Dear Felicia Day,

We here at The Rhodester Chronicles think you’re kind of hot, but mostly we’re in love with your brain.

We also have a thing for your talent.

Not only that, but we are in awe of your spirit and your drive. We don’t mean your hard-drive, although we’re sure it’s quite impressive. We just mean that element of “go-get-em” that inspired you to do something as funny, entertaining and poignant as “THE GUILD.”

We understand you started it in your kitchen, or something like that. No big studios, no corporate backers.. just donations from fans who already knew what you could do. We weren’t in that group back then, but we sure are now.

Mrs. Rhodester told us, “You’ve got to see this!” But we didn’t believe her. “Meh,” we said. “She’s just some geeky actress chick. Who needs a female Will Wheaton, huh?”

Felicia Day as "Codex" in The Guild

But we caved and watched “The Guild.” Within that first episode you had us, and that’s before the corporate sponsor came along! We were dazed and bedazzled by the snappy writing and goofy characters.

We watched up through the first season and noticed how it all got a little better when Microsoft stepped-in and beefed up the production values for the second season. Wide-screen, higher rez and brighter colors, but the acting, script and talent couldn’t be improved on.

The Guild strikes a personal chord with us, in that Mrs. Rhodester and I are former Second Lifers. We signed-up about five years back and spent nearly six months traipsing around a virtual world as avatars.  I was “Davis Rochefort” and she was “Dorian Deigan.”

Dorian Deigan oversees her Second Life Kingdom from the deck of her cyber-house.

My Lighthouse at sunset in Second Life. Yes, I owned a lighthouse. What? Rent is due? What rent? HUH?

Floating in the air next to my lighthouse. This was really the only time I could do something like that.

When we woke-up we’d joined the ranks of the unemployed and were being evicted from our real-life apartment. Yours truly leased a cab and became a cab driver. We moved into a seedy motel with (are you sitting down?) NO DSL OR CABLE. We had to go to a local Internet Cafe to get our game on.

This lasted for a couple of months.  Every time we went in there we had to vie for a computer among all the 12-14 year-olds loudly playing WoW, which always sounded like a brothel full of elves swearing.

Eventually the cab went back to the company and the brothel full of elves had to go on without us as we moved out of the motel and on to new things.

We also bade Second Life adieu.

She says it’s not entirely to blame and I think she may be right, but it sure had a hold on us for a while, which is why we relate to the characters in The Guild.

So thank you for reminding us that we can laugh at ourselves, and thank you for reminding us that life is goofy. We’ve caught-up on The Guild now, and will be diving into the latest episode of season five that just came out. We dig Codex and the gang, but at the same time we kind of want to slap them around and say, “Get a real life!”

We won’t though because if they did get a real life then that’d be the end of The Guild, and that would just be sad.

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The promo for season 3 of The Guild, “Do you want to date my avatar?” Yes, as a matter of fact, we do..

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The promo for season 4 of The Guild, “Game On”..

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Ready to try it? Check out the very first episode right here, then go here to pick-up the rest of it!

Extra kudos to the cast of The Guild, Vincent Caso, Amy Akuda, Sandeep Parikh, Robin Thorsen and the hilarious Jeff Lewis (Vork), because we guys love finding out that there’s someone who’s actually more pathetic than we are.