Photo by Nimoe

Ten members of the Luminous Path—Thórva, Ekhan, Zalmoxis, Nimoe, Kainé, Gorganoth, Aleyá, Savian, Zuuko, and Elial—gathered from 23-25 July in Berlin for some LARP. Turns out Currywurst and Vodka are almost as good a group buff as fish feasts. Guild members can access more pictures through a link on the private forums.

After weeks of wipes on what is, two tiers later, still a fiendishly unforgiving boss, we were finally able to bring Reply Code Alpha to Rhonin and save the world!

He rules a Moment: Chaos Umpire sits,
And by decision more imbroiles the fray
By which he Reigns: next him high Arbiter
Chance governs all. Into this wilde Abyss,
The Womb of nature and perhaps her Grave,
Of neither Sea, nor Shore, nor Air, nor Fire,
But all these in thir pregnant causes mixt
Confus'dly, and which thus must ever fight,
Unless th' Almighty Maker them ordain
His dark materials to create more Worlds,
Into this wild Abyss the warie fiend
Stood on the brink of Hell and look'd a while,
Pondering his Voyage.

—Milton, from Paradise Lost

DEATH be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not so,
For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee,
Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee doe goe,
Rest of their bones, and soules deliverie.
Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poyson, warre, and sicknesse dwell,
And poppie, or charmes can make us sleepe as well,
And better then thy stroake; why swell'st thou then;
One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.

(John Donne)