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_The Twenty-Third of November in the Year of the Fox,

Two-Thousand and Four  

**Report One?**_

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[- Heeeeeeere's Jac! -](#1)  

[- Situational Commentary -](#2)  

[- GJW Crap -](#3)  

[- Clan/Order Powers Update -](#4half)  

[- The Covenant, DSC, and Training Manual -](#5)  

[- Rebirth Update -](#99)  


[- Big Props -](#bigprops)  

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"Selfish, adj: Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others." </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" bgcolor="#333333" align="center" style="border-left-width: 1; border-right-width: 1; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1; border-bottom-width: 1" bordercolor="#333333" colspan="2" height="20"> - Heeeeeeere's Jac! -</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" align="center" style="border-left-width: 1; border-right-width: 1; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1; border-bottom-width: 1" bordercolor="#333333" colspan="2" height="5"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" align="center" style="border-left-width: 1; border-right-width: 1; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1; border-bottom-width: 1" bordercolor="#333333" colspan="2" height="18">

What am I doing now, you ask? I'm procrastinating, of course. I have a 
twelve page paper due tomorrow at 8:55 AM that I have barely half-way 
finished, and I have decided to write a report instead. Call me Mr. 
Responsibility.  



My life has been the normal lately. Law School, DB, Halo 2, fiancée 
sometimes. I'm very tired of school but I only have one more week of classes 
this semester, so it's not that bad. I am not looking forward to exams, but 
I am looking forward to break, so I guess I have something to look forward 
to.  



FYI while I'm here. I am going home tomorrow at about 3:00 PM for the 
Thanksgiving weekend. I will be able to get online for email, but my IRC 
presence will be virtually non-existent. I will, as always, be online, but 
won't be around to return your calls. Email should rule for those few days. 
I'll be back Sunday evening.  



Not really much else to say. Just the same old same old.  

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Oh my dear god am I soooooo glad that the GJW is through. I don't think you 
guys understand the amount of work that took to pull off even a bad GJW. 
Actually, it probably would have taken less work had we been a little less 
ambitious and a little smarter, but hey, you live and you learn. I have a 
whole lot more free time now that it's done and can use that for better 
things.  



As the holidays approach, I hope people don't forget their commitments here. 
We are more important than your family, after all. Forget the presents, skip 
dinner, call you brother and tell him to shove off. You have the DB to worry 
about.  



:)  



I am emboldened by a lot of people around me these days. I think after a few 
weeks, Mav and I are finally settling into our positions. Mav has taken a 
lot more direct approaches on things, and I think that is great, and I have 
been able to get some more things done than in the past. I am very glad to 
see the support I have from various members and the willingness of those 
members to give me feedback on what is going on. Just recently, Kir gave me 
a four page document that talked about some things in the DB, and it was a 
really good reminder that, though we have come a long way, we still have a 
good deal to do.  



So really, as the holidays approach, let us not undertake the impossible and 
say we are going to get everything done in those free days. We all know that 
those days never end up being free. Instead, I want the leaders of the 
brotherhood to pick one important project and just get it done. Don't try to 
do three. I think if we all just do one big thing over the holidays, we'll 
be in much better shape then if we try to overextend.  

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So, it's over, but not really over. There's still a bit to do.  



Kaiann  is compiling a list for me of the judges that need to be 
rewarded and that should be finished soon.  



Also, the Clans have all been dictated what they are allowed to choose as 
prizes for the GJW. We offered them all a list of ships and they were able 
to choose some based on their total point score. We've received most request 
back, and I think the clans have made a good choice.  



Just to recap the rewards: I finished inputting all of the medals (I did all 
5000 of them by hand, with punch cards instead of a keyboard). To those who 
were wondering about the seals: two things. 1. we will not be rewarding them 
for past Vendettas as the poll dictated. 2. The reason people received 
multiple seals is for bragging rights. If we have the ability through quick 
excel spreadsheets and SQL statements to document exactly who did what and 
give the people who did the most an added bonus, then I'm all for that.  

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  Oh yeah! Got some work dooooone.  



  The DC has been going through the Clan and Order powers documents that I 
  sent. Overall they were well received. I think it will add a great new 
  element to the DB and the members will like it.  



  Where are we with it? Well, I am having my magistrate, Pyralis, make some 
  changes to reflect the comments from the DC. Once that happens, I will 
  send it to the DC for a quick one-day review and out to the Consuls after 
  that. I am aiming to have the details of the system public within the next 
  2 weeks.

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    As I'm sure some of you have seen from Trev's reports, we are working on 
    a complete system change for our documents in the DB.  



    As I'm sure you know, for like a decade the DB has run everything out of 
    the unorganized mass that is the Dark Side Compendium. I personally 
    think it is a worthless document that has outlived its usefulness by 
    about 3 years. It doesn't communicate our rules well, it doesn't train 
    people well and it is not easily updatable for the latest in events and 
    policies.  



    What Trev, myself and others have come up with is a system that will 
    separate the four main needs of the DB into four categories:  



    Fiction/History: The DSC as we know it now is in the process of being 
    revamped to hold the fiction and history of the DB. Trev has been 
    working hard on this, and you can see some of the changes in the DSC 
    already (orders, ranks, etc.). Basically, the DSC is going to become the 
    fictional and historical background of the DB. It will hold the 
    justifications for the three orders, the fictional background of the 
    exodus, our connections to the Dark Side and so on and so on. Trev has 
    provided me with an outline of what he wants to do, and it looks like it 
    will be a VERY excellent document when finished.  



    Basic Rules and Regulations: The DSC has within it now the basic 
    precepts that we use to run this club. It's all strewn about in places 
    you can never find when you want to and it a terrible way to organize 
    our structure. To solve this problem I have asked Trev to create the 
    Dark Brotherhood Covenant. This document will look and read more like a 
    legal piece as it outlines our basic infrastructure, our rules, some 
    procedures, and the whatnot. The Cov will be a ground zero for finding 
    virtually anything you need to know about how the DB functions. Trev has 
    handed me an initial draft that I am working my way through. This is 
    naturally, still far from completion.  



    Training: To hold everything together, the DB will have to have a new 
    training manual. This will be for the initiates to quickly learn what 
    they need to pass the tests in the Shadow Academy. It will cover the 
    basics of the DSC and the Covenant in a way that is forth coming and 
    clear. We have not started on this, and will once the other two projects 
    are finished.  



    Policy/Regulatory decisions: I stated in a report some time ago that we 
    are building into rebirth a knowledge base system. This system will 
    serve as a place for individual Dark Council members to hold decrees 
    about various subject. For example, Kaiann may add to his section a 
    decree outlining the approval process for a new artifact. I may put in 
    my section something that shows my preference for how to submit 
    proposals. These are supposed to be rules and regulations that will 
    change more often than the Cov will permit, and will be changeable at 
    the will of Dark Council members. This is something that we are really 
    lacking right now, and I'm looking forward to having it.  



    All in all, I think the direction we are going with this is the right 
    one. While it will create more documents, it will simplify what is where 
    and let people access information quicker. Trev is working hard on his 
    ends and I am as well.  



    Just thought you'd all like to know. :)  

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    CG and Jam3z have been working hard as always on coding the new website. 
    A ton of the front-end is done and waiting to be Jacisized by me. That 
    means I need to go through and pretty things up to the way I want them 
    to look.  



    Once I get a chance to play with the look, we'll get a few more screen 
    shots up. The next one to be posted is the dossier. :)

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- Big Props to Jam3z for the temp fix on the MBs -   

- GIGANTIC PROPS to Pyralis and DS for their work on the GJW stats -   

- Big Props to Gilkane for his successes with the PA -  

- Yaaay for the GJW being done and the DB putting up with the never-ending 
thing. -   

- Big props to Cofo and Khan for a much-improved MAA office -  

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