Noblesse Oblige
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Motto: Power through Generosity, Generosity through Power
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.
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 other members of the development team. Despite all this, however, they try 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 similar events in March 2007, 2008 and 2009: unfortunately 2006 was missed out, mainly because most active players were busy ascending and not enough people were out of hardcore or ronin to do much in the way of giveaways.)
Other Noblesse-related projects have involved numerous giveaways, Insane Steve's famous riddle contests, 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), Oxbarn's Ascension Database, Feast of Boris cakebot giveaways, an "Even Worse Moon" competition, various individual recognition projects, and aid to the projects of other clans.
The Noblesse Oblige buffbot is also one of the best-known resources in-game, providing its services to all and sundry while attempting to maintain its status as the highest-level character in the game. (As of October 1, 2009, it had achieved level 223, but been overtaken by SoCal as the highest-level.) At the time of its debut, it was the only buffbot to offer every castable buff in the game from a single source. This is no longer true since the addition of "Scarysauce" and the five Hobopolis Accordion Thief buffs, since the bot stands to lose too much by ascending to gain those skills.
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, Lukifer, Montoya, Prima Vera Angelhair (also known as PVA, and the owner of the Stupid University Diploma), ADeadHeart (also known as ADH), JLE, Hellion, 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.
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