Inaugural Göteborg Dambusters Meet-up

On the 29th of August, our guild arranged our inaugural meet-up in real life in Göteborg, Sweden. What a fantastic idea and I am delighted to have had the opportunity to have been there!

That day will go down in the guild’s history and will be something we should build upon as we continue on our journey as a community to be proud of.  We started off at Språkcaféet where the owner was only too helpful with the group’s demands, taking the chance to boost the cafe’s popularity by snapping some photos of the famous Dambusters.  We drank them dry on a day where they were changing hands on business ownership.  They could hardly cope with our beer demands hehe, as I expected from The Dambusters!

Afterwards we lost a few Dambusters who could only stay for a short time and the remainder of us went to Bangkok Kitchen for dinner and a few more beers which was actually a rather nice meal.  I have to say it was a total pleasure meeting the people behind the characters in the guild!

Left to right: Camina, Drsup, Whyynot, Diputs, Bigticket(ROAR), Teniel, Pocadøts, Wenya, Berumvar

Total in attendance as expected was:-       Bigticket, Pocadøts, Wenya, Diputs, Teniel, Whyynot, Drsup, Camina, Bluesamurai, Maryhinge, Berumvar, Trikie, Scarrapaugh

I have been close friends with some of you guys in-game for a long time and it was great for me to finally meet you and the other folks whom I know already, good to get together again, even Bluesamurai ya bawbag!

A guild who gets together outside of the game is more than a video game guild, it’s a community of real people who care about each other.  People who do this have others in mind, these guys want to be a part of the community and actually add something to it!  It’s astonishing that some random people who play a video game together actually want more from their gaming experience and it’s my duty to grab the chance to pull them together if they can manage to get to a mutual location.  In time we will do it again and different people will have the opportunity to join in.  The first meet-up being so successful will be a convincing factor in future Dambusters’ meet-up attendances which I am really looking forward to organising again.

After the Danish squad headed off for their train back to København, the remaining bunch of us headed back to Bigticket’s flat where the drinks flowed and we had a lot of fun. Surprisingly there were no dramas lol even with the evergreen Diputs threatening as always to cry himself to sleep. Teniel was as loud and friendly as you would expect, Wenya was her usual sensible self who loved to take the lead as we have all become accustomed to.  Needless to say, berumvar knows her only too well in this regard 😀

Tinh (Whyynot, Iknow, Legendary) is a sweet lad, so delighted to have had the chance to meet his idol Pocadøts who has enjoyed sending him postcards from wherever she goes on holiday.  Camina and Drsup were quiet but friendly youngsters who I was particularly happy to see attending the event. Maryhinge had a wedding to finalise so, with Bluesamurai and Scarrapaugh, sadly could not stay too long.  It was great to meet the lovely Trikié who totally lived up to her in-game personality.  We were all sorry to see her have to go fairly early too but people have lives to live and things to do, so until next time….

The next meet-up should be in Scotland if it is me who arranges it so I would assume some of the Scandanavians will be unable to attend, looks like the Dambusters might tour Europe over the coming years lol but we hope whoever is able to attend will try hard to make it.  Spyrot, Debbs and maybe Skankas could make the next along with the hilarious Devilslotus and plenty others so it should be something to look forward to.  More details will follow nearer the time.

Thought this was a cool GM pic tho…ROAR!

/Salute