Getting Started with Chaos Clans

Welcome,

The Greymouse Presentation is a detailed overview of clan structure and operations disguised as a story. It provides the context you need to go about developing your doom skillset. Most muggles don't make it past the presentation, and that's on purpose. We need smart people that are into reading and learning. And actually doing.

There’s a lot of noise and angst about the direction our world is going. Civilizational collapse seems inevitable, yet what form it will take and when it will happen cannot be predicted; it’s a combinatorial explosion issue. The need to shift our behavior and our lives so that independent, sustainable communities of appropriately skilled people are possible is clear to many. What’s rarely described at any level of detail is how.

This is my (fairly detailed) solution.

There may be other, better solutions out there, but I haven’t seen any that address the “how to do it” question in a cost effective, community-based, resilient manner suitable for those of us in the bottom 80%. For example, we have neither the time nor the money for travel to essential skills courses. We have to do it all ourselves. Locally.

There’s a lot of training involved before you can be successful in (or as) a clan. The important thing to know is that this is not a “read it and put it on the shelf for maybe later” thing. There’s no time left for that.

It’s time to get busy.

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Why all the training?

Three reasons:

1. A deep set of common knowledge and directly applicable skills are essential to forming a culture of mutual trust and support within a clan or any other organization populated by humans. Military, firefighters and such know this already. Common knowledge is how we get to that common bond.
2. You may have some skills in particular areas, but they most likely require BAU equipment and supplies. These skills are all focused on operating in doom, without the support network of BAU.
3. Like the early courses university freshmen are required to take, base trainings expose you to a broad spectrum of introductory knowledge that serves two additional purposes:
1. You will be much more flexible and able to adapt to adverse conditions. This leads to confidence and to a lower stress level, which in turn enables better decisions.
2. With this knowledge, you will be better able to select a doom-compatible specialty and thus avoid becoming an indentured laborer somewhere.

Can I pick and choose trainings?

After the first four, yes. But you have to do them all. With a buddy. There’s a method to the madness.

Can I just self-study, and then find a clan later when I’m able to move to a better location?

Yes, but.

Studying with buddies just works better, but if there's no clan in your area and you are planning to move anyway, it's better to have the knowledge before the move in case something happens. Just be aware that any future clan you join will want to carefully evaluate you and your level of knowledge. That evaluation becomes perfunctory when the clan is able to contact your previous clan for a direct reference. How this is done is covered in the Communications Management Guide under Inter-Clan Communications.

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You will need to either find a local clan, or, if none exists yet, decide to either start one or wait for someone else with more motivation. The process for finding or starting a clan is in the Find or Start a Clan Practitioners Guide (find-startup-guide), and it’s the first document you should read.

And I mean follow the ball. Don’t try to re-invent the ball, or influence its path. Clans stick with the process as defined because it’s a crash course in doom capabilities that enable intra- and inter-clan trust.

The huge advantage clans have is they all operate in the same way, so it’s easy to migrate from one clan to another, or obtain the assistance of a remote clan in finding a new place for the entire clan to migrate if their current location loses viability.

It will take time to get your head around all of this material, so any initial assumptions or ideas for improvement that come to you will be wrong. Wrong because you will be operating with incomplete information. Just keep trundling down the trail.

I am releasing this anonymously (I really value my privacy) but have built into each document the ability to identify myself as the author if the need arises. I ask that you do not alter them, separate the products from each other, or try to make money from them. This includes translating them for publication or distribution. There’s enough free translation AI out there that you can translate a set for yourself if necessary. It'll be rough, but usable.

Actions like compiling them all into a printed book and selling it, or posting a set of base training videos on YouTube or social media is forbidden. If you find some troll that did it anyway, just ignore them. Never feed a troll. Remember; clans don’t do online. Just download a set for yourself and get going.

These documents presume US locations, but the Web posting means there may be clans worldwide. Apologies for the lack of measurement conversions and the lack of translations. There is only one of me, and it turned out to be a lot of material.

All of these are locked LibreOffice documents. Why LibreOffice? Because it provides the same level of encryption security as Micro$oft Office and Adobe Acrobat, but without any of the subscription charges and background information harvesting. Search for "LibreOffice" and download the installer. Runs on Apple, Linux, and Micro$oft.

Go to the Clan Documentation Distribution Point to pull down the actual files. Every document (or document set) is in its own folder, and every document has a companion checksum file so cyber security folk can verify document integrity.

I will maintain the original distribution point as long as I can.

Good luck to us all.

-- GreyMouse

Here is the list of the documents so you can see what you're getting into.

Required for Good Standing:

• base-I&P Interpersonal and Procedural
  • How to behave and why. Personal productivity in doom.
  • Do this 1^st after the find-startup-guide.
• base-DA Dark Arts
  • Personal and clan security skills, from self defense to encryption.
  • Start this next because it's huge.
• base-LDI Logic, Data, and Infrastructure
  • Personal and clan organizational skills
  • Next in parallel w/ DA.
• base-F&S Food and Sanitation
  • Basic skills for growing food and raising small animals.
  • These won't make you a farmer or rancher, but at least you'll be a competent helper.
  • Next after LDI in parallel with DA.

Required for Full Colors (any order after the above):

• base-LA Light Arts
  • How clans use various forms of art and entertainment.
• base-MA Maker Arts
  • Basic knowledge about how things are made.
• base-MED Medical
  • Doom-compatible first aid.
• base-WM Water Management
• Basic management and processing techniques.

Supporting Guides:

• find-startup-guide Find or Start a Clan
• clan-ao-guide Clan Areas of Operation
• using-forms-guide Clan forms and how they are used
• clan-data-archive-guide Clan Data Archive management
• comms-mgt-guide Doom-compatible communications
• mission-mgt-guide How clans manage missions
• enterprise-guide An overview of doom-compatible personal business enterprises

SXF5,TB6TRMRPFBPK0U,KQU7H/E8ZHALM178L.4QUBNWJC

Getting Started with Chaos Clans

Welcome,

The Greymouse Presentation is a detailed overview of clan structure and operations disguised as a story. It provides the context you need to go about developing your doom skillset. Most muggles don't make it past the presentation, and that's on purpose. We need smart people that are into reading and learning. And actually doing.

There’s a lot of noise and angst about the direction our world is going. Civilizational collapse seems inevitable, yet what form it will take and when it will happen cannot be predicted; it’s a combinatorial explosion issue. The need to shift our behavior and our lives so that independent, sustainable communities of appropriately skilled people are possible is clear to many. What’s rarely described at any level of detail is how.

This is my (fairly detailed) solution.

There may be other, better solutions out there, but I haven’t seen any that address the “how to do it” question in a cost effective, community-based, resilient manner suitable for those of us in the bottom 80%. For example, we have neither the time nor the money for travel to essential skills courses. We have to do it all ourselves. Locally.

There’s a lot of training involved before you can be successful in (or as) a clan. The important thing to know is that this is not a “read it and put it on the shelf for maybe later” thing. There’s no time left for that.

It’s time to get busy.

---

Why all the training?

Three reasons:

1. A deep set of common knowledge and directly applicable skills are essential to forming a culture of mutual trust and support within a clan or any other organization populated by humans. Military, firefighters and such know this already. Common knowledge is how we get to that common bond.
2. You may have some skills in particular areas, but they most likely require BAU equipment and supplies. These skills are all focused on operating in doom, without the support network of BAU.
3. Like the early courses university freshmen are required to take, base trainings expose you to a broad spectrum of introductory knowledge that serves two additional purposes:
1. You will be much more flexible and able to adapt to adverse conditions. This leads to confidence and to a lower stress level, which in turn enables better decisions.
2. With this knowledge, you will be better able to select a doom-compatible specialty and thus avoid becoming an indentured laborer somewhere.

Can I pick and choose trainings?

After the first four, yes. But you have to do them all. With a buddy. There’s a method to the madness.

Can I just self-study, and then find a clan later when I’m able to move to a better location?

Yes, but.

Studying with buddies just works better, but if there's no clan in your area and you are planning to move anyway, it's better to have the knowledge before the move in case something happens. Just be aware that any future clan you join will want to carefully evaluate you and your level of knowledge. That evaluation becomes perfunctory when the clan is able to contact your previous clan for a direct reference. How this is done is covered in the Communications Management Guide under Inter-Clan Communications.

---

You will need to either find a local clan, or, if none exists yet, decide to either start one or wait for someone else with more motivation. The process for finding or starting a clan is in the Find or Start a Clan Practitioners Guide (find-startup-guide), and it’s the first document you should read.

And I mean follow the ball. Don’t try to re-invent the ball, or influence its path. Clans stick with the process as defined because it’s a crash course in doom capabilities that enable intra- and inter-clan trust.

The huge advantage clans have is they all operate in the same way, so it’s easy to migrate from one clan to another, or obtain the assistance of a remote clan in finding a new place for the entire clan to migrate if their current location loses viability.

It will take time to get your head around all of this material, so any initial assumptions or ideas for improvement that come to you will be wrong. Wrong because you will be operating with incomplete information. Just keep trundling down the trail.

I am releasing this anonymously (I really value my privacy) but have built into each document the ability to identify myself as the author if the need arises. I ask that you do not alter them, separate the products from each other, or try to make money from them. This includes translating them for publication or distribution. There’s enough free translation AI out there that you can translate a set for yourself if necessary. It'll be rough, but usable.

Actions like compiling them all into a printed book and selling it, or posting a set of base training videos on YouTube or social media is forbidden. If you find some troll that did it anyway, just ignore them. Never feed a troll. Remember; clans don’t do online. Just download a set for yourself and get going.

These documents presume US locations, but the Web posting means there may be clans worldwide. Apologies for the lack of measurement conversions and the lack of translations. There is only one of me, and it turned out to be a lot of material.

All of these are locked LibreOffice documents. Why LibreOffice? Because it provides the same level of encryption security as Micro$oft Office and Adobe Acrobat, but without any of the subscription charges and background information harvesting. Search for "LibreOffice" and download the installer. Runs on Apple, Linux, and Micro$oft.

Go to the Clan Documentation Distribution Point to pull down the actual files. Every document (or document set) is in its own folder, and every document has a companion checksum file so cyber security folk can verify document integrity.

I will maintain the original distribution point as long as I can.

Good luck to us all.

-- GreyMouse

Here is the list of the documents so you can see what you're getting into.

Required for Good Standing:

• base-I&P Interpersonal and Procedural
  • How to behave and why. Personal productivity in doom.
  • Do this 1^st after the find-startup-guide.
• base-DA Dark Arts
  • Personal and clan security skills, from self defense to encryption.
  • Start this next because it's huge.
• base-LDI Logic, Data, and Infrastructure
  • Personal and clan organizational skills
  • Next in parallel w/ DA.
• base-F&S Food and Sanitation
  • Basic skills for growing food and raising small animals.
  • These won't make you a farmer or rancher, but at least you'll be a competent helper.
  • Next after LDI in parallel with DA.

Required for Full Colors (any order after the above):

• base-LA Light Arts
  • How clans use various forms of art and entertainment.
• base-MA Maker Arts
  • Basic knowledge about how things are made.
• base-MED Medical
  • Doom-compatible first aid.
• base-WM Water Management
• Basic management and processing techniques.

Supporting Guides:

• find-startup-guide Find or Start a Clan
• clan-ao-guide Clan Areas of Operation
• using-forms-guide Clan forms and how they are used
• clan-data-archive-guide Clan Data Archive management
• comms-mgt-guide Doom-compatible communications
• mission-mgt-guide How clans manage missions
• enterprise-guide An overview of doom-compatible personal business enterprises

SXF5,TB6TRMRPFBPK0U,KQU7H/E8ZHALM178L.4QUBNWJC