Death Jesters
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| Motto: Laughing in the face of Death | |
| Type • Ideologies | {{{Type}}} Honour ARPK |
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| Founders | The Vicount |
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| Colours • Heraldry | Purple unknown |
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The Death Jesters (DJ) was a clan founded by The Vicount in early 2005. DJ was an exodus of The Synergy, and the first second-generation relative of the Wilderness Guardians.
History
Plans for DJ began as early as October or November 2004, when Synergy council member The Vicount began planning to open a new clan. Given that Syn was mainly American-based, The Vicount wanted a clan with events more suitable for European members. The clan's forums were created and the name "Death Jesters" was chosen. The Vicount informed Syn leader Eragon Cd of his plans, but chose to remain in Syn for a few more months. Eragon Cd is believed to have been accepting of the proposal.
In January or February 2005, Eragon Cd registered on DJ's forums to help The Vicount and Shadower2000 - another founding DJ member and a co-leader - with administration problems. Shortly after this, Syn co-leader Kanchellsis discovered the DJ forums and subsequently banned Eragon Cd, The Vicount, and Shadower2000 from Syn for violating the clan's policy against multiclanning (despite DJ not yet being an active clan). As a result, The Vicount opened DJ in early 2005, much sooner than anticipated. Largely due to the Syn founder's ban, several Syn members subsequently left to join DJ. Names of the founding members include Dragoneye 79, Chetty0504, Lemur Master, DaEvilBlitz, and Mithril Lady. Lemur Master would become the clan recruiter. Eragon Cd eventually regained his access to Syn forums and initially argued a case in support of DJ, though he later apologised for the incident, and resumed leadership of Syn as Kanchellsis left to lead Sleeping Dragons.[1]
DJ were an honourable clan, and adopted their ancestors' ARPK policies. By 1 March 2005 they had approximately 30 members with an average combat level in the 80s, and hosted several PK trips and other events per week.[2] DJ was also known to have been one of the six clans which helped reform The Federation in May 2005.
Not much else is known about DJ's history, and no copies of their forums have been archived. A post on the SD forums from 2008 claims that DJ had been inactive since 2006[3], and The Vicount had retired from RuneScape by 2008.[4] Shadower2000 would go on to join SD, and had returned to Syn by May 2007.[5]
Trivia
- DJ's ranking system was significantly more creative than the standards at the time - instead of "Leader", The Vicount's rank was "Chapter Master", and the rank for banned members was "Joke".[6]
- DJ also required an interview with potential new members as part of their application process - a concept which WG themselves adopted several years later.
References
- ↑ Shadower2000 (30 June 2008), "First Slump", The Synergy. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
- ↑ Lemur Master (1 March 2005), "Death Jesters | 65 + hp | 20+ members", RuneScape Bits and Bytes. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
- ↑ Aid (10 October 2008), "Re: Looking For Ppl Who Remember Federation", The Sleeping Dragons. Retrieved 3 March 2025.
- ↑ Dragoneye 79 (6 July 2008), "Syn / Dj / Sd / Wg", The Sleeping Dragons. Retrieved 3 March 2025.
- ↑ Shadower2000 (13 May 2007), "Hi", The Sleeping Dragons. Retrieved 3 March 2025.
- ↑ Aidan Ryuko (1 November 2008), "Re: Family Tree", Sleeping Dragons. Retrieved 3 March 2025.
