Debauchery Tea Party

The Debauchery Tea Party (放蕩者の茶会) was a non-guild group of players in Elder Tale. It was present for two years before they disbanded, but it remains notorious among experienced players even after the Catastrophe.

Aside from the nine members of the Tea Party that were trapped in the Elder Tale world due to the Catastrophe, the rest of the twenty-seven members come from the Mamare Anthology, a fan book where Mamare revealed the identities of the remaining members at the end of an interview.

Overview
Before the events of the Log Horizon series, the Debauchery Tea Party gained notoriety for completing several large-scale battles called raids before the group disbanded two years before the start of the main story.

Several personal reasons lead to the indefinite hiatus of the group, including Kanami's retirement and relocation to Europe, Naotsugu's busy work schedule, and Indicus' fits of rage stemming from the former two.

Before its disbandment, the Tea Party held a negative reputation that stemmed from small-and-mid-sized guilds' jealousy that a seemingly random mish-mash of players were able to complete such difficult raids without even being part of an organized guild. Many malicious rumors began spreading about them on anonymous discussion boards, especially about Kanami and Shiroe. Most of the Tea Party's members didn't particularly care or pinned it on Kanami's willfulness, and Indicus reveled in their jealousy.

Only eight of the original members were logged in at the time of the Catastrophe: Shiroe, Naotsugu, Nyanta, Soujiro Seta, Nazuna, KR, Indicus, and Kazuhiko. Kanami, using a new account on the European server, was also caught up in the Catastrophe. (In the anime, KR wasn't online when Shiroe checked his friend list, meaning that he already was in China by that point.)

Three years before the main storyline, and one year before the group disbanded, Shiroe was its youngest and newest member. Soujiro hadn't yet joined, which means that around six of the Tea Party's female members, plus ★Kurama☆, hadn't yet joined, either.

Purpose
When Elder Tale was just a game, they were known for always charging ahead of others, attempting to be first in the history of the server to complete Raids like "Hades Breath", "Rhadamanthys' Throne", "Nine Great Prisons of the Heilos" and others, even though they had a relatively small group.

Strength
The Debauchery Tea Party consisted of 27 members, all at level 90 before the group disbanded. The group successfully completed several high-difficulty raids with such a small amount of members that it gained much attention in the server, and its members are known by Adventurers almost throughout the server.

After the group disbanded, some of those who continued playing, like Shiroe, essentially became mercenary players for guilds. Shiroe was the only one who continued playing regularly as a solo player, while Soujiro formed the West Wind Brigade with Nazuna, Saki, and Wing to carry its legacy. It was during this time that Isaac met Shiroe and tried recruiting him into his guild, although Isaac said that he valued Shiroe's playing skills, not for being part of such a famous group.

Trivia

 * The group was originally just called the "Tea Party". KR added "Debauchery" in jest of Kanami's wild tendencies.