The Keep:Pirate Cove/Archive

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This it a subpage of the Pirate Cove wiki guild page. The older parts of the lists of captured and sunk guilds get moved here so the Pirate Cove wiki guild page itself doesn't get too long (and takes less time to load).

Older Captured Guilds
To see the more recently captured guilds and explanations about what "captured" means, see the section Captured Guilds on the Pirate Cove wiki guild page.

It merits mentioning that @Castanwydden had practice: While still being a land-based Welsh bandit, she single-handedly seized a guild named "Splash of Colorz (Adult Coloring Group)", then invited us pirates to join the fun, generously divvied up the plunder (4 gems), and challenged people to fight over guild leadership. @Gryffindor prismaticjill won, and that guild is now The Mindfulness & Stress Relief Guild. (It just doesn't count in our piratic tally because the whole thing happened on land and @Castanwydden was a highwayperson at the time - I guess that's the politically correct term for highwayman?) And even before that, @Castanwydden unanimously got voted into captaincy in the Welsh-themed Dragons of the Valley / Dreigiau'r Cwm guild (the old guild creator having long gone) and turned it into a living guild. We shared the booty, and also tried to find a new guild leader, but no one showed interest. So we set this spaceship on autopilot into the nearest star (by asking admin for guild deletion). It was the first of our captured guilds that we destroyed (closely followed by the Job Seekers Guild only a few minutes later).
 * 1) The pirate crew of the "Ching Shih" conquered the Pirate Cove (formerly a fantasy football fandom guild), robbed it of all its gems (except the one in the old sunken football challenge), and made it our home port.
 * 2) We boarded the guild now known as Ghost Ship (also wiki page) and found neither crew nor booty in there. It was formerly a Hearthstone fandom guild, now it is about topics related to organ (and blood and stem cell) donation and generally preparing for death (making a will, etc.).
 * 3) The captain of the Gaming Addicts Anonymous guild surrendered the guild to us. (Actually they just unexpectedly made Captain Mara guild leader without any reference to piracy, but joyfully agreed afterwards that we can count it among our conquered guilds.)
 * 4) We captured a Korean guild (with a Korean name which the Google translator couldn't make much sense of), put up a poster of this Korean pirate movie as its logo, shared its 4 gems among us and held the guild for ransom until brave marine @Fear came to the rescue and won the guild from us. @Fear renamed the guild Hellblazers. Sadly, it soon became inactive again. @Ariel recommended privatization in late December 2015 (many months after it had first been captured and ransomed). The pirates chose to respect @Fear's valiant efforts and scuttled the guild in one piece.
 * 5) The leader of the "Challenge Yourself!" guild surrendered to us before we had even started attacking. We held that guild for ransom, too, and another scurvy (and, at that time, sniffly and sneezy) pirate named @Bloody Jenny Flint won it and turned it into The Ship of the Dread Pirate Roberts. It has ongoing "Merry-Go-Round" challenges now where people can win guild captaincy in turn, then make the next "Merry-Go-Round" challenge.
 * 6) Bosun @MEmry single-handedly captured the leaderless vessel Toothpick Factory (having obtained a letter of marque from the admins) and is now captain of said ship!
 * 7) We found another ghost guild that wasn't just memberless, but also nameless. After sharing the booty and enjoing this obscure hideout for a while, we lured potential new captains in from the Tavern (by challenge made by Bosun @MEmry). Now its new leader is @Castanwydden, its name is Venture outside your lair, and it's dedicated to venturing outside every day. It has a nice swimming pool, men serving pie, and occasional goats.
 * 8) The captain of Conscientious Consumption just gave up and left, and since Captain Mara already was first mate there, we got the guild automatically. @Lord Vlad boldly (and successfully) volunteered as new guild captain (keeping the guild's topic), and has steered it well since!
 * 9) We took over the famous old Habitican guild 📜 Library of Shared Lists! The admins (particularly @LadyAlys) desperately sought a reasonable, responsible and capable new librarian - but no one volunteered. So we pirates made the gallant offer to rob all the guild gems, wreak havoc and mayhem (and possibly burn the library down), shanghai a random guild member as the next librarian against their will, then sail off into the sunset. The admins found this acceptable. We did indeed rob all the four guild gems, and even gave some of them to those who helped us burn down part of the library (i.e., helped us find and delete, move, or change some of the old outdated challenges there). Then we got bored with all this paper, kidnapped and shanghaied Breadstrings as the new librarian, and took to the high seas again. Breadstrings (probably corrupted by the frustration of having to clean up the mess we left) has since revealed herself to work for the Ministry of Magic and look very much like Dolores Umbridge.
 * 10) When pirate @Sphinx started asking what the guild name "Jambiis GSD Squad" meant, we noticed that that guild consisted of a weird name, a long-inactive guild leader, no chat before @Sphinx started it, three pirates who had all joined in hopes of taking over the guild, and four shiny gems. So we handed the comatose guild leader the black spot and voted @Sphinx into captaincy - and admin acknowledged the vote. @Sphinx renamed the guild "Captivated Squad", made booty challenges, a captaincy challenge, a treasure map challenge, and then went on a much-deserved sailing holiday. When @Sphinx came back, some ideas (and various kinds of peppers) had had time to simmer in guild chat - and as a result, the guild became This is a Silly Place, with @Riverstone as its captain.
 * 11) "A Motley Band of Misfits" (who were mostly sleeping and had no gems nor challenges) was taken over by a motley piratic crew of misfits led by @NightOwl, who is now the captain there. And we misfits came up with the mischievous idea to turn the guild into The Bulletin Board 📌 - a guild where people can announce their new guilds, challenges, and other Habitican projects without the news scrolling into oblivion as quickly as they would in the Tavern.
 * 12) Welsh pirate @Castanwydden decided it was time for mutiny in a guild named "Killwaukee" where the guild leader and other members had been absent for over a year. And since @Castanwydden had already had plans to start a Long-Term Goal Accountability guild (as a sister guild to the popular Short-Term Goal Accountability guild), the guild became exactly that!
 * 1) The Star Craft II guild looked like one of those doomed to sink from the start - so, turning space pirates, we boarded it right away. The captain silently abandoned ship, leaving four gems as their only trace - we don't even know their name now. But we hope they got away safely in a snug escape pod and reached an inhabitable planet or ship!
 * 1) Some poor jobless Habitican created the Job Seekers Guild before finding out that The Jobseekers already exist, leaving the new guild (and all four gems) and joining the old one. @Castanwydden became captain there. Being Welsh and probably having a bit of Robin Hood in her blood, she sent four gems to the poor former captain, then set herself a challenge (with an actual task) to retrieve the gems from the guild bank. After winning that challenge, she sank the guild (by asking admin for guild deletion).
 * 2) @Riverstone boarded the long-dead "Lolz" guild and turned it into Pirate Foley - dedicated to making a piratic soundscape Habitica audio theme! Contributors welcome!
 * 3) Yet another case of a duplicate guild - @benoliver999 created the "Movie Lovers" guild (complete with challenge) before discovering the Habitica's Movie Enthusiasts Club and moving over there. The abandoned guild (with @Mara the Marine Marauder as temporary captain) was then called "Pirate Movie Lovers". Booty (4 gems) was divvied up. After that, @Riverstone got the guild and transformed it into a PvP/duelling guild called The Duelling Grounds which became very popular, with lots of action going on there!
 * 4) Former captain @Jameson officially abandoned The Abandoned Camp (it had already been rather abandoned before that - just more unofficially -, and had had the same name) and named @Mara the Marine Marauder the new captain, and was even generous enough to deliberately leave his four gems in the guild. Four booty challenges were made and finally, after several months, all won - they asked participants to complete one of their own abandoned projects. But now there are more booty challenges to be won there because @Mara the Marine Marauder puts challenges distributing Pirate Cove guild gems into The Abandoned Camp. (That way, we can both keep our amazingly full Pirate Cove treasure chest to brag with it, and share the gems among the pirates. That wouldn't technically be possible in the Cove itself because, if a guild owner creates a guild challenge with a gem prize, the prize is always taken from the guild bank - there is no option to pay the prize from one's personal gems.) There are some vague plans as to what will become of the guild. There's a guild chat discussion going on about adding a pirate island (with a cove, a camp, a duelling ground, and a volcano) to the official map of Habitica, along with other places inviting more roleplay and being represented by guilds, and maybe a tour that involves visiting them and performing tasks there - but no one found the time to do something about them yet. Former captain @Jameson expressed hopes of hearing wild stories and rumors about that camp in the future - let's not disappoint him!
 * 5) @orschiro temporarily gave @NightOwl guild leadership of the Sustainable Living guild. To quote @NightOwl, "It is on rent from its original owner, so it will not be captured, per say, more shaped into sailing form." Nonetheless, @NightOwl plundered the guild bank and set up booty challenges with eco-friendly tasks. For some booty, @MEmry ran a very successful challenge in the Tavern, and the guild grew quite a bit. Then the guild was given back to @orschiro.
 * 6) Habitica admin transferred captaincy of the long-dead "Forocoches" guild to @Mara the Marine Marauder (who temporarily called it ForoNaves, turning cars into ships). Booty (4 gems) was divided, then, with lots of teamwork, the guild got transformed into the Guild Leaders & Challenge Creators. @Riverstone took custody of the guild until a proper leader could be found. A vote was held and @NightOwl became the shiny new leader.
 * 7) Once, there were two public guilds named "Cute and Cool Things on Tumblr" - an active one (more or less) and an inactive one that basically just said "Go to the other guild". Habitica admin transferred captaincy of the inactive guild to @Mara the Marine Marauder, who changed the name to "Tumbling Pirates (Let's Rock this Boat!)" (using this game as a logo). Booty challenges were made - then (despite the title) the boat floated quietly for a while until @Lord Vlad came up with the idea for a Party Wanted International guild, and got the guild.
 * 8) @Riverstone wandered into Camelot and, finding it empty, claimed it for the crew. The castle's jewels were distributed to pirates who proved themselves worthy, and the castle became the headquarters of the Habitica chapter of the SCA, with @MEmry as its new castellan. It's now called Camelot has fallen to pirates and been reclaimed by the SCA!.
 * 9) Somehow, at an unknown point in time, in a mysterious fog, ownership of the Valley of Riddles unexplainably and unexpectedly changed and fell to @Mara the Marine Marauder. Who was the previous owner? @Sphinx? @Ben West? Someone else? When asked, @Sphinx spoke in riddles about tricky plans that unraveled over the years, communications with higher powers, and prophecies of challenges. Was it fate? @Mara the Marine Marauder had wanted to wrap up the old error-ridden Don't Walk the Plank challenge anyway... After all the old loose ends had been wrapped up, the Valley of Riddles suddenly became a lot less interesting - so it got sunk (deleted) and is now an oceanic trench. But you can still see the riddles on that guild's wikia page.
 * 10) The guild named AY410014Y tieto- ja viestintätekniikka pedagogisena työvälineenä was boarded by @Dewines who then gave it to @MEmry, who divided the booty and gave the guild the much more pronounceable name 52 Weeks.
 * 11) Meanwhile, the guild named MaluTVT kandi/graduryhmä (Oulun yliopisto / KTK) was taken over by @Riverstone who promptly renamed it Pirates o'Learnin and set up some learning-related booty challenges - the last of which got won by @Riverstone learning for a real life skipper's ticket. And like a typical beginner skipper, @Riverstone then wrecked the guild - but intentionally!
 * 12) @Riverstone also conquered the guild Twitch streamer support. @Riverstone temporarily named the guild "Twitchy Pirates" and happily started planting trees to make an old dream come true - the guild is now named Elven Grove and is dedicated to helping to keep all those Habitica challenges in good order. (And the booty from the guild bank was shared among the first pirate elves who cleaned up some old abandoned Habitica challenges in other guilds.)
 * 13) @Dewines captured a whole fleet of tiny inactive guilds at once, among them the Tindley Prep Scholars (which got destroyed soon after the booty had been divvied up)...
 * 14) ... and TechRaptor (also wrecked after booty had been shared)...
 * 15) ... and Rochester, NY - The Prosperous Nerds, which @Dewines quickly turned into the Tavern Challenge Overflow Chat guild, pocketing its gems and dividing them with booty challenges in the Pirate Cove soon afterwards...
 * 16) ... and The Edge (which already had a pirate topic, possibly referring to the game Nehrim: At Fate's Edge - which didn't save it from also being destroyed after all the booty challenges had been won)...
 * 17) ... and Michigan Technological University, which, after the booty had been shared, was claimed by @Phantom818 as their own private guild (for monthly tasks and the like).
 * 18) Meanwhile, another member of that fleet, the guild Longhorns, escaped - for a short while. @Wunderkind, a long-standing Longhorns crew member, took over captaincy there from the old inactive captain and renamed the guild State School Spirit. (In the course of those events, @Wunderkind also joined the Pirate Cove and became a Habitican pirate.) A few weeks later, however, attempts to revive the guild had failed, and @Wunderkind surrendered the guild to @Dewines. It got named Guild up for grabs (was State School Spirit) for a short while, then it was deleted. (There were no gems left to plunder.)
 * 19) After discussing at length what to do with which linguistic/language learning guild, pirate @Llama Hobbit became the new captain of #Add1Challenge (the old captain being inactive) and broadened the topic by renaming it The Language Hackers.
 * 20) --►Technology, Games & Mobiles was taken over by @Ariel and turned into the Organization Owls. Organizing-related booty challenges were made and won, and were so useful that @Ariel reran them afterwards (without booty). @Ariel also added lots of other organization-related challenges (often salvaged from other guilds where they were abandoned), and the whole guild is proving to be very popular.
 * 21) The Investors were rather inactive, and the topic was already covered by another more active guild (the Financial Discipline Group) - so @Ariel boarded them and invested the guild's four gems in booty challenges. After they'd been won by four other pirates, @Ariel claimed the guild as their own private guild.
 * 22) The members of the Interneters Anonymous guild can't have been very addicted to that guild - or it would have been more active. (And another more active guild - the Digital Addicts Anonymous - was already covering the topic.) So @Phantom818 captured the Interneters Anonymous - and even challenged the wild wide seas of the internet itself with booty challenges which dared participants to survive without internet for a day. After those had been won (yes! it's doable!), the guild was hacked into pieces and sunk. Not everything and everyone sailing the internet has to keep doing it forever!
 * 23) When @Wunderkind became the new captain of the Whovians, it wasn't a classic pirate takeover - the guild was very much alive and kicking (only the old guild leader was inactive), @Wunderkind was already a genuine guild member interested in all things Whovian, and there was no massive pirate invasion and looting of the guild bank. However, since the leadership change was initiated by @Dewines and since @Wunderkind is officially one of the pirates, this probably counts as a captured guild. (After all, pirates aren't traditionally known for modestly waiving bragging rights!)
 * 24) Live a S.M.A.R.T. Life (an inactive guild connected to a no longer existing challenge in the The Newbies guild) was captured by @Ariel. True to the guild's original purpose, @Ariel made booty challenges referring to SMART goals(some of which can still be won). It isn't clear yet what will happen to the guild. (If you're looking for other guilds already using and discussing the "SMART goals" method a lot, there are already the Long-Term Goal Accountability 🎯 guild and the Organization Owls!)
 * 25) Aboard the Tag Bombs guild, a fierce fight for captaincy took place between bold attacker @Dewines and the old zombified captain @Jynxed. (There were weird technical difficulties - @Alys changed leadership to @Dewines several times but it kept reverting to @Jynxed. A truly jynxed situation!) Eventually @Dewines gained the upper hand, quickly shared out the booty (via challenges), got everyone still alive aboard into safety, and then Admiral @Alys blew the Tag Bombs to kingdom come so it couldn't jinx anyone anymore.
 * 26) After the guild was first sighted by @Ariel, @Phantom818 became the new captain of The United Strays of Maverica, a clearly dead guild which someone named @StrayMav created as a fandom guild for @StrayMav's own minecraft walkthrough videos. Booty challenges (which, luckily, have nothing to do with the original topic, and more with everyday health and productivity) were made and won, and then the guild got destroyed.
 * 27) There are pirates, and there are landlubbing highway men, or (possibly legal) Road Warriors - with their own guild to share tips about all the things you have to deal with when you travel a lot. Nobody quite knows why a guild with such an interesting topic was inactive for so long. (Maybe because all the members were away traveling?) Anyway, the topic sounded too good to just delete the guild - so, after @Ariel had mentioned it, @Dewines asked around for potential new captains (the old one being inactive), and pirate @Rayn the Stormcaller volunteered, became the new guild leader, and will probably try to revive the guild. It's not clear yet what the guild bank gems will be used for - though topic-related challenges are maybe more likely than outright booty challenges.
 * 28) @Llama Hobbit looked into some family-themed guilds - and found that the Family Guild was quite dead (and had never been alive at all). (Parents, don't despair - there are other active family-themed guilds, such as Parent Edition.) So @Llama Hobbit captured the Family Guild, redistributed its family jewels with some topic-related booty challenges, then destroyed the ship as if it were a mere child's toy.
 * 29) @Dewines had had the Order of Con Congeries in her sights for months. The topic (organizing Habitica meetups at SF/Fantasy/other conventions) sounded too interesting and important to just let the guild fade into oblivion. When @Dewines offered to revamp and promote the guild a little, old guild leader @Helmsman Of-Inepu responded at first, but then became inactive again. So, in the end, @Dewines was made the new guild leader. She renamed the guild Convention meet-ups, panels and other activities, gave it a beautiful new logo, and is generally trying to revive and promote it. @Dewines doesn't want to stay its long-term guild leader, though, and is looking for an interested and capable volunteer to take that position. This could become an important guild for the future representation of Habitica at cons! On the other hand, if it just won't stir, and no new guild leader can be found, it could also just get deleted. So the fate of this guild is still open.
 * 30) @Ariel reoccupied the abandoned Laravel Lair (which was originally about the PHP framework Laravel) and set up some booty challenges having more to do with pirate lairs (i.e., making/keeping one's home comfortable). With the challenges completed, the guild was deleted.
 * 31) @Llama Hobbit found the Taxidermists guild to be dead and not worth of preserving. So @Llama Hobbit became captain there, cleaned up two old taxidermy-themed challenges with @Cantras's and @Alys's help, and went about dividing the booty with preparation-for-death-themed booty challenges. Most can still be won. After that, the guild will probably be a candidate for deletion.
 * 32) EvoGen-X (a guild about a personal development company of the same name, both apparently owned by @Pierre Tremblay) was targeted and captured by @Ariel who renamed it Group formerly known as EvoGen-X which will be deleted shortly. Booty challenges (having to do with generation X, not with @Pierre Tremblay's company) were created and won. Then the guild was xed out (deleted).
 * 33) The Northmen/Northwomen of Wisconsin were investigated by anthropological pirate @Ariel (who found them to be quite comatose) and captured by pirate @Phantom818, who set up some winter-and-Wisconsin-themed booty challenges. Once they were all won, the guild was set on a collision course with one of Wisconsin's infamous Great Lakes icebergs, broke apart and sank.
 * 34) @MEmry sighted and captured the inactive CFA Students guild and (since CFA stands for Chartered Financial Analyst) ran some budget-related booty challenges. @Merinmel Caesg applied for captaincy because one of the things on eir Christmas wish list was eir very own private submarine. True to both the Christmas and the pirate spirit, @MEmry challenged @Merinmel Caesg to earn the guild. When @Merinmel Caesg could answer most of her questions about the 12 days of Christmas correctly, @MEmry generously gave the guild to em. @Merinmel Caesg rebuilt it into a Subba Subba Submarine!, waited for the last booty challenge to be won, then evacuated everyone else from them vessel and dove beneath the waves into uncharted abysses. (The.guild was privatized.)
 * 35) Baker Street Scribblers, a guild originally dedicated to writing (mostly Sherlock Holmes) fanfiction, was spotted by @Dewines who then contacted the old guild captain, @pangodillO. After @pangodillO had answered and confirmed that the guild was indeed inactive and could be deleted or repurposed, @Dewines became the new captain and cleaned up some old challenges (with @Cantras's help). @Dewines then renamed the guild haiku and made haiku-related booty challenges. Now the guild is teeming with cherry blossoms and 17-syllable posts.
 * 36) @Luthien targeted the prayer-themed and very dead Divine Office/Liturgy of the Hours guild, became the new captain there, renamed it Formerly Divine Office/Liturgy of the Hours, and set up some booty challenges with common household chore tasks. Praying, cursing, swearing, or meditating while doing them is entirely optional - as long as you keep your home religiously clean! Some of the challenges are still up for grabs. There are no further plans for the guild yet, so deletion is likely.
 * 37) At some point, @Mara the Marine Marauder became guild leader of the Wake Up and Smell the Coffee - Stop Snoozing guild. (The old guild leader either left or made @Mara guild leader.) But the guild was so inactive that @Mara didn't even notice until pirate @Blue posted in chat there to see if it was still alive. So @Mara evacuated the old members to The Sleeping Guild and blew up and sank the guild. (There were no gems left to loot.)

Older Sunk Guilds
To see the more recently sunk guilds and explanations about what "sunk" means, see the section Sunk Guilds on the Pirate Cove wiki guild page.

We shared the booty, and also tried to find a new guild leader, but no one showed interest. So we set this spaceship on autopilot into the nearest star (by asking admin for guild deletion). It was the first of our captured guilds that we destroyed (closely followed by the Job Seekers Guild only a few minutes later).
 * 1) The Star Craft II guild looked like one of those doomed to sink from the start - so, turning space pirates, we boarded it right away. The captain silently abandoned ship, leaving four gems as their only trace - we don't even know their name now. But we hope they got away safely in a snug escape pod and reached an inhabitable planet or ship!
 * 1) Some poor jobless Habitican created the Job Seekers Guild before finding out that The Jobseekers already exist, leaving the new guild (and all four gems) and joining the old one. @Castanwydden became captain there. Being Welsh and probably having a bit of Robin Hood in her blood, she sent four gems to the poor former captain, then set herself a challenge (with an actual task) to retrieve the gems from the guild bank. After winning that challenge, she sank the guild (by asking admin for guild deletion).
 * 2) @Mara the Marine Marauder tried to capture the Joueurs Francophones de Roguelikes (they had gems!) - but oh, these Frenchmen! Their ship sank before we could board it. Must have had something to do with their colorful sails. (They had a nice guild description and leader message with pictures, so the guild was made private instead so they wouldn't get lost irretrievably.)
 * 3) @Riverstone decided that Pirate Island was not complete without a protective reef, and set about building one. Shipwreck Reef has begun with the scuttling of Executive Type, a ship full of typewriters...
 * 4) ... Mediocre People, which carried no cargo at all, but had a surprising amount of hammocks...
 * 5) ... FCS Ithaca, which had a decent challenge in its hold that was salvaged and traded away...
 * 6) ... and Under Construction, a partially completed ship that had lain untouched for more than a year, and which wasn't scuttled but rather wrecked beyond repair, and sunk in pieces. May the mermaids enjoy their new playgrounds! (Perhaps they'll learn to touch-type?)
 * 7) It looks like @Dewines and @Riverstone had a hand in the wrecking of the TheProf is in guild - but mostly it was guild captain @TheProf themselves who gave permission to destroy it, and Admiral @Alys who did the destroying.
 * 8) The "classroom guild" Newport Elementary grade 4 - inactive for about a year - had been in our sights for a while. When it was brought up in guild chat both by @LLamaHobbit and @Ariel, Admiral @Alys noticed it, too, and scuttled it immediately (also to protect the valuable secrets it carried - the names of the kids, some of which were probably real life names).
 * 9) The public guild Michigan Technological University(captured by @Dewines who also made the booty challenges) was given to @Phantom818 and privatized because @Phantom818 wanted an own private guild (for monthly tasks and the like). So this is the first guild that the pirates (or actually, admin at the request of the pirates) turned into a submarine (i.e., it was made private and is still used).
 * 10) Somehow, at an unknown point in time, in a mysterious fog, ownership of the Valley of Riddles unexplainably and unexpectedly changed and fell to @Mara the Marine Marauder. Who was the previous owner? @Sphinx? @Ben West? Someone else? When asked, @Sphinx spoke in riddles about tricky plans that unraveled over the years, communications with higher powers, and prophecies of challenges. Was it fate? @Mara the Marine Marauder had wanted to wrap up the old error-ridden Don't Walk the Plank challenge anyway... After all the old loose ends had been wrapped up, the Valley of Riddles suddenly became a lot less interesting - so it got sunk (deleted) and is now an oceanic trench. But you can still see the riddles on that guild's wikia page.
 * 11) The Investors were rather inactive, and the topic was already covered by another more active guild (the Financial Discipline Group) - so @Ariel boarded them and invested the guild's four gems in booty challenges. After they'd been won by four other pirates, @Ariel claimed the guild as their own private guild. (One more submarine!)
 * 12) Tindley Prep Scholars (an inactive guild captured by @Dewines) got destroyed soon after booty had been divvied up.
 * 13) TechRaptor shared the same fate - it was captured by @Dewines, then blown to smithereens after its booty had been shared via challenges.
 * 14) The same happened to The Edge - the guild was taken over, plundered (with booty challenges) and wrecked by @Dewines.
 * 15) The members of the Interneters Anonymous guild can't have been very addicted to that guild - or it would have been more active. (And another more active guild - the Digital Addicts Anonymous - was already covering the topic.) So @Phantom818 captured the Interneters Anonymous - and even challenged the wild wide seas of the internet itself with booty challenges which dared participants to survive without internet for a day. After those had been won (yes! it's doable!), the guild was hacked into pieces and sunk. Not everything and everyone sailing the internet has to keep doing it forever!
 * 16) The Mercury Guild was first sighted by @Ariel, then immediately broadsided and shot to smithereens by Admiral @Alys. (Yay for fast battles, quick victories, and joyful destruction!) Since the guild went down with all its treasures aboard, Admiral @Alys then generously put 4 shiny gems into the Pirate Cove treasure chest to make up for lost booty. Thanks @Alys - we know you don't have to!
 * 17) The COWMe guild - a guild created by @John Camden and dedicated to persuading and tricking Habitican admins (in most amusing and creative ways, and with admirable effort) into re-releasing the Winged Messenger set - was deservedly turned into an underwater museum because of its great habitistorical significance.
 * 18) Aboard the Tag Bombs guild, a fierce fight for captaincy took place between bold attacker @Dewines and the old zombified captain @Jynxed. (There were weird technical difficulties - @Alys changed leadership to @Dewines several times but it kept reverting to @Jynxed. A truly jynxed situation!) Eventually @Dewines gained the upper hand, quickly shared out the booty (via challenges), got everyone still alive aboard into safety, and then Admiral @Alys blew the Tag Bombs to kingdom come so it couldn't jinx anyone anymore.
 * 19) The Family Playbook, an inactive family-themed guild, was first sighted by @Llama Hobbit. Since the old (formerly inactive) guild leader @Angela Henders logged into Habitica again after @Llama Hobbit messaged her (but didn't answer or react in other ways), the guild got scuttled intact rather than boarded and plundered.
 * 20) A guild named MaluTVT kandi/graduryhmä (Oulun yliopisto / KTK) was taken over by @Riverstone who promptly renamed it Pirates o'Learnin and set up some learning-related booty challenges - the last of which got won by @Riverstone learning for a real life skipper's ticket. And like a typical beginner skipper, @Riverstone then wrecked the guild - but intentionally!
 * 21) The guild Memphis (first spotted by @Rayn the Stormcaller) was blown to bits by Admiral @Alys before anyone could board it. (To quote her, "A speedy death is merciful. And very very easy. :)" Very true, at least for inactive guilds!) Again, very generously, Admiral @Alys then gifted the Pirate Cove with 4 shiny gems for its treasure chest to make up for lost booty. Thanks @Alys - you know a pirate's heart's desire! Also, Pirate Cove might now be the first guild in Habitistory which ever had 8 gems in its bank! (Time to share them out again with booty challenges...)
 * 22) The guild laranja (spotted by @Ariel - no chat, no gems) was shot to pieces without further ado by Admiral @Alys.
 * 23) De Grønne, an inactive Norwegian-speaking guild for promotion of a Norwegian political party (The Green Party) with two abandoned challenges, was investigated by @Llama Hobbit, then scuttled Admiral @Alys.
 * 24) The Northmen/Northwomen of Wisconsin were investigated by anthropological pirate @Ariel (who found them to be quite comatose) and captured by pirate @Phantom818, who set up some winter-and-Wisconsin-themed booty challenges. Once they were all won, the guild was set on a collision course with one of Wisconsin's infamous Great Lakes icebergs, broke apart and sank.
 * 25) At some point, @Mara the Marine Marauder became guild leader of the Wake Up and Smell the Coffee - Stop Snoozing guild. (The old guild leader either left or made @Mara guild leader.) But the guild was so inactive that @Mara didn't even notice until pirate @Blue posted in chat there to see if it was still alive. So @Mara evacuated the old members to The Sleeping Guild and blew up and sank the guild. (There were no gems left to loot.)
 * 26) @MEmry and @Dewines visited the Babylon 5 fandom knitting and crocheting starship Crafters of Tuzanor (yes, there was indeed such a guild!) and suggested that it could be assimilated by the Borg bigger and more general Knitting and Crocheting! guild. Resistance was futile non-existent, and the small starship got parked in a parallel universe (privatized).
 * 27) After the guild was first sighted by @Ariel, @Phantom818 became the new captain of The United Strays of Maverica, a clearly dead guild which someone named @StrayMav created as a fandom guild for @StrayMav's own minecraft walkthrough videos. Booty challenges (which, luckily, have nothing to do with the original topic, and more with everyday health and productivity) were made and won, and then the guild got destroyed.
 * 28) @Llama Hobbit looked into some family-themed guilds - and found that the Family Guild was quite dead (and had never been alive at all). (Parents, don't despair - there are other active family-themed guilds, such as Parent Edition.) So @Llama Hobbit captured the Family Guild, redistributed its family jewels with some topic-related booty challenges, then destroyed the ship as if it were a mere child's toy.
 * 29) Habiticans on Facebook: After months of silence, the pirates were hailed by a new guild leader who agreed that having a guild to chat in Habitica about a Facebook group where people chat about using Habitica was just getting silly. The new leader was therefore happy for the guild to be sunk. @Dewines informed the pirates of the captain's decision and @Alys fired the fatal shots that sent the guild down into Davy Jones's locker (i.e. the guild was deleted). The guild's four gems somehow found their way into the Pirate Cove's treasure chest.
 * 30) @MEmry decided to destroy her own ship Clutter Busters because another decluttering guild had sprung up since. (But Clutter Busters was first - and very useful!) So she generously handed out the gems from its hold (via decluttering-themed booty challenges), gave the crew ample opportunity to jump ship and swim to the handy rescue vessel Decluttering Devils, rigged the ship with explosives, and then we all admired the detonation from afar. (Looked like @that_one_girl snuck in some fireworks, too!)
 * 31) The Polyglot Guild duplicated the existing and active Language Hackersguild. So, after @Dewines had sighted it and had hailed the guild leader and got no response, the guild was scuttled in one piece.
 * 32) The guild Longhorns escaped @Dewines's first attempt to capture it - for a short while. @Wunderkind, a long-standing Longhorns crew member, took over captaincy there from the old inactive captain and renamed the guild State School Spirit. (In the course of those events, @Wunderkind also joined the Pirate Cove and became a Habitican pirate.) A few weeks later, however, attempts to revive the guild had failed, and @Wunderkind surrendered the guild to @Dewines. It got named Guild up for grabs (was State School Spirit) for a short while, then it was deleted. (There were no gems left to plunder.)
 * 33) @Ariel reoccupied the abandoned Laravel Lair (which was originally about the PHP framework Laravel) and set up some booty challenges having more to do with pirate lairs (i.e., making/keeping one's home comfortable). With the challenges completed, the guild was deleted.
 * 34) Rock Climbers (sighted by @Ariel) was an inactive duplicate of The Climbers Guild. Its leader @The Wanderer had wandered away long ago. After its three fossilized challenges had been smashed to gravel by the elves (@Phantom818 and @Dewines), the guild was deleted (using some high-quality dynamite to blast the rock).
 * 35) @Blue lead the attack on the very dead Korean-speaking guild We are the good Duck (no, it didn't really become clear where that name came from), became captain there, and created Korea-themed booty challenges. Once those were all won, the guild didn't swim like a good duck anymore, but sank like a brick instead (was deleted).
 * 36) Slimming World Habiticians a guild focused on slimmingworld.com membership, was sighted by @Ariel. Since the leader had only been missing for five months and since there were no treasures to be looted, the guild was scuttled.
 * 37) Elijah's Habit: @Ariel led a search party to find this long dead guild just floating on the high seas (two years since the last message, owner was last active at that time (2013)). Safe to say this one's not coming back.
 * 38) Hellblazers: @Fear bravely won this guild from the pirates in the first place, but it soon became inactive again. @Ariel recommended privatization in late December 2015. The pirates chose to respect @Fear's valiant efforts and scuttled the guild in one piece.
 * 39) A conversation in the Elven Grove about inappropriate language (i.e. language violating the Community Guidelines for public spaces in Habitica) led @Dewines to mention that she'd seen a guild with an inappropriate name. It cannot be named here for obvious reasons, but in discussions was referred to as Ladies of negotiable affection get stuff done. Though the guild leader was inactive, the guild was far too active to even think of boarding, but the language in the guild name and the challenges and guild chat meant that, like other adult themed guilds, it could not remain public. As this needed swift yet tactful handling by a mod, the guild was quickly privatized (and, surprisingly enough, their gems given to the pirates - isn't it usually the other way round?), and @Alys will monitor the situation and communicate with the guild in future.