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Monday, April 22nd Yesterday we had our weekly assembly
Thanks all for attending. You can see log here. Wednesday, April 17th Not much news today, so 2 pics: the Dojo's Angels, and the levitating sensei (aaah the power of the mind;) Monday, April 15th House Chanoyu (Chronita) organized our party of 200 members / and first Master 10th dan (Lethalfire). Several contests were held:
I'll put the prices and pictures later (a bit late for a full report now;). Great thx to Lethal who provided a lot of credits for the prizes :). See here the pics: a pic of the group, the ladies' contest, the guy's contest, Aeliela. We had our weekly Assembly, short one, but no need for long discussion when agenda is light!:
Thanx all for attending. See log here. Sunday, April 14th Announcement on Armor Bank from VonTure: Kamius, lovegod, Aeliela and I will be starting an armor bank. We will accept donations of any kind of armor and sort it into lines that are useful to us. Armor classes that are not usefully to use will be sold and the money will be donated to the guild bank or used to buy some cheap armor that we are short on. We hope to set up a forum where we can post what we have and people can request what they need. It is to be decided when we will hand out the armor because if we handed it out as soon as someone asked it would get too crowded and cluttered. Each member of the group would carry several lines so that you know who to go to to get the stuff that you want when we are distributing. The lowest quality level that we will carry will be 30 because armor does not become very important to around level 20 when with help someone is able to wear quality level 30. It would work best on a give/take basis so that the bank does not run dry. We are not going to count who takes the most and who gives nothing but we will watch for people who really seem to be outstanding with it. I think that wraps it up if there is time at the assembly I will be able to answer any questions about this. -VonTure Sunday, April 7th We had our weekly Assembly:
Thanx all for attending. we had nice homogeneous clor groups this time :) See the log. Tuesday, April 2nd Made some changes to the website:
Comments / reactions here Wednesday, March 27th Some screenies of intrests sent to me recently, so that you too can enjoy all what's happening in AO! Last week, Grimmmy and some other ppl came across a big mean mutant. On Monday, Chronita winessed a GM-event. You can read her interesting and detailed report on the forums here, and check the picture of the Unhappy Worker, and of the doc. Atmar came across a mob head in a toilet :) Also, do notice that the newly established Functionnal houses will start recruiting a limited number of motivated, dedicated and confirmed members. Contact the Houses Heads ingame for more info. And finally, we will not have an Assembly next week-end due to easter holidays. Monday, March 25th Yesterday, Sunday, was quite a day - at least for the evening. One hour or so before our Assembly, several Omni factions decided on a raid Athen. The goal was to take and hold 6 strategic points in Athen. As we gathered to help our friends, we were assigned the assault on the South prison, which we helped take. Later, some of our highest lvls helped take out the cannons (err the sensei died in one shot ;). See pics of the ppl gathering in Newland, while others were attacking Athen. And the attack on the south prison. We then held our weekly Assembly, that was a bit troubled by clanners lost in Rome ;). Little major issues discussed.
After the meeting, it was time for the Org Raid: An attack first aimed at Morgan la Fey, but then, with the support of Inner Circle, at the Tarasque directly. See here the first strike team. We did take down Morgan la fey (see a nice portrait here - sexy!). Unfortunately the first attempt to take the Tarrasque was a failure, and we only managed to get it to half health. A second attack was then launched an hour or so later, with more support (see pic from Chronita). This time we managed to kill the beast. And even better we managed to kill clanners that treachfully tried to attack us in the back while we were dealing with the beast. Saturday, March 23rd After some delay, here is the description of the new Functional Houses that we will get started. Those Houses will be headed by one council member (there might be other Council members in it too. If the leader of the House looses his Council member position, he will also loose his leadership of the House, but not his membership). They will recruit a limited number of motivated and confirmed members of the Dojo (details to be set by each House Leader). Those Houses are granted a role (see the description below). They are the only ones allowed officially to pursue this role. Eg: Nobody outside House Gassho is allowed to recruit (even if you can technically). If you want to recruit, apply to House Gassho first. Those Houses are not level-based, unlike the standard, member-initiated Houses. Each House, like any other House, will receive a dedicated forum. However, some will be private: those of house Gassho, Fudoshin (and later Kempo) for obvious confidentiality reasons. House Chanoyu’s forum will also be private, as it will be used to organize events (and you don’t want to spoil the fun), while the official and public ‘events’ forum will remain. The unused ‘recruiters’ forum will be deleted. You can be part of several Houses, although we don’t encourage this. You cannot be the leader and/or the prefect of several Houses however. House Chanoyu (headed by Chronita. Other member: Striken7): This House will be in charge of organizing events. This includes:
House Kakushi (headed by Punkmuffin. Other member: Chronita): This House will be our Intelligence service: they will KNOW everything: where are the special NPCs, how to do Alvin’s quest, what’s next on Test, what’s the best Bow to use, but also what is happening within the clans ;). House Fudoshin (headed for now by Sensei. Other members: Flupper, Punkmuffin, Katjaka). Both our internal "police" and general administration. Basically, in charge of enforcing the rules or decision of the Dojo. Note that this does *not* include justice (done by the Council). This does however include: promoting (demoting?) ppl, /tell ppl that are spamming the chat; help manage members dispute, be a channel to file complaints (although for now you still can /tell directly any Council member too, but we advise you to /tell a Fudoshin member, that may be able to help you quicker) etc... The members of Fudoshin will be carefully chosen and trained to make sure they are not abusing in any way this role, and on the contrary know how to well handle any difficult situation. If you ever have any issue with a Fudoshin member, /tell the sensei directly. House Gassho (headed by Flupper. Other member: Timia): The House in charge of recruiting. It will definitely recruit more ppl. Only it members are allowed to recruit. You can apply if you want to recruit too. Its members will be trained on how to recruit etc… House Kempo (not headed as of now). This House will be our (PvP) defense, were we will gather our experts in PvP (ok ok not sure PvP and MA work well together. But lets see after 14.0 ;)). For the time being no Council member is a PvP expert, and we don’t seem to have many PvPers in the Dojo. Although we will never be a PvP oriented org, it would be nice though to have a strike force of PvP trained professionals. If you are into PvP /tell the sensei to see how we could get this started. Questions? comments? post here! Friday, March 22nd About Dramas. Note: the following post is not aimed at anyone specifically, and not even at a specific event. It is really the combined experience over several, completely unrelated, events. From time to time, ppl don't get along at some point. They start to argue bewteen them, some are right, some are wrong, but that is not the point. The point is, those arguments can become very emotional. And as they are relayed on the org chat, the emotion can spread to many other ppl, even some that may just have been trying to help. So here are some general rules/guidelines to follow when this happens:
So let me finish by saying that we love every single member :). But if you happen to get into an argument with other ppl, 1) dont think this is the end of the world - be zen - 2) take such issues private or through the appropriate structures (to be put in place shortly). Reactions? comments? post here! Thursday, March 21th For those that never saw a marriage, Kromos (head of Blackops Inter-Pol) will get married with Vaeris on the 4/6 6pm GMT. And yes I know I haven't yet posted the details of the new Functional Houses, but I do have a lot of work RL ;) I will do that tomorrow or at least this week-end! Wednesday, March 20th Annias and Timia entered a Poetry Tournament on the "Live Chat" forum. Check it out here ! Tuesday, March 19th Org Raid: For the higher levels (~70+) we will try to go camp Morgan le Fey to get one (more?) torturing tool. Check here to comment / sign-in! First Order collapsed. For those who don't know First Order, it was AO largest org, with nearly 600 members! (on RK1). It was also run by a few very dedicated ppl (windowlicker, darkghosty, detonate...) that had tried to structure it a lot. Yet it had apparently became unmanageable to the point the oldest members left (or rather they renamed FO "2nd order", then re-created FO separately, and 2ndO was renamed Prime order). What it tells us is that being a large org, as we are starting to be, is a challenge. We must all, more than ever, be dedicated to make the Dojo a great place to be. This starts by recruiting not everyone, but members we think will be a good addition to the org. It continues by everyone contributing by its good spirit to the pleasure of each one of us to be part of the Dojo. The Dojo has been a great place to be until now, and it shall remain so in the future! Monday, March 18th Summary of Sunday's Assembly:
Read log here, and see pic (from Siniyar) here, with everyone having nice fists of fire :). Saturday, March 16th Llendwyn, Sharpblow, Takisan and Limten have formed House Kachi, whos moto is "To strive for victory in all things". Current lvl is 45-51. Friday, March 15th Today's pics feature the largest known OT bot: the juggernaut. One pic here from Vonture, and another from me here . New Members: Apprentice: Akirafex, Atmar, Boldgrim, Cheapfighter, Darkzane, Kamius, Liandri, Limten, Mortelmains, Sharpblow, Shunrah, Soulbanger, Spiteface, Takisan, Vonture Initiate: Littelmouse, Razor2425, Skayel Promoted to Monk: Emosion, Kattikai, Kittacia, Sakuro, Shojern, Traineeer Promoted to Apprentice: Yewn Congratulations / welcome to all, and for new members, remember to post a small introduction to your character on the appropriate thread in the forums!. Also remember to find the Oriental Suit corresponding to your level! (read The Dojo section). Thursday, March 14th Just saw today that some ppl started an homonymous org on RK1. Hum some people lack imagination ;). Just to clarify, this is not in any way related to us. Tuesday, March 12th Due to an ISP shutdown - of more than a day!! - i couldnt log on monday and tuesday night, nor update the website. I hope I can do better soon, and update the content. Check the forums for news, including for some news about 14.2!! (IP Reset, Over Equipping nerf etc...) Tuesday, March 5th The last week saw many new members join (22! - see below). Please all make an effort more than ever to welcome these new members! In other news, the first peaks at the 14.0 have been leaked by FC. Read forum here. Sunday's Assembly:
The log is not working anymore for me. So no more log unless someone is more lucky than I am! We then raided SoM. Ok: let's say that a large number ogf MAs of lvl 30-100+ had little pb there ;) By the time I managed to find an Agent to buff me into my armor, I barely made it for the final combat with Neleb. Which btw still took quite some time considering the number / levels of ppl!! Fun but maybe a bit higher bungeon next time? See screenies here and here (thx to Ookamoo/Shimarea) If you want to organize raids use the "events" forum, and/or ask me so that I can publicize it on the website. New Members: Monk: Belgo, Kgirl, Sinyar Apprentice: Ashander, Collart, Destu2, Emosion, Fogpoggle, Gleeter, Kattikai, Kattikai, Kittacia, Kogaratsu, Lifong, Rxseven, Shlayer, Sihinghommer, Traineeer, Yatming, Zyrc Initiate: Belbeca, Galsau, Rhegedydd Promoted to Master 5th Dan:Chronita, Fantomen, Varkin Promoted to Monk: Ewall, Femseleen, Haljukeen, Lofang, Spdslice, Zakuza Promoted to Apprentice: Wudan99 Congratulations / welcome to all, and for new members, remember to post a small introduction to your character on the appropriate thread in the forums!. Also remember to find the Oriental Suit corresponding to your level! (read The Dojo section). Saturday, March 2nd This week patches 13.8 then 13.9 were released. The good news is in the end most MAs will be better off. The bad news is this game is managed by fools! After weeks of working on MA bugs, FC releases 13.8 which reduces min dammage - the main bug of MAs. Few of the other bugs are fixed. As everyone is pissed off, FC releases a new patch 2 days later, dramatically increasing dammage - this time including min dammage. Like if some high profile guy in FC had suddenly kicked the devs. And by the way, the in-depth MA fixing patch is still not here. But at least, while we wait for it to come some day, we have more fun now... Sandzibar, Flupper, Bizatch, and Fantomen have created House Zanshin. Tuesday, February 26th Check out the very extensive guide for Bow Mas that Lethalfire sent me! Visit The Library where I posted it. Tomorrow, as you should know ;) comes a "love MA" patch. Some nice things in it (mainly fixing the bug with MA weapons, the part about change in MA dmg being as much a curse as a gift). Let's hope its not the only one, because we need more than that!! New Members: Arkeen (Apprentice), Ewall (Apprentice), Femseleen (Apprentice), Hopposid (Apprentice), Shlayer (Apprentice), Spdslice (Apprentice), Turbodrive (Apprentice), Zakuza (Apprentice), Lotustiger (Initiate), Osmodius (Initiate), Stykk (Initiate), Yewn (Initiate) Promoted to Master 5th Dan: Flupper Promoted to Monk: Thauraz Promoted to Apprentice: Frip Congratulations / welcome to all, and for new members, remember to post a small introduction to your character on the appropriate thread in the forums!. Also remember to find the Oriental Suit corresponding to your level! (read The Dojo section). Sunday, February 24th We had our weekly assembly. Points discussed:
If I missed any point, tell me, connection pb prevented me to join the first part. And if you have the log, let me know too, mine doesnt work, and I dont know why - it worked before...? Tuesday, February 19th Im a bit sunk in work so im not on as much on as I would like, and i'm lagging a bit as for updating the website. Here is threfore a long update, aggregating the past few days, including the week-end: The Assembly. I couldn't attend, it was managed by Chronita. I don't have the log, so if someone has it, send it to me (Chro's log did not work). No specific dicision was taken. The "Houses" suggestion (see forums) will be voted upon next week. I will post a longer summary if/when i get a log ;). Last night, a few members tried a new kind of guild hunting: doing a high-level hunt / mission (eg. lv 150 mission) with a team of high-level (100 ish) and a second group of lower levels. It needs quite some discipline, but can be very lucrative it seems. Lethal has posted on the forums to describe how they did that, and what rules need to be respected. Read them here. And you can check pics of the Dojo Dream Team here from Grimmy and here from Whiteeagle. We will miss Kashuya, one of our founding members (then called Elariah), who has decided to cancel his account. The account will survive for some more time, and we shall maybe see again Kash a few times, but its seems not many more times. Farewell Kash! Although we are still 138, there has been a lot of changes in members. A lot of characters have been automatically deleted by FC (or by their owners) because there were not active. But quite a few have joined, and we also have 3 new Master 5th dan (and a few others almost there too!): New Members: Haljukeen (Apprentice), Lofang (Apprentice), Sakuza (Apprentice), Soulkane (Apprentice), Whiteeagle (Apprentice), Biyo (Initiate), Frip (Initiate), Kongfo (Initiate), Omnimastah (Initiate), Wudan99 (Initiate) Promoted to Master 5th Dan: Katjaka, Lethalfire, Sandzibar Promoted to Monk: Branash, Jokkmokk, Timia Promoted to Apprentice: Xangol, Zanzoken (26 levels in a week!), Congratulations / welcome to all, and for new members, remember to post a small introduction to your character on the appropriate thread in the forums!. Also remember to find the Oriental Suit corresponding to your level! (read The Dojo section). Friday, February 15th Patch notes for 13.8 are posted, and 13.8 is on Test. Looks like we won't have to wait as long as for 13.6. And as hoped, some MA changes are in (especially increased dmg output)! good! Though still not all we need (MA weapons are still bugged etc.). One good news: BwT will not be nerfed (they will change dmg descrption instead of actual dmg output). Check the official site or the Dojo Forums for details and discussions! And congratulations to our two news Masters 5th Dan: Sandzibar and Katjaka! Monday, February 11th People are more and more settling their appartment in H3. Great to invite friends! (see pic of me inviting 3 friends in mine) New Members: Lethalfire is back (Monk), Lysrell - the alt of Whiteorchid (Monk), Snowdrifter (Monk), Enokrad (Apprentice), Jokkmokk (Apprentice), Missana (Apprentice), Shimarea (Apprentice), Minghao (Initiate), Playmates (Initiate), Xangol (Initiate), Zanzoken (Initiate) Promoted to Monk: Bruecelei, Freehawk, Laomei (fast!), Sabbael, and, last but not least, Hollowed. Hollowed was our only Council member <50, we'll elect another one next time (early march) - Hollowed will of course remain at least until the end of her mandate in early April ;) Congratulations / welcome to all, and for new members, remember to post a small introduction to your character on the appropriate thread in the forums!. Also remember to find the Oriental Suit corresponding to your level! (read The Dojo section). Sunday, February 10th (Assembly summary below) I took a trip to Camelot Castle (see an aerial overview of the castle here), which is quite nice. It is possible to reach it by whompa Newland -> Athen -> Avalon. But once there, run to the castle to avoid clan guards! Check out the map of the first level (click on room names to see picture!)
This level is 100% and nobody attacks you (even though the knights are clan). There are more levels, below. You access them through a door in the south wall of what I called the Ball Room. But there it's 25% and you don't survive long if you dont have the appropriate level (I got killed within seconds when i was spotted by a minion), not to mention the clan guys around;). FYI: it is estimated that this static dungeon needs several teams of 100+. Today's assembly: We had no specific agenda, and so it was an open discussion. We discussed the following:
Ok the log didnt work with me, I don't know why, sorry. I someone has it, send it in! Good assembly again, thank you all for attending (especially to those - the majority - that wear their Oriental Suit, even if they have to find an agent again afterwards;)) Saturday, February 9th I've updated the content of The Library. Nothing really new for you old timers, but some things might be helpful for the others. And do not hesitate to contribue: content, links etc... I'm looking for the webpage of the guy who did an excel sheet to calculate all the weapon damage / recharge time etc... send it in if you have it!. The MA patch could be the next one (13.8). This is hinted through several news items, such as Gaute saying the next profession to be improved is MA then Agent, or Tekkor (www.agentsector.com) getting official answer from Funcom that Agent patch is 14.0 (13.9 should be the patch that corrects the bugs in 13.8). There's also the post by Cosmik saying that MA fixes weer in an "upcoming patch". So its becoming clearer now :) What we still don't know is what is in for the MA and when is 13.8 due :)! Friday, February 8th Omni-Tek Secret Service is organizing a PvP tounrmant on Saturday evening, open to all. THe only thing needed to participate is a mslal contribution from ppl not in OTSS, whether money or gear. "OTSS is
extending an invitation to all Guild for a "Fight Night"
at The Arena in Omni-Ent Saturday, February 9th, 2002,
@8PM GMT. We will go by classes, and then level. Certain
classes will be paired up against other classes, for reasons of some classes are
better at PvP then others. Yet another Dust to Dust attack yesterday, with this time commandos droping from landing ships. Here is a nice close pic of the latest and strongest one from Branash, where we can see a few MA in action, including Katjaka and Bisan! Also to be noted, an interesting letter from Gaute (here), a must read where he clearly states, among other interesting things, that the next profession to be improved is MA. Nice along with this thread from Cosmik. Thursday, February 7th Yesterday night, Omni Ent and Omni Trade were attacked by a commando of Dust to Dust. The attack was rather easily repelled by the numerous Omni tek employees that immediately gathered to support the overwhelmed guards. Let's face it, I saw very little of it, as my usual 50 fps were more like 50 spf during this (FC some day it would be nice to fix lag!!). I just managed to take 1 good pic, here it is. Enokrad took a few more pics. An aerial view of the combats, and a closer look at the commando. Of course, yesterday was also the patch day. Many things came with it, and as usual, as many undocumented as there are documented features. You'll have plenty more details in the various boards. Among the undocumented features, the org Tax system has been enabled. We may want to think about ways to take advantage of it. Sunday, February 3rd Ok a great day it was in the Dojo. A great Assembly, followed by a great "100" Party! The Assembly was held in Rome red. It was probably one of the best assembly we had, so thank you all for that. The decisions taken:
Ok for some reason the log has not worked. So if someone has it send it to me :).
Then we ahd a great party to celebrate our organization having more than 100 members, but also Bizatch and Sara1 breaking the 100th level barier! Chronita organized it, thanks to you! See pic here. Several competitons were held:
A great time it was! Thx again to Chro and all who attended!
And finally, on a more personnal note, great many thanks to Chronita, Bizatch, Flupper, Grimmmy, Whippingstar, who made me a faboulous surprise by buying me a Yalmy to thank me for my contribution to the Dojo. Hey I was so moved by that, that i forgot to take a pic! so thanx again to you for this very very nice present. You couldnt make me happier :)) Not only for the yal - also the idea, i cant tell you how i felt when i entered the shop and saw you all there and understood what it was!. That was one of my best moment ever in AO. And while I'm at it, thank to you all too for making the Dojo the nice place it is! - wahoo the 3rd of February shall be remembered in The Dojo as the "Thank You Day". hehe... Friday, February 1st It has been a quiet week, as everyone awaits the 13.6 patch. Many wonders should come with it, including a few sweets for MAs. Among other, we should have new backpacks (see picture from Chronita). On an internal note, we have started on the forum 2 discussions about rules evolution. Some of you have voiced their opinion, but we want more feedback! Even if it's just because you agree, stilll say so. It's important. We will discuss tham this on Sunday, and if we come to a consensus, vote on them. Otherwise, we'll vote on them next week. Also, we will vote on 4 new members of the Council, as the mandates of Ivul, Whiteorchid, Lisala and Roubinette come to an end. I suggest we elect at least of 1 member below 50th rank, to ensure proper representation of lower level members. New Members: Kyranerys (Monk), Azurehawk (Apprentice), Epinelle (Apprentice), Laomei (Aprentice), Mukatil (Apprentice), Sabbael (Apprentice) Promoted to Monk: Timeshifter, Varkin Congratulations / welcome to all, and do find me in the game to get promoted to your proper org rank. And remember to find the Oriental Suit corresponding to your level! (read The Dojo section). Chronita's pic: Wandering deep into nOObs' area Flupper's pic: Sailing with my friends Punkmuffin's pic: Fighting the Manteze Sunday, Januray 27th To restore the peace in the Dojo, I had to exclude two more members today. Those decisions were taken this time by me, and I fully assume them, although we had initial discussions about them in the Council. I must state to all that this is not making me happy. But it was necessary. I hope we won't have to do that anymore. All should also know that this kind of problems is nothing uncommon, and most large orgs have this kind of problems. I had a nice chat with Spdkicker, the highest level MA on RK2, and member of Inner Circle. He told me opf a similar story that happened at IC. Let us all move on and revert to the peaceful atmosphere we always had! We had our weekly assembly where this topic was of course extensively discussed. Exceptionnaly I wont post the log for abvious reasons.
Thank you all for attending, I remind you all that you are supposed to wear the oriental suit that fits your rank (see The Dojo), which is the case of most of you, and that's great and gives it a very nice touch! Promoted to Master 5th dan: Sara1 who now joins Bizatch. And they are waiting for Sandz! Grats Sara! Sandzibar pic of the day: Nokken Kashuya pic of the day: Wolf in the grid Saturday, January 26th Today, the Council decided for the first time to exclude one member from the Dojo. Another one received a formal warning, as a couple of others have received similar warnings in the past, but then improved their behavior. I take this occasion to remind you all of what is and what is not the Dojo. This is a choice. If you do not feel at ease about it, you would better leave rather than be banned. The Dojo is the Omni School of Martial Arts. As such:
OOC: We do not Spam the chat channel. We do not harrass anyone, whether or not a member. We may be "maturely immature", but not "immaturely immature" (to quote Windowlicker of First Order). We are nice. We (try) be & have fun. We do not take ourselves (too) seriously. The Council and myself will have no mercy for those that endanger the spirit of the Dojo, whether internally or externally. I had to make formal apologies to Omni Tek Secret Services after a recent event. I hope to do this as seldom as possible. The Dojo must remain the nice place it is for its members, and be appreciated by the rest of RK2. As long as I am its sensei, I will enforce every necessary measure for it to remain such, and the Council will ban - always after a first warning - all member that we do not fit. Hopefully, this will always remain a rarity. If you have any comment on all that, use the forums! Nikh. New Members: Krisko (Monk), Hollowed (Apprentice), Jeeyung (Apprentice), Aoshizan (Initiate), Mankena (Initiate), Zeova (Initiate) Promoted to Monk: Ojsan, Toshiro417 Promoted to Apprentice: Sakuro, Thauraz Congratulations / welcome to all, and do find me in the game to get promoted to your proper org rank. And remember to find the Oriental Suit corresponding to your level! (read The Dojo section) Sandzibar pic of the day: Desert Eremite Kashuya pic of the day: Tiny Wednesday, January 23rd Congratulations to Bizatch, our first Master 5th Dan (lvl 100 for those who don't follow)! Sandzibar and Sara1 should not be long too. Im a bit behind in updating the website, due to very high workload RL so forgive me. The forums are rather active though, which is good! Sunday, January 20th We held our weekly assembly. It was supposedly without agenda, but ended up as long as usual (1h) with topics being proposed by people, and several decisions taken. Here is the summary:
Reminder: I'm all in favor of fun and livelyhood. But we need order for 1 hour during assemblies. So i remind all those that might forget that I am in charge of the Assembly, including when it starts, end, when we vote etc.. and that everyone is requested to stay on topic during a set discussion. People not doing so will be banned from the Dojo. But overall, great assembly, and tanks to all for attending! Here is the log. Sandzibar pic of the day: Knight Kashuya pic of the day: Ownz Saturday, January 19th New Members: Monk: Corella, Nekuraenzeru, Oozaru, Wudan2001 Apprentice: Aurelea, Klaara, OokamoO, Tyamat Initiate: Kyrien, Mrfist, Thauraz Promoted to Monk: Reredumnalc, Striken7 Promoted to Apprentice: Cerule, Xenofist Congratulations / welcome to all, and do find me in the game to get promoted to your proper org rank. And remember to find the Oriental Suit corresponding to your level! (read The Dojo section) Sandzibar pic of the day: Lava crystal tree Friday, January 18th We have started a hints & tips thread in the forums. Have a look, its worth it! We are now #4 largest RK2 org. Keep on recruiting great people! Sandzibar pic of the day: Sandworm Wednesday, January 16th Sandzibar sent us a huge collection of travel pics. For many of you who dont have a Yalmaha, this should motivate you even more, as you see all the wonders of Rubi-Ka. There are quite a lot of them, so i'll post them as a series, with one pic per update. Today, The Hammer Broodlings. And for those of you who like statistics, check out this great site (weekly updates). Monday, January 14th Some needed precisions on upcoming MA fixes / nerfs were given by Cosmik - though still nothing on Bwt. Check the forums, I copied his remarks + link. Yesterday our weekly assembly was held with, as often, about 25 members. You can see the pic here and the log there.
Thanx to all for participating! So this week-end the first notes on 13.6 were released. Lots of us hade great expectations for MAs, after some posts by FC, but halas, nothing (ok in theory a couple of things, but as some ppl like Nutbar have rightfully pointed out, actually even less than meets the eyes) New Member: Grimmmy (Monk), Reredumnalc (Apprentice), Silarus (Apprentice), Chronofist (Initiate), Sakuro (Initiate), Xenofist (Initiate) Note: Levels in members section (hence promotions mentioned here usually) could not be updated due to AO server malfunctioning. Welcome, and do find me in the game to get promoted to your proper org rank. And remember to find the Oriental Suit corresponding to your level! (read The Dojo section). Saturday, January 12th Well it's been rather quite those days. As i was updating the member list for the first time in 3 days, I realize few had leveled at all. Is everyone anxiously waiting fo the MA "fixes" promised by FC? I guess we all are! Let's keep hope... And see you tomorrow for the weekly Assembly! New Member: Ojsan (Apprentice) Welcome, and do find me in the game to get promoted to your proper org rank. And remember to find the Oriental Suit corresponding to your level! (read The Dojo section). Wednesday, January 9th New Members: Haayt (Monk), Mowbai (Apprentice), Timeshifter (Apprentice), Nirrian (Initiate), Phirestorm (Initiate) Promoted to Monk: Pogan, Punkmuffin, Ysaara Congratulations / welcome to all, and do find me in the game to get promoted to your proper org rank. And remember to find the Oriental Suit corresponding to your level! (read The Dojo section) Monday, January 7th Now the pics of Yesterday's Raid where Sandzibar led a fierce team composed of: Bizatch, Chronita, Epsymart, Fantomen, Flupper, Katjaka, Lethalfire, Lovegod, Polekat, Shuya, Whippingstar and me (Nikh). See the pics: The mine, Fierce team posing, an inside pic, the team at the entrance of the Lab director's office, and then after the fight, the mighty fight against TIM. (thx to Chro for her pics) For the record we managed pretty well on our way in, but died due to lag on our way out! Some great time. We may do another raid soon! Sunday, January 6th Short update. full one tomorrow. To say that today we:
Saturday, January 5th Ok I've been a bit busy those last few days, and did not fully keep up with updates, so today's is eavier than usual. First some nice member submissions: Maraskye sent some more & strange pics of the xmas party (see this one and this one). Check out the weird room - yes in Reet Retreat night club! Chronita helped a high-level engineer kill the worst of all reets, the Iron Reet (see pic) - kids don't try this by yourself or you may get hurt! That was when she was on her way to a mission where she found a second Yal, but could not manage to give it to anyone, as it disappeared before she could get someone in there with her! And Epsymart sent some hunting pics of him, hunting with Katjaka, Bullitman, Kashuya and other fellow omnis. Also of him getting drunk after getting to 54 the day afte losing 90 xp! (see pics here, hree, here and here) New Members: Branash (Apprentice), Mrgray (Apprentice), Toshiro417 (Apprentice), Varkin (Apprentice), Rhabbit (Initiate), and we also welcome back former member Tahsoky (Monk)! Promoted to Monk: Coldnight, Katjaka, Phark Promoted to Apprentice: Quintano Congratulations / welcome to all, and do find me in the game to get promoted to your proper org rank. And remember to find the Oriental Suit corresponding to your level! (read The Dojo section) Wednesday, January 2nd I wanted to give this site a plug, since its a very good MA site. Ok you all know it, its just that they mentionned us on today's news update :) New Members: Sehpira (Apprentice), Phark (Apprentice), Quintano (Initiate), Squibbs (Initiate) Promoted to Monk: Epsymart, Kashuya, Maraskye, Semy Congratulations / welcome to all, and do find me in the game to get promoted to your proper org rank. And remember to find the Oriental Suit corresponding to your level! (read The Dojo section) Tuesday, January 1st, 2002 Happy New Year to ALL!
Monday, December 31st December 30th Assembly: Yesterday's Assembly (where i wasnt present, and which was moderated by Ivul), discussed two subjects:
I will post the log, as soon as i receive it!
New Members: Bizatch (Monk), Brocken (Apprentice), Ninjitsify (Initiate) Promoted to Apprentice: Kirenas, Wingto Congratulations / welcome to all, and do find me in the game to get promoted to your proper org rank. And remember to find the Oriental Suit corresponding to your level! (read The Dojo section) Well after some days where the title of highest level of the guild was disputed between Ivul, White but also Sandzibar, new member Bizatch simplifies the question as she is 85! Sunday, December 30th With the news that Yalmahas were spawning in missions these days, Flupper, Chronita, Whippingstar and myself decided to do a couple of them together (see nice pic, after Whip left; and before the orange Hammer decided to try his luck on us - lucky it wasn't of course). Halas, our Greed led us to try very hard missions, and we ended up aggroed by mobs and dying each time. Missions are tougher in group than plain hunting! Later, Flupper, Sandzibar and myself went on helping newbies in the Backyard. After talking to everyone, healing everyone, answering to questions of everyone, we tryed to talk to the guard. He appeared so dumb that Sandzibar ended up trying his luck on him. Lucky he was, as he started with a brawl crit, and Sandz would surely have taken him down, if he hadn't been aggroed by his fellow the Guide (see pic, the second after the start of the fight, and the second before its end).
New Member: Kirenas (Initiate) Welcome, and do find me in the game to get promoted to your proper org rank. And remember to find the Oriental Suit corresponding to your level! (read The Dojo section) Saturday, December 29th New Member: Darkmall (Apprentice) Promoted to Monk: Brillow, Liost, Maffig, Polekat, Shaharr, Tetzel Promoted to Apprentice: Swiftmoon, Xingxun Congratulations / welcome to all, and do find me in the game to get promoted to your proper org rank. And remember to find the Oriental Suit corresponding to your level! (read The Dojo section) And on the latest update, both Ivul and White are highest at 81. (and Sandz is a close challenger at 80!) Thursday, December 27th New Members: Zaldox (Monk), Semy (Apprentice), Swiftkitten (Apprentice), Zetrex (Apprentice), Seitara (Initiate), Stickley (Initiate) Promoted to Monk: Annias, Asamune, Shuya Promoted to Apprentice: Kazari, Nupiz Congratulations / welcome to all, and do find me in the game to get promoted to your proper org rank. And remember to find the Oriental Suit corresponding to your level! (read The Dojo section)
Congratulations to Whiteorchid who made it to 81, making her the highest evel in front of Ivul?! Monday 24th, Tuesday 25th of December I wont be much online. But to all: Merry Christmas!! Some xmas events to report: DaddyDisco became DaddySanta as he gave away all his gear (long story, but lets say he's quitting AO). A huge line formed to get a piece! (see pic with Kashuya and Maraskye). Then Tuesday night GM SantaLeet (300 fixer, but looked more like a Leet with a Santa hat) throw a party in Reet Retreat (see pic with Chronita, Maraskye and myself - but Sandzibar, Kashuya, Shojern were also there, and others may have joined after I left! - Santaleet is small and shiny with green name in the center of the pic, better pic from Chro here). New Members: Jordison (Apprentice), Katjaka (Apprentice), Klanky (Apprentice), Tetzel (Apprentice), Bloodydog (Initiate), Cerrule (Initiate), Kazari (Initiate) Promoted to Monk: Bisan, Laubang, Lethalfire, Wackattack Do find me in the game to get promoted to your proper org rank. And remember to find the Oriental Suit corresponding to your level! (read The Dojo section) Sunday, December 23rd Dec 23rd Assembly: Again a very nice Assembly. 26 members attended (see pic). This time we worked on a more open basis to allow for more lively comments. Basically I would open discussions, and everyone would contribute freely, until discussion is closed, and we vote. I think it worked pretty well, thanks for all for staying (more or less) on topic. Todays' discussions were about the Council:
Not disucssed: MA tournament. First try was cancelled due to lack of participants. We will try again, but people need to show that they are interested (or not) it wont happen all by itself! Thanx to Gladiel and Reihu for having tried. We will try again! Thank you all for participating in the meeting! You can read the full log here We then moved on to Pray for the Victims of the Terrorist Attacks in Omni Ant. We were joined by a couple of Omnis there at the moment (see pic)
New Members: Brillow (Apprentice), Ysaraa (Apprentice), Swiftmoon (Initiate), Wingto (Initiate) and Xingxun (Initiate) Promoted to Monk: Whippingstar, Whootish Promoted to Apprentice: Ozur, Punkmuffin Do find me in the game to get promoted to your proper org rank. And remember to find the Oriental Suit corresponding to your level! (read The Dojo section) And: Congratulations to Ivul for his 80th Level ! Saturday, December 22nd Another Clan attack on 2hO. Chronita and myself joined the forces that repelled the clanners. We first retook the whompa - by actually managing to kill a few clanners. They held the grid for much longer. See here th aftermath one of our first and last effective try at attacking it (the clan member just killed was Lyzandra of PaKk). An attack from Clan members is a bitter surprise considering the current amnesty. After this and the recent Bombing of Omni Ent, we should ask ourselves if the amnesty is bringing anything? However, as always stated we are following Mr Ross's line, and until he changes his view, or we make it change it, we will not go against Omni Tek decisions. However, it is to be noted that we can wonder if those acts of violence only represent a minority or the majority of the Clans. Tonight, we saw representative of KBI, PaKk, Knights of Rubi-Ka among others. OOC note: Large scale attack like this are rather fun to be part of until lvl 75 at least. That includes almost all levels below. At those levels, you can only be attacked by ppl of limited lvl difference, and can therefore wander around high level untouched. You just need to go in group, otherwise the chances are the attackers, probably well organized, will have a group for you :). Above lvl 75 i understand everybody can attack you, and with all those 140+ it is a bit difficult to survive long!
Tonight is the MA Tournament (Read full details here) has been cancelled. New Members: Asamune (Apprentice), Pogan (Apprentice), Dancinglotus (Initiate), Eleonore (Initiate), Ozur (Initiate) Do find me in the game to get promoted to your proper org rank. And remember to find the Oriental Suit corresponding to your level! (read The Dojo section) Friday, December 21st Reihu has left Praetorian project to join us. He will still be organizing the MA tournament, together with Gladiel. I will now be announcing promotions and new hires, as they became known to me (eg site update): New Members: Reihu (Monk), Sara1 (Monk), Jahongchen (Initiate) Promoted to Monk: Chronita, Diavilo, Fantomen Promoted to Apprentice: Cryingsnake, Lichoon, Maraskye Do find me in the game to get promoted to your proper org rank. And remember to find the Oriental Suit corresponding to your level! (read The Dojo section) Wednesday, December 19th Read full details of the upcoming MA tournament here. Tuesday, December 18th Roubinette wrote another file, this time on implants. See in The Library section (still in construction). way to go Roub! Merci! Monday, December 17th Gladiel worked with Rehiu of Praetorian to organize a MA tournament. More news to come soon, but book your agenda: next Saturday, December 22nd 8pm GMT (9pm CET, 3pm EST) Roubinette wrote a file on MA nanos. See in The Library section (still in construction) Sunday, December 16th This time everyone was wearing his official suit (See nice pic here), after some trading though (many thanks in particular to Sandzibar for the stock of oriental suit he purchased and gave away). Looked great! We had a few less ppl due to timing. But congratulation to all attendees on quality of discussions. Very structured and efficient. Still lasted 1h30min though! We need to try to keep it below 1h.
Thank you all for participating in the meeting! You can read the full log here (some bits are missing due to my crashes grrr...). Saturday, December 15th Dojo raid on Steps of Madness. A fierce team with Roubinette, Flupper and I from the Dojo, and Ponka, Pinok and Yaella. We thought this would be easy, and went in wearing shades (see pic) - hey we were quite above the level intended by FC! Then it became clear it wouldn't be that easy, with 20k health monsters aggroing (see pic). We eventually made it to Neleb (see pic), but after more than 30min of fighting, it was clear we were not strong enough. With other monsters respawning, and I stuck in a wall (!!) it was the end, without having killed Neleb :( (see pic). Anyway, we didn't loose much Xp, most mobs were gray to us! An we also have pics from our explorer of outer dimensions (Kashuya). Today, from the parallel world of O Ent! (see pic). Friday, December 14th Praetorian project tournament won't happen this saturday. More news later.
Wednesday, December 12th No news from Phoenix on their event. But Rehiu of the Praetorian Project contacted the Dojo also as they intend to organize a MA tournament (ppl using MA, not only MA profession). It should be next Saturday. More news later. So it seems they will organize one before us! It could be nice to participate, and also see what rules they chose and how it works. Remember that if you test "MA-PvP", we arew waiting for your comments on this forum thread!
Tuesday, December 11th Also, we have been invited by a clan guild (Phoenix, click here to visit their website)to participate in an event that they want to organize, potentially next sunday. More news to come up shortly if this happens.
Sunday, December 9th 2nd assembly with 25 people attending. As usual, people played a bit around while waiting to start. Today, Monk Ivul showed us how to mind-control your environment and walk on water (see pic). Then the actual meeting started (see pic). With size increasing, we had to be more structured and focused on the discussions to keep it under 1 hour. As the org is fairly new, we still have many things to debate. Other meetings will allow for longer discussions of fewer subjects. But a lot of the discussions will also happen on the forums. So remember to check them. Overall a good meeting therefore, with the following being discused:
Thank you all for participating in the meeting! You can read the full log here. Afterwards, a few of us finished the evening at Baboons, having drinks and dancing! (see pic)
Saturday, December 8th Well although The Dojo does not promote leveling per se (nor the oposite, basically we promote having fun), we need to mention the record of the Dojo achieved by Gladiel, who became monk (lvl 50) 4.5 days after starting his MA, his very first character in AO (not a reroll starting with 10 million creds)! Then Chronita brought me to Baboons. Wasn't very full for a sturday night, but we came across madcap and dremell, and danced on the tables, see pic. We thought we would organize a Dojo party sometimes soon.
Thursday, December 6th Special thanks to Annias who provided the new and quite nice graphics for the website! Next Assembly will be held in Rome Red this time. Suggest alternative locations for the following one in the forums, here. And check out this pic of me protected by Ivul and Sandziabr! Do we look more like Yakuzas than a School? hehe ;). And for future applicants: no this is not the Admission Jury! Send me nice pics and i'll post them. If I do get some, I will create a 'pic of the week' section.
Wednesday, December 5th The forums are up! And see below the pics of the First Assembly: the one were the Dojo was created (thx to Flupper)
Monday, December 3rd For practical reasons, the org form of the Dojo has been changed to Department. This allows us to have 7 ranks (instead of 5) and therefore, have a normal ranking system where 5th Dan, Monks and Apprentice can invite others. The drawback are twofold: 1) The rank names suck for us. But anyway, no org form has good rank names, and as your rank is your titlevel, we dont care so much about the rank name: we use the titlelevel (initiate, apprentice etc.) 2) You have all been reset to 'applicant'. Do stop by when im logged in so that i can give you the proper rank. In practice: 5th dan will be rank 6 ('General'), Monks will be rank 5 ('Squad commander'), Apprentices will be rank 4 ('Unit commander'), and Initiates will be rank 3 ('Unit leader'), thus the only ones not able to invite.
Sunday, December 2nd We had our first weekly assembly. 16 people attended - and 2 joined the Dojo during the meeting! Some arrived before, and took a bath (see pic)! Almost everyone was there on time, but we started late because, well women are women are late ;). Eventually we formed a very nice circle. The debates went on for a full hour. We debated the future sensei, the issues with ranks, and the admittance of non-MA players. Stormas was admitted.as the School Doctor. About ranks: it was reminded that as only 4th rank members can invite others, and even those are limited in number (?), those members wishing to recruit should tell nikh to be technically promoted to advisors, whereas those not wishing to should also tell nikh so that if they are advisor, they can be demoted to their normal level, to free up a position for someone willing to recruit. Sensei was a sensitive topic, as everyone agreed we should have a sensei, but what he should be or how to select him was not agreed upon. It should be agreed on next assembly. Lastsnake was also invited during the meeting. After an hour, we decided to close the meeting, event though all the topics were not discussed. This was done with a last pray. You can read the log (1hour...).
Thursday, November 29th We will hold our weekly assembly next sunday, December 2, at 9pm CET, 3pm EST. Please let nikh now if this is an issue so that we can try to move it a bit (will probably stay in the 7-10pm CET timeframe).
Sunday, November 25th The Dojo has been created. I didn't manage to take a screenshot of the memorable moment unfortunately! But Flupper did, and here they are: pic1 and pic2.
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