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I am very interested in this idea! I'd like to participate if you get it set up.

To add my opinion, I think that arriving unannounced is the best option. For some games, this won't matter since they have such tight-knit and low playerbases, but it's the best way to experience a typical day on the MUD. If the staff of a game won't pull out all the stops to welcome the typical newbie, then we're not getting an accurate view of the game if they do that for us.

That said, it will be really obvious which games change their attitude to welcome the guild - just ask a non-guild player about the help they received as a newbie and compare it to the guild member's experience.

Either way you go, though, I'd still like to join.