Dark dudes and dudettes,

Ooohhh! Look at me! I went out this week and bought myself a spanky new joystick. Logitech Wingman Extreme! Cool. Now I can actually play XWA and have some sort of control over my actions in the game! Give me another week and I think I'll be ready to have my buttcheeks whupped at some MP games. If anyone has XWA, and wants to give the Consul some pointers, feel free to slap them here, or challenge me on IRC or Windows Messenger.

Also this week from Casa del Coochio, one of my best mates just got back from Iraq, so the last week or so has been a drunken, cheap cigar-smoke filled haze. Oh yea, and Billy replied that my EH profiles will now be removed, after me having asked seven times since the split. :P

As you will all see above this is my ninth report since taking over the reigns of CSP again. To be honest, I don't feel like I've made enough of an impact. In fact, the only thing I've actually done, is make sure the Clan stays open since the split, and has been set up as you member type people wanted it - axing the BattleTeams. Other than that, I don't think I've done enough. Sure, I've done thing behind the scenes, and all that crap, but the Clan is still in a pretty bad shape, and it's up to me to rectify that. Expect me to be annoying you all with Clan proposals and individual emails to all members at some stage or another. I do have a couple of things that need to be sorted out immediately, and so should be done by the end of the week. Watch this email list and the MB for more crap very soon...

CSP Invitational Competition

Yeah, I know the competitions should be posted below in the comps section, but this one is too big for you all to miss.

Mage has launched a two tier competition for Jedi Knight and Jedi Outcast which will run for the whole of August. There is a whole bundle of award to be passed out for this, so check all the details at http://www.darkjedibrotherhood.org/dbjedi/competitions.asp?ID=22 and get your JK and JO games dusted off in preparation.

The Jacomeister has posted the new Order details on DJB.org. If you haven't looked at them they can be found at this link: http://www.darkjedibrotherhood.org/dbjedi/dgm/proposals/Proposal%20-%20Orders%20Overhaul.rtf . All the Consuls and DC'ers have been speaking about this constantly over the past couple of weeks, but the main change is that most DB competitions are not going to be Order specific. Yes, it may be FPS based and run by an Obbie, but that does not mean that Krathies and Sithites are not allowed to play. If you need any more details on what the full extent of the changes entail, are worried about the direction your Order is going in, then let me know and I will do all I can to clear all matters up.

Clan Awards!!!

I like giving out awards. It makes me happy. It's the time again when I get to announce who gets to show off the Clan Order symbols for the next month. Sadly, the Sith award is going un-awarded for this month, as in my eyes, not enough has been done by anyone in Caliburnus. My apologies. As for the Krath Award, again there is no contest, because again, it is being awarded to Lorad Desmos. I think you could look through all of the DB and have a difficult time trying to find someone who throws out as much quality work as Lorad does, and so it was no contest in awarding the Krath one. IF Lorad gets this award next moth as well, he gets a big shiny medal. Woo-hoo!!

The Obelisk Award goes to Mage, because he is great. Like Lorad, he is an excellent worker, and not happy with planning, running and judging a DB-wide competition because I mentioned it to him in passing, he's also doing a load of work for the Master At Arms. In short, he's Mageliscious! Mage - if you do not have a copy of the Award to slap in your ID line then I will happily send it to you.

Crap that'll be at the bottom of all my reports:

IRC: should you not have an IRC program, let me know and I will tell you how to download it and install it and then run it so that you can speak to the rest of us happy little cyber-geeks. Channel #Scholae is now being used by us.

The official DB JK2 server up and running. How cool? The IP is 66.227.104.148, and the password is dbpimps. More information can be found at http://www.minos.net/~obelisk/servers.php but if you need any help connecting and stuff, I'll explain it to you.

Important Links:

Clan Scholae Palatinae Web Page: http://crusader.digitalrics.com/csp/

Clan Scholae Palatinae Message Board: http://www.chaoslogic.com/db/message_board/default.asp?CAT_ID=7

Dark Jedi Brotherhood: http://www.darkjedibrotherhood.org

Dark Side Compendium: http://www.darkjedibrotherhood.org/dbjedi/dsc.asp

Vision and Mission Statement: http://www.darkjedibrotherhood.org/dbjedi/mission.asp

Dark Jedi Brotherhood Rules: http://www.chaoslogic.com/db/message_board/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=367

Competitions:

Clan Competition - Dark Jedi Pick-Up Line Contest!!

This one is being run by Talarak, and the point is to… well… that kinda speaks for itself doesn't it. The final submission date was yesterday so the pantless wonder should be letting us all know the results pretty soon.

Inter-Club Training Event - Cool!

Mav has organised a training event which should become a regular event. Part of this will be the clubs we have allied with, the Star Vipers and the Rebel Squadrons being the main ones, but there are a few others too. What is going to happen is that on Saturday May 17th at 4pm EST (think that's 9pm GMT) in Undernet channel #Outerrim there will be loads of other people waiting to take part in every multiplayer Star Wars game you can think of. This is not supposed to be a competition, but is there for gaming and fun. Check out all the details at http://www.chaoslogic.com/db/message_board/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=314

Krath Monthly Topics:

Even through they are Krath MT's, you Sithies and Obbies can do them too, and it would be good to see you do them. This months topic for the fiction is to write an agony aunt stylee email about Jedi problems you're having, and is to be sent to Alanna ([Log in to view e-mail addresses]) whereas this month's poetry is to be about a Prophecy, either ancient or modern, and is to be sent to [Log in to view e-mail addresses].

Fight Nights!

A series of JK competition nights have been worked out by the Shadow dude, full details on the DJB.org news page so it's easier for you to read it from there instead of my adding it here. The best way to get into a fight (apart from stealing my alcamahol supplies) is to sit in the Obelisk channel on IRC (funnily called #Obelisk) and shout at people until they fight you.

KE Cuchulain (Krath)/CON/Clan Scholae Palatinae

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