Clan:The Mighty Red Dragons

TMRD Clan History, as of June 3rd, 2016

Written by Lord Laze (the founder of TMRD) with Trik123s help

I was in a not serious clan where I became really disappointed. There were usually only four out of 50 people in the meetings and there were only 700 visits in 2 months! That means that most people were inactive.

So I decided to start my own clan. It was hard to start it because I didn't know any html script.

So I found a few good sites in my own language, which helped a lot. Actually I made three clans but I messed two sites up so badly that I had to make new ones at times. I started by concentrating on fixing the private boards, but there wasn't many pages or board-topics. So there was lots of fixing all the time and it's still going on. On September 2nd 2002 I got it to look nice, and I started inviting people.

I'm not sure who the first member after me was, but he was a very good friend of mine. The oldest members who in this clan are: Stormy Jack who joined on September 8th. So he's the oldest member now. Dimitrix joined on September 12th. He was also one of my best friends. Yan23 is in the clan but is busy with school and real life activities, he's ranked as a "Site Admin" (my best friends in RS I think). He joined on September 13th.

I was the only Admin for a long time because I wanted to keep the clan in my hands. We got 30 members in under a month, but most of them have left. It took some time to get to 50 because people left all the time. I don't know why, but might it be because of my bad leading skill? Or it might have been because there were so few actives... soon I couldn't keep the clan in my hands because I kept getting like 20 messages everyday and it took me about one hour a day to read and answer all questions. So I decided to get a few Admins/Co-Admins to help me out. They were: Yan23, Trik123, Dimitrix, Stormy Jack. Our clan started to run pretty good after we assigned the new Admins and Co-Admins. Soon after that we had 100+ members (and pretty high level guys too). This was time when I quit playing RS.

(Continued by Trik123)

After Lord Laze quit RS, Yan23 was the rightful leader of our clan. But shortly after that, Dimitrix took over the responsibility with the help of the Admins and Co-Admins listed above. Together we made the clan run smoothly and members were flooding in. But at one point we almost had 200 members and figured that we would have to clean inactives and make our requirements higher. So we gave the juniors (who were all level 40-50 combat) a two months deadline to reach level 60 or 55hp if they were pure. Fortunately most made it and we now have a clan with mostly 70+ people and a few who are almost there.

For a short while ago, our clan smith, Dimitrix, decided that he really wanted to concentrate on smithing, so he gave over his clan leader responsibility to Solmar.

With Matt9234's help, we have now upgraded our clan homepage layout. And our clan is currently very active and we have developed an effective wilderness-fighting style that we use when we have wilderness training or fight wars. Our clan smith is a rune smith and we have 2 rune miners in clan. Our clan crafter (me) can craft diamond amulets and has contacts to dragon amulet crafters and our clan cook is level 90+. So our clan is very stable but would need that more members are ready to spend some time helping our clan cook and smith. So if you are a hard worker and this sounds attractive to you, this is the clan to join. Thank you. Yours, Trik123 and Lord Laze.

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The new season, written by Dimitrix

The clan is one year old now. Everyone in the clan has gotten close, new friends and we have had fun together. The last summer was full of events and leveling up. Many members got themselves to rune mining. Others leveled their combat and still carry our clan's name with honor. Unfortunately the time also has its bad side. Some old and active runescapers decided that they needed to move on or take a break. We are hoping that the 3D - update will get at least few of them back. I, myself kept smithing and hit numbers which I didn't even think of in the beginning

of the year.

We have raised our requirements twice and this has gotten us a bit more " professional " look. But still, it's not the levels you have, it's the personality which is more important. TMRD won't be the strongest clan in RS, I'm sure. We were based on friendship and levels in non - combat skills but lately many pures have found their way in the clan. This has given us a new and a refreshing alternative; pking.

Here is an example of the work of our pures: (Flippy)--

As usual the great pures of TMRD were guarding the graveyard. All was quiet and I was all alone when the attack came. Out of the swirling mist I sensed the attack before it got to me. I severed the limb of the Zombie and turned just in time to deflect the blow from a 85 Rune Plate enemy of TMRD. My rune blade had saved my life again. The enemy snarled as he pressed his attack and the fight raged back and forth. I was hitting hard but his defense was good and he had that crazed look in his eyes as he tried once again to sever my head from my body. Then I remembered the potion that I had purchased from the man in Varrock and as I drank it I prayed to my ancestors to guide my blade. I hit 12..20..26 and I heard that cry when someone is mortally wounded...OMG. He ran for the east exit of the graveyard as the Zombies once again spawned and attacked me. I hacked my way past them severing limbs as I went to stop the enemy from escaping. To late he had gotten out of the grave. Then all went Quiet and out of the corner of my eye I saw a skull and a swirl of a red cape..... The 85 rune plate had run straight into the mighty Dragonclawz; a great pure of TMRD. Already mortally wounded the 85 had no chance as Dragonclawz brought down his mighty rune blade down upon the retreating enemy. He tried to run but had no chance as Dragonclawz severed his head with one almighty blow. We shared the spoils of war between us and I reached down and picked up the severed head of the 85 and placed it on a spike on the railing of the graveyard as a warning to all the enemies of TMRD. As you walk past the east side of the graveyard and look through the mist you will see all the severed heads of our enemies on spikes as a warning to all our enemies. Word has got back to the enemy clans about the great pures of TMRD that inhabit the graveyard. Rumour has it that they were not born in Lumbridge like normal folk but spawned in the graveyard with the zombies. Enemies have even looked for the Runescape Bestiary looking up the stats of the great pures of TMRD. They send out spies to the graveyard but no one ever returns.

THE LEGEND LIVES ON...

Written by Pureflipflop

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TMRD has built new alliances and made old ones stronger. One attempted alliance with a big clan failed though. Clan is still a beginner in the diplomacy but we are working on it. Latest war we attended was one of the biggest wars Runescape has ever seen. We can be proud when we say that our small clan did its part for our side.

When you think you are alone against something too big for you, you'll hear a whisper TMRD forever and you know you aren't alone anymore.

September 20th 2003

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Continued by Huj05

AS you know, TMRD has gone through some very odd changes. We have had soo much happen since the last update here it is impossible to state it all, so I will start from where I can remember. I am huj05, one of the new administrators at TMRD. 6-7 months ago, TMRD lost 2 of its most respected administrators. Trik123 and Steveman110. This impact crushed many members, including myself, Steve was one of my best friends in rs, a great guy, always willing to help and solve problems. Due to this, Slashilashi and myself became Full administrators, making the team as follows.

Admins

Yan23

Slashilashi

Huj05

Pitbull man

co admins

Ai caramaba

poit 66

and of course, our clan smith, Dimitrix. Although still having administrating powers, DImitrix had stepped down giving 99% of his power to the other admins. Dimitrix wanted to work on crafting to make sure the clan would have a crafter now that trik123 had left. TMRD worked hard and started an alliance with the Dragonz clan. based out of http://www.rs-zone.net. We had a huge funwar with TMRD, Jaguars, and Dragonz. Of course, TMRD and Dragonz were on the same team due to the fact that Jaguars well, they were a lot bigger. The war went great, a small problem with an ex jag K blox. HE was quickly defeated though. TMRD and Dragonz were declared the winners of the funwar. FUN indeed.

A while later TMRD had a cell war with its cells, which were formed back in the day while Steveman and Trik were still admins. These cells were broken up by timezones, providing great pking groups. The mithril war didn't really go as planned, the time was pretty bad so only a few AML (American) members got to show. We put up a decent fight though and wasted more food that the other team (we allied though I believe)

Eventually everything was smooth and calming down. nothing big really. the Dragonz officially launched http://www.rs-zone.net, a great Tip site and after some help, I became a moderator there (making my in game playing less, my admiring more..) So a few TMRD members joined and the site began to grow.

TMRD continued to strive better, gathering more members and slowly having more pk trips, until the unmentionable happened. TMRD began to come under fire from some individuals, mainly based at a long ongoing conflict between our clan smith Dimitrix and a Lord of the clan Connavar0007. The pure vs impure war raged, sides were chosen, and problems erupted. Connavar quit and then was let back into the clan because he was able to apologize. But it wasn't over, tensions still lingered. Soon other members got in on it and eventually a huge war broke out between us. Several members were kicked, and we inevitably lost our clan smith to clan Jaguars, still close allies. Saddened but still going to go on, TMRD has started another golden age. We have promoted Nick Konzel, a long time member to Co-admin, and allowed Ai caramba the honor of being a full administrator. Although we lost some of our best members, we have a larger turnout to clan events and they are more regular. We lost our administrator Pitbull man again, this time indefinitely (we believe). But not to worry, we have kept Nick konzel, one of the greatest Co-admins ever, on the job. He has helped tremendously to calm things down, and keep TMRD alive. Along with the great help of Kill guard2, for making many pk events, and our new recent lords, Unalakleet and Malteseking. Both have inspired many clan members to work harder and grow stronger.

Now whats up for TMRD?? Death is surely not going to happen soon. As it is TMRD is opening the olive branch to hopeful alliance to a few clans we have known for a while, Including Blacknights (BK), 'The',The Gladiatorz, basically "the alliance". Although we may not be accepted, we still hope for the best, and promise to keep on creating a wonderful place for runescape players. We were set back, but not far when we lost Dimitrix. We currently have two 70+ smithers working hard to achieve rune mining, and one working hard for a high level crafting. We truly will not be beat, we are TMRD, we are the clan that created friendship, truth, honesty, and good ole times!

1st June 2004

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Continued on by Syrclesels

The Summer of 04 brought many changes. We outgrew our site at avidgamers and switched over to rs-zone.net forums which was a big improvement. Connavar and Magician achieved the highest rank underneath the Leaders being Warlord. Joining requirements were raised to 80+ Combat. Clan Leadership changed a bit, resulting in the Admins being Huj05, Slashilashi, AI Caramba and Yan23. Co-Admins being Nick Konzel and newly appointed Syrclesels. Nick was promoted to full Admin status due to Yanâ€™s inactivity and Kill Guard2 was promoted up to Co-admin status. Due to the size of the clan, more Leaders were identified and the clan actually voted in the leadership team. So by the end of the summer, the leadership team consisted of full Admins: Huj05, Slashilashi, Ai Caramba, Syrclesels, Kill Guard2 and Chimaera Fin. Nick Konzel was promoted up to full Admin status mid summer but stepped down early September due to school and work obligations. CoAdmins were Pureflipflop and Lr5.

TMRD officially allied with 'THE' over the summer and built up stronger relations with BlacKnights which also resulted in a range funwar the end of August which was crashed by Exers and company. This brought a major upheaval in the clan community with 'The Alliance' + TMRD declaring war against Exers, Anarchy, Corruption (CoR) and another 2 clans of their choosing. This war came down to the wire and was withdrawn at the last moment but TMRD did partake with 'The Alliance' against Damage Incorporated (DI), and members of the 'Golden Alliance' which was an official mini-war a couple weeks before the official war was to go down This mini-war was won easily and quickly by 'The Alliance' + TMRD. Shortly after the dust settled, BlacKnights and TMRD officially formed an alliance.

The end of August and beginning of September saw a lot of old faces returning, including Lord Laze, our founder, Pitbull Man, Dragonclawz, Stormy Jack, Dimitrix and more. TMRD celebrated a 2 year birthday on 2 September, 2004! Our clan smither, Fujimaka was moving ahead at a fast pace, reaching 90 Smithing; Lr5, Darkelf0 and Gary E achieved 99 cooking and many members were achieving the rank of Lords and Goddesses. TMRD is definitely growing!

Fall/Winter of 2004 settled in with many members busy with school, work and real life issues. Clan Leadership changed yet again to Pureflipflop and Lr5 stepping up to full Leadership positions and the clan voting in Pitbull Man, Wildara and Angel1025 as our new Co-Admins. Lord Laze faded back into the background due to real life issues taking front burner in his life once again. Connavar achieved the elite status of obtaining 99 in Attack, Strength, Defense and Hitpoints. Our clan Smither departed for other pastures which then brought an Admin vote to promote Blockage into the shoes of TMRDs new clan Smither and resulted in Mysterylaw voted in as our new Knights Leader. Time has been moving by quickly taking us into the new year of 2005 in which major changes have come. Some of these changes include:

- Requirements to join raised to 90+ Combat or 85+ combat and 80+ non-combat skill.

- A new clan site! One that TMRD finally officially owns which also brought Matt9234 back into the fold by giving him unlimited power to make this site the best of the best.

- Malteseking and Unalakleets race to Warlord, then on to 99 hitpoints, attack, defense and Strength reaching each level within a day or two, sometimes even just hours of each other. Also, the Warlords rank of TMRD grew as Pureflipflop, Chimaera Fin, Goonsquad, Eric711, Sir Valance and Mysterylaw achieved their goals.

- Ai caramba and Angel1025 stepped down from leadership positions due to their own decision and busy with real life issues.

- TMRD officially allied with The Gladiatorz which then brought TMRD officially into 'The Alliance'.

- TMRDs first WarGoddess was born when Smokingfrog1 smacked 99 strength on Syrcy in April, 2005.

Many funwars fought:

- Steel funwar with Anarchy, Anarchy won

- Steel funwar with TNL, TMRD won

- Funwar with Black Dragons, called a draw due to crashed

- Funwar with BlacKnights, BKs won

- Funwar with Dragonwood, TMRD won

- Bronze funwar with Jags, TMRD won

- Steel funwar with DS, TMRD won

- Mini-war, 15 vs 15 against Anarchy, TMRD won

Clan Leadership stands today with Leaders being:

Huj05

Slashilashi

Syrclesels

Kill Guard2

Chimaera Fin

Pureflipflop

Lr5

Pitbull Man

Wildara

TMRD continues to march on and we will continue to update this history as history takes place..

25 April 2005

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A few more updates.... A couple more funwars, steel against Lithuanian Forces (LF), TMRD won, steel with rune weapons against Exers, TMRD won...

TMRD membership went over 200 and membership closed down for about a month to allow for us to bond as a close-knit family environment. Leadership changed a bit once again.

Kill Guard2 stepped down and left TMRD along with Pitbull Man and Slashilashi also stepped down due to real life becoming more taxing on their time which brings TMRD Leadership to Huj05, Syrclesels, Pureflipflop, Lr5 and Wildara. Instead of bringing more members into full Leadership position, Council positions were created to assist the leaders with the continued success of TMRD.

We created a few new councils, the PK/War Council and a rotating Clan Council for members to nominate, elect and vote in members who stand out to fill the job of a leadership role for four months. Nick Konzel stepped back into leadership position as the new Council Leader with the first Council being nominated, elected and voted in: Dragooner90, Sir Valance and Lpboie!

Kill Guard2 stepping down brought the PK/War Council into existence. Chimaera Fin stepped down as a full Leader and stepped into the newly created PK/War Council Leader position to also have the clan vote Mysterylaw, Notarious, Goonsquad and Gary E to fill the PK/War Council positions. This council is responsible for overseeing the official PK trips, plan and set up tactics for funwars, etc.

Other noteworthy accomplishments are GI Barbie achieving WarGoddess rank, and Warpigs67 and Butcher Orge achieving Warlord status!

TMRD Continues to grow and move forward!

30 Jun 05 (by Syrclesels)

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Continued on by Syrclesels

Another Summer has gone by with more changes as TMRD continues to grow. Some the the big changes were Pendorcho was promoted to Council. Kill Guard2 returned and stepped back in as PK/War Council Leader when Chimmy stepped down. Nick Konzel was promoted back to full Leader but then left TMRD just as college for him was about to start. Huj05 also stepped down as a Leader as he started his first year in college also. We decided not to replace them with full Leaders. The current council's 3 months were about up so the leaders chose four which were Jojo1313, Scala Caeli, Butcher Orge and Sir Mojolot. The council was also given the added responsibilities of planning, coordinating and holding clan events outside of PKing and funwars. Pendorcho was promoted to Council Leader, then to full Co-Leader shortly thereafter.

The council has done an amazing job with events, planning fun things like smithing wars, amazing race, treasure hunt, castle wars, KQ trips, KBD trips and so on. Jojo1313 and Scala Caeli were recognized for all their hard work by being promoted to the permanent rank of Co-Leader. Due to real life issues, Sir Mojolot stepped down to retired status which then opened up a couple more spaces on the council board so Darkelf0 and Mystery104 joined Butcher Orge

Not only did the Council get a complete overhaul, so did the PK Council. Notarious stepped down and Mysterylaw and Goonsquad quit. Masterdemon4, Aragorn two and Dark Lorrie soon joined the ranks of PK Council.

PK General rank was created to help assist the PK Council with set up of funwars, lead pk trips and so on. Walker123321 was the first member to be promoted to this rank. He has been promoted to full PK Council since then though. Thamior69 was promoted to PK General and was joined a few weeks later by Pindo, Jimhoofd, 767777777777 and majin472. We have had quite a few funwars where we have won some and lost some.

September brought one of the biggest changes in TMRD yet. TMRD Celebrated a 3 year birthday, then towards the end of the month, after a lot of discussion, TMRD opened a junior clan called The Red Dragons (TRD). TRD is for combat 80 â€“ 100 and we upgraded TMRDs requirements again to 100+ combat or 95+ combat and a 80+ non-combat skill.

A couple more promotions are Rotte Ridder is now Clan Smith, Davros70 is Clan Herbalist and Sammutin91 is Clan Crafter.

TMRD continues to grow and change but one thing remains constant, the family community environment.

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Continued by Syrcy again (I really need to delegate this)

I guess long past time to update this so here it goes!

TMRD has really gone through many changes in the past year!

December 2005 started out with a lot of leveling. Many members stepped up and trained combat to 120+ and then kept going to max out melee and reach the desired 126 club. Sammutin91 was the first TMRD member to achieve that goal but was quickly followed by many members like eric711, unalakleet, rossy rossy, Blignitz, snakeo97, Lola570, Chimaera Fin, Syrclesels, Lr5, Butcher Orge, Team kk 2, Troopa kid and Hathelelenya joining the elite status of the 126 melee masters.

A big accomplishment for TMRD was in having our very first Official War May 2006 against Mystic Knights (MK) and bringing home that win! Pequ, our lovely ally from Gladz created this awesome Siggy for us from that war:

The biggest change however was going from a Skills/PK & War Clan to an all out PK/War Clan. Since this change, we have had a couple more official wars and many capped, mini's, one week prep, etc wars. We have won 2 more official wars, one against Chivalry Legions (CL) and the other against BK. Our most recent success was a week prep mini against TRWF which proved to be our toughest battle and was a very long, hard fight to finally pull out the win. We also took the championship title in King CJ's tourney for the f2p 120+ 15 vs 15 capped mini-war after finally defeating Runescape Dinasty (RSD) and then Damage Incorporated.

Scala Caeli has made some amazing war siggys also!

Our MK war siggy:

Our CL war siggy:

TMRD celebrated our fourth year as a clan on September 2, 2006 and are still going strong. Many members have come and gone, and come back again and some even left again.. the joys of clan life! The Leadership has changed quite a bit. Started out with Pendorcho stepping down and moving on to other pastures, Kill Guard2 moving back up to full Leader once again followed shortly by Scala Caeli. Wildara and Pureflipflop going inactive/retiring brought the promotion of xdirtdartx and hunglikeabee up to full leaders. Walker was also moved up to Council, then Co-Leader but was removed for inactivity. Other changes include Jojo13 retiring from Co-Leader, Unalakleet becoming council, then Co-Leader, Rossy rossy becoming Council, then Co-Leader, and then retiring, Masterdemon4 becoming Council, then quitting rs completely, Scala Caeli retiring, H0mer6 and Tombu being promoted over to full TMRD Leaders from TRD upon the closure of our junior clan along with Theresilence moving over to council of TMRD from TRD, Killy retiring to settle down a bit to the leadership team as of today consisting of TMRD Leaders: Syrclesels, Lr5, xdirtdartx, Hunglikeabee, Tombu, and H0mer6. Co-Leader: Unalakleet. Council: barak 666, Lola570 and Theresilence.

Our PK/War leadership team also had many changes. Thamior69 moved up to become the PK/War Council Leader, which took us into our MK official war before real life took over for him and he retired. Tuesday has followed his footsteps in this position and is still standing strong! To help out our PK/War Council and PK Generals, we created a new rank: PK Captains to assist with leading out in the wild and all the fun associated with wars - i.e. tactics, strategies, planning, execution, etc! Many have come and gone over the past year in this leadership section to finally stabilize out to our current team led by our PK/War Council Leader Tuesday. He is joined by PK/War Council Pig Ownage, PK Generals: Metalic Max, Warrior 3222, Skrikboy, Sebartiaan and Pr Morphine and PK Captains: Johno642723, Glennieboy, Spliffio, Dark Lorrie, Drjay3000, Darkcloud_x3, Ossitappaia, Phithia, Rembo786, Massimuz and Blignitz.

Unfortunately, we did close down our Junior clan, The Red Dragons the beginning of November, 2006 due to difficulties maintaining the entire program and decided to concentrate on TMRD. Focusing more on TMRD also increased our joining requirements to 110+ combat or 108+ combat and a 90+ mage or range along with the requirement of still having to be invited by a full member in TMRD. We actually increased that to 3 inviters needed or a possible applicant will need to go through our Future Applicants (FA) Process.

Some other noteworthy positions: Rotte Ridder is still our clan Smither and Palleroporo is our clan Crafter and is filling in the vacant spot of clan Herbalist!

The saga continues and if I forgot something or someone.. send me a message and I will consider it! *my head hurts now*

Continued by theresilence -- (Sorry for the book ahead of time!)

2006-2007

So this post hasn’t been updated in quite a long time. Sadly, I do not think that I will be able to remember everything that transpired as well as specific dates but I will do my best. Our complete war history from 2006-2007 is covered in another post (War History). Up until late 2007, the clan had been doing quite well in wars and pking. We had many wins and some defeats, but looking back on it we had a good time nonetheless. I cannot remember the exact date, but at some point we had quite a few prominent members leave TMRD to join a new clan, The Rising (TR). They essentially became our enemies since they would hunt us down every time we stepped out into the wilderness, aided by a spy or two that remained within TMRD. It was certainly a hard time and overall morale was at an all-time low. The icing on the cake was when Jagex was having trouble countering the number of bots/gold farmers and decided to completely remove the wilderness on 10 December 2007, changing the pk/war clan world as we knew it.

Closed - Community Clan 2007 - late 2010

As pking and warring was essentially removed from the game, the clan dynamics definitely changed drastically. The new leadership team consisted of: Syrclesels, M_Hemming, Cravez, True Threat, and Theresilence. (Though I’m sure xarchangel18 and a few others were also in there.) As Jagex attempted to right their wrong, adding Bounty Hunter and Clan Wars in the wilderness, TMRD attempted to adjusted but ultimately was unable to rekindle the drive it held previously. Thus, we ultimately decided to change TMRD to a community clan. As a result those who were pk/war inclined moved on to different clans, such as The Titans (TT). We all remained in contact via these clan forums and in-game but there were essentially no in-game events.

2011-2012

In late 2010, Syrclesels approached Theresilence about reopening TMRD, I had just finished my first degree and had more time to dedicate to the clan. We re-opened with the plan to do pking/skilling/PvMing (I believe). M_Hemming and Xarchangel18 assisted in this venture, though f2p pking just was not as popular anymore even after the wilderness returned in February of 2011.

A big change to our community and bringing in a lot of new and old members was the introduction of the Clan Chat/Clan Citadel in July 2011. We started hosting Skill of the Month (SoTM) competitions - the Hall Of Fame showing all those involved. Leadership team consisted of: Syrclesels, Theresilence, Hemming, Xarchangel, Rossy Rossy, and Unalakleet (maybe Tomb and True Threat/Hey Its Jai too?). Council was likely made up of Skrikboy /Beach Effect, Glenn and Sir Santos. PvM events brought on a new rank of Event Coordinator (to focus on the events) leaving Council to focus on moderation/large events/alliance events and behind the scenes work. We lost some of the leadership team due to the lack of pking focus (Hemming/Xarch) and others to real life obligations (Rossy, Tomb, Jai). Thus there were changes to the leadership team: Leader: Co-leader: Beach Effect, Council: Sir Santos, Jr13Hector, Glenn; Event Coordinator: MrSnowy, Keithh Stone, Mr Adore. By the time we reached 2012, we had large influx of new members and a rekindled drive for events. We had a schedule of events every week which included p2p/revenant pking (hosted by Sir Santos and Keith Stone), penguin hunting, and PvM days. We also had two huge alliance PvM competitions, where each alliance clan formed teams of 4-5 to compete against one another to get a certain number of drops from different bosses. These were huge successes and a lot of fun for all those involved. At some point during 2012, Theresilence needed to step down to focus on college and Beach Effect was promoted to leader to assist Syrclesels. There was also an ongoing a major conflict between some of those in leadership (in addition to some members) that extended across several months and lead to the atmosphere of TMRD to decline. The details of this conflict are best left out of this history but the end result was that a good chunk of active members and some in leadership ended up leaving TMRD. This resulted in the leadership team changing around quite a bit as a result. Y0SHI, Levinator, and Oi Punk Rock were brought on as Council and the event coordinator rank was suspended due to lack of interest. Additionally, everything changed when Jagex released the Evolution of Combat in Nov 2012, which drastically changed the game and some members could not keep up with the new game-play resulting in low activity.

2013

Moving on into 2013, TMRD survived the falling out and slowly began to rebuild, with new members coming in. At this time, we began to allow people to join the clan in-game only as long as they met the requirements of 110+ combat or 1800+ total level. Lev and Beach brought in a new component via the Clan Merch that was fairly successful (up to a point). Beach Effect and Syrclesels were still leaders, with Y 0 S H I as a Co-Leader, and levitator & Oi punk rock, sir santos(?) as Council. By mid-2013, Beach Effect became busy with RL, which happened to coincide Theresilence finishing her busy semester. Thus, Theresilence stepped back up as a leader. Around this time we decided to get events going again and brought on two new event coordinators: Ladyavaline and Myths Legend. The atmosphere in the clan was fairly laid-back but we still wanted to grow and get into PvMing again.

2014

By the time 2014 came around, we had a large influx of PvMers who were willing to help others learn how to PvM. This prompted a plethora of leadership changes. Council: cyber neo, its godzilla/Gamera, Event Coordinators: Loopylad9/Freddie F, Lateos/Aizen, Capn Castiel/Skrillex, J Dash, St0psign, Derman. These changes spanned the year and were not all at once. During this time, there were tons of dungeoneering events and PvM events going on and people were getting together on TS or Skype daily to hangout and talk. We formed a really tight-knit group again and SoTM competitions were quite fierce. Also, we achieved the Tier 7 Clan Citadel on Syrclesels’ birthday - 24 June 2014, which was an amazing feat! As is always the case, unfortunately, when the school year started back up the activity declined as both members and leadership become busy in real life. So in mid-late 2014, we lost some of our members and leadership team, including Freddie F, Lateos, Cyber Neo, and Gamera. Despite this rough patch, we did manage to get our Red Dragon for the citadel on 23 Oct 2014!

2015

The start of 2015 was not a very pleasant one for TMRD. The passing of our beloved Mother Dragon, Syrclesels, happened unexpectedly on 15 Feb 2015. We were all caught off-guard and she was really taken far too soon. It was hard on all of us but we all came together and held a memorial event for her. The event had a great turnout from TMRD, our allies, and 1eliteSC (she was especially active with them in the last two years). With the passing of Cindy, we obviously had some changes to leadership because she left some large shoes to fill. Derman stepped up to help Theresilence, with Beach Effect returning to the game and clan to help out later on. In any attempt to increase activity and encourage clanmates to get involved to stimulate a community environment and forge the family mentality, Derman introduced the Dragon Scales. Dragon scales were essentially a clan currency that was earned by participating in clan events, donating to the clan bank, or capping at the citadel. With these earned dragon scales, members could “purchase” raffle tickets, temporary avatar warden ranks, dung floor leeches, boss lessons, dressing up leadership, hour long slaves, or custom forum signatures. This system generated quite a bit of activity in addition to Beach Effect’s mass recruiting. We found a few good members and unfortunately some troublemakers during this time that disrupted the atmosphere a bit. During this time, Gamera was still Council for a while and doing his best to keep event coords in check. He later opted to change the Dragon Scale system to try to improve the reward system so more members would be involved and actually use it. Instead of scales, tickets for the Monthly Clan Raffle would be rewarded to those who attended events. St0psign was promoted to Council alongside Gamera; however, Gamera ended up needing to take time away from the clan and game. While trying to promote activity, we had selected the following Event Coordinators: Blueserphant/Blua, Skarim J to join J Dash followed by Cordova and Im Afking Xp/Delten. We all managed to pull together and get a PvM competition going which was incredibly fun but limited to only TMRD due to time restraints. Unfortunately, by the end of the year, Beach Effect and J Dash had to step down due to real life obligations.

2016

The start of 2016 was rather uneventful and certainly leaves room for improvement and growth. Many members and leadership were busy with real life obligations; however, we all managed to work together to maintain the citadel at tier 7! (We couldn’t let down Cindy!) In early 2016, Blueserphant was promoted to Council and Cordova ended up leaving the clan (womp womp). We are currently in the process of rebuilding the clan and getting events going again! The current Leadership team is as follows- Leaders: Theresilence & Derman, Council: St0psign & Blueserphant/Blua, Dragonheart/Elder: Beach Effect & Lr5, and Event Coordinators: Skarim J & Delten. There is still more than half a year and we all look forward to getting things going again! There will likely be changes and challenges but we will continue to move forward and prosper! Let’s go Happy Hour Fridays! (thanks for the idea CheIs!)