Helllloooo lovely PSDH community!

Nights are getting longer, the smell of candy cane is in the air, shops are starting to remind you to buy gifts (since September) and you probably already lost at Whamageddon... Christmas time is upon us! This means soon the PSDH normal schedule will be down for a bit, whilst we all visit our loved ones and eat way too much food.. Before we go off to do all that, we have a traditional PSDH Wintersday night of the Shinies!

Of course we organise a Secret Santa again for this year, this will be running separately from event night throughout (a part of) December.

In Secret Santa you get assigned a participant to send a gift to and someone will have to send a gift to you. For more info click the link below, everything is explained there:
https://psdh.eu/index.php?topic=2343.0

Event night - 18th December - 19.30UK / 20.30 EU
So this year we all seem to be busy in the days before Christmas and have less time to help with making cool events. We have therefore decided to slightly change the event from normal and also make use of some game content. This means Strike Missions, Tixx and Toypocalypse.

We will however do another Advent Calendar game, for those not familiar with it, be sure to be on Teamspeak. Groups will be 3-4 members and awesome team names are rewarded!  Make sure at least one of the group members are able to speak on Teamspeak.  Each question/task has a prize assigned to it for the team to win. If the question is not answered correctly, the square stays active for anyone to pick.

We will also make a nice race course to see who of you has the best control over their Jackal. First 3 will get a shiny!

Last but not least, all attending can enter in Storm’s Awesomely Lucky Tombola [SALT] where amongst other prizes you can win the Commissar's Manifesto, Sam or the mythical Pendant of Arah !!!!!

So come, join all and find out which shiny gift you will get this year!

Super Fun Girls

Here at PSDH Industries, we're always looking for new talent to strengthen our team. Below you will find a list of "job" positions for which we are looking people to fill them.

If you are interested in one of our listings below, or you want to get some more information, or perhaps there is something else you would like to do, please contact Mr_Dark on Discord or TeamSpeak to discuss.

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Commander
Have you ever been alone at an in-game event which you wanted to complete and did not have enough people around you, so you tagged up and communicated this in map chat? Or joined another commander for a certain event and thought, "This dude doesn't know what he's doing, I can do this better"? Then becoming a PSDH commander might be for you!

PSDH runs a wide variety of events and we're always looking for more people to help us organize them. You'll be joining our commander ranks and help organize events which include;
* posting advertisement messages in guild and map chat
* tagging up so people can join your squad
* helping people understand the event and what needs to be done
* if the event requires it doing a (vocal) walkthrough

PSDH can offer you:
* a stable guild which has been around for 6+ years
* gateway to a lot of new friends (we have a real-life meetup every year)
* training for events you're not familiar with by one of our veteran commanders

We also offer trainee commander positions for those of you who want to command but have zero-experience. During your trainee time, our veteran commanders will teach you the ropes and make sure you feel comfortable commanding events.

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Programmer and/or Designer (Website)
As you can see the PSDH website is not up to par with the latest 2019/2020 trends. Therefore PSDH is looking for one or multiple people who can re-vamp or re-build the PSDH website so it - once again - looks nice and shiny.

We have no preferred programming language in which the site should be built, but no Wordpress. I mean, c'mon. Hosting is done on our own server so there's no limit on what you can use. Once the new site is done we hope you stick around and maintain it

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Programmer (Discord bot)
Besides our website Discord is being used more and more. In order to enhance our Discord server, we're looking for someone who wants to build a custom PSDH bot. Our current bot is very limited as it only posts today's event 30 minutes before the event start and supplies a countdown for when a new real-life meeting is coming up.

For the new bot we would like it to have some of the following features:
* At the beginning the week, post a list of all events for that week
* 30 Minutes before an event starts, post a reminder
* LFG system which can be used for events, dungeons, fractals, raids
* We'll probably think of some more additions later on

Hey,

Welcome to the group Hope you enjoyed being with us so far!

We also have a discord where some of us chat during the day (click icon on top right corner of forum for access) if you are interested in that. If you ever want to do something outside of organised events, feel free to use guildchat/forum/discord to find a group for it. You will find old and new players all mixed up together.

All prizes have been sent out.

Here are this years scary stories:

Caldnir's Story:
Days are darkening and growing colder. Halloween has come. The seams between worlds are weakening and Tyria is about to have a royal visitor from the Mad Realm.
It’s the Mad King Thorn, back again in Lion’s Arch

“Oh, I remember you lot.”
“Piken Square Dragon… Punters, yes, hah hah!”
“Congratulations on slaying Kralkatorrik by the way. Even the Mad Realm felt that. There were creatures phasing in and out of existence, unstable portals popping on and off, you know how it goes, I’m sure.”
“Even I felt unstable. Can you imagine?”
“Still, the portals made me realise something. Why limit myself to Kryta, when there are countless other kingdoms I have yet to grace with my presence? So I jumped into a portal, and I must say I found some very peculiar places.”
“Like United Kingdom? Please, everyone knows kingdoms aren’t supposed to unite. They wage war against one another! Though they didn’t seem that united, so perhaps hope is not yet lost.”
“And who names their kingdom Netherlands? I guess Underworld was already taken.”
“Anyway, I left some presents here and there that should be opening at midnight, which is right… about… NOW!”
Stormwolf.8567 has logged off
Persephone.5384 has logged off
MrDark.9634 has logged off
“Ooh, that was fun. And I am nowhere near done”

It feels as if the Mad King stares right at you, though it’s hard to be certain because of the pumpkin.

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Thorien's Story:
Our tale begins as Halloween tales do,
On a stormy night where a foul wind blew.
When an orange moon cast an eerie glow,
On the land of Tyria far, far below.

A sea of mist spread across the land,
From Mordrem wood to crystal desert sand,
And everywhere a rising tide of fear,
But the cause unknown - it just wasn’t clear!

“We need a team” the people cried
“Of fearless folk, all on our side”
“A band of heroes, a motley crew”
“And a naked Norn with a great hair-do”.

The call went out both far and wide,
And forth they came to form a tribe,
With weapons magic, sharp, and blunter,
Each one a PS Dragon Hunter.

With a “gooooood day” call dear Nova led,
As close behind the cursed crew tread,
Until Storm cried out with a halting stop
“Oooo look - another precursor drop!”

They wandered long and lost all count
Of just how long they’d been on their mount.
The battles long – fighting toward their end,
Each guildie finding comfort and becoming friend.

Til at last they came to the source of evil,
Their life-force drained, their resistance feeble,
And one by one they met their maker,
Their death was sealed, no loss was greater!

And so you ask on this Halloween,
What was their doom? What could be so mean?
Was it dragon? Hydra? That sealed their fate…..
T’was the epic fail – the A-NET build template!!!

Hello guildies,

As you know we recently had a guild meet about the new schedule and the guild in general. During the night I (Nova) have taken minutes, so without further ado, here they are:

- We should pay Cori 20x more for leading the raid group. (Agreed 20x0=0)

- Moarrr Dhuum.

- The summer weekend event schedule clashes with lunchtime.

- When Anet brings out a bonus week - like they did on world boss train - change the schedule to do that (for some of the days). You can combine that with for instance the Shadow Behemoth portal achievement.

- We are doing Shatterer on Thursday and after that we can see if anyone wants to do a fractal or dungeon, or some story achievements. Note: Actively use guild chat.

- We have 2 members who expressed that they want to try commanding for PSDH. Guild Leaders will contact them about this.

- Dark posed the question: How can we better engage new guildies? The following things were suggested: Group up for strike missions, dungeons and fractals. The thursday is the designated day for that. But of course we can also ask on other days in guild chat if anyone is up for something. Guild Leaders will see how they can make this more engaging.
Also Raids was suggested. Several of us (leaders and members) noted that raids are hard for us to organise in a way that everyone can participate. This is why we do not organise a group ourselves. We did however organise raid training over last years Wintersday break. The people remaining from that group are raiding on fridays, led by Cori. Jari and Nova some weeks still join that group to helpout if they are low on numbers. Cori notes that if people are interested to join the raid on friday night, they are free to contact him. He will then see if there are spots available to join in that week. 

-It would be nice if the bot in discord would also send out a weekly schedule, for instance on monday afternoon. Dark will look into the options available for that.

- It would be nice if we had a LFG channel on discord (perhaps linked to website too?) where people can post in advance that they want to do dungeons/fractals/strike mission/raids/achievs on a later moment. Other guildies can then sign up to join them. Dark will look into available options.

- Can the bot send out automatic patch notes after an update? Yes it can, and it now does! Dark adjusted it during the meet.

- The bot in discord could have a seperate channel. Dark states that the lobby is ment for gw2 and guild related stuff, so it is sort of a separate channel. He will keep an eye out though after all adjustments are done. If it gets too much he will see about a separate channel.

- It is possible to have the next guild meet in the weekend? We will take it into consideration when we plan for the next meet.


After that we talked about raids, the change in build templates and Halloween amongst other things 

To do Guild Leaders:
- Look into the several above mentioned changes for the discord bot.
- Talk to the commander volunteers.
- Calculate Cori's payrise into expenses.

A special thanks to those of you that were attending the guild meet on Teamspeak and also to those that were not able to be there, but shared their ideas with us.


Dark, Nova, Storm, Red