Thanks for the kind words on the Bixies site, Alto! That brought a much needed smile to my day.
As it looks like you guys probably won't be going at ARR with a full guild effort, I appreciate you sending any interested people our way.
To be fair, I know some people were diametrically opposed to playing on the roleplay server (which Balmung still unofficially is). If it's still a sticking point for some and you're looking to reconnect with other Hodstockers, you might
check out this thread, if you have access to the beta forums. I know MrHyde from EQOA is starting up a
Free Company on Midgardsormr and has gathered a few old faces together. Be advised, however, that this is one of the new 'fresh start' servers that only accepts new characters (as opposed to our server, Balmung, which is a legacy server and accepts both 1.0 characters
and new characters).
Though I think Balmung is an awesome server with an amazing and helpful community. I hope people will consider giving us a try.