Week of Jan. 10 2005 [Vol. 2, Issue 8]

Published Tuesday January 11th 2005

Welcome to the eighth issue of the PaxLair Tuesday Weekly News. This newsletter will attempt to inform you, the reader, of the currents in PaxLair, Dragons Watch, Pax Malas Outpost and Pax-Tokuno. Through Top Stories and Other News, including weekly recaps of the Monday meetings, the PaxLair Tuesday Weekly News will bring you all the news you need to stay up to date in the PaxLair Community!

Top PaxLair News Stories:

PaxLair Website Goes Live
Written by Winfield, Old Man

IN THE ETHEREAL WORLD SUPPORTING PAXLAIR - On January 8, 2005, PaxLair published a new web site design for http://www.paxlair.com/site10/ that will hopefuly serve PaxLair and the growing community of friends for a long time.  The new site is a "content management system" where several people can keep the site up to date with information.  The site provides an events calendar, a message board system with several forums, a repository of community links, and a growing amount of published information relevant to PaxLair, its government and citizens, and more of the community at large.

Much information will be added to this new web site from previous sites, old boards, and locations around the ethereal world.  PaxLair's goal is to bring all relevant historical and active information into this one site. It may take a few weeks or months to complete this task.

Over the years, there were numerous past PaxLair web site designs and locations.  Since 1998, PaxLair had http://www.gogan.landlords.com/ (which no longer exists, but may be archived somewhere), http://www.chessienet.com/paxlair/ (still online but not updated since 2002), http://www.chessienet.com/paxlair/backup/news/ (a portion of a site prior to the last site; this site is currently broken and is being repaired for historical purposes), and http://www.paxlair.com/site10/indexold.htm (the last site before the current live site).

Of particular note is the site at http://www.paxlair.com/site10/indexold.htm.  Seeing the lack of web site maintenance in late 2002, Earl of PaxLair took it upon himself to create this web site to keep information flowing and archived.  If it were not for Earl of PaxLair and Neo of Lothlore during 2003-2004, PaxLair would have lost a great deal of information.  Such personal initiative shows the quality and dedication of people in PaxLair.

As PaxLair enters its 8th year of existence, the government and caretakers vow to make its ethereal presence stable and worthwhile.  PaxLair also continues its inter-city cooperation objectives to offer information and linkage to other player communities.  Watch for more enhancements and information to this web site and also stay tuned to the other wonderful sites of towns and guilds throughout the Realm.
 

Other News:

Minutes of the Jan. 10th Weekly Meeting

This Monday's meeting was once again held at the Orc Fort Outpost's Auditorium in Malas, so that all could attend.  In attendance were Former Mayor Don Martin de Leon, Xotche of Meade, Lord Monk, SNOOPY, Winmere, Mayor Minsk, Neo Of Lothlore, Lady Shalana, ty the big sexy, Kegger, Old Man Winfield, Buddy, PurPLE TurTLE, Busta, Eli, Faust D'Barder, Jai, John Duke, Sweetness and Gamemaster Sparkle.

Town Hall Changed for Holiday Contest
The PaxLair Felucca Town Hall was modified this week, and a roof and balcony was added so that it could be entered in the Stratics Holiday House Contest.  The winning submission will be changed into a mini-house statue.  Good luck PaxLair!

Red Wolf Events for the Week
Xotche of Meade announced this week's Red Wolf Cafe & Gyldenfeld events:

• Dart Tournament - this Friday, 9pm EST
• Truth or Craaap - next Monday, 9pm EST
• Gyldenfeld Yard Sale - Jan. 23rd, 8pm EST

ATD Red Guard Training, Tuesday Night
SNOOPY announced that this Tuesday night (Jan. 11th) the ATD Red Guard will hold training in Dragons Watch at 8pm EST.

New ATD Hunt Night
ATD will be hosting Doom hunts every weekend from now on, more details should appear on the boards soon.
 

Winfield gave a brief report about the happenings in all of the outposts, and invited GM Sparkle to the 7th PaxLair Anniversary, then we made our way to the Red Wolf Cafe to participate in the regatta....

Dragons Watch Wins at the Red Wolf Regatta
Reported by Neo Of Lothlore

GYLDENFELD, TRAMMEL - Captain Nemo and Team PaxLair were joined at this month's regatta by an ATD crew, led by Kegger and his wave cutting sloop.

The course was Smuggler's Run, a route fabled for use by smugglers who brought ore from Minoc to Cove to avoid taxation along Britannia's roads.  The race got underway shortly after we arrived at the Red Wolf Cafe, and Kegger and myself were the first to get our boats in the water and remained neck and neck throughout the entire course!

The waters were tough with choppy waves created by a wind rolling through the Minoc inlet, but once we neared shore at the top of the continent things started to smooth out.  I lost sight of Kegger from Southwest streatch that brought us near Vesper, but picked him up in the distance just as we made the tack into Loch Lake.

In the end Kegger of ATD managed to hit the docks first, followed by myself, Neo Of Lothlore with Anton and crew just behind!

Thanks to the Red Wolf for another great race! 

Thanks for reading this eighth issue of the PaxLair Tuesday Weekly News. If you ever have a newsworthy story for the PaxLair Weekly news, please email to lothlore AT paxlair DOT com.