Sworn of the Dying Light - Info.

  The Sworn of the Dying Light are in charge of the learning domain of the clan. They are the ones who focus on Skills; plan Skill events and keep record of donations. (Note that Bishops are not a part of the Dying Light, but of Mysteries.) They also create the FoM Quests and keep the FoM Fund well supported. The colour of the Sworn of the Dying Light is dark blue. Should there be any formal clan meetings, only members of this Sworn are allowed to wear that colour. The different titles of the Sworn of the Dying Light, as well as its hierarchy, are as follows:

  Masters of Events

  Twilight Event Keepers
  Master Updaters
  Apprentice Updaters

  Twilight Event Keepers
  To become a Twilight Event Keeper, there are some requirements you must meet. These are as follows:
  Clan Rank D or better
  4 or more FoM Quest Points

  Once you've met the prerequisites, you can send in an application to a Master of Events. In this, you are to explain why you think you would make a good Twilight Event Keeper. Have you perhaps organized and ran events before? Or maybe you might have had a position as another Event Keeper before? If the latter, then why do you want to change? And when it comes to the events you've held, what things did you do well and what things could you have done better? You must also be good at expressing yourself and have patience when it comes to questions and criticism. You must also confirm that you are aware of your responsibilites, and will not take it as a personal insult should you not meet these responsibilities and be taken off your position.

  So, what do you do as a Twilight Event Keeper? Well, you are to organize and lead skill events. The definition of skill events can be found on this page.

  How to decide what kind of event you want to make is usually up to you, but sometimes a Master of Events might give you specific instructions. They are ranked above you and they are in charge of the FoM events overall. There may be a certain skill we haven't focused on in a long time, or something that has been done way too much. The possibilities are endless, but in the end, if a Master of Events asks you to focus an event on a specific skill, you'll do so. How the event itself is put up is, however, up to you.

  With this position also comes a quota that you must meet. The quota is one Skill event every two weeks. Should you at one point miss this quota, a Master of Event or Primogen of Finance will point it out to you, reminding you about your responsibilities. Should you miss two periods in a row, without having any good reasons as of why, then you will lose your position and the Masters of Events and Primogen of Finance will, if necessary, select a new applicant.

  On a different note, weeklong events such as XP competition count as one event, but the time in-between events are counded from when the event ends. Say that it starts on a Monday and ends on a Friday, then from that Friday the new two week period starts counting. Also, you are only allowed to make one such event per month.

  If you in advance should know that you are not going to be able to meet the quota, you may ask a fellow Event Keeper to run an extra event in your place. This is not a necessity but it's a good way to show your overlookers that you're serious about your position, and will win some respect both for you and your stand-in.
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  Master Updaters
  First of all, to become a Master Updater, you must meet a couple of requirements. These are as follows:
  Clan Rank E or better (yes, E)
  4 or more FoM Quest Points

  When the prerequisites are met, you can send in an application to a Lead Updater. In this, you must explain why you want to become a Master Updater, and why you'd be good for the role. Also, if you have previously held another Sworn position, explain why you want to change. When a Lead Updater has approved the application, he or she will send you a small test to prove your abilities. Should you pass this test, the position is yours.

  So, what does a Master Updater do? Well, their responsibility lies in calculating points in the update topics in the Updates forum. For this, you will use the points listed on the Points page. Make sure to also go through the example list a little now and then to make sure that you're giving out the right point values. Should you come across an item that has not yet been added to the Point list, you can either ask the Lead Updaters for a value in the Sworn of the Dying Light forum, or you can check and see if the item can be found at the top of the Total Points topic (sometimes the Updaters add them to there if I haven't gotten around to update the site). The Sworn of the Dying Light forum is also where you go if you're uncertain about an update, and need help calculating it (it's not as easy as it seems).

  When you have calculated the points, make a post in the topic where you put down how many points everyone has got. If they have completed any FoM Quests, remember to put down these here as well, and how many FoM Quest Points they've received. You don't have to close any topics after updating, the Apprentice Updaters will do that when adding to the Total Points topic.

  As most other groups, you also have a quota to meet. There may never be five or more pages (forum standard) of non-calculated topics over a period of seven days in a row. If that should happen, the Lead Updaters will replace the least active Master Updater with a new. However, should such be the case two weeks in a row, but all Master Updaters are considered fully active (calculating at least 40 topics per week), then they will instead hire an additional one. Should there at any point be so few update topics that the average Master Updater gets to calculate less than ten topics per week, four weeks in a row, then the Lead Updaters will rid the least active one of his or her position (after all, we don't need more people than necessary to perform a job).
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  Apprentice Updaters
  First of all, to become an Apprentice Updater, you must meet a couple of requirements. These are as follows:
  Clan Rank D or better
  4 or more FoM Quest Points

  When the prerequisites are met, you can send in an application to a Lead Updater. In this, you must explain why you want to become an Apprentice Updater, and why you'd be good for the role. Also, if you have previously held another Sworn position, explain why you want to change. When a Lead Updater has approved the application, he or she will send you a small test to prove your abilities. Should you pass this test, the position is yours.

  So, what does an Apprentice Updater do? Well, they pretty much just copy and paste a bunch of stuff, and also do some simple maths. Once a topic has been calculated by a Master Updater, it's the Apprentice Updaters' job to add those points to the appropriate person in the Total Points topic. Points are added up in the first post. Kills and FoM Quests are added in the second one. When adding the latter, you are to make a link to the topic where the kills and the quests can be found. Name the link after the person who got the kills/completed the quests. Also, when adding quest links, include, in the link, what quest the person completed. If someone completed several quests in one topic, then you add equally many links to it.

  For an example, say that Person A has posted an update where he finished the Demon Slayer and Soul Destroyer quests. The Master Updater has added the points, so now you are to update the Total Points topic. First, add the points to the person in the points list (first post). Then add two links in the second post, under FoM Quests. The links are to include Person A's name, and each of the two quests.

  When a topic has been updated, you close it.

  When adding points, there is something important you should think about. If two Apprentice Updaters are working at the same time, they might be saving over each other's additions. So to make sure that that doesn't happen, you should try to organize the time so that there are never two people working at the same time. Also, if the Total Points topic is closed, that means that I'm adding points to the site. I will open it once I'm done. Should I forget to re-open it (if the topic has been closed for hours on end, and I'm not listed as a viewer of it), then you can open it instead.

  And now for the quota. There may never be more than two pages (forum standard) of open, calculated topics for a period of seven days in a row. Should this happen, the Lead Updaters will replace the least active Apprentice Updater with a new one. However, should it happen two weeks in a row, but all Apprentice Updaters are considered active (adding 80 topics per week), then the Lead Updaters will instead hire an additional one to help you out. Also, should the average Updater get to update less than 20 topics per week, four weeks in a row, then the least active one will be removed from his or her position. After all, we don't need more people on a job than necessary.
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  Since it can be rather hard for the Lead Updaters to tell how many topics you've updated, it would help if you could keep count of them somehow (I suggest just using a NotePad document for that), and then after the Update, post in the Sworn of the Dying Light how many topics you did.