Victorious Of Sea

Victorious of Sea Guild
From Left to Right:
Issabella Jane lvl 50; Magaret Warhara lvl 21; Logan lvl 14; Timothy lvl 20; Billy Goldhawk lvl 36 (guild-master); Kate Wildeagle lvl 21; Liz lvl 40; Emily Firerose lvl 14; Billy Plunderwash lvl 44
Currently not present; Elizabeth Saileagle lvl 25
This picture has Elizabeth Saileagle in it.  She is to the far right.
This is an amazingly friendly and party-like guild that started out as an underdog group, to the more popular and more often seen guilds.  All pirates have at least encountered a member of this guild once.  This guild has an amazing long and action packed history full of many good times and bad times.
I am BIlly Goldhawk.  Now, here is the history of my beloved guild.
(2009)  It all started on the 7th of March, 2009.  I was getting really close with a girl whose name was Rachel Stormrose.  She was a very bright girl with the sunshine in her eyes.  Anyways, She started a guild called Victorious of Sea.  Originally, it was just meant for her and myself to stay closely connected to each other.  We were both very similar Rachel and I.  I was a lvl 14 and she was a lvl 12.  Our levels weren't too far apart, but we both had one huge difference; she had unlimited access and I didn't.  So, after we had our guild for about a month and she was already advancing over my level fast since I was restricted to lvl 14 without unlimited access.  She became a lvl 16 not after too much time.  I could tell she really wished I had unlimited access, so we could advance together, but this is no explanation (I think) for what happened next.  One day when I started pirates, she was gone.  Off my friends list, off my players list, and out of the guild.  She had left me.
I was heartbroken.  Not only was she a good friend of mine, she was my VERY first close friend on pirates.  She left and for no reason too.  We never had fights, or anything that would have dampened our relationship or motivated her to leave.  I can only guess it was because that I was a low-level and she was an unlimited access member advancing fast.  The world will never know.  BUT, she was at least kind enough to leave me the guild.  So, I knew she still had a small place in her heart for me.  I would thank her if I ever saw her again.  Being a basic member, I was over excited for having been given a guild of my own to lead! No basic members like myself could ever start a guild without being past down from the original creator.  It was a new beginning.  I did not know the grand challenges, amazing adventures and super friends I would meet in the future.  It was all too thrilling for me to even think what I'd do next!  And that is how my guild began; but that was only the beginning.
And so began my first year with my new guild.  From then until the closing of pirates, my guild lasted approximately 4.5 years.  Each year had its own saga and its own challenges.  Here is how my first year went.
(2009) The First year of my guild was probably the hardest time that my guild had ever gone through.  I call the first year of my guild "The Silent Age".  Even though the future challenges for the guild were much greater in the following years, it was still nothing compared to this first year because of one overshadowing reality: I was alone.  I was a basic member and alone in my guild.  It took a lot of time, careful negotiating, patience with others, and great kindness to get people to join.  I remember 3 names of amazing pirates who helped me get through these tough times.  The first pirate to help me was Kate Wildeagle.  My friendship with her was like a match made in heaven (as far as JUST FRIENDS goes).  When I first met her, she wanted adventure, challenges, teamwork, notoriety, but most of all, she wanted a friend.  Ever since then we have been very close.  Not close as in "like like" but just friends.  An easy way of describing our friendship is like a brother and sister.  Even though we were the closest friends ever on pirates, we ARGUED a LOT.  Just like real siblings.   It didn't take long before I promoted her to officer.  Kate is a loyal friend.  BY FAR my most loyal friend ever in pirates online.  She was one of the few who stuck with me for the longest.  All the way until pirates closed in september 19th, 2013.  The other two pirates who helped me through this time were Meg Redbolt and Phantom Glowhorn.  They were very quiet, and somewhat introverts, but very helpful.  They each added about 30 people a week (AT LEAST).  Unfortunately, people were leaving the guild almost as fast as they were joining.  At least the numbers were increasing; slowly but surely.  By the end of the first year, the guild had about a hundred pirates in it.  The first year ended well.
(2010) The Second year of the guild was by far the worst and best year of the guild.  What I mean by that is that the challenges and consequences were very great, but the second half of the year had HUGE successes.  I call this second year of my guild the time of Growth and Destruction.  This second year started well, very well in fact.  We went from about 100 members, to 200 members in just one month alone!  Most of these new recruits were all coming from the same place, The "Sugar Rush" Guild.  DUN DUN DDDDUUUUUUUNNN!!  A lot of people were rebelling against sugar rush for being cruel, rude, unfair, and just plain down right weird.  This was the year that the sugar rush maxed out their guild, so the guild-master and officers thought they could do anything they wanted.  Back then in 2010 Sugar Rush was a oligarchy!  The guild master was just as cruel as the officers (I am not speaking of ALL of their members, just a few of the high-ranks at the time including the guild-master).  So after we recruited many people from Sugar Rush, Sugar Rush was furious!  They sent spies into MY guild.  At that time, my guild regulations were not very strict for entrance and especially not strict for promotion.  So with in a week or two, I had at least 5 actual sugar rush spy operatives as officers in my guild (scary, huh?).  Worst of all, pirates online hadn't put in the restricting rule that an officer can only remove 5 people from a guild a day yet, so that was bad!  Within a week, my 200 member guild, had become a 70 member guild.  And believe it or not, one of the sugar rush spies that became an officer in my guild (her name was Natalie) was a close friend of mine (so i thought).  I trusted her, and she was the one who insisted I promote the other sugar rush spies to officers in my guild.  Luckily, of course my friends in the guild, were friended to me, so i could just add them back.  After that catastrophe, we STRIKE BACK!  We sent spies into their guild too.  We did some damage into their guild by corrupting lower ranking members thoughts, and by hearing their secret plans.  We did nothing as evil as they did to us (removing members of the guild).  Except for one of my operatives that took things to the extreme (meaning, he deleted members of their guild and disobeyed my orders).  Since his heart was in the right place, all I did was just demote him.  Many missions later... guess what?  We had an all out guild war on our hands!  They fought us, and we fought them.  After about 4 months (maybe 6 months), Victorious of Sea's losses of members was just too great; we surrendered to the sugar rush guild.  So they declared victory over our guild and spread the news of how terrible our guild was to the rest of the caribbean.  We were furious, but had enough of them.  I kept one spy in their guild (as a veteran rank so they didn't get too suspicious of him) to just keep watch on their guilds plans, just in case if they plan something else tricky.
NOTE: Sugar Rush had one last scheme up their sleeves before the war ended.  In fact, they started this right when the war began.  The Sugar Rush guild-master and officers never informed the rest of the guild about the war with the Victorious of Sea Guild.  This didn't do anything for them during the war, but after the war, it gave them some interesting advantages.  If we had an argument or fight or just talk with sugar rush, they would deny everything that happened with our guild and just call us coo-coo.  The worst case scenario is they complain to the game POTCO that Victorious of Sea is playing dirty; that would COMPLETELY destroy our guild.  And most of the Sugar Rush members weren't not telling the truth, they just simply didn't know.  75% of the sugar rush guild is just plain basic ranked members while 20% are veterans and 5% are officers.  But when you join their guild, you would think their whole guild is just made out of officers!  Why?  because ALL their officers are ALWAYS online.  So that can be deceptive.
The Second part of our guild's second year is known as the "restoration age".  The name is obvious enough to indicate what happens.  About a month after our guild war with sugar rush, things started to calm down between our two guilds; but if we confronted them or bumped into them, they would still call us bad names.  This was not too much of a bother.  The reason this last portion of the year was such a huge success, was because of one man Kate Wildeagle recruited; Gerard Calicoswine.  This man was the SAVIOR of our guild.  Not only did he add a hundred more members to our guild, he added an extra 200!  With the help of Gerard (he pretty much just did all the work), we had 400 members in a short time of 5 months.  A perfect thing to celebrate at christmas time, right?  How was he so good?  I will never know.  I will say though, he was once an unlimited access member, and was now a basic member with the notoriety of 49. And Gerard seemed to have a lot of connections. He was in one or two very notorious guilds previously.  That might have something to do with all this.  Besides Gerard, I made a lot of new friends that year.  I met 4 more memorable people.  Phantomhorn Menace lvl 11 (Gerard's brother), Logan lvl 14 and Timothy  lvl 14 (both brothers), and Elizabeth Saileagle lvl 14.  Phantomhorn Menace was the guild clown, Logan was a great helper and always their to help me when i needed a tonic or something, and Elizabeth Saileagle (I call her Lizzy) and Timothy became very close friends of mine.  All four of these pirates were helpful in the building of this guild.  I met Elizabeth and Timothy around the same time.  Can't remember who was first.  Timothy was on everyday and on instead of 24/7 more like 14/7 which is still awesome.  He was one of the cooler sidekicks of mine LOL!  We were the ones who did all the fun stuff together.  From fighting in dark caves with hard bosses, to boarding navy ships alone just the two of us... we went through it all!  He unfortunately after the Christmas of 2010, I never saw him again until the last month of pirates.  He is just lucky that I did not delete him from the guild after all that time!  Elizabeth was a great friend too.  She was a bit melancholy, yet a natural leader and role model in my guild.  We also became extremely close friends (kind of like Kate Wildeagle).  We ate at my home at driftwood a lot, and just hung out together and talked as we defeated crabs.  She always had the best advise for me and kept me in high spirits.  I am glad she stuck with me tell the end in 2013.
(2011) The Third year of Victorious of Sea Guild is known as the height of our guild's success and wealth; but also called our guild's "golden age".  For most of this year, we had a full guild of 505 members.  We had at LEAST 20- 60 people online at once.  So this was defiantly a busy time for me.  It was a great year, thats for sure.  For about a week in the middle of june, our guild was one of the top ten guilds in the caribbean!  It was only for a short week (which is why most pirates would not call this a "famous" guild), but it was great to be at the top of the top for a while.  I also met two more important friends;  Johnny Lockskull and Issabella Jane.  Johnny Lockskull was quite a character.  He was a loner too.  He was an almost EXACT twin of me.  He was a basic member, but he obviously had unlimited access for a little while since we has a lvl 17.  He slept a lot, adventured a lot, and just hung out for a while.  He never said much, but he seemed like a legendary explorer and role model to me (since he was a higher notoriety lvl mostly).  He did not come online that much, but he had been a good friend of mine up to the world's end.  I asked him to join the guild at least a dozen times (politely of course), but he just couldn't ever make up his mind.  Issabella Jane.  I have technically known her since August 2010, but she really never became a great friend of mine until 2011.  She was a high level at the time.  But unlike most high levels, she NEVER treated me like trash, even though I was about 15 levels beneath her.  She taught me the importance of good friendship and how gender, age, or notoriety level should not prevent anyone from being good friends in POTCO.  She stuck with me until the very end in 2013.  I asked her about 5 times a year if she wanted to join me guild, but she was happy with her own.  Even though she was in a different guild, she still helped our guild in more ways than you can imagine.  She advertised for our guild, she helped our guild sail, and she asked her friends if they wanted to join my guild.  She is/was an angel and a pretty pirate.  She will always remain a good friend of mine.  This was a big party year for Victorious of Sea.  We celebrated all the major holidays plus more (our own holidays)!
(2012) The Fourth year of our guild and the last FULL year of our guild.  This era was known as "The Great Depression".  I can't say too much about this era in time.  After Christmas of 2011, a rebellious officer of mine (named John Redmouth) wanted to be guild master of MY guild.  He at first just briefly mentioned it as a joke, but unlike most jokes, this point kept coming back up. The turning point of his joke-like suggestion into a sincere rebellious movement to his cause was after an unfortunate series of events (which may all lead back to me, ironically).
The entire year of 2012 was a busy year in my real life which I will not go into any detail in explaining (since it is too complicated and off-topic). So with me be gone so much, I couldn't be an effective guild leader for this time. A year is a long time; I was fully aware of the damage that could be done to my guild without an effective guild master. I gave up my authority as the guild master for about 8 months to a very close, trusted pirate of mine who I knew would give the authority back to me when I asked for it (since I knew him in the real world). This pirate was Bob Plunderpants. He wasn't my closest of friends in the pirate world, but he was on often and a good POTCO member, so I thought he could make a good/decent guild master. Unfortunately, I was wrong. He was a crazy character who was not a great leader unfortunately, but at least he yielded my guild authority back to me when I came back. His promotion and demotion of certain guild members proved to be problematic. The lack of guild spirit/"patriotism" that he had and the lack of daily/weekly guild events which made my guild unique were not continued often or at all under his reign. My loyal guild members (among some of which were demoted by Bob Plunderpants) rioted against him with Kate for new leadership when I was gone. Even though he was overall a terrible guild master, in his reign over my guild he did gain more members than were lost.
When I took over again, the calls for new leadership died down, but the movement to breakaway from my guild was started from a certain individual named John Redmouth. He had not participated in the riots against Bob Plunderpants, but yet he still understood the frustration of many of my guild members about the guild. So he took advantage of the time and had a plan B if he couldn't successfully convince me to give him my guild. I of course still didn't grant him the rank of guild master.  He was furious and unfortunately had made many friends and supporters in my guild over the time I was gone.  He, and 100 others, immediately left blitzkrieg style out of the guild and started one of their own, known as the "Eagle Demons" guild (the 100 others that left started a momentum to leave my guild, so over the span of about a month, including the 100, 300 in total left the guild).  I lost so many members in just about 3 weeks, it was tragic. This was the worst event to happen in the guild since the defeat in the guild-war against Sugar Rush (probably worse).  I, and the rest of my guild were frantically trying to get more people and regain our numbers because of how many we had lost.  But the decrease happened too fast. My guild would never be the same again.
This was a very quiet era in my guild because of fewer members and less guild events and activity under the new (temporary) guild master.  Since this was such a quiet, dull and boring time in the guild, the times I was online, I decided to look for my long lost girl friend, Rachel Stormrose.  I looked her up in the Pirate dictionary to see what guild she was in and tried to find her from there.  I at the very least just wanted to thank her for the wonderful guild she gave me. (NOTE: this paragraph I primarily added 3 years after I wrote the rest of this stuff, so I regretfully forgot some of the minor details of these events, which were actually quite interesting) The guild she was in was a very trendy guild at the time. I can't remember what it was called, but it wasn't hard finding members from this guild on a daily basis. I began to ask some of the guild members I encountered if they knew who Rachel Stormrose was, and if they did I asked if she was online. At first, no one really knew her, but then I found one or two who did. They'd say, "Oh yeah! I know who she is. She's an officer." (that's my girl!) But she never seemed to be online when I asked about her. I was stupid close to finding her one time when one of the guild members of her guild said she was online. So I eagerly begged them to take me to her or ask her to come to them so I could say hello quickly. Just to my luck, that pirate went offline before he could call Rachel Stormrose. :( Oh I was upset that day! I always told the guild members when she wasn't online (which was all the time) to tell her when she was online that Billy was looking for her.  Unfortunately, even after seemingly asking every single person in pirates where she was, I never found her, despite being so close multiple times.  I never saw Rachel Stormrose again.
(2013) The last portion of pirates online and my guild.  For the first 7 months of this year, it really wasn't that different from that of the year 2012.  So it was pretty boring then.  But, in late August, when people found out pirates was closing, a lot of them came back online.  This was a thrilling time for me. POTCO announced that the final month before pirates closes, all members can be unlimited access members.  I had always wanted to be unlimited access.  So for this last month, I and many of my guild members and friends leveled up as much as we could together. I made my way up from a lvl 14 as I had always been all the way up to a lvl 36! And I didn't even have the full month! I had 27 days of the last month!  A few shockers.  Timothy, Logan, and Phantomhorn came back online after all these years!  It almost felt good like a family reunion! This was, beyond a doubt, the best month (the best time) I'd ever had on pirates! Like the golden age of the golden age! I took advantage of all the ship upgrades and cool new opportunities. With my mightiest ship, The Intrepid Voyager, I and my valiant crew fought and hunted many hunters as well as boarded the Queen Anne's Revenge multiple times. These were the times to be alive for! The privateering missions were even more fun too!  I also met some new friends this month as well.  Two very good noteworthy friends worth mentioning are Liz and Meg Wildrose.  Liz I don't think I had met until sometime earlier in 2013, but she has been a very loyal and true friend.  I didn't quite get to know her as well as I wanted to.  But there were also some people who I didn't get to see.  I have not seen Gerard since one year and a half ago, or Johnny Lockskull.  They never appeared in this month.  Elizabeth Saileagle I was lucky to be with for the last past month.  What I really regret with my time I spent with her was that I rarely took a picture of her.  And she wasn't with me on the last two days of pirates (when that photo I posted with this was taken).  So she missed the group photo.  She was my only good friend of mine that I didn't get in the main guild/friend photo shown above on this page. I had a lot of memories with Elizabeth Saileagle which will be saved for my bio.  Other than that, and not getting to see Rachel Stormrose ever again, it has been the best month of my pirate life; and the people I knew and spent time with will never be forgotten.
I hope you enjoyed the history of my guild!
-BIlly Goldhawk
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