I hope you'll find the event I'm planning fun.

Brick well within the blossoms.
The area is suffused with a comforting, deep blue luminescence, signifying a healing shrine of Elostian nearby. Banks of clouds roil about here. A small stone milestone thrusts up from the ground, engraved with but a single name. There are 23 monk disciple in grey robes here.

Wow, that's a huge group of monks. O_O

They're plotting to beat you and steal your robes so they don't have plain grey ones.

I only have one set of plain white robes, unless they're willing to sponsor me 10 credits so that I can tailor some for them.

Still too afraid to join any arena things. One day I'll actually join a free for all! And um. Die. Horribly.

You know, I'd be a lot less averse to this if dying in the arena didn't mean losing all my friggin' defenses.

Just you wait 'til I get the Hallifax arena built. You'll be dying to get in.

Welp. I just won the first Wargames I've ever been in.

The Illuminati are so depressing.

I need an alt, I think, and can't decide which org will be the most fun, right now. Ideas?

Pray to RNG.

If you liked the concept of the Illuminati, the Shadowdancers are pretty close. (even though this is a very biased recommendation, because the Shadowdancers are just plain awesome.)
And yeah, I can't deny that the current turn of events is very confusing and I can't decide how I want to react to it.

Man, this is nothing compared to past election drama.

Can't deny that either, that was one of the first positive thought I had when I saw the post.

While that is absolutely true, it's the way they're constantly going on, and the constant bickering, that's getting to me. The guild's been around for 10 IG years. This will be 9 different leaders after these elections, with now 2 of the founding 10 members still active. That alone is not fun to sit through, let alone the rest of it.

My real life is unstable enough. I'd like my recreation time to be somewhat stable, at least. Does "stable" describe any guilds?

Templars.

Having recently updated the guilds' pages on the Lore Wiki, and excluding the Hallifax guilds (which do tend to be stable, but are something of a leap in play style - and I'm far from unbiased), it is safe to say that the Spiritsingers appear to be ridiculously stable.

Actually we're about to go into another election... and there's already been a bit of recrimination in it and it hasn't even started. But probably still nothing compared to whatever's going on in the Illuminati.

On the other hand, we have lots of room for advancement: our problem isn't people competing for secretary positions but failing to apply for them.

I have decided on my response to the elections:
Sigh, politics.

There's an aether arena?

Why in five years have I not known of this?!

WHY?!

Ohyeahbecauseaetherbattlesaren'tcool?

Because trying to get people to use it is like pulling your own teeth. Painful and rarely successful.