Vanity Plate

in the interest of disclosure, (but to keep the smoke down), I'm simply going to state that Chutes, Lucy, and Amp are no longer members of The Pod People. It was a difficult decision to make, but I arrived at the conclusion that my individual goals and the general direction I was heading wasn't one in the same with the guild.

That said, Echuta still hasn't settled into a guild and likely won't any time soon. Amp is right at home under the benevolent but strict reign of the Princess of Fire Mages in The Burn Clinic, and Lucy is mistress of her own domain. Before getting the tiger mount in ZG the other night, we've been joking that certain things we say on Vent just sound like they'd make perfect guild names. As a matter of fact, it's been a longstanding joke among all of us that we've had great guild names, but were always with TPP, so there was no interest in losing all of those benefits and community just for a clever guild name. All that said, though, you have to admit that there's some poetry and beauty to beating down somebody in the BGs and their friends tell everybody that dude got effed in the A by somebody from «Alcoholic Death Muppets»...

Circumstances are much different for many of us now, so given the chance to splurge on a boutique guild tag, I decided to go for it. Based on the unmitigated carnage that was handed out in that ZG run, the other night, I'd commented that Chad and Zach had pulled so many tigers that it was like "Siegfried and Roy's wet dream," when Thay looked at the broken tiger carcasses and asked, "What? Tiger porn snuff film?". That was a definite "Save That" name, but Ren astutely commented that there's little chance at getting away with "Porn" in your guild name. Dammit. The absence of numbers also means that you can't do «Tiger Pr0n Snuff Film» either, so we were thinking «Tiger Prawn Snuff Film». Only afterward did I think that that was a wonderful euphemism/reference to killing gnomes, too. But alas, it still didn't have that je ne sais oomph.

A few days later, we were discussing an upcoming Kara run for Team Fire Engine, and I was telling Zach that I wasn't sure if there was a conflict between running that evening between that and the CCC run for KZ where Lucy heals. "Don't make me take back the tiger...," he joked on vent. My response was "zomg, jungle cat repo!"

And so «Jungle Cat Repo» was born. Orange tabard. White kitty on it. Life is good. Some people leave their folks to start a raiding guild. I left mine to make a riding guild.