User:TwystTye

TwystTye is the Guild Leader of The Older Gamers (TOG) North American guild, and Division Captain of the TOG GW division, a small part of The Older Gamers gaming community. TOG was honored as Guild of the Week by ArenaNet for the week of November 14-20, 2006. The larger gaming community of TOG is over four years old and has a worldwide player base consisting primarily of North American, European, and Australian members.

As TOG is always accepting new members, steady growth in TOG's Guild Wars division prompted the addition of a second guild in the spring of 2006, the Temple of the Older Gamers, and then again in November 2006, a third guild was added, Templars of Older Gamers, and most recently in February 2007, a fourth guild, Tribe of Older Gamers. We consider the four guilds as one and the same, and members converse via Alliance Chat. The guilds come together for regular TOGetherness Events, usually PvE, the most recent being runs through Tombs. We also share the same Team Speak server, and so we get to hear a variety of accents from around the world.

The Older Gamers are members of a community for people that still enjoy playing computer games, but are in a bit of an older age bracket (25+) than the 'stereotypical' gamer. TOG is for gamers who are passionate about their gaming, but who want to escape or separate themselves from the abusive, disruptive and disrespectful behaviour, usually attributed to younger players, that is so often encountered when gaming online. This is exactly what TOG is about: a friendly, vibrant community full of PC gaming addicts from around the world, who are old enough to know how to enjoy ourselves properly!

We have been venturing cautiously into the Domain of Anguish in recent weeks, as more TOGgers progress through Nightfall. In Factions, we have beaten Urgoz's Warren many times over, and The Deep a few. We join up on Team Speak and count down to hit the "enter mission" button, coordinating our entry into Vizunah Square to get 16 people in together - 8 on foreign and 8 on local. We also still return to Prophecies, such as helping with Ring of Fire, Abaddon's Mouth, and Hell's Precipice - all in one night! But we surely do believe in our afk breaks of 5-10 mins - we don't go in gasping for breath. :) Drink and restroom breaks, breaks to check on the baby, walk the dogs, all that kind of real life stuff - we don't forget it exists while we're gaming.

TOG now finds most of its players working their way through Nightfall, still chattering away on Alliance chat and TeamSpeak, although there is still a large contingent of Prophecies and Factions players as well.

With the notoriety and visibility that being named Guild of the Week can bring, we attracted the attention of a small GvG guild who merged with us and some of us have now been venturing into the wide world of GvG battles on a near-nightly basis (article link).

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In real life, TwystTye is a work-at-home mother of two young up-and-coming gamers that are currently enthralled with Neopets and Animal Crossing DS, and wife and quarter-of-a-century friend to her diehard gamer husband (also a TOGger).

Characters included six level 20s: Necro has completed all campaigns, four have completed Prophecies, three have completed both Prophecies and Factions, Rit-Factions only, and I am now working my other characters through Nightfall.

Warrior: Celeste Driezon Necromancer: Mrs Deathscythe Monk: Inaki Althaean Mesmer: Youneda Goodname Elementalist: Icicle Twyst Ritualist: Anomaly by Celeste Dervish: Celestial Daeva Paragon: Charot Celeste PvP Slot: * Celeste * or Bangbang Maxwell Character RP Personality Profiles (just for kicks and grins - I don't RP in-game): Celeste is my main girl. I created her from the beginning at the advice of my husband, a tank that could get right into the fight. I was skeptical ... until he said 'Cyclone Axe.' And then and there Celeste was born, axe-chopping, pony-tail swinging tough girl. She looks sweet; her gentle face belies her violent nature. She sees foes - she wants to get to hefting that axe around their neck! She was honored to be chosen as The One to come through Factions first, to lead the charge, and for her service she was rewarded with lovely new green armor. Now she pony-tails it through all the places in both games, her red-haired temper finding its outlet across two continents, and in between fights she examines her nails, waiting impatiently for the next head to chop. Inaki Althaean is a very sweet happy girl of Polynesian descent. Always smiling, even in the thick of battle, although her face may set with concentration when trying to manage energy and team health, she always has a happy sparkle in her eyes. She gets a bit put off by DS's (my husband's monk character) dislike of her, but chalks it up to thinking he's just jealous to not be the only monk on call anymore, and so she tries not to get her feelings hurt by his teasing. She chose her handwraps to coordinate with the lovely fluttering headpiece over the wiser choice of energy-enhancing tattoos. She loves gold and shimmery things, not for the value, but for their appearance, and loves to dance with her handwraps breezing through the wind. She absolutely adores her big brown Teddy Bear and brings him along whenever practical. Mrs Deathscythe is simply misunderstood. She looks odd and purposefully so. She wraps herself in solid heavy dark armor, symbolistic of her isolationism, now that her travels have brought her to a place where energy is not relegated to scars only. She's very stand-offish and prefers to run alone, but will go along with groups as long as she is left to her own devices. But although she has this cold attitude towards adventurers, civilians and foes alike, a girl named Gwen was able to find a tender place in her heart. Mrs Deathscythe still carries Gwen's Broken Flute with her to this day (shhh don't tell her I told you). Youneda is a bit stuck-up and she does not care who knows. She's tough as nails but dresses fancy. She will mesmerize anyone that dares to stand in her way, and then suddenly clear their daze just to throttle them with her powers of mind. She's not one to mess with. Icicle is a girly-girl, but her attitude is so benignly naive that she is hard to hate. With dark hair and soft blue eyes she is difficult to hold a grudge against. She loves her pretty blue clothes and likes to cast her damaging spells, but she's not so much about the fight as she is about being amazed at the power of her own skills. Her very naivete is somewhat endearing. Celestial Daeva means Heavenly Demon. Daeva is a variant of the Persian word Div. I hasn't yet discerned her personality, although she has reached level 18. All I can figure is she seems quiet and deadly - a bit frightening, even. I like her very much. Charot Celeste is all about blessings and light. Her name comes from the Hebrew "Charot," the angels who form the heavenly chariot with their very bodies and wings. Dark of skin and beautiful to behold, she is still just in the tender beginnings of her life. And those are my girls. Anomaly is my only male character - male rits are just too sexy - I couldn't resist making one. He just likes to dance and strut his big bad muscular self; he seems to still be in his partying college years. He hasn't really accomplished anything at all. Yet... Update: he got off his hiney and zoomed up to level 20 in one week. Guess he didn't like the stigma of being called a party-boy. Got himself some hero partners from Elona and brought them over to Cantha and got all the way to Nahpui Quarter with them and henchies alone... He even made the assassin chick stay in the back and be a minion master - he took away her daggers! Seems he feels he has something to prove. Update II: He got himself his Kurzick armor he wanted, and a Black Moa for the heck of it, and he finished Factions. And seems to be a much more serious guy now. Hmmm.... But he stills breaks out his strutting dance every once in awhile. He wants to travel now. Elona is next on his list.