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On December 4th 2003, a sexually frustrated, naive fifteen-year-old was killed in the wilderness while collecting chaos runes.
He was furious, and swore revenge against all PKers. And that is how The PK PK's was born.
But that name sucked, so on the 6th of December, it was changed to The Wilderness Guardians (which also sucks).
Nine years in one topic is a difficult task, so please open up only the bits that interest you!
Our nine-year history in a paragraph
We were founded in 2003 (RS Classic) as a group of antiPKers, meaning PKing only other PKers and protecting the "innocent".
This distinguished us from all other clans, and we found a popular niche; a lot of people hated getting PK'd.
Consequently, we grew to over 200 members in a matter of months, and found many allies, including The Sabres.
It was a whole year before we even had our first war, by which time we had already experienced several mutinies and break-off clans.
2005 was when we started to rise to fame, first defeating The Unbreakables in F2P, and then Dead on Arrival in P2P.
This put us in the top 20, and we slowly climbed the ranks over 2006, when our legendary warlord Kenshln made us the #1 P2P multi clan (DI was still the top clan in P2P single due to their superior organisation at the mage bank).
On 01-December-2006 was what the clan now calls "D-Day", where I had a real life breakdown and closed the clan for three hours - this lone action cause about 120 members to quit over the next few days. We never regained our strength.
2007 was all about rebuilding, and we seemed to be growing, until they removed the wilderness.
With the clan world in decline, we invested in our community - it was in 2008 that we started having real life meetings, and making the clan shirt.
After Runefest 2010, we were able to secure good relations with Jagex, and ever since, we have been featured on the RS front page as well as the official RS YouTube channel and Facebook page, and have come to be known as the clan closest to Jagex.
As we were not able to regain our former power, we spent the last six years or so in what I call "maintenance mode" where we have been biding our time, waiting for the right moment to invest our resources in aggressive recruitment.
I believe our best days are yet to come.
Why we should even matter to you
Every now and then I get into that fight... you know the one... about WG being dead and/or irrelevant.
You must also know that I am fiercely opposed to that statement, and not just because of my bias toward my own clan.
There are two types of people in the world: sprinters and endurance athletes.
As we know, power does not last. No clan ever keeps the number one rank for more than a few months: These are the sprinter clans.
Wildguard is in this for the long haul. We are witnesses to this clan world's great history, even if we didn't write it.
More importantly, we are strong in another way; we refuse to give up on ourselves.
Our history is littered with moments where disbanding was the easier option: Mutinies, mass leavings, hackings, stupid Jagex updates, crash wars, an 9-month losing streak for crying out loud!
And yet here we are. You test the strength of an object by putting it under pressure to see what it can take.
That, my friends, is where I can be a proud Guardian; we have weathered the storm and learned from our hardships.
Finally, we matter because we are the PKing clan that does it differently.
Why do you want a clan world where every clan goes by the same routines and uses the same tactics?
We've never cared what people think, we are a brotherhood that does whatever it takes to create happiness.
Real life meetings, IRL crashwars lol, shirts, pens, rants and speeches, website, quirky flash movies, Jagex affiliation...
We add a little bit of spice to this clan world, even if we're not measurable in terms of our strength.
Accomplishments we can be proud of
- Being an honour clan this whole time. We still don't rag, DDoS, spy, cheat, loot other wars, and our fights are always clean
- Enduring for this long, with no prospect of closure. I like to brag (a lot) about how I'm the longest serving clan leader.
- Being a casual clan: we have slack activity standards, which weakens us, but our members don't no-life in fights.
- Our association with Jagex has made us (arguably) Runescape's most famous clan (to the common non-clanner).
- The Wilderness: An Unauthorised Biography secured us all some updates for 2013. Hopefully we can kill the toggle next.
- For many years since 2006 (until they stopped holding the poll) we had the best clansite. We're releasing a new one soon.
- Through Wildguard, a couple have met and are now happily married (their identities are anonymous)
- The real life meetings of course! Eleven so far, over four continents. Thus can clanhood lead to true friendship.
- We have an arsenal of supporting materials: pens, shirts, cartoons, theme song, etc.
- We do P2P and F2P. We're not pro at either, but decent at both.
- We have a Junior clan, DG. It seems unfashionable to have one these days, but actually it seems to be doing very well!
- I take pride in the fact we strive to be well behaved. Our members are discouraged from flaming on all fansites.
- We are able to accommodate all timezones. Members hail from America, UK/Europe, Australia, Asian, NZ, the Middle East.
One photo from each year of our history, since foundation
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
Three quirky videos that will make you smile
Of course, I finish with an expression of thanks.
No clan exists in a bubble.
We are the way we are because of you guys.
Thank you for nine wonderful years, and we look forward to many years to come.
- Being an honour clan this whole time. We still don't rag, DDoS, spy, cheat, loot other wars, and our fights are always clean
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Fire with Fire (2012).
Don't be fooled by Willis on the cover - it isn't *that* epic.
A little too generic with the storyline, but still a fairly good watch.
4/5.
Universal Soldier - Day of Reckoning (2012).
Little bit of a disappointment compared to The Return and Regeneration, but not totally a waste of time.
Had some good action scenes, and Van Damme/Lundgren don't fail to deliver with what little time they're allocated.
3/5.
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It's been about a year since last RuneFest, and WG was getting bored.
So, we started prep for our tenth real life meeting to date.
But this one was going to be a lot different.
This time WildGuard took on the real-life wilderness.
We rented out a camping barn in the Peak District of England.
Three days without electricity, water or heating.
We scaled the third highest mountain in the Peak District.
We cooked food on portable stoves and none of us have died so far.
We got extremely drunk and... you don't actually want to know.
Overall, it was one hell of an amazing weekend.
Genesis... the standards have been raised.
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English literature classes persuaded me to write a poem. The title has no relation to the clan.
Solace
At the end of my garden where the grass grows untamed
There is a little picket fence
Moss-covered wood, tormented by years of rain and snow
The vines curl upon the fading white paint
And a little swinging gate
Who lets no one but me pass into the shadows
And if you walk long enough, you’ll find the glade
Where towering willow trees stand strong and silent
Their tendrils drape undisturbed
In the early autumn afternoon, with no wind nor rain
The cyan of the glade calls to me
I rest my head upon the bark of a willow tree
And listen intently as silence speaks its wisdom
A mushroom sits alone near my hand
Somewhere beneath, in the depths and darkness of the earth
Lie the decayed bones of someone I never knew
Who was called to the glade just as I
Maybe an aeon ago
I wonder if the trees spoke to her too
If they told her to find the stream
And into it pour her golden nectar
To watch it glisten in the light as it runs over the rocks
Illuminating her face as she smiles
Then the years went by
And what was once her magnificence now rests in silence and death
She was a ghost, a memory that I never knew
There are millions of mushrooms in the glade
Far too many for me to count
You still ask me why I spend my time with the owls
Why I choose to stare deep into the eyes of the Beast
In fascination
Why I do not barter the devouring of my flesh for a brief moment of ecstasy
Better to let Her feast on the dogs
And ignore me as I pass on by, Her appetite is satisfied
The rats are content with their sewers
They never speak of better life
Never try and fight for the surface
Never flee from their darkness and damp
I watch the young lads in their overalls
As they scurry about the harbour
Tending to the ship that takes our brothers overseas
To suffer pain and death for some greater good
They paint the union jack upon the bow
Glorification of this grand coffin
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Batman Begins & The Dark Knight. Hadn't seen them in a while, decided they're worth a watch again. 4/5 for BB, 5/5 for TDK.
Dorian Gray. A similar theme to Macbeth and Frankenstein, which I both enjoyed. 4/5.
Die Another Day. I am actually a fan of mindless explosions and gunfights, even if a film lacks in other departments. 4/5.
God Bless America. It had it's good and bad points, but I enjoyed watching it. 3/5.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. If the Batman trilogy didn't overtake it, I'd call this the film of the decade. 5/5.
Star Trek Nemesis. For some reason this was apparently the worst in all the Star Trek films, but I enjoyed it the most. 4/5.
This Means War. I would have enjoyed it a lot less if Chris Pine wasn't in it. It got a few laughs out of me at points though. 3/5.
The Da Vinci Code & Angels and Demons. Both brilliant films, 5/5 each.
Johnny Mnemonic. You can't help but smile at the technological side of things, but Keanu Reeves gives a good performance. 3/5.
Point Break. Moderate, nothing special but worth a watch. 3/5.
The Avengers (1998). Such a good cast but such a letdown of a film. 1/5.
Equilibrium. Brilliant film, and I don't care what anyone else says. 5/5 because Christian Bale is awesome.
The Fugitive & US Marshalls. Both above-average and worth a watch. 4/5 each.
All the Die Hard films. 4/5, 3/5, 3/5 and 4/5 respectively.
Hell Ride. Skeptical about this at first, but it turned out to be pretty good for a biker film. 4/5.
Sin City. A masterpiece. 5/5.
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The Great Train Robbery (1903)
This is what happens when you try searching for Action movies from the decade 2000s, but accidentally click 1900s instead.
For a 12-minute silent film with a $150 budget from 1903, I was pretty impressed.
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Firstly, a shoutout to Rob/Omegastomper, a real life friend of mine who today beat testicular cancer.
The Reckoning, June 20th of 2011.
WG members sat in silence upon the gilded benches of His Lordship's throne room.
The anticipation of the Reckoning, waiting for the stroke of midnight.
The excitement of our first forum switch in years.
The awe of the vast structural changes that awaited.
And the re-opening of the junior clan, the Descendant Guardians.
I remember it like it was yesterday.
True enough, we didn't have the luck our predecessors DG1 and DG2 had.
DG3 opened into a decaying clan world, and it has not been an easy ride.
Even to this day we struggle with numbers, action and fights on our level.
But we never stop trying.
So many people said we couldn't compete.
So many said 2011 was no place for a junior clan.
So many said that we wouldn't last.
I could not be more proud that we have proved them wrong.
Today, DG celebrated our first birthday.
Never before has the clan survived to see it's 1 year anniversary.
We had a huge anniversary celebration, which lasted over four hours.
Barrages were cast, cabbages were dropped, steel was tanked and bank loot was made.
It was by far the most fun I've had in quite some time.
Stage One: Battle Royale
After some work, we got the Citadel battlefield set up and went to work killing each other.
Stage Two: One Night In Cabbage
Honouring the age-old tradition, we decided to cabbage-bomb the GE. It got quite the reaction.
Stage Three: Steel of Legends
Ah, steel wars, they're too much fun to die out. We invited our allies BlacKnights along for a nice Wilderness fun fight/
Stage Four: The Rebirth
I seriously need to stop doing drop parties. WG and DG members now own 10m of my wealth.
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And so the first chapter of Descendant Guardians comes to a close.
It has not been easy, but it has been one hell of a ride.
But this is far from the end of our story.
A final note - we would not be here today if it wasn't for every other active clan out there.
To BlacKnights, The Sabres, Downfall, Divine Forces, and everyone else who still masses up for some fun - thank you.
Maybe the clan world isn't as glorious as it once was.
But that doesn't mean it's not worth the time we put into this game.
Thank you for giving us our first year - here's to many more yet to come.
The Descendant Guardians - #1 Junior Clan[source needed]
Memories of June 20th 2011-2012:
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Yup, I added that in as an annotation :rolleyes:
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It should be noted in the "items required" that the hammer in a player's toolbelt and the Golden Hammer will NOT work.
Spelling error in section 4: "southw-estern" should be "south-western"
2 spins on the Squeal of Fortune could be added to the rewards section.
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Another one for TS's list.
F2P has maple bows, but no maple trees.
They also have yew trees, but no yew bows.
This has confused me for years now.
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Granted, you have travelled back in time to the moment before you wrote the reply. However, in an inspiring act of nobility, you decided to suffer writing it a second time to save another innocent poster from enduring the pain and anguish that you have already experienced.
I wish Die Hard 5 would be released faster.
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Banned because Chrome is just Firefox but you keep wondering where the hell all the toolbars went.
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Level up!
81 HP
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Banned for being right.
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DG Fish
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Banned because smithing, while profitable, becomes insanely tedious and repetative at the later levels.
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Granted, unfortunately you spontaneously develop allergies to all the food served.
I wish the batteries in my MP3 player would never run out.
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Granted, unfortunately they leave you emotionally disturbed and you spend the remainder of your life in a padded cell.
I wish Tip.It clans was active again.
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My rant about today's update to the Squeal of Fortune, and it's impact on the community and gameplay.
This was a joint commentary with Wilderness Guardians council member Bassism.
There's nothing really to watch in the video, so feel free to just listen to the commentary while you 'scape.
Think of it as sort of a mini-podcast.
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I absolutely love the Orient concept. Ironically, just a few minutes ago I was recording a video with a friend where we mildly discussed what could be done to improve the content and gameplay of RuneScape, (and in doing so, save it from these joke of additions like squeal of fortune which are slowly killing it). The thing I love about the Orient idea is how it adds such an in-depth and realistic element while still retaining simplicity - not being just another excessively over-complicated addition to make new players think "o god wtf do I do here, this game sucks".
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*gives the wall a biscuit*
50 HP
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I'm not giving your video another view. Advertise elsewhere.
Why so hateful of videos? :mellow:
If Jagex makes an RS3 it better look like this
You actually reminded me of something I didn't quite mention.
I'd love to see skyboxes - that extra dimension where you can look up.
That's something Jagex have stated they can, but won't add in because of the sheer amount of effort it would take to make all the RS2 elements work with.
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WG IRL Meeting 11 (York) Video
in Clan Video Section
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First post of 2013 in clan videos :shock:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoVAAGW00jo