names. For we agents can not break the law. But for the greater good someone.. Nameless.. Will cloak them selves in various colours and seek justice where the law can not..

How to allow gnomes, draenei, kaldorei, dwarves in here? Well it will be brought up with the fellow SWO's for debate. Perhaps some nasty oaths to serve the Kingdom can be made..

Indranie wrote:How to allow gnomes, draenei, kaldorei, dwarves in here? Well it will be brought up with the fellow SWO's for debate. Perhaps some nasty oaths to serve the Kingdom can be made..

SI:7 isn't exclusivey Human don't forgot - Heck it has a Goblin next to Shaw.
Dwarves and Gnomes would make alot of sense, given that many of them live in Stormwind and ironically Stormwind has a higher population of Dwarves than Ironforge.

(Night) Elves and Draenei...I'd say they are a definate nono.

On another note, I'm still not wild on how you chaps sort of wander around in tabards, and the most obvious Rogue gear ever. I'd see SI:7/SW:O as more undercover agents within the populance. Casual (Yet practical, no dresses or skirts for the ladies...or men) clothing with concealed blades and firearms who can take down unsuspecting villains or aid the regular Guardsmen without the suspect having a clue who they are until it's too late.

Not wandering around, glaring at people, wearing tabards and waving a neon-sign saying "DARK, BROODING, MYSTERIOUS, SECRET AGENT HERE! LOOK AT HOW COOL I AM!"

I didn't leave ICly D: will be back with cataclysme.. Just needed a small change of scenery and because I can't log on too often for now I'd thought it was the perfect timing to do it now.

And to gunnel: It was the first guild I created so things wheren't always going as smooth as we hoped to, but I must say that during the time the guild has changed and, imo, improved alot. Members are starting to learn basicly, and so far I had some really enjoyable Rp.

A side note would be: Roleplaying SI:7 isn't the easiest thing to do and it does require quite some general RP experience in order to gain some quality RP. Or, that's my opinion atleast!

Example: I ( stupid me ) chose quantity over quality at first, but that's absolutely a no can do with this concept, so I've experienced.
But again, we've learned from that, we're still learning and I hope that people enjoy the RP with us.

I really do see your point though.

To jayse: I'm going to marry Analeigh!

Keep up the good work Ivan, been a pleasure rp´ing with you lot so far, and am looking forwards to it once I get some gametime ^^

Graham, I love you.

Gunnell/Graham/Alefadr wrote:On another note, I'm still not wild on how you chaps sort of wander around in tabards, and the most obvious Rogue gear ever. I'd see SI:7/SW:O as more undercover agents within the populance. Casual (Yet practical, no dresses or skirts for the ladies...or men) clothing with concealed blades and firearms who can take down unsuspecting villains or aid the regular Guardsmen without the suspect having a clue who they are until it's too late.

Not wandering around, glaring at people, wearing tabards and waving a neon-sign saying "DARK, BROODING, MYSTERIOUS, SECRET AGENT HERE! LOOK AT HOW COOL I AM!"

*checks self over*

White undershirt, gloves, boots, casual waistcoat.

OHAI! <3

*waves*

*Looks down on the Haliscan cloths* We dont always wear our uniforms...

Indranie wrote:*Looks down on the Haliscan cloths* We dont always wear our uniforms...

Only 90% of the time. I'll admitt you've been doing it alot less than normal.

Good. As if we do wear our uniform it is due to being on duty, hence looking for someone specific or needing to talk to someone with - our uniform on - .
As revealing our real identities is out of the question it would not do me much good to walk over to someone claiming to be a swo agent when I look like any other citizen. But you will love the fact I assume that we wont be wearing our tabards and hence not the uniforms for 1 month + ahead with as far as I know with one exception. Of course should be we be told to bring others in we will. - New changes, new leadership, new agenda.. = new stuff

Indranie wrote:Good. As if we do wear our uniform it is due to being on duty, hence looking for someone specific or needing to talk to someone with - our uniform on - .
As revealing our real identities is out of the question it would not do me much good to walk over to someone claiming to be a swo agent when I look like any other citizen. But you will love the fact I assume that we wont be wearing our tabards and hence not the uniforms for 1 month + ahead with as far as I know with one exception. Of course should be we be told to bring others in we will. - New changes, new leadership, new agenda.. = new stuff

Explain?

Meh, I see nothing reeeaaaally wrong with you people walking around in your rogue tier sets unless you´re trying to hide amongst other people, then it is a bad idea - but hey, your decision

Gunnell/Graham/Alefadr wrote:

Indranie wrote:*Looks down on the Haliscan cloths* We dont always wear our uniforms...

Only 90% of the time. I'll admitt you've been doing it alot less than normal.

as I said, we are improving!
And when we are in our 'rogue' outfits, we're...-obviously-, not trying to hide among civilians...
When we do, we will, obviously, wear civilian type clothes.

Edit:

Oh and on a second thought..

Not wandering around, glaring at people, wearing tabards and waving a neon-sign saying "DARK, BROODING, MYSTERIOUS, SECRET AGENT HERE! LOOK AT HOW COOL I AM!"

That's far from true anyways and quite not nice of you to say just like that. It's maximum exagerating. ( spelling? ^^ meh )