diff --git a/discord/client.py b/discord/client.py
index 9ec9adf04..73037aa8a 100644
--- a/discord/client.py
+++ b/discord/client.py
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ import logging, traceback
 import sys, time, re, json
 import tempfile, os, hashlib
 import itertools
-import zlib, math
+import zlib
 from random import randint as random_integer
 
 PY35 = sys.version_info >= (3, 5)
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ class Client:
         if max_messages is None or max_messages < 100:
             max_messages = 5000
 
-        self.connection = ConnectionState(self.dispatch, max_messages, loop=self.loop)
+        self.connection = ConnectionState(self.dispatch, self.request_offline_members, max_messages, loop=self.loop)
 
         # Blame Jake for this
         user_agent = 'DiscordBot (https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py {0}) Python/{1[0]}.{1[1]} aiohttp/{2}'
@@ -145,28 +145,6 @@ class Client:
 
     # internals
 
-    def _get_all_chunks(self):
-        # a chunk has a maximum of 1000 members.
-        # we need to find out how many futures we're actually waiting for
-        large_servers = filter(lambda s: s.large, self.servers)
-        futures = []
-        for server in large_servers:
-            chunks_needed = math.ceil(server._member_count / 1000)
-            for chunk in range(chunks_needed):
-                futures.append(self.connection.receive_chunk(server.id))
-
-        return futures
-
-    @asyncio.coroutine
-    def _fill_offline(self):
-        yield from self.request_offline_members(filter(lambda s: s.large, self.servers))
-        chunks = self._get_all_chunks()
-
-        if chunks:
-            yield from asyncio.wait(chunks)
-
-        self.dispatch('ready')
-
     def _get_cache_filename(self, email):
         filename = hashlib.md5(email.encode('utf-8')).hexdigest()
         return os.path.join(tempfile.gettempdir(), 'discord_py', filename)
@@ -392,11 +370,10 @@ class Client:
             func = getattr(self.connection, parser)
         except AttributeError:
             log.info('Unhandled event {}'.format(event))
-        else:
-            func(data)
 
-        if is_ready:
-            utils.create_task(self._fill_offline(), loop=self.loop)
+        result = func(data)
+        if asyncio.iscoroutine(result):
+            utils.create_task(result, loop=self.loop)
 
     @asyncio.coroutine
     def _make_websocket(self, initial=True):
diff --git a/discord/state.py b/discord/state.py
index 6db172182..fec2e111a 100644
--- a/discord/state.py
+++ b/discord/state.py
@@ -36,10 +36,9 @@ from .enums import Status
 
 
 from collections import deque, namedtuple
-import copy
+import copy, enum, math
 import datetime
 import asyncio
-import enum
 import logging
 
 class ListenerType(enum.Enum):
@@ -49,10 +48,11 @@ Listener = namedtuple('Listener', ('type', 'future', 'predicate'))
 log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 class ConnectionState:
-    def __init__(self, dispatch, max_messages, *, loop):
+    def __init__(self, dispatch, chunker, max_messages, *, loop):
         self.loop = loop
         self.max_messages = max_messages
         self.dispatch = dispatch
+        self.chunker = chunker
         self._listeners = []
         self.clear()
 
@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ class ConnectionState:
         self._add_server(server)
         return server
 
+    @asyncio.coroutine
     def parse_ready(self, data):
         self.user = User(**data['user'])
         guilds = data.get('guilds')
@@ -139,6 +140,23 @@ class ConnectionState:
             self._add_private_channel(PrivateChannel(id=pm['id'],
                                      user=User(**pm['recipient'])))
 
+        # a chunk has a maximum of 1000 members.
+        # we need to find out how many futures we're actually waiting for
+
+        large_servers = [s for s in self.servers if s.large]
+        yield from self.chunker(large_servers)
+
+        chunks = []
+        for server in large_servers:
+            chunks_needed = math.ceil(server._member_count / 1000)
+            for chunk in range(chunks_needed):
+                chunks.append(self.receive_chunk(server.id))
+
+        if chunks:
+            yield from asyncio.wait(chunks)
+
+        self.dispatch('ready')
+
     def parse_message_create(self, data):
         channel = self.get_channel(data.get('channel_id'))
         message = Message(channel=channel, **data)