:Fire: [H-RP] Firebrand Enterprises: Still Hiring!

[Tamanii-wyrmrest-accord (Tamanii)]

Out with last year’s thread and in with the new!

Firebrand Enterprises is a Horde based guild with a strong corporate/mercantile theme. For over two years now, we’ve been growing steadily; with a focus on guild, public, and server wide roleplaying that includes characters of all races/classes, and we’re not planning on slowing down any time soon!

You might have already seen us around town or know us from some of our ads!

Firebrand Enterprises: Commercial

But for the sake of those not in the know, I’ve produced this handy paid advertisement introductory guide!

“Okay, so what is Firebrand Enterprises?”

Click here for the answer! #5 will blow your mind!

Firebrand Enterprises got its initial start investing into a handful of small businesses selling luxury goods and personal security services. After some exceptional returns of those investments, Firebrand Enterprises expanded by buying itself into even more. Repeat over and over again and now the Firebrand Enterprises name can be found associated with any number of products and services. Everything from pharmaceuticals to publishing to defense contracts.

If you’re familiar with real world conglomerates like General Electric, Honeywell, or Mitsubishi- then you’re most of the way there.

For you criminal RP types, it’s worth noting that The company is not a front for any larger criminal activity, conducted in shadowy back alleys. When you’re a big enough profit driven company, you can do your dirty dealings in swanky restaurants and well lit meeting halls!

It’s a flexible concept for a guild, and that’s by design. Ir allows it to incorporate a wide variety of characters with varying backgrounds and beliefs without much trouble. Everyone needs a job.

And aren’t you in luck? Firebrand Enterprises just so happens to be hiring right now!

“How active is FE these days?”

Busier than a poorly geared healer in LFR!

Our calendar is full to the point that on many days (especially around the weekend) you’ll actually have several choices on what scheduled RP event to attend. You might also notice that several of these events are conceived, posted, and run by non-officers. That’s because we actively encourage our fellow guildies to host and run stuff!

Firebrand Enterprises is also a regular sight at others guilds’ and larger community RP events, either as attendees or participants. We like encouraging RP, not just within our guild, but across the server.

Commerce Branch is where most of our mercantilism inclined characters often end up. Most of their events are about making deals and finding new ways to sell stuff. Every so often, we host the “Guppy Bowl”, where teams are given a product and have to find a way to sell it to the judges. We also host the Gilded Market & Auction every month; a server-wide in character, faction neutral market/raffle/auction event! We also host both at other server events, so feel free to hire us!

Research Branch If your character possesses a love of knowledge and/or invention, then the Research Branch is definitely for them. These are the physicians, thinkers, researchers, and tomb raiders archaeologists of the company, and it’s through their tireless efforts that help the company and its partners keep a leg up on the competition. Events often involve a lot of studying and experimentation and science fair-style events. We also host and attend symposiums on various subjects.

Security Branch Sometimes business turns violent. Members of this branch -when they aren’t bounty hunting or sparring or bodyguarding- are tasked with defending the company from violence or going into dangerous situations in order to ‘fix’ problems before they become worse. This could involve spying and infiltration. Or acquiring assets. Or teaching a certain someone not to make an enemy of Firebrand Enterprises. We also host a monthly sparring tournament with a massive gold prize!

Unscheduled RP is also very common! There’s almost always around a dozen people online at any given time. And during peak hours, the numbers are easily around couple dozen. There’s regular IC/OOC chatter and calls to hang out and RP too.

Discord Roleplay: We also do Discord Roleplay. Much of it takes place in the form of village roleplay based out of the fictional town of Pyrewatch. It’s a company town nestled in the hills of the Eastern Kingdoms that houses a larger number of employees. Other RP occurs in the form of IC memos, job postings and meetings between characters.

PvE and PvP : Organized transmog and PvP make up the majority of our non-RP content. We usually team up with other guilds that specialize more in raiding and PvP. Our position on the Horde War Council (a collection of Horde/Alliance RP-PvP guilds) has helped quite a bit in that regard.

Beyond WoW and Roleplaying: In addition to playing WoW, we also get together from time to time to play third party games online. Stuff like Jackbox, Boardgame Online, and Scribble.io.

"What kinds of people does FE look for?

All kinds! Non-goblins can be pretty useful, it seems!

We’re looking for active players and characters with a story to tell!

If we’re in the business of anything, it’s working to try and create a strong RP community both within and without. We’re after people who enjoy playing the game, RP’ing with others, and have characters with whom they want to tell stories.

That’s pretty broad, and you’ll find our numbers to be similarly diverse. We accept characters of all races, even including some non-Horde races, and all kinds of backgrounds. You’ll find them throughout all levels of the structure of the company as well. There’s Orc tinkerers, and Vulpera bounty hunters. Highmountain Tauren cooks and Forsaken private detectives. Goblin seamstresses and Blood Elf anthropologists. It’s a truly eclectic mix, but it really does make for some interesting roleplay!

When it comes to the player behind the character, we do prioritize people who primarily RP on Horde that’re close to/above drinking age. Our players tend to be older millennials and Gen X’ers. Less interested in fostering an online family and place of belonging and more interested in just relaxing and enjoying some fun roleplay.

You can check out more detailed information about [our rules for specific criteria and general rules of conduct here.

And yes, we are LGBT+ friendly!

“How’s FE managed to… manage all this?”

Through goal oriented processes, vertical and horizontal integration, managerial accountability, and synergistic solutions!

That’s a jokey way of saying that we’re serious about making sure we have our stuff together. The very structure of the guild is designed towards facilitating RP and we’re constantly working to improve it.

All new members/interns immediately enter the TRADOC branch, overseen by yours truly! TRADOC is short for Training and Indoctrination Documentation Course, and it’s aim is to help ease characters and their players into the guild.

We integrate semi-weekly orientation sessions, new employee meet-and-greets, and “on the job training”. The hope is by the time the character finishes their internship and gets promoted to one of the higher branches, they’ll have already developed a good foundation in terms of story, contacts, and RP hooks.

As mentioned in the activities, we wouldn’t be able to do as much as we do without the regular contributions of our employees/non-officer members. We actively encourage them to comes to create events and drive RP. For those players who are newer to RP or feel that they’re not yet ready to do an even on their own, we eagerly provide lessons, assistance and opportunities to “ride along” with other more experienced players until they feel more comfortable on their own.

In fact, furthering the guild and their branch’s story, engaging with employees and generally facilitating RP is the main job of our officers. Right now, we have about 1 officer for every 9 members, so there’s almost always someone on hand to answer questions or provide assistance when needed. If there’s anything close to having an actual job in the guild, an officer position is it!

“Sweet! How can I get in on this?”

That's as easy as 1, 2, 3!

Just click the link below and you’ll be redirected to our online application process!

APPLY ONLINE NOW!

Or if you have any questions, feel free to contact one of us in game or on Discord.

Tamanii / Tamani#2391
Geldrix / Porkins_The_White#7809
Vfirebrand / V Firebrand#8400

Thanks for taking us into consideration! Even if you’ve decided Firebrand Enterprises isn’t the right thing for you, don’t forget about all your other wonderful options!

Just make sure to tell them Tamani sent you!

[Zingahji-wyrmrest-accord]

Firebrand Enterprises is still a guild.

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A couple of links that matter:

Why do we have an application?

Online Guild Applications

Our guild used to do face to face In character interviews. With an office and a contract and everything. I loved doing them. My guild leader loved not doing them, leaving them free to actually manage other aspects of the guild. But even with a couple of assistants, I was doing at least 5+ interview scenes a week. Each one lasting an hour or more. Not counting all the times where someone agreed to an IC interview and I had to wait 30 minutes because they’re running late, only for them to cancel. …

What can I expect out of the app, and afterwards?

Online Guild Applications

Tamani’s guild leader here and like many leaders, I was ambivalent too. Frist, what we did with ours was use a Google form. No password or log in required. Second, I got a Forms add-on that emails me a PDF and I check my email twice a day. We ask 3 types of questions, and then have follow ups to that as well. Bookkeeping things: Your character name, avatar name, etc. The kind of thing that helps us decide if you fit: Can you agree to our rules, how is your character different from lore, what’…

[Senilna-wyrmrest-accord]

Legit the most active, and probably the best guild I’ve ever been in!

[Neliscent-wyrmrest-accord]

They are chill Blokes and Sheilas. Lot of Gallahs out there. You’re meant to come to this port of call.

[Senathos-wyrmrest-accord]

Submitted an application, hope to hear back from you!

[Vfirebrand-wyrmrest-accord]

Absolutely have I check email for pending applications twice a day!

[Tyxa-wyrmrest-accord]

I’ve only been around Firebrand for about a month and a half, but lemme tell you, this guild is pretty awesome!
I’ve been gaming in multi-players and MMOs for a very long time, and this is by far the most active guild I’ve ever seen. I’ve made a lot of friends, the community of FE is very helpful, as well, which has helped me a lot as a new WoW player!

[Dorax-wyrmrest-accord]

Yeah, the people here are pretty cool and chill, pretty supportive of most things too, really makes a little gob like me feel welcome. And I am totally not saying this at knife point, what even gave you that idea? Ha ha aha ha.

[Spritzie-wyrmrest-accord (Spritzie)]

Okay, real talk, this is probably the best guild I’ve ever been in, not a joke.

For one thing, drama isn’t as much a problem here as it’s been in other guilds. It helps that the leader and the officers crack down on troublemakers hard and early. These are professionals who know what they’re doing.

Second, the characters are just fun. Since joining Firebrand Enterprises, Spritzie has developed a platonic romance with a laughing skull orc, become godmother to a child whose mother is basically a goblin Kim Kardashian, and has kinda-sorta started crushing on a blood elf that she doesn’t know is actually a black dragon in disguise, even though he kinda does a crappy job of hiding it.

[Akamatsu-wyrmrest-accord]

Best guild i’ve ever been, very friendly and chill.

Met a lot of people inside and had a lot of fun, so far the most nice ambience from a guild, 100% recommendable

They even give you a stabbin knife on the starter kit

[Grehda-wyrmrest-accord]

Seriously, this guild is the only reason I decided to become more active in WoW and develop my characters.

Grehda went from literally nothing to an ace engineer with her own business and remarkable friends. Firebrand Enterprises has so many characters to interact with and get to know. I highly recommend it if you want story-driven rp or want to meet people into story-driven rp!

[Noralina-wyrmrest-accord]

Firebrand Enterprises is hands down the best guild I’ve ever been in. They are welcoming(with stabs but it’s okay, I promise!) and very helpful. Everyone is a lot of fun to rp with, and we have lots of different stories and events. 10/10 recommend. Come join the fun!

[Rixirp-wyrmrest-accord]

I just checked my journal and it looks like I joined this crazy bunch back on April 10th of this year.

Its been a wild couple of months. I made it through the intern program with nary a problem but somehow managed to hurt everyone with a sapper charge on my first big outing with the team. We still managed to complete the mission and burn the evidence in the end.

Working with the security branch has been great and rewarding so far. Protecting this… killing that…! It’s been hard work sometimes but I wouldn’t have it any other way, the people surrounding me are just awesome.

The older employees and managers really go out of their way to try and include everyone and to get you to participate in events. I had no idea what I was missing out on by not going to work for Firebrand Enterprises.

What kind of crazy fun are you missing out on?
(Yeah, that’s right I’m talking to you!)

[Grekdenn-wyrmrest-accord]

Wait, you caused that explosion?!?

[Grimoria-wyrmrest-accord (Grimoria)]

Just for clarification purposes. I am the Kim Kardashian goblin. Js. And woo yeah new thread. Cant wait to vogue through this and tell people to join. Because they should. I mean what are you doing with yourself now? Get good. Join up.

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what can I say? I just joined and I feel very welcome here. I’m not just another player to the guild. These people care about who joins and will do anything to help you fit in.

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I asked them if they would let me stable my Dinosaurs here. They said yes. That makes this guild an instant ten out of ten in my book.

But seriously these people are amazing and I can confirm you get a free stabbing kit for joining. What other guild does that?

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I came to Firebrand Enterprises when I had difficulty finding people who were willing to entertain my genius inventions.

After being written up and placed on numerous blacklists by the Tinker’s Union, I found a wonderful home here among others who don’t ask weird questions when your experiments leave massive half a mile diameter holes in places just because your calculations might have been slightly off. SOMETIMES I MAKE WRITING ERRORS OKAY?

So! If you want a place where you won’t be judged or hindered for your scientific pursuits or experiments, you came to the right place!

And once you join, I’ll happily introduce you to my stab-o-matic, free of charge! You can’t get a better deal than that! So come on, what do you have to lose? A limb? Hah! I’ll make you one even better! It’ll fire rockets and rainbows and whatever else your heart desires!

(But seriously, there’s really awesome people here!)

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Just joined not an hour or so ago. I am overwhelmed by how welcoming Firebrand Enterprise are towards new members. Looking forward to interacting icly and oocly with all within Firebrand!