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Former BTH Members on Great Lakes !!

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Michael Wolf

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Origin is still here, BTH is gone. If we find any straglers we'll be glad to send them over to GL, but I think they all realized they weren't wanted here and moved on long ago.
 
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Astaroth/Grizzly

Guest
hehe, poison is my brother, you prob remember me, but ho chi and psn dont play, tamer plays with me on origin and i havent talked to ogre in years, but if you looking for a place, hola at me
 
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Michael Wolf

Guest
Oh Geeze, its been quite awhile. Can't say I've seen a BTH here in over a year. I interviewed Chen a few years ago when I was still a reporter, but I really don't remember the last ime I saw a BTH on Origin. Maybe some of the PvP community can be more specific.
 
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Astaroth/Grizzly

Guest
lol id like to hear that interview... you know where i can find it?
 
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Michael Wolf

Guest
That was quite awhile ago. You might be able to search Origin, it was a news report I posted here. I might still have the plain text file at home, if I can find it I'll add it to this thread.
 

Stussywear

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I was Karl Malowned/Isopropyl from BTH. I still play, I'm not sure if you remember me.. I was an ephor around the time as Poison, Bum, Beastmaster and a few others.

Heres a few screenshots i have from back in BTH on origin.




 

Multani

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It's been so long I can't even remember the despise bridge looked like that.
 
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TruebloodBTH

Guest
Wow, love the screen shots it brings back alot of memories. I stopped playing right when BTH moved to Origins, I think I made one char on Origins but didn't play much longer after the move to there. I played with Ogre, Gimme Dat, IvanaKillsAlot, Ho Chi, and Beast. I can't remember alot of the other guys at the time. I played mostly on Great Lakes with them. I remember the night when we first created BTH. Ogre had a house near mine right behind where you signed up for the Showdowlords faction. Ho Chi was there as well. The best times I can remember is when we would do all nighters for factions when we were in the True Brits faction, defending the sigils. Those were the days and some of the best times I had in UO. Beast had mentioned that Ho Chi was in Tenn now in school. Does anyone have any info on how to get in touch with him? Astaroth please tell Beast Trueblood says hi, I haven't heard from him in about 6 years, lol. Time flies when you get to be around 40 yrs.
 

red sky

Sage
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Isn't Isopropyl the one who received the named ornament from the duel event? Or was it someone else? I know Bum got the named helmet.
 

Stussywear

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That was also Bum..

Although I should have gotten it.. It was a FFA in a cave thingy underground that the EMs held. I was literally last one standing, except for one group in BTH *bums grouP* who had a stealther who hid the entire time and ressed their entire group and they all came and killed me, then bum killed the rest of them.


BTH seperated into 5 man teams for the tournament, to try to make sure someone in BTH won instead of one of the other guilds.
 

Multani

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Pretty sure it was myself that screwed you out of the win man =(

I know at one of the events I was in Daryl's group and after we all died and your team was fighting it out, I self ressed then ressed my entire team up.
 
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Astaroth/Grizzly

Guest
yea, bum won the first and third, spyder jones won the second one, trueblood i played on GL as Absolute Zero... u might remember that, anyhow i havent seen or talked to pub in forever
 

Stussywear

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Pretty sure it was myself that screwed you out of the win man =(

I know at one of the events I was in Daryl's group and after we all died and your team was fighting it out, I self ressed then ressed my entire team up.
Oh ya!! ROFL.. thats hilarious.. i remember now.
 
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Michael Wolf

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lol id like to hear that interview... you know where i can find it?
Here it is, sorry this was formatted for HTML for a news post so you'll have to read through and ignore the code.

You see: The Town Drunk [B+H]

You see: Panda [B+H]

You see: Blob Squad [B+H]

You see: Shank [B+H]

You see: Shank [B+H]

You see: Ean [B+H]

You see: Grav Hurr [B+H]

You see: Ezra [B+H]

You see: Scratch [B+H]

You see: Zeus [B+H]

You see: Veridian Fyre [B+H]

You see: Ean [B+H]

You see: Ownergizer Bunny [B+H]

You see: Artemis [B+H]

You see: Panda [B+H]

You see: the true harrower

You see: Ajax [B+H]

You see: Rose Ashfell [B+H]

You see: Ajax [B+H]

You see: Frank [B+H]

You see: Marzan The III [B+H]

You see: Devious Desire [B+H]

You see: Damion [B+H]

You see: Condemned Soul [B+H]



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An interview with Chen and other members of BTH - as Requested

Hail and well met fair citizens of Origin.
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Several weeks ago a Lord Tennyson requested an interview with Chen of BTH. With a title such as Lord I thought I should do my best to fulfill this Nobleman's request.
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So I set out in search of this Chen person. I figured since he was a member of BTH I would look for members of the guild in the places I find them most often. Sure enough one visit to Despise on Fel and there they were, doing a Champ. They have gotten used to my visits during spawns and have been very accommodating the last few times I've run into any of their members. They were very gracious and offered to pass along the invitation to Chen.
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A few days later I received a message saying the weekend would be the best time to catch up with each other. That Saturday, while visiting another world in a different time, I received a message that Chen was online and available to chat. By the time I was able to cross several centuries to get to Sosaria, Chen & BTH were engaged in a Harrower on Legends. (Time travel is not as simple as you would think, even for a Ghost.)
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Being a dedicated reporter I wasn't about to let something as trivial as a shard boundary get in my way, especially after crossing somewhere near a millenium to get this far. Quill in one hand scroll in the other, off to Legends I went. Through prior communications I made my way to the Fel Moongate in Skara Brae where I was greeted by a red gate. On the other side I found myself at the entrance to a dungeon and being warmly greeted by several members of BTH. Like many members of our world Sosaria, Chen's name differs from shard to shard, on Legends he is know as Shank.
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Here is how our conversation went.
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Blob Squad: hail thee son
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Shank: aha
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Ghost Writer: Hail
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Shank: Welcome
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Shank: :)
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Ghost Writer: Now a warning
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Ghost Writer: I use journal converter and quote you, so say only what you wish to be repeated.
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Shank: Fair enough *nods*
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The Town Drunk: I am the one and only.
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Ghost Writer: I guess when a guild claims to dominate Origin as BTH has that creates some curiosity among our readers. I've been watching champ spawns occasionally when I can, and I do admit, if I find anyone there at all it's usually BTH.
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So I guess my first question to you would be. What is it like to manage such a large guild across 2 shards?
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Shank: Well I just want to let you know first off, I'm not the GM of BTH. Grav here is the Co-GM.
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Ghost Writer: Ok.
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Grav Hurr: However.... Shank is one of our most respected members.
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Shank: Anyway, as far as handling both shards... Right now we're doing a harrower here, and we're also raiding two spawns on Origin as we speak. It's just a matter of communication.
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Ghost Writer: So if I pop over to despise when we done here I'll find you guys there too?
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Shank: More than likely, actually, they are there right now. Just checked.
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(Just a note to our readers here. I did in fact check on Despise - Origin directly after we finished here and sure enough BTH was doing a spawn.)
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Ghost Writer: Don't worry I've promised never to let any spawn info out while it's going on.
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The Town Drunk: It's ok I pwn this shard.
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Ghost Writer: No one know's I'm here, not while I'm here.
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Shank: Well... actually we don't mind :) a fight now and then is what we're really all about.
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Ghost Writer: Better fights?
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Shank: Exactly. We've been to several shards before Legends, and have done quite well for ourselves so far.
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Ghost Writer: I'd be interested in watching some of your fights. Unfortunately the little I've caught have been with some of your - lets say less experienced fighters. I haven't reported cause I think your guild in general is better than those few battles I've seen.
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Shank: *nods*
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Grav Hurr: The guilds strength is not only in the leet skills of individuals. It's also in how committed each person is to the guilds whole.
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Shank: Well, we have good leaders in the guild... Grav Hurr, Town Drunk, Beast and well.. there is Pubamoto
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Grav Hurr: *grins*
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Shank: He keeps everything in order. *nods*
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Ghost Writer: Most of what I have seen of BTH has been uncontested spawns. Or in 2 cases, 2-3 BoP giving 8-10 of your guys a real run for their money.
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Grav Hurr: Well, if we are contested... The true strength of our guild is we don't give up.
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Shank: Exactly, we keep coming back to fight... no matter what.
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Grav Hurr: And everyone, when it comes down to the wire, work well together... The best guild member is not always the most... Leet player. Not really... We have ways to deal with... gimp templates.
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Ghost Writer: Oh no doubt, and an organization of numbers counts for a lot. Especially one which is really organized.
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Grav Hurr: They can take some temps by surprise.. but are handled easily.
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The Town Drunk: Yeah, I'm skilled PvPer. I kill anyone on this shard. Right, TD OWNS ALL!
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Shank: We'll probably be here a few more weeks and then move on to another shard. We plan on hitting all US shards. We've done well on Great Lakes and Lake Austin.
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The Town Drunk: We owned GL.
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Ghost Writer: Your motive?
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Shank: Our motive?
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Ghost Writer: Just braggin' rights?
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Grav Hurr: No so much.
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Shank: To find the best PvP we can find.
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Grav Hurr: To keep things interesting for members that have been with us for so long.
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The Town Drunk: We left GL cause it was boring, that was our original home. We will continue to move through every East Coast shard. Then West Coast.
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Shank: As you can see this shard is getting boring. Seeing as how we're doing a prime time harrower uncontested.
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Ghost Writer: I haven't seen anyone here.
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The Town Drunk: We scared everyone on this shard into hiding.
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Shank: It's all about the PvP. I mean... If we want gold we can farm Origin all day long chaining Despise spawns, but it's boring. So we travel, to make new friends :)
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Ghost Writer: Oh I know about the gold, I've pick up leftovers couple of times when I managed stay alive watching your guild do a spawn in Despise.
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Shank: hehe, But someone mentioned BoP on Stratics. Who are they?
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Ghost Writer: I've only met a few of them but they are good. Really good.
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Shank: We haven't seen that guild in weeks now.
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Ghost Writer: Me either, but I've been playing in a different world for weeks myself.
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Shank: They had a couple good guys.
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Ghost Writer: Yeah they did, I watched them, very impressed. I have some screen shots if you want names.
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Shank: No thanks. Was there anything else you'd like to know?
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Ghost Writer: No, I think I can write something up for the masses from what we've discussed.
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The Town Drunk: Wanna know the numero uno is? ME!
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Scratch: Numero uno town drunk lmao.
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Grav Hurr: Not interested.. But we do have some things we have to get ready to do. We're about to wrap this harrower up aye.. And we need to get folks in the right spots.
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The Town Drunk: Well tell them Town Drunk is coming for them, they better hide now.
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Blob Squad: And the squad.
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Shank: lol
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Grav Hurr: Thank you, Ghost Writer. Can I get you a gate out?
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Shank: Thanks for the time.
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Ghost Writer: I'll follow you down for pictures if you don't mind.
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Shank: Sure, come on, it may be in black/white though.
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Grav Hurr: Hope you don't mind if it's in black and white. No offense.
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Ghost Writer: Don't worry about me staying alive. I can still get color pictures.
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Grav Hurr: Ok? Even as a ghost?
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Ghost Writer: Grav Hurr is attacking you!
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Grav Hurr: Kal Vas An Flam - Wither
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You are dead.
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Grav Hurr: We don't allow blues in till we have scrolls out. No offense.
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Then I read these ominous signs as I followed along in my death robe.
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: Beware Ye Who Enter These Halls!
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: Go no farther, lest ye face thy death!
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Grav Hurr: It's not ready yet... We just can't take too long.
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The Town Drunk: No real harrower killers on this shard. On Legends we taken over 50 spawns. Thought you should know that.
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Ghost Writer: I'll mention it in the interview.
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Grav Hurr: Ghost.. how long have you been writing for stratics?
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Ghost Writer: Since the release of Mondain's Legacy.
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Ghost Writer: I got another question might interest our readers.
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Grav Hurr: Sure.
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Ghost Writer: What does it take to join BTH?
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Grav Hurr: Mostly... you have to know someone. But if you prove yourself on the fields, and you show interest in the guild.. We will give most folks a try. However, there are strong rules to follow as a recruit.
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Ghost Writer: These suckers are pretty tough Huh?
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Grav Hurr: heh, very. We had one last night that was mobile. This one's slow.
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Ghost Writer: Gonna be fun to try to read through this journal.
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Shank: What? I can't understand you and Grav stepped out for a moment. C'mere and I'll res you.
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Ghost Writer: Hail
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some damage has been healed : 49
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some damage has been healed : 20
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Ghost Writer: Thanks. Gonna be fun to try to read through this journal. Is what I had said.
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Shank: Ahh, Ok. I'll bet. :)
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Ezra: lol I'll just take longer.
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Devious Desire: lol
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At this point we had been standing around a good 10 minutes while BTH worked the Harrower. Very efficiently like clockwork, no one moved, no one had to. They methodically cast spell after spell in a very obvious pattern, each member having their tasks and always hitting their mark. I've cleaned up over a hundred pages of spells from this journal, you could see definite patterns. I just stood there observing and watching the Harrower's life bar get lower and lower.
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<img src="http://uo.stratics.com/newspics/origin-bth-harrower.jpg" width="582" height="529" border="5">
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Grav Hurr: k, Ghost, no offense, but when the thing drops you have to drop friend. We can res you after the scrolls are out.
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Shank: Yeah.
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Ezra: Ghost, attack me please. I gotta kill ya.
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Ghost Writer: You are attacking Ezra!
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Your defense chance has been reduced!
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Ezra: Vas Flam - Fireball
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the true harrower: Feel the delicious pain!
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You are dead.
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Ezra: K, I'll res you once the scrolls are out.
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Ghost Writer: K
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Grav Hurr: Sorry Ghost. Where are you?
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Ghost Writer: Hail
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Grav Hurr: K
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Shank: Well, have a good one. *wink*
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Ghost Writer: Any good scrolls you want to mention?
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Shank: Well, these are Stat scrolls, not skill scrolls. :) So we got 13, +25 stat scrolls. :)
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Ghost Writer: Ah, cool. Well thanks for your time. Nice to meet you.
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Shank: Ok I gotta jet, take care.
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Ghost Writer: C'ya
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And a red gate opened that took me back to Skara Brae Moongate, and so ended our interview. Hope that satisfies Lord Tennyson's curiosity or maybe wets his appetite enough to seek out Chen and BTH for himself to gain further knowledge.
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Until next time, safe travels to All,
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Ghost Writer
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Origin News Reporter
 
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Astaroth/Grizzly

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thanks man, those were good days, i was there for that one as well, we ended up raiding GL/LA/LS/and legends, harries on all shards.. wish all those guys were bak
 

Hi_im_from_atl

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Lol BTH, when I first x-fer to Origin they had it on lock. I remember lil weezy I think it was asking my mage if we were any good (we were not at the time). Then his crew rolled us and and the next week he came and said "when I asked you if you guys were any good you should have just said no"

So that sucked at the time then we joined FL and just rocked BTH for a few months. I remember lil weezy came to me and Rev begging us to quit FL and join BTH. Of course we told him to F-O and maybe a month later BTH vanished, like FFBz style 15 people on one day then never seen from again.

I remember all this because it was the first time in UO I had any effect on fel pvp.

So i guess the moral of this little story is FL>BTH :)
 

Stussywear

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Origin is a hard shard to play.

There is nowhere near the activity to keep anyone playing here. Ive been running around 4 shards this morning looking for fights, and have only found a few on napa. Havent even seen 1 person orange in Origin.
 

Hi_im_from_atl

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Agreed. I wish it was more active b/c I like most of the people and the ones I dont like I love to hate. The problem is about 5 mins after I transfer I know I would be thinking "why the **** did I x-fer here, its dead!"

Origin when it was active was by far my favorite shard to play on, such great rivals and intense fights.

Me and Pimps were talking the other day and we were still loling at some of the fights we had on Origin. Any FFbz remember a ricky at kaldune when just me Pimps and IR raided? It was back when Morg, stud, clep, lone were all in FFBz right around when you got all those guys from chessy I think it was. I dont know if you were there bobby but I know Mult was.
 

Multani

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BTH I believe fell apart when they followed Stussy and myself to Lake Austin.
Where we repeatedly destroyed their guild, and they had to leave within a month. Unfortunately for them before their ego's could be repaired FL showed up on Origin shortly after that and they fell fast.
 

Stussywear

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True Story..

They were really pissed because Soldevi, Spyder Jones/Father Vinyard, Alucard, Deathrow, Rasputin and myself left the guild and left for Lake Austin again. They followed, and were embarassed steadily during their stay. Just so happens FL raided Origin and swept our mess under the rug.

I do also recall us coming to Origin & Sonoma since FL wouldnt come to us, and we ended up after a rough first week or two, breaking the grasp on origin that Fl had. The remains quit or transfered.
 
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Astaroth/Grizzly

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I know we did a lot of raiding certain shards, in the end we just keep losing numbers from people quiting like soldevi and sypder etc but a lot of people left the game as well, especially when pub left, i mean pub was a **** but he did know how to run a guild effectively. FL caught us like right as pub quit, went downhill from there, no leadership. not to say FL didnt have a lot of good players like galt etc, but they did ally D and all of D's allys too, not making excuses but they did have a sick number of people, i got some screenies, the first couple days there were awesome fights with like 50 FL/D and maybe 30 BTH, still good times though
 
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Meleria

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Hey guys, don't know if you guys remember me, Played Forsaken back in the day, or Akasha seen the title figured I would see whats going on.! Playing GL myself now days after some long time away from the game!
 

Cit1z3nBuM

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I'm Richard Trueblood or as HoChi would call me TrueNewb. I'm one of the first members of BTH started many years ago on the Great Lakes server. I'm looking for old members, HoChi or Publius, Ogre, Poison or Beastmaster are you still playing UO. Is BTH still on Origins. What happened to everyone???

Check out this old interview with poison and beastmaster lol.

http://ishare.sphorium.com/fb/link.aspx?id=b7c1befd-0bc8-42dd-bee0-c8442578f456

Thanks for posting that interview, hilarious memories...
Any old BTH members send me a ICQ
 

Larisa

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I'm still in BTH though whenever I log on to Larisa there's noone else on :( Sad times. I do NOT miss Pub....AT ALL...but I do miss everyone else..specially Lil'P ;) Don't pvp much cus my suit is still from before all the new stuff and haven't had time to make myself a new one but it would be nice to see some action on Origin again..Miss raiding spawns and harry's.
 

Crimson

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Just came across this thread! Too bad its been almost 2 years after the last post..... I was Crimson/Rapier.... Last I played on OSI was about 2010 with Tamer and Lil P. Playing on UO Forever nowadays with Black Sean/Ghetto... I remember when Beast and Poison did that interview lol. Some of the most fun Ive ever had in a game!
 

PoisonX

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Sorry I am late but if any of you reply, I will be checking this as often as possible. Miss the hell outta yall! Gonna start playing again some I think. Kind of hard when you have 3!!! kids now. HAHA.
 

Larisa

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O,o well there's a name I haven't seen in awhile...I left BTH due to the fact that noone was ever on and all the cool kids were gone...P, Lil P, Beast, Grav etc.

Will be nice to see you around though...and 3 kids?? Has it been that long? Geesh lol.

Good to hear from you!
 

Larisa

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Wow well grats P! Kids are awesome!

And yes I agree we need to get Grav on here...no way to even get a hold of him...have no clue where he is or what he's doing these days :(
 

Crimson

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Poison... You and your punk ass brother need to come to UOForever! Ogre and his brother just started playing here a week ago too!
 

Larisa

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PoisonX

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Only way to get on my icq is on my old computer. No idea what the password is and I never setup a recovery protocol. Pretty interesting, icq is Russian and aren't very helpful. I'll hook it up soon. Happy 2019, hope everyone is doing good!!!!
 

OgreBTH

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Dont know what made me feel nostalgic enough to look this up but if anyone that was old BTH on GL is still alive out there I hope you are all doing awesome! I cant believe Rich made this post 9 years ago!
 

mastashake

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Just returned to origin a year ago, I've been gone since 2009. Only bth I see around is Donnie darko, is anyone on gl currently?
 

Larisa

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BTH is pretty dead now, not even sure they are on any other shard. Time changes a lot.
 

Larisa

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LiL P!!!!!! OMG I was just talking about you and your brother the other day and how much the PvP has changed. I miss the old PvP days :/
 
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