as you may or may not have noticed, the Lemmings site has undergone various incarnations in the last few years. From starting out as a humble Drupal community website we grew larger and larger, until our current state where it resembles an elephant on a small pedestal - slightly swaying to the left and right but not being entirely that comfortable

This is why me and Neti are pleased to announce ... The Big Move!

As you may have realised, in the past few weeks we have extended the raid-lock on our Icecrown Citadel raid to get as much experience on the Lich King as possible. Because we rotate on raidspots all the time, and the Lich King is en exceptionally tough nut to crack, this means the first really big challenge for Lemmings of the Light since Yogg-Saron (who has also walked away undefeated- but not for long (see next week's event The Return to Ulduar, presented by Tuanur).

Because there have been questions about this subject I'd like to introduce a little "Frequently Asked Questions" about Ruby Sanctum.

Question: Why aren't we actively raiding Ruby Sanctum yet?
Answer: Two reasons. Number one, we really want to reach our guild goal of killing the Lich King this expansion. We felt anxious about starting new content - even if it has one boss - before finishing Icecrown Citadel. The other reason is that it has taken us a while to sort out how we would approach RS as it's the holiday season and we've had some officer changes recently.

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As announced in the GL news of last week, we have a few changes in the officer team. Garalia and Etax/Tun have stepped down (and go back a rank to High Lemming), and we'd like to congratulate Daz on his promotion to officer!

Garalia and Tun have both been on the officer team for a while. Garalia and Tun both joined the ranks of guild leadership when we were having difficult times in the guild and we are really grateful to have had their help and loyalty to Lemmings. However both have found that they don't have an abundance of time to spend on their officership and have offered to step down to make room for new blood.

This 'new blood' comes in the shape and size of Daz. Daz has been with the guild for áges. He actually joined before we had an application form, which we started using somewhere in 2007. Especially last year we discovered how loyal Daz was to the guild, and how much we could count on him. Today he's one of the pillars of Lemmings raiding and we believe he makes a great addition to the officerteam

Bumping up this post as a general reminder

The last few weeks I have noticed people pugging Icecrown Citadel. I would like to remind everyone that we have a rule against pugging progress content, as clearly stated in our Code of Conduct, which you agreed to when you joined Lemmings:

Although we are a casual guild, we still raid regularly. Some considerable effort is made by people in the guild to make these raids happen, and whereas we won't pressure people whatsoever to attend them (if you dont want to go thats totally fine), it really isnt looked favourably upon if you lock yourself to these instances with another group, therefore making it harder for the guild raids to go ahead. The reasoning is if everyone did this, the guild would rarely raid together (which is something we set out to do), and therefore as a guild we could deteriorate to little more than a glorified chat channel.

Last evening, and tonight, we have promoted our 4 new High Lemmings!Congratulations to Noobpower (Dommens), Cachaca (Lunalights), Glyphe and Loreena (Joesnow).

Dommens joined our guild last year and even though he hasn't been able to play the game continuously, he managed to stay involved in our guild community. He helped create a good atmosphere on the site by posting or contributing to such threads as "Draw your own character" and "Off topic yet sleightly on topic randomness post"!

Glyphe joined our guild in December 2009. She had to convince us - but as soon as she joined I remember thinking: 'wow, this is a social player!'. We're happy to have her onboard, even if she can't commit to raiding with us (which is a shame!) - she is a part of our community.

Lunalights and Joesnow have been strong ingredients of Lemmings culture and atmosphere since the moment they joined. They both left the guild last year when Lemmings was going through difficult times because they felt torn between Lemmings, and friends that left to form their own guild. When they returned earlier this year they picked up right where they left off, and we're very happy to have them back.