Aginon and myself were shocked. There not going
to be any more fragging in Electric Pineapples....[Ep] is no
more!

[EP] who started out so well. A bright idea from our Cl Thorgund
when he explained for me how great the game Quake was.... In our
lunchroom at our workplace. Only thing from me was: "Its to dark,
to scary and not fun to play!"
"BUT...There is something called Team fortress....!" Thorgund did
have a scary look on his face when he said that.....

Well, a couple of thousand SKr later to our phone-company here, I
have to admit...Its fun!

Now there isn’t going to be any more Clanplay for us....?
To join some other clan wasn’t an option for me, I didn’t like the
idea, but the rest in [EP] soon enough found themselves new clans
to play in.
Aginon and Thorgund joined -=H=- and so on....
But, we still kept contact, the old gang from [EP].

And....That /&%#"&/&¤%4 Lennie!

From the moment we felt that EP was about to throw in the towel,
he were on me and Aginon to start our own clan.
Aginon didn’t show much interest in the idea, but something were
started in that conversation......

Aginon started to play in -=H=-, and the idea starting a new clan
halted for some time. For me, but not for Lennie. He kept nagging
me every way he know of about starting up our own clan.
So, finally, I gave up.
"Ok, Lennie. Just to get you off my back...Lets start a
Quakeklan!!!"
"I take care of our homepage, you start scouting for members."

Name for the clan? Well....With two older than 30 in the council,
there was just one name that came up. Old-timers.
We worked with this for some days, when the first member
showed up.....Zargs. He was frustrated about how things were
handled [EP], and felt that he could do something great in a new
Clan.
Moments later, next one entered. Lonewolf. A great scout who had
played well in [EP]. (His own saying: Ben Johnson, Up yours!) =)

So, the process was started and began to take shapes of it
own....

Lennie worked very well scouting for members.
All of a sudden, Aginon showed up, angry and frustrated about his
new clan and nothing working.....
Lennie talked to him for some time, then he was in Old-timers. It
was sometime there we decided to limit our selection of new
members. You’ve guessed it! Only persons over 25...!=)

During all this, I’ve talked to Thorgund at work about joining
us.
He wasn’t very friendly to the idea to enter an new clan after
crash and burn with [EP], so that was an long and sometimes
violent discussion. With words, of course!

*At this time I had been talking with Aginon about starting up a new clan, wise from
all mistakes from EP. We both knew what had went wrong. I also spoke to Lennie who
had been on my back from day one! He said that I could do what ever I wanted with the
clan as long as I joined and accepted to be Clanleader. // Thorgunds remarks*

Days came and went, and I started to talk about my clan during
coffee breaks and lunch....
Guess that Thorgund went curious....! =) *LOL // Thorgund again*
One evening Lennie told me that Thorgund has joined us. And he
hasn’t told me at work that he intends to join!

Now I lost all control about what’s happening with the clan.

Thorgund were asked to "take over" Old-timers and do something
with it, and he agreed after some thinking.
I dropped my handling of our homepage, and soon Thorgund have
someone else to handle that.

As far as I can remember, it was sometimes about then Aginon came
up with the brightest idea I have ever have heard from him.

A name change! Thorgund has already started having tryouts with
younger people than 25, and none of us in the "council" have
something against it. A name change was a natural way of adapting
to the new setup in the clan.

I remember Aginon coming towards me with an enthusiastic look in
his face.
"Here, (Ferttoo)! I have the new name for us! How about
"Einhärjarna"? He held a book in his hands, about Nordic history.

*The theme for a new clan was thought of some time before this but
Ferttoo had no way of knowing that since it was between me and Aginon // Thogge again*

From that moment, I just love the name. When he explained that
Einhärjarna was the gang of warriors that was picked out from
Viking-warriors, died in battle, to fight for the gods.
They didn’t have to care about dying, because they was reborn
every night, ready for fight.
Therefor, they fight like crazy during days, having party all
nights.( Just a fine way of living/Dying...Eh...Whatever!) =)

Now things starts get interesting......The [EP]Funeral Party is
set and under prepare.
Me, Thorgund, Aginon and helping with server, Zargs, set up our
first BIG LAN ever! Have to admit, I didn’t know a thing about
doing something like this, but living after the motto: Lets
rock!, I have a great time learning during process.
There was one or two downloading from the net with information,
I promise!

The [EP] Funeral party was from my point of seeing it, a total
success! Now we don’t say that everything worked perfect.....Worst
thing was that the server died one hour before the start! =)
No problems, we fixed it! No probs! **LOL**

We had the gang from Helsingborg up, and they started the LAN
Friday evening, even if the LAN was supposed to start Saturday at
12.00. Guess that’s the reason for the tired look in some of the
faces Sunday morning.... =)

After the LAN, Thorgund starts to work even harder with the
clan. Now our homepage gets into his focus. New things will show
up there, according to him. A "Schedule" page enters the, showing
all important times and dates.

Fights against different clans performs, and we finds out our
strategy is not the best in the universe....

Thorgund lets the homepage-hacking to Ethernal. Nothing more with
that, my guess is that Thorgund would ease his burden taking care
off everything himself.
Same time, he set up our clan at Teamfortresszone:s clanlist. Now
we cant hide any longer behind anonymity….
now we are an official TF-clan!

From my personal view, Thorgund then did a thing that’s typical
for him.
Without taking the thing up for discussion, he announces that we
are going to play in Swedish Team Fortress League.
Just like that.....!!!!!!!
He mentions it at work, in an "BTW"-way. Guess if I went
ballistic that moment!!!!
Cant remember what I said, but I guess it was something like:"
Ok. In a league with the best clans in Sweden.....We don’t even
have enough players to create setups in our normal fights!"

Standard-Thorgund answer on that: I don’t care, lets start
creating fights so we fix that with minimum five fights....
Yes...You read it right! We wasn’t even that far in clanfights...
And now we should play with the big boys...without knowing how
to!!!
Same thing again. Thorgund drafts me to help him with this
impossible mission, saying. "Lets try and see if it works!"
Believing it was an crazy idea, I started up with talking to the
rest of "old" gang in the clan how to fix this.

Well, we fixed that, we fought in the STFL, and got it hard.
For me, the whole thing was an embarrassment, but we fought, got
beaten and came back to the next fight with an never-ending
energy. Energy isn’t enough to win a fight in STFL. Now we know
that to well....=/

*My reason for entering the clan into the STFL was to learn. The only
way to learn is to play against the best. Some of the clan members didn’t
have the confidence and "mental" strength to get beaten big in almost every
fight in the tournament. My personal goal for that tournament was to win
one fight, and we almost did : ) //Thogge again*

In the middle of playing fights in the league, we were adapting
again. A new player arrived, from Queens islands across the sea.
For you who don’t know what I mean....England.
All conversation in Mirc was set to English, some of the members
didn’t like that, but that wasn’t a discussion matter.

As far as I can see, some air went out of the clan after STFL.
There started to be fever and fever persons up for training.
For me, the embarrassment were still there since STFL...I did some
connection between TF and embarrassment.....Not nice, but I did...
*At this time I decided not to enter our clan for STFL II. My reason for
this was that I hate to do stuff that isn’t necessary. As far as I could see we
would have had the same result all over again. What I wanted to do was to
practice more and be stronger as a team with new tactics. The only problem
was that a couple of players from the clan had a different opinion.  They left and
I was forced to look upon how I lead the clan. What I could see was that I lacked the ability
to be tough as a leader. To make things go smoothly I talked to Lennie about the council thing.
What I didn’t tell him was that I was planning for my departure as CL. //Thogge*

Thorgund sets up a council. Members were Thorgund, Lennie,
Danepain and Ratwulf. New orders came about they should split the
handling of the clan. Sounded nice, but for me, I started to see
something....

Members who had been in the clan from the beginning left us for
other clans. Aginon decides to leave the council to become a
normal member. Now my feeling was even stronger that something
was going on somewhere. I didn’t have any proof of that, and my
daily talks with Thorgund didn’t give the fire more wood.
 

Soon after that, Thorgund decides give the crown to Ratwulf. My
suspicion were right, and I didn’t liked it....

Ratwulf and Danepain let things stay as they were the first
weeks, then tried some small things they wanted to change.
New members came in, and things started to look some better.

WOW.....our own server!

Words from Thorgund: I went out looking for the holy graal,
and found it!!!
He fixed it! Its up and running! Now we really are a Clan worth
counting for.

When everything started to look better, the big chock arrives.
Thorgund, our best and only Clanleader decides to throw in his
TF-towel and give up playing Clan-TF.

The clan was in chock, but felt that things was looking better
these past weeks, so maybe it will work out.
NOT!
The shock went on weeks and weeks after he was gone.
Training’s were set up, people were there and was canceled or
totally wasted because of bad planning.
The spirit of the clan were gone. All that "Good"-feeling were
gone that we have created a couple of weeks ago.

Me, I started to be more and more upset with how thing were
handled, next step was telling Thorgund at work how things worked
out in the clan.

*And I started to get annoyed. I thought I would participate on the practice one
night and saw that in spite of 8 members there, no one took charge of the practice!
I was so mad about how my "baby" (the clan *LOL*) was handled.
So I hit the Caps Lock key and shouted: I WILL TAKE CHARGE OF THE PRACTICE!  //Thogge*

Two days later, he announced that he will take over the clan
again, after talking with DP and Rat.

A sudden calm came over the clan, even if Thorgund announced that
he will select and train a new CL as soon as possible.
If and when there will be a new CL is written in the stars, the
important thing is that when Thorgund leaves the CL-
responsibility, it will be to a person that will let the story
EIN continue as long as there is people eager to play On-line
games. If there going to be TFC ore something else, that also a
thing I’m looking forward to see.....
The story continues.......
 

Ferttoo

*Big thanks to Ferttoo for taking time to write this mother! //Thogge*