Taldryan Consul Report 3-7-05 Report # 95

I want to start this report by sending out a gigantic THANK YOU to everyone who receives this report. For those of you who don’t know, I was promoted to DA several days ago on the strength of many, many recommendations written mostly by Taldryan members. Reading those recommendations was undoubtedly the proudest moment of my entire DB career. You all said very kind things in your recommendations and comments on the DB site, and I appreciate them all.

I just want to add that without all of your continued efforts, none of what I do would matter. I can stand up here and play the leader all I want, but if none of you help me out and participate and have fun, then nothing happens. So thank you again for the recognition, and keep up all of your great work!!

Clan Taldryan News

-A few weeks ago I released the “State of the Clan” address, you can catch that here:

http://www.taldryan.org/address.php

-Krath RoS awards were released, and here is what Taldryan won:

3 Imperial MPDSLs

5 Tie Crawlers

The MPDSLs are ground-based defense lasers that are very powerful, and the TIE Crawlers are a form of tank. To see a more detailed description of them, go here: http://www.krath.org/RoS/RoSAwards.html

-The Taldryan Cookoff competition ended today, and the winner is…Kali-Thule!! Congratulations, your shiny is in the mail! Thanks to everyone who participated and special thanks to Shups for running it!

-Taldryan made another good showing in this weeks Sunday Tournament, with Duga coming in first place and Dark Sabre in second, congrats to both of you!

-Its time for me to announce two new members of the Cohors Praetoria, and those members will be….Duga and Chaosrain! Congrats to both!

-Don’t forget the new clan awards and positions I mentioned last week. They now have links on the Taldryan website and can be found here:

Awards - http://www.taldryan.org/awards.php

Conclave - http://www.taldryan.org/conclave.php

Consuls Fist - http://www.taldryan.org/con_cohor.php?option=confist

I will probably start giving out some of these awards soon!

-DS has started an Ektrosis Weekly topics competition, so all you people in Ekky check that out!

-A quick note to see if anyone actually reads this far into my report…you can expect me to announce a new PCON in the next few weeks!

-No trivia in this report, and I’ve got to get the awards out for last week still. I will try to do some IRC trivia in the upcoming week, check your email and IRC for more details.

-Remember to check the ‘Competitions’ section of the Taldryan website for things to keep you active (http://www.taldryan.org/competitions.php)

DB News

-The SHW is running a new competition that sounds pretty interesting. Its called, “The Greatest Warrior of All Times…” The details can be found here: http://www.darkjedibrotherhood.com/dbjedi/competitions.asp?ID=770

This month’s warrior is DGM Mav, so if you want to participate, have fun!

-You may have read that some upcoming DB competitions are going to use the free game “Allegiance”. Some people have had trouble installing/running this game though, so someone wrote up a guide to help, which you can find here: http://www25.brinkster.com/darkforge/allegianceprimer.txt

If after reading this you still have questions, you can post them on the MBs here and get an answer:

http://www.darkjedibrotherhood.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=460

Also our Dinaari AED Benevolent has a pretty good knowledge of Allegiance, so he might be able to help too!

-STILL IMPORTANT: If you are the rank of DJK or under, go to the DB website and login with your PIN and password right now. The DC is running a “Super AWOL”, basically everyone DJK and under gets their dossier marked ‘inactive’. Once you login then it is automatically marked ‘active’ and that’s it. All the people who don’t login by a certain date have their dossiers deleted. So go log in now!!!

-The Clan and Order force power systems that will be used with Rebirth have gone through some changes. So if you want to figure out what level of Clan powers you will have, you can see the descriptions here: http://gm.darkjedibrotherhood.com/policies/

-The KMTs (monthly fiction topics) for February are “A Jedi’s Journey” and “Morning has broken” See the KHP’s report for more details.

-Be sure to visit http://www.darkjedibrotherhood.com/dbjedi/news.asp for all the news.

Medals, Promotions, and Transfers

Medals

Chaosrain – Amethyst Crescent, Clusters of Fire

Kraval – Sapphire Crescent, Clusters of Fire

Dark Sabre – Dark Cross, Star of Antei, Clusters of Fire, Legion of the Scholar

Duga – Star of Antei, Steel Cross, Clusters of Fire

Shadow – Steel Cross, Clusters of Fire, Scroll of Indoctrination, Legion of the Scholar

Michael – Clusters of Fire

Locust - Clusters of Fire

Fire Knight - Clusters of Fire, Sapphire Crescent

Nexusmage - Clusters of Fire

Benevolent - Clusters of Fire, Quartz Crescent

Kir - Clusters of Fire

Tiberius – Sapphire Crescent, Legion of the Scholar

Sithspawn – Scroll of Indoctrination

Fet’ai’narun – Legion of the Scholar

Dalthid – Steel Cross

I got a TON of medal emails this week, especially CFs, way to go everyone!!!

Promotions

NOV Trron Loran to ACO

PRT Kraval to GRD

APP Jeso to NOV

OPM Kir to DA

Transfers

NOV Kali’Thule to Ektrosis

APP Jeso Katarn to Ektrosis

APP Judas to Dinaari

APP NativeNinja to Dinaari

APP Quatre to Dinaari

Trivia!

No report trivia this week, look out for IRC trivia sometime in the next week.

READ THIS if you don’t have IRC!!!

This new section of my report is dedicated to providing information about IRC (internet relay chat). If I had to name one thing that makes a successful Taldryan member, I would say IRC useage. It is required for all of the Clan’s leaders, and all of our most active members can be found there. I have found out that many members read my reports, and some of them don’t use IRC, and I am hoping I can change this.

Here are some quick things about IRC:

-It is a free download (it says you have to ‘register’ it within 30 days, but you never have to)

-It’s VERY simple to use

-All the most active people are on it

-There are almost always people around

-Some competitions are only available on IRC

-You get to know people much better

-You get more of the Taldryan ‘team feeling’ if you are on it

-Being active on IRC can be a reason to get medals/promotions

-Our clan channels get a little crazy sometimes, and its fun!

-You can message individuals like AIM, and talk in chatrooms (multiple rooms at the same time)

How can I get IRC? For Windows users the most popular IRC program is mIRC, which you install on your computer and use just as you would an instant messenger. mIRC is only a free trial, but you may use it as long as you want without penalty (other than a few annoying messages telling you to register). You can find mIRC here:

http://www.mirc.com

If you can't install stuff on your computer or you're constantly switching computers in a lab, you can also use the DB IRC, which is a java applet (to be used through your browser) allowing you to talk in only one channel or room at a time. DB IRC can be found here:

http://www.darkjedibrotherhood.org/dbjedi/chat.html

IRC is very popular and therefore has many servers and channels. This makes it hard to find what you want unless you know what you're doing. Therefore make sure to use the following settings when starting up IRC:

Network: Undernet

Brotherhood Channel: #db

Clan Channel: #taldryan

Have IRC but confused on how to get things going? Well you are in luck, the Shadow Academy has several IRC courses, and the first one is very helpful and for new users. Just go to the SA (http://www.darkjedibrotherhood.org/dbjedi/shadowacademy/sa/index.html) and then click on ‘General Studies’, and then the ‘IRC Basics’ course. It will guide you through how to use IRC. If you’re still having trouble or don’t like how the SA course is laid out, you can read the IRC guide written by QUA Shadow (http://dinaari.taldryan.org/irc_guide.php). It has images of the menus and everything, and is very helpful!

I hope to see a lot of you on IRC!

Miscellaneous

-If you ever need to see an old Consul report, all of mine are up on djb.org!

That’s all for this week, as always if you have any questions/comments/just want to talk, feel free to email me at [Log in to view e-mail addresses] or just go onto IRC as I’m logged on quite often as Kir! Or talk to me on AIM, my screen-name is “ConsulKir”!

Multiplayer Competitions-

Tuesday 1v1 Night

Multiplayer gaming night that will be held all day Tuesday in #gmrg. All DB-supported platforms will be used. Tuesdays are "solo" nights; meaning only 1 vs. 1 games will be played. Signup bots will not be used; you have to find matches by chatting in #gmrg or messaging people on IRC. Clusters of Fire will be awarded as usual, 1 for each win or three losses.

Thursday Team Night

Multiplayer gaming night that will be all day Thursday in #gmrg. All DB-supported platforms will be used. Thursdays are "team" nights, meaning matches can only be played with at least teams of 2 vs. 2. Signup bots will not be used; you have to find matches by chatting in #gmrg or messaging people on IRC. Clusters of Fire will be awarded as usual, 1 for each win or three losses.

Interclub Training Event

Multiplayer gaming night that will be held every Saturday evening in #outerrim. All DB-supported platforms will be used. Players come from DB and allied online gaming groups. Signup bots will be used, so use the !signup command on IRC to get matches in #outerrim. Clusters of Fire will be awarded as usual, 1 for each win or three losses.

Biweekly Sunday Tournament

Those people who participate in at least one match in the above listed weekly multiplayer competitions will be invited to play every other week in a Tournament on Sunday. There isn’t any specific structure, you just play as many matches as you would like and the person with the most wins during the day wins the Tournament. Everyone gets points for wins that they can use to buy personal possessions, and the total of all the points Taldryan members earn the Clan also earns as a whole to buy cool Clan stuff!

_Important Links – _

Dark Brotherhood – http://www.darkjedibrotherhood.com/dbjedi/news.asp

Clan Taldryan - http://www.taldryan.org

Taldryan Codex - http://www.taldryan.org/tal_codex/

Antei Combat Center – http://www.darkjedibrotherhood.com/dbjedi/acc/

Message Boards - http://www.darkjedibrotherhood.com/forum/index.php

Shadow Academy - http://sa.darkjedibrotherhood.com/

Dark Side Compendium - http://dsc.darkjedibrotherhood.com/

Competitions Page - http://www.taldryan.org/competitions.php

Summit Members –

CON Kir Taldrya Katarn ([Log in to view e-mail addresses])

PCON TBA

Dinaari QUA Shadow Taldrya ([Log in to view e-mail addresses])

Dinaari AED Benevolent Whiner ([Log in to view e-mail addresses])

Ektrosis QUA Dark Sabre ([Log in to view e-mail addresses])

Ektrosis AED Nexusmage ([Log in to view e-mail addresses])

Clan Mailing lists -

Clan Taldryan ([Log in to view e-mail addresses])

House Dinaari ([Log in to view e-mail addresses])

House Ektrosis ([Log in to view e-mail addresses])

These email addresses send messages to everyone in the Clan or House they are addressed to.

Clan Taldryan Jedi Outcast Server

IP Address: 66.246.72.196

Password: Talpwnz

Cohors Praetoria Taldryan – Duga and Chaosrain

In Darkness,

Consul Kir Taldrya Katarn