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[Vyruun-argent-dawn]

@Vyluun-argent-dawn

The Gathering of All

The Hour of Light II: “Voices Returning”

Current known schedule:

• Time to assemble (19:30 - 20:00)

Day 1 2020-07-31T18:00:00Z FRIDAY

Day 2 2020-08-01T17:30:00Z SATURDAY

• Introduction (19:45+)
  
  
• The Festival of Light
  1.) Structuring the festival
  2.) Brainstorming
  3.) Deciding on events
  4.) Sending out word to other Draenei
  
  
• Open mic
  
  
• Questions and Answers
  
  
• Open end with food & drink and talking of many things (21:30+)

REMEMBER:

We would like to use the Legion Vindicaar that you can reach from Dalaran tonight!

[Vyluun-argent-dawn]

Thank you for your understanding and I hope to see you at around 2020-07-31T17:45:00Z on the Vindicaar (Legion) tonight.

I’ve moved the official begin to 8pm server time.

[Vyruun-argent-dawn]

Day 2 Today 19:30 SATURDAY

• Introduction (19:45+)
  
  

• The Festival of Light
  1.) Quick overview
  2.) Information from Day 1
  
  

• Open mic
  
  

• Questions and Answers
  
  

• Open end with food & drink and talking of many things (21:00+)

[Vyluun-argent-dawn]

Just keeping this alive as it is not needed currently. The Festival of Light thread is replacing it till next month!

[Vyruun-argent-dawn]

This one goes out to all the single Draenei, all the single Draenei.

Updates will follow. The Gathering of All is restarting at the end of September with new ideas, designs and a cleaner structure for the event(s) to come!

[Vyluun-argent-dawn]

The Gathering of All - Social Meetings

based on the notes of Daelindri

Meeting of the Draenei Community with a more social twist

Purpose:
To meet up casually, eat and drink, but also to share news of current events which can include but are not limited to:

• News and announcements
  Causes for celebrations such as promotions, births, or even not so great news such as a passing of one of people so that we can have a moment of reflection.
  This would also be a good time for anyone who has ideas such as the beacon system (or any other community-centered ideas) to announce their intentions or plans.
  — creates RP for those who are interested

• Guild campaigns, plots and events
  Announcing that for example Guild A are heading off for a campaign against a particularly nasty Lich who is hiding out with a sizeable force of undead. They announce they are dealing with this and for others to remain vigilant for similar threats cropping up.
  — creates community spirit

Possible Topics to be Discussed

• Calls for assistance
  Using the above example, they may want to open up their grand finale to 5 people, this would be a chance to invite those people along.

• Cross guild initiatives
  If perhaps Guild A and Guild B want to do an event together, this would be a good forum to be able to do so.

• Cross group initiatives

Examples

For example, the mage community/discord that regularly meet up are seeking a competent artificer to assist them on a project, they would approach someone in this community to make the announcement.

Another example, the paladin community/discord are fighting off an undead threat and require the assistance of some of the Draenei community that are not in the paladin discord.

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The Hour of Light - Formal Meetings

Purpose:
to voice important political, social or economic matters, and to inform others of military actions, etc.

Pre Meeting
People are required to message their points they wish to raise to the host who makes the announcement on the forums, ingame or the discord. An agenda is put together, but not necessarily disseminated if you don’t want to.
That way we have a list, and a rough idea of how many points we have to cover. If there are any points that are similar then we encourage people to work together on that point instead of repeating. That means that the two people still get to have their point made instead of the first one speaking and the second one feeling they should not go up for fear of repeating the point and boring people.

Meeting
People speak as succinctly and promptly as possible so that we can get through the list and everyone has their chance. There is not a strict “cut off” for how long people can talk but we use common sense and politeness that there may be others wanting to have their turn. The host can advise when they have the agenda put together.
That way we have a list, and a rough idea of how many points we have to cover. If there are any points that are similar then we encourage people to work together on that point instead of repeating. That means that the two people still get to have their point made instead of the first one speaking and the second one feeling they should not go up for fear of repeating the point and boring people.
For those not in the discord or those who did not read the forum post or who happen across this meeting quite late, there is a space at the end for “any other business” before we conclude the meeting. Again, they are reminded to try and get through it as quickly as possible.
No questions or queries are raised at this point. People take the information, digest it, and think on it.

Post-Meeting
This is the forum for discussion and (hopefully) collaboration to happen. People interested in a topic go to the person who brought it up and they can talk further on it.
This encourages live and organic RP as people are actually able to talk instead of stand in silence for 3 – 4 hours (sometimes more) which is incredibly boring no matter the topic. If people are interested in more than a few topics then they’ll just have to wait them out as best as they can as no plan is ever perfect.
Example

How a meeting could play out

The post-meeting will allow for more people to be able to talk in smaller, more topic-oriented groups!

An Artificer brings up an idea regarding upgrades to Lightforged technology such as barriers.

A Rangari brings up an idea about a small intimate hunting event for a few people.

Some people may not be interested in hearing a discussion about sorting out a hunting event, so would instead be interested in working with the Artificers. Even if they aren’t one, they can assist in some way.

On the flip side someone may think they want to get involved in the hunt event.

They go to that person and have a discussion with them that is live, instead of an audience waiting patiently for the next topic to come up so they can stop standing in silence.

[Vyruun-argent-dawn]

COMING TO YOUR ARGENT DAWN EU THIS OCTOBER

The Gathering of All - casual bi-weekly meetings
OPEN TO ALLIANCE PEOPLE / GUESTS

The Hour of Light - formal monthly meeting
FOR DRAENEI ONLY!

HOSTED BY THE ONE AND ONLY UNITED Draenei Roleplaying Community Discord!

Hosts:
Vyluun, Daelindri, Kheevani, Kharaas, further hosts TBA / TBD

[Vyluun-argent-dawn]

NEXT MEETING: 29.09.

• Introducing: The Gathering of All - Social Meetings

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@Vyluun-argent-dawn

The Gathering of All - Social Meetings

based on the notes of Daelindri

Meeting of the Draenei Community with a more social twist

Purpose:
To meet up casually, eat and drink, but also to share news of current events which can include but are not limited to:

• News and announcements
  Causes for celebrations such as promotions, births, or even not so great news such as a passing of one of people so that we can have a moment of reflection.
  This would also be a good time for anyone who has ideas such as the beacon system (or any other community-centered ideas) to announce their intentions or plans.
  — creates RP for those who are interested

• Guild campaigns, plots and events
  Announcing that for example Guild A are heading off for a campaign against a particularly nasty Lich who is hiding out with a sizeable force of undead. They announce they are dealing with this and for others to remain vigilant for similar threats cropping up.
  — creates community spirit

Possible Topics to be Discussed

• Calls for assistance
  Using the above example, they may want to open up their grand finale to 5 people, this would be a chance to invite those people along.

• Cross guild initiatives
  If perhaps Guild A and Guild B want to do an event together, this would be a good forum to be able to do so.

• Cross group initiatives

Examples

For example, the mage community/discord that regularly meet up are seeking a competent artificer to assist them on a project, they would approach someone in this community to make the announcement.

Another example, the paladin community/discord are fighting off an undead threat and require the assistance of some of the Draenei community that are not in the paladin discord.

---

The Hour of Light - Formal Meetings

Purpose:
to voice important political, social or economic matters, and to inform others of military actions, etc.

Pre Meeting
People are required to message their points they wish to raise to the host who makes the announcement on the forums, ingame or the discord. An agenda is put together, but not necessarily disseminated if you don’t want to.
That way we have a list, and a rough idea of how many points we have to cover. If there are any points that are similar then we encourage people to work together on that point instead of repeating. That means that the two people still get to have their point made instead of the first one speaking and the second one feeling they should not go up for fear of repeating the point and boring people.

Meeting
People speak as succinctly and promptly as possible so that we can get through the list and everyone has their chance. There is not a strict “cut off” for how long people can talk but we use common sense and politeness that there may be others wanting to have their turn. The host can advise when they have the agenda put together.
That way we have a list, and a rough idea of how many points we have to cover. If there are any points that are similar then we encourage people to work together on that point instead of repeating. That means that the two people still get to have their point made instead of the first one speaking and the second one feeling they should not go up for fear of repeating the point and boring people.
For those not in the discord or those who did not read the forum post or who happen across this meeting quite late, there is a space at the end for “any other business” before we conclude the meeting. Again, they are reminded to try and get through it as quickly as possible.
No questions or queries are raised at this point. People take the information, digest it, and think on it.

Post-Meeting
This is the forum for discussion and (hopefully) collaboration to happen. People interested in a topic go to the person who brought it up and they can talk further on it.
This encourages live and organic RP as people are actually able to talk instead of stand in silence for 3 – 4 hours (sometimes more) which is incredibly boring no matter the topic. If people are interested in more than a few topics then they’ll just have to wait them out as best as they can as no plan is ever perfect.
Example

How a meeting could play out

The post-meeting will allow for more people to be able to talk in smaller, more topic-oriented groups!

An Artificer brings up an idea regarding upgrades to Lightforged technology such as barriers.

A Rangari brings up an idea about a small intimate hunting event for a few people.

Some people may not be interested in hearing a discussion about sorting out a hunting event, so would instead be interested in working with the Artificers. Even if they aren’t one, they can assist in some way.

On the flip side someone may think they want to get involved in the hunt event.

They go to that person and have a discussion with them that is live, instead of an audience waiting patiently for the next topic to come up so they can stop standing in silence.

[Vyruun-argent-dawn]

LOCATION

Exodar, Vault of Lights

[Phaidros-argent-dawn]

Looking forward to it, as always.

[Norkilana-argent-dawn]

Sounds good!

What time are we gathering exactly?

[Vyruun-argent-dawn]

I have gotten so used to it that I forgot about that!

As all agreed on last time, it’ll be …

2020-09-29T18:00:00Z

LOCATION

Exodar, Vault of Lights

[Kheevani-argent-dawn]

This is happening TONIGHT!
Looking forward catching up with the squid community again

[Vyluun-argent-dawn]

Some IC updates regarding our Draenei community as a whole will be released tonight! The last FORMAL meeting before the new addon!

[Vyruun-argent-dawn]

The Draenei community is currently working on our first casual meeting; we expect to inform you of details this week!

Vy’luun is currently unavailable IC for health reasons, but there are lovely mods IC ready to lead us to some well-deserved talbuk cheese and non-alcoholic sunglow!

Kheevani, Daelindri, Phaidros, Peraamos, Arcaraan and Talagar to name a few!

[Vyluun-argent-dawn]

Azuremyst Village Hours - [AVH]

The Draenei community has IC’ly decided to organize OPEN-TO-ALLIANCE casual meetings in Azure Watch (Azuremyst Isle) and sometimes in the Exobar (Exodar).

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First AVH casual meeting!

26th of October, 20.00 realm time

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FAQ

1. What to expect?

Laid-back Monday evenings:
– getting to know characters you might not meet elsewhere
– catching up on events
– enjoying food and drink together
– Small events from time to time
– Merchants from time to time

2. When?
   Bi-weekly on Monday evenings at around 19:30 / 20:00 RT, open end!
   
   First event: 2020-10-26T19:00:00Z

3. Who can attend?

• People interested in draenei culture
• Alliance characters
• Those who want a change of pace from Stormwind RP etc.

4. Merchants

You can either sign up OOC’ly, IC’ly or come without prior notice! No worries!

If you do not sign up you might have to make do without prior advertisement on the draenei discord and other communities, but you’re very much invited to join one way or the other as you’ll definitely always find people interested in your wares!

5. Questions? Ask our Moderators & Hosts

Kheevani, Daelindri, Vyluun / Vyruun, Phaidros, Kharaas, [tba]

[Vyruun-argent-dawn]

The Hour of Light will return once we have more details on pre-patch happenings!

[Vyluun-argent-dawn]

The Hour of Light IV is scheduled to happen during or after the pre-patch events but before Shadowlands release, if possible.

[Vyruun-argent-dawn]

The Hour of Light IV: “Post Mortem”

will call upon ALL DRAENEI once more to meet up!

Exodar, Vault of Lights, 2020-11-19T19:00:00Z

[Vyluun-argent-dawn]

Three more days! We hope to meet many Draenei who bring news from all across Azeroth!