Just had a funny idea. What if, in a while, the two become 'well known' for being pioneers and and a strong team in a fight. So guilds will tyr to recruit them. But of course Alakai refuses. But he would say this. "I won't join a guild. But I'd be willing to join dungeons and raids, for an equal share of the loot, if we can get along." Since, you know, it sucks having to party with people you can't get along with. Even more so in real life. So, since having them join in on a dungeon/raid would improve chances of it being cleared, the usual gaming 'convincing' would start. "Here, have lots of gold!" "I have these rare items you can have!" "We'll hold you a welcome party!" Except Alakai at least doesn't like people that try to bribe him, and he gets nervous around crowds. (even if he tries to hide it) So the guilds start a 'battle' of who can win the favour of the two. And eventually the first guild who actually manages to do so is a 'casual guild' that does want to progress, but feels like they don't have a chance. Why? Because when our two characters met people from their guild didn't care about who they were. Instead they just...offered a place at their campfire, or something else.

Bit cheesy, but I thought it would be fun to see where we could take that idea in the RP, eventually.