Due to the overwhelming support and interest in our guild, we are very close to our capacity of how many members we can reasonably manage and support, without our quality of roleplay being impacted! Which means that once we finish processing our current batch of applicants, we will be effectively closed for new recruits for the time being.
If you have already applied, or been invited to apply, you will still be processed! Don’t worry too much about that!
I will now proceed to look at you with my big round eyes to consider reading this entire post, or atleast skim through it maybe, because I don’t really know how else to start a post like this.
🐦 Who are the Jackdaws? 🐦
The Jackdaws are a neutral adventure guild, composed of a found-family of sorts - outcasts who gather together and strive to make the world a better place, a place they wish that they had been in in their times of need. We travel between zones, setting up camps where we need, and seek out places to explore and people to help. We act more as a group of companions, than a formal guild, and so there is no true hierrarchy, every member chooses the path forward, and can even make their own individual choices if they are convicted enough to go forward with it. Our members are what makes us, and so we not only explore guild storylines - but also explore each of our members’ histories, problems, and lives, letting each and every person have limelight and development.
What hobby isn’t better when enjoyed with friends? The Jackdaws’ bonds are not just important IC, but OOC too, with a healthy and active community of friends. You’ll find someone chattering about something at all hours, and everyone is always eager to help out if you need a hand in anything! We have regular game nights, especially on birthdays, with Jackbox or Phasmophobia. We also vote weekly on movie nights, with a list for people to suggest movies for everyone to vote on - and if the vote is a draw, we must watch Cats 2019. Again. Our community is an inclusive and welcoming space - we don’t welcome, however, jerks. So it goes without saying that behaviour like racism, transphobia, or any other kinds of intolerant behaviour will not be - ironically - tolerated, and grounds for instant removal. Which is the bare minimum of how behaviour like that should be treated.
We have a website that you can explore for more detail that we’ve put a lot of effort in, so it’d be pretty cool if you looked at it so I can justify that it was totally worth dedicating hours to making it to the guild members:
https://sites.google.com/view/thejackdaws/home
🎲 What are events like? 🎲
The Jackdaws feature elaborate storylines where your characters’ choices and actions will directly affect the story, with the consequences of their actions shaping the world around them. As such, our stories aren’t scripted, and there are no predetermined outcomes - everything is in the hands of the players. We encourage active participation, offering personal DMing to those who want to make progress on stories outside of events, as well as a dedicated channel in the Discord for general character happenings.
Not only that, but we also let any of our members DM their own storylines dedicated to their characters’ pasts and histories, or even their own antagonists and writing. Not everything is contained to just events, but also even socials may have story developments, with interacting with anyone’s character having the potential to reveal more lore behind the guild and the people involved in it. It’s rare a single night doesn’t have something going on, no matter how relaxed.
👥 What kind of characters would be a good fit for the Jackdaws?👥
Our strong point is our members, with each character having their own lore, motivations, and drive - all of these things influencing the future of our guild, and the paths we take. We aren’t just about advancing one singular guild storyline, but also about progressing individual characters’ development and facing their backstories and goals. Whether someone has a curse they are trying to cure, enemies from their past they are trying to escape, or more, the guild is a space that looks out for its own, as a found family of outcasts who yearn for a place to belong.
Characters of any concept are allowed, and we are open for more unique or exotic concepts as long as they are balanced and make sense to be part of the space - and we can work with you to figure out what sense there needs to be for it. Creativity is the goal, and we don’t want to put roadblocks on what people want to do or roleplay. Even more abrasive characters are welcome, as long as they have some traits that make people want to keep them around ICly.
We are divorced from faction loyalties, and while characters may have biases or poor history with factions and races, it’s important that any character that joins is able to get atleast along enough with other members to be able to function around them and safely work with them. If your character absolutely refuses to work with Horde or Alliance races with no chance of development, then they may not be suited for this guild.
☕ What is the social like? ☕
We are an active group both IC and OOC, with roleplay happening most nights of the week - spontaneously planned around where and when people feel like they want to roleplay, and, honestly, we want to roleplay a lot. Often we drop into hubs such as Booty Bay or Dawn’s Blossom, letting our characters develop their friendships in their downtimes, and often getting up to mischief and shenanigans. It’s rare a ‘casual’ night doesn’t end up with some kind of bit being played out, whether that’s one person delivering spam mail, or someone else dropping anvils. Often our guild chat is being filled with brainrot and memes as we roleplay, though never to a distracting degree.
These shenanigans can often evolve into more than just side fun, with a variety of subplots available to delve into - which storylines evolve naturally alongside daily life, outside of events. We try to avoid too much roleplay being just sitting around in one spot doing nothing, so having plots that you can engage in during socials outside of events help prevent stagnancy - as well as help develop characters’ personal storylines.
For pure OOC, we have a dedicated 24/7 Minecraft server, weekly movie nights, and regular game nights! Our discord server is constantly active, with plenty of discussions and threads for conversation starters. If anyone ever needs a specific transmog run or simply help with dungeons, there will very likely be someone happy to help along.
💌 Sounds great! How do I join? 💌
Thank you for taking interest in us! Our recruitment process is simple - though a little different than most guilds, since we prioritise inviting people who will suit the space and will have fun with us. We don’t want to randomly add you and you have to loiter around because you realise you may prefer a different guild, and we also want to prevent people who - to put it bluntly - suck. So, instead of immediately accepting people joining us we invite you to spend some time roleplaying with us and our characters first, to see if you find this is a space you want to commit your time and energy to, and if you definitely have fun with us. In the meantime, we’d like to speak with you OOC to get to know you as a person, and for you to get to know us as people instead of names on a screen. If all goes well, and you definitely would like to join, then great! We will arrange an IC interview to have your character join!
To start, please read the FAQ linked below. We worked really hard on it, and it’d be great if you could read through it to get the repeated questions out of the way. Once you read that, you can contact us for any further questions, as well as being informed when our next public RP that you can join will be!
https://sites.google.com/view/thejackdaws/recruitment/faq
You can contact us in multiple ways! Though discord is preferred, that way we can spam you with our funniest memes.
BattleNet: LuckyGriffin#2932 │ Deesing#2244
Discord: LuckyGriffin │ Deeesing
Directly in-game (Argent Dawn EU Realm) at:
Horde - Rhaenelya, Nakhri
Alliance - Worgdorei, Falti
