Dark Greetings Tarentum!

Well, as you hopefully know, and is the main focus of this report. . .GJW Phase 1 is ending tonight at 11:59pm EST (except for the Obelisk, then it ends tomorrow). I haven't seen too much come through my inbox in way of participation, but there has been some. . .and I know some of you forget to CC me. I've spoken with most of the House Summits and heard better reports of participation there, but there can still be more. I know I have some last minute things to get in today, and, as is the usual of Tarentum, I'm sure several of you do, too. ;)

And a suggestion, if the last little thing you haven't done yet if something you didn't do because you're not very good at it . . . so what? If you are capable in any sense of submitting something for it, you should. Submit the best you possibly can, even if you're not great, it's your best at this point and you'll likely get better at as you continue to try these things. Not to mention every participation point counts, too. ;) And if you need help, suggestions, whatever.. doing things, don't hesitate to find me on aim(xciaratearnanx), IRC (if you can catch me), or just e-mail me. I'll likely be online pretty much all day today, so if you e-mail me with a question or whatever I can reply immediately :)

Just remember, this is the big important but fun Great Jedi War. =p The results will reflect the standings of each of the Clans and of their Houses within the Brotherhood. But also, it gives an opportunity for every member to shine, no matter what rank, you get you pit your skills against everyone in the Brotherhood. The awards and honour you bring yourself and your House and Clan are tremendous, but also remember to make full use of an opportunity like this to improve your skills. There are many different things to do, some your skills, others your weaknesses.. do both, improve. :) Get whatever last minute things you can into Phase 1, and start preparing to put your all into Phase 2, this war is not over yet. >:)

And. . .for after the Great Jedi War, and for my information now. Tarentum is still planning to run a larger scale internal competition, so I need your ideas on what you'd like to see there. I know one thing that people have come to me recently and asked about is a Debate portion. I personally love debates and so we will likely be having that as a part of the competition. If you have any ideas for debates we could run, let me know. :) And just ideas in general for other events for this competition, will be most welcome.. I can come up with everything on my own -- but these competitions aren't for me, they're for you, so I'd rather know what you like to do. =)

And that's it from me. . . go finish Phase 1! >:)

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• Gladius -
  

It's report time again! In this weeks report you will find the regular stuff plus some stuff on the Great Jedi War.

Promotions/Medals

Nothing this week but I have a feeling someone is going to get promoted soon :)

Competitions

The Great Jedi War (GJW) is on!!! You can find it here http://www.darkjedibrotherhood.org/dbjedi/dgm/index.htm

Remember that everyone has until the 23rd to send stuff in for phase 1. Remember what I said last week about participation. :D

If anyone needs help, feel free to ask for it. For phase 2, I think I'll have meeting times set up on irc for anyone who would like to bounce ideas with me and other people. Not sure on that though since I'm not sure what phase 2 will have in store for us. I would like to see more participation though!

Clan/House News

Not really sure what all is going on beside lots of fighting and flying. Everyone is focusing on the GJW phases right now and that is a good thing. I hope all you people are working on it too.

Make sure that if you have stuff to send in to the DV, you follow the rules that have been posted on the DB news page.

If you'd like to view the edited version of the run-on that was sent in, contact Ciara. I'm sure she would be more than happy to send you the 150+ page run-on. :)

I'm very proud of everyone who participated in the run-on. If I was allowed to give medals for competition participation, I would be handing them out left and right.

Well that's about all I got. Make sure you send in your submissions for the GJW! Have a safe and fun week!

KAP Telona Murrage (Krath)/QUA/Gladius of Tarentum

(SC)/(SE)/DC-KC-O/(BNAg)/Cr-1E-6S-1R/DSS/LoA /CoL

{SA: CORE-G:LS}

I dream in digital.

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• Cestus -
  

Dark Greetings Jedis

This is report #16 dating 22.02.2003 meaning I´m now for 4 months already QUA of Cestus and I have to say it was really fun for me and I hope I will be able to stay it a little longer. But now on the report itself there is a lot of things to mention, so without further delay:

Activity:

As far as I know several people are playing the JK maps for the GJW, but I don´t know who exactly so please everyone who is playing them so far or is starting hopefully today drop me a note so know how we are doing so far.

Futhermore The Run-on has ended last Monday and after some problems in the beginning in my opinion it ended quite good. I wished the participation level would have been higher in Cestus, but obviously some people just refuse to take part in such events.

That bings me to the general activty: While some members are really active and try to participate in the GJW others just lay around being absolutely inactive. Remember I said everyone who doesn´t participate in the GJW in any way and doesn`t supply me a very good is in danger to be kicked out of Cestus due to inactivity by me. This also includes also all these people who are on IRC, which would be normally enough, but don´t do anything else. I´m sorry but hanging around on IRC is no event in the GJW as far as know.

So get yourselves moving, participate and try to win the GJW for Tarnetum for Cestus and for you, if you value your membership in Cestus of Tarentum in any way.

Competitions:

Phase 1 of the Great Jedi War is still going on. The GFX event ends on Sunday 23rd Midnight EST. You can sent in as many graphics as you want.So with you have enough ideas for it, get moving and flood the inbox of our DGM with your submissions.

The Obelisk part is due to Monday 24th Midnight EST. If you don´t have already downloaded the levels go there and do it :

http://www.darkjedibrotherhood.org/dbjedi/dgm/index.htm

Because some people including me had problems to make them work I will explain here how to do it:

For JK2:

First extract the two files names Coronada.pk3 and Lyarna.pk3 to your base folder in the Gameplay folder which again is located in your JK2 folder.

Then start the game in SP mode, load any saved SP map, bring down the console with SHIFT + the button on the left above the TAB key for all who still don´t know how to do that and type in: map level1 . after hiting enter the first of the JK2 levels should start.

For JK1:

extract the gop file inot your episode folder of your JK. Then start a new SP game and select the episode GJW that appears then and start playing.

I admit these levels are long and hard, but you are Obelisk after all so I´m sure you can handle them.In order to aid you in this task Reb crush as made an Walkthrough for the JK2 levels and I have written down some hints for the JK maps.Both files are attached. If you follow them closely, proceed with caution use Quicksave(F12) and Quickload (F9) a lot to save your progress frequently you should be able to get through them.We did all to make it as easy as possible for you now the only thing you have to do is play them.

Don´t forget to read the readmes so you know what files you have to submit to the DGM and the OHC.

Roster:

Quite some changes there during the last week: First the sad news GRD Obscurus left us to Rogue due to RL problems but he promised to come back this summer again or a little later. On the other hand we gained two new members: DJK Ryo Akaine and NOV Kethoron Thek have both joined our ranks. A hearty wlecome to both of you. It´s good to have you with us I hope you enjoy your stay with us.

The roster now looks like the following:

OBL Michael Halcyon

OBM Gelton Torr - QUA

OBM Ziguarath - Battleteam SGT Armoured Fist

DJK Darkov

DJK Glorfindel

DJK Ryo Arkaine - Trial Master

DJK Sukuth - Battleteam SGT Blades of Malice

DJK Talon Zetar - AED

JH Zekk - Battleteam SGT Battalion of Fear

GRD Eoth Kun

GRD Hev Randrowan

GRD Lorn Blahde

GRD RageMaki

GRD Reb Crush - Rolemaster

GRD X-Pilot

PRT Ereinion Qel Droma

ACO Marcus Gladius Octavianus

ACO Sen Hart

ACO Son Goku

ACO Tygarin Cypher

NOV Darchtra

NOV Death MD

NOV Gistenjunge

NOV Kethoron Thek

NOV Obi-Wan Eden

NOV Yukito

Promotions:

After some deliberations Zetar and me decided to ease the workload on Sukuths shoulders and relief him of the duties of Trial Master. To do Sukuth justice we didn´t think Sukuth did a bad job but the fact that Sukuth had two positions at once was never intended to be more than a temporary solution. Now after we find someone who was eager to take over responsibility in Cestus we decided with Sukuths agreement to give the position of Trial Master to DJK Ryo Akaine, woh already accepted. We agreed that the current trials of Zekk and Zetar will be fnished by Sukuth but all new Trials will be supervised by Ryo.

Elevations:

After showing constant activity in the past weeks and months Zetar and I decided to elevate PRT X-Pilot to the rank of Guardian. An elevation to Guardian also recieved Rage Maki, Lorn Blahde and Reb Crush, these three especially for their high participation level in the GJW Run-on. Reb Crush additionally for his good work as RM so far. So you see participation in the GJW really pays off.

Awards:

Actually I wanted to anounce here some DCs for members for participation in the GJW so far as well but the CHAN declined them. Zetar is working on it and perhaps he has more luck than me.

The count of competition medals is lower than usual but I think that is because of the GJW so I have no worries there:

DJK Ryo Akaine: CFx3

That concludes my report. This is the longest report I wrote for quite some time perhaps the old times of my book sized reports are back. :-P

In Deep Respect

Yours

Gelton Torr

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OBM Gelton Torr (0belisk)/QUA/Cestus of Tarentum [GMRG: CRU-G]

(SC)/DC/Cr-1E-5S-1A-5R-1D/CF-RF/DSS-QK {SA: CORE-CH-G:LS-O:CORE} {IWATS: CORE-SM/2/3-M/1/2-ICQ-XTT-XTM/1-CBX}

"Shadow is my Armor, Darkness is my Shield, Fear is my Sword"

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• Tridens -
  

No report this week. :(

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KE Ciara Tearnan (Krath)/P:KHP/CON/Tarentum,

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• Queenie Mystic -
  

.."Under the tongue root a fight most dread, and another raging, behind, in the head"..