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PaxLair is Founded by The Band Occured on: Jan 19, 1998 |
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The Band was founded October 15th, 1996 as a Guild of Ultima Online. It
started only as a dream of our beloved founder Nightfall, but soon the guild
grew into one of the largest and most elite guilds on the internet. The
Band, one of the first guilds listed in the official UO handbook, has gone
through many different Leaders, and also many different organizational
structures. The UO Beta was probably one of the more exciting times of The
Band. There is nothing quite like playing a newbie character in a world that
you have never been to. Band members would meet from all over Britannia to
go adventure through uncharted lands and kill monsters that had never been
seen before. Daily adventuring groups would meet in front of the dungeon
Covetous and led by the brave Sir Lock, would fight their way through the
monsters to the hidden castle on the mountain, gaining vast amounts of
treasure. We were also allied with the League of Pirates, whom we had a lot
of fun with in the beta, but had to cancel the alliance in the final due to
server differences. The Beta ended when the final started. We jumped right into the Atlantic shard and began our characters' lives. Our first forge was built near the Despair mountains north of Britain. It was the common gathering place for TB members and enemies alike. The Band fought in a few wars with some PK guilds. Even with our forces being led by the great Cyberkhan we didn't fare well against PK guilds, but we did win a few battles here and there. After a while we saved up enough money to buy the first castle on the Atlantic shard. Later the castle was broken into by bug users and deleted by a Game Master. The GM gave the castle deed back to us but we were tired of putting upwith all the cheaters and bug users that lived on Atlantic. When we heard news of the Chesapeake shard opening up, we jumped right on it. Many of our greatest achievements took place on Chesapeake. We saved up to build a HQ along with many other types of buildings on a secret island near Yew. We named this area Bandville and held many great festivities there. Thanks to many of our merchants, including the wealthy SoulWeaver, we had enough money to try something new. We founded the first player run town of UO, Paxlair. The town consisted mostly of Band members during its first few months. After we received GM support we were able to lock down furniture and add many new areas like a cafe and arena. Paxlair soon took off, becoming one of the most famous areas in all of UO. The town still runs today, though most Band members have vacated it to embark on more exciting adventures. In UO, most Band members started new characters to role-play pirates on the high seas. Others quit UO altogether, waiting for newer games like EverQuest and Asheron's Call. When these games are released, we will bravely adventure to these new worlds and explore them. Until then, you can find us in our IRC channel (#theband on irc.stratics.com). In the meantime (now it is 05/07/02) quite some things happened: Everquest, AC and DaoC came, many people played those game and many already left them. NeverWinterNights came out a few days ago and we try to regain some organisation within the webpage and the guild to organise some nice gaming sessions... Extracted from The Band History page |
PaxLair is a Player Town
on the Chesapeake Shard of Ultima Online.
PaxLair is a peaceful, neutral town dedicated to roleplaying and open to all.