Noblesse Oblige
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Noblesse Oblige (clan website) is an exclusive community-oriented clan with a long history in the Kingdom of Loathing. Using many of the players from an older clan called Philanthropists, Bashy, its new leader, formed Noblesse Oblige in December of 2004 after a month of massive restructuring.
Embracing the new motto "Power through Generosity, Generosity through Power," Noblesse Oblige strove to recruit the absolute best members available, forming an intelligent and highly-capable group equally adept at philanthropy, powergaming, and generally being a bunch of weirdos. All things were made to center around improving the community and striving for excellence. Little has changed since then, other than Bashy's newfound love for ham.
The clan prides itself on excellent communication skills, a high level of philanthropy, and a strong measure of participation and aptitude both in the game and the surrounding community: its members include several forum and chat mods, several past and present Radio DJs, and some of the game's most eminent powergamers, philanthropists, /newbie-channel helpers, speed-ascenders, hardcore ascenders, major chat and forum presences, at least one Ascension tester and four other recently-added members of the development team. Despite all this, however, each member tries to maintain a firm connection with the average player.
Past memorable clan events include the "Week of Drunken Loving," an original week of generosity and events for the public which lasted from March 14th to March 20th, 2005. As a result of its massive success, each clan member was awarded a custom item, the N. O. Beer, the first tradable clan-specific item. Each member of the clan (34 at the time) was given one, but each was given away to deserving players others outside the clan. (This highly successful event was later followed up by "Week of Drunken Loving 2", from March 14th to March 20th, 2007, an equally amazing effort.)
Other Noblesse-related projects have involved numerous giveaways, Insane Steve's famous riddle contests, Feast of Boris cakebots, Chubbles' (now retired) clan histories, I Stab People and Ultimationismist's Syphilis magazine, The Noblesse Oblige Kingdom Calendar, The N.O. Hardcore Ascension contest (which was granted an in-game leaderboard for its duration), various recognition projects and aid to the projects of other clans.
As of this moment, Noblesse Oblige is in the ranks of the top five clans both for Ascendingest and Hardcore-Ascendingest, with a handful of players occupying many slots on the various leaderboards. Some memorable names include Bashy, Kaaewen, Almighty Tallest (a.k.a. Reducto, who achieved the first three-day hardcore ascension), Zair, SyrinxLui, Wilder, Ricket, Montoya, and Mr Bill.
Despite this gameplay success, Noblesse Oblige's roots are firmly in philanthropy and community enrichment, whether through material generosity or simply trying to be a good, nice group of people. If anything, they do succeed being a decent group of jackasses.
Other notable members:
JLE - English dev team member and professional pianist
Zalan - Official unofficial transcriber of the J&S show
Prima Vera Angelhair - Radio KoL DJ, owner of the Stupid University Diploma (also known as PVA)
ADeadHeart - Radio KoL DJ (also known as ADH)
CDMoyer - dev team member and Greasemonkey scripter extraordinaire
OneTonTomato - Greasemonkey scripter extraordinaire
holatuwol - creator of KoLMafia
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