Joining a Guild
Once you have found a guild that suits your vision of life here in Aetolia, you should seek out Certimene, the Guild administrator in Delos. Certimene works for the guilds as a whole, and has the power to permit you entrance to any guild as a guild novice.
Once you've joined a guild via Certimene, you will gain two of the three guild skills for that guild. You will also be limited to learning them to the level of Adept until you graduate from novicehood, at which point you will gain the third guild skill and may learn as you please. Once in a guild, you may see your rank in the guild (recall that there are twenty guild ranks, plus Novice) under your SCORE.
You can graduate out of novicehood in your guild once you have achieved Level 21 and are 100% Adept in both of your guild skills. Type GRADUATE FROM NOVICEHOOD to do so whenever you are ready.
GUILD PRIVILEGES (or just GUILD PRIVS) will show you a list of guild-related commands that your guild-rank gives you access to.
If, for some reason, you become dissatisfied with your Guild, you may QUIT GUILD. If, in SCORE, it says that you are still an apprentice in your class, however, then you will lose your guild skills, gaining back roughly 90% of the lessons you put into them. If you are not an apprentice anymore (by virtue of the fact that you have reached guild level three in your guild), then you will retain all your skills intact.
If you have quit your guild and wish to join a new guild that is associated with a different class, then you need to QUIT CLASS. It is important to understand that QUITTING YOUR CLASS WILL CAUSE YOU TO LOSE YOUR GUILD SKILLS. As partial compensation, you will gain approximately half of the lessons that you put into those skills.
For more information, see: Changing Guilds.