IF you played EQ1 and were a bard or on Viriona Vie you may have heard of Molto Espressivo. The all Bard guild. Well I was fondly rembering my former guild. So much so that I decided to post this.
Original thread on the Old EQDiva forums
However here is a brief timeline.
Synopsis Follows:
On January 3 (Klapton was a Moderator on EQDiva and is now one on the Vanbard Forums.)
Klapton Started a topic that alot of us bards responded to. (it had been kicked around before but nothing came of it.)
Original thread on the Old EQDiva forums
" Six of us roll fresh Bards on some server. We agree to group together once a week--no playing those toons except together.
." Klapton posted.
Profundox Responds
"Con's first, because there are more of them.
A) Tough to find 18 songs (6x3 twist) that would be useful.
B) Zero conversation to read during battle.
C) A whole bunch of competition for red and white dragon scales.
On the Pro side:
It would be a hell of a lot of fun."
"I'd do it. It would be a total riot." types Cytek1973
"You missed the real pro to this group:
No requests for mana song!" Sandarr throws in.
"Would be fun. And make it a guild....What about on The RP server. that way alot of stuff isn't no drop. And might be able to get some cool stuff in the bazaar. With 5 bards singing buffs/Health regen/ They would be unstopable with blue level mobs. some yellows as well." Says I
After 4 pages of ideas.....
There is an overwellming respons to this. So much so that Klapton Changed his tune and decides to start a guild on Firiona Vie
Yes there was one or two naysayers.
"This pointless guild makes me ROFL IRL." Says Darksong. We ignore him. Even tho Klapton Invited him to join us and Have FUN being a bard again. Darksong says nay Bard epic is to stressfull. We did have a pretty inteligent conversation after that tho. Well Semi inteligent. Darksong Always had his fanbois (or his alternate accounts??) to cheer him on.
At 24 Jan 03 6:51am Klapton posted this in our offical forums on EQDiva. That Kocho was nice enough to provide us.
The Old Molto Forums on the Old EQdiva Forums.
"The guild application was submitted last night successfully. We got our 10 peeps to #approveguild, and now we wait.
The GMs will review our charter, and get back to me to make an ingame appointment. Once I meet a GM ingame, we are a guild!"
2/5/03 guild was officially formed. (sony accepted our guild.)
The rest was pretty much history. I got deployed to Iraq.
(My posts from Iraq)Gone 13 months. Of course the original guild mebers was in there 50s by then. Feroce gifted me with Some Great Tradeskilled Armor and a few cool weapons.
Harp's Magelo
Next step in Molto was Forming a secondary support Guild Called Nellarmonia and to seek Raid Aliances. Feroce and Klapton were definatly pivitol in this.
But Alas every good thing comes to a end. EQ2 came out and alot of people moved on to that. Some had gotten maried and/or joined the military, SOme faded away.
We do keep running into each other!!!
Klapton Has kept Us posted on the Happenings with Vanguard.
Hes even starting a guild In Vanguard Called
Harmony. (hopefully we get the guild invite over the next few weeks.)
A few other informative links to Molto info.
Original Charter
Molto FAQ
Public Molto Forums
Thanks for reading. Been a walk down memory lane for me looking for these links.
Rao