The New Recruit Initiative

The New Recruit Initiative is a long-term recruit giveaway, sponsored by donations from the members of Aurora. It's primary goal is to assist promising recruits in getting T2 access and obtaining a fundamental set of gear, concentrated around the Jelly King levels (Royal Jelly Palace, D15-17). Instead of spending time grinding T1 for the low heat and crowns, the New Recruit Initiative will give the recruit the gear requirements for T2 (2* or above) and allow them to effectively bypass it, moving onto the more profitable T2 in order to maximize crown gain.

To participate in the New Recruit Initiative Program, you must:

• A) Be a recruit
• B) Lack T2 Access/have difficulty defeating Jelly King
• C) Have no 3* or higher items.
• D) Fill out the following survey and mail it to Daiquiri:

Survey

• 1) What is your current loadout?
• 2) How long have you been playing Spiral Knights? When did you start?
• 3) What do you like about Spiral Knights?
• 4) Have you defeated the Snarbolax yet?
  • 4.1) If so, how many Frumious Fangs have you obtained?
• 5) Do you know about the Spiral Knights Forum on the Spiral Knights Website?
  • 5.1) Do you know about the New Recruits and Arsenal sections of the forum, which contain useful information for new players?
• 6) What do you think you can bring to the Aurora community?
• 7) One of the key principles of Aurora is learning, and as a recruit, you are entitled to ask any veteran, officer, guild master, and even member for assistance in any aspect of the game (short of begging). Please verify that you understand this.
• 8) Are there any questions you have about gaining T2 access/progressing in the game?

After your survey has been approved by the Guild Masters and Officers of Aurora, you will be granted a set of equipment based on your responses:

New Recruit Initiative Sets

There are currently two sets of gear that can be claimed:

1) The Snarbolax Set is available to anyone who has not defeated Snarbolax and/or has not completed 10 T1 levels. It provides a basic Gloaming Wildwoods-centered set of gear:

• Wolver Cap ★★☆☆☆
• Wolver Coat ★★☆☆☆
• Owlite Shield ★★☆☆☆ OR Plate Shield ★★☆☆☆
• Flourish ★★☆☆☆
• Choice of:
  • Blaster ★★☆☆☆
  • Cryotech Alchemer ★★☆☆☆
  • Voltech Alchemer ★★☆☆☆
  • Firotech Alchemer ★★☆☆☆

2) The Jelly King Set is available to anyone who has gained 10+ Frumious Fangs and has completed 10 levels of T1. It provides a basic Royal Jelly Palace-centered set of gear:

• Wolver Cap ★★☆☆☆
• Wolver Coat ★★☆☆☆
• Owlite Shield ★★☆☆☆ OR Plate Shield ★★☆☆☆
• Tempered Calibur ★★★☆☆ OR Nightblade ★★★☆☆
• Choice of:
  • Blaster ★★☆☆☆
  • Cryotech Alchemer ★★☆☆☆
  • Voltech Alchemer ★★☆☆☆
  • Firotech Alchemer ★★☆☆☆
  • Shadowtech Alchemer ★★☆☆☆ (Only if Calibur is selected over Nightblade)

Note*: If a participant already has a said piece of gear, that item will not be given.

Note**: A participant may claim both sets of gear, if the conditions are met independently.

Training

The New Recruit Initiative grants recruits the gear they will need to complete the stated stratums. Additional help can be found by asking members for help on runs and tactics with the newfound weapons. We have a great group of veteran players here at Aurora, and please feel free to ask away about anything! Remember, there are no stupid questions :).

Current Stock

Note: This is more of an FYI page for the donors to concentrate their donations ^^.

Inactivity Check

We will be hosting an inactivity check around the end of December, to hopefully make room for more knights :). If you have an extended absence coming, or don't feel like playing SK that much anymore (SADFACE :<), let one of the officers or GMs know beforehand!

And, if you've been removed for inactivity but have returned, message one of the officers/GMs and we'll send an invite right your way! :).

Recipes

This is where we handle recipe exchanges. You can request your guildmates to keep an eye out for recipes, or post a list of your own recipes and offer them to guildmates! Submit the name of the recipe and the star, and please, either finder or seeker, edit as soon as it's no longer required.

Note: Please don't request here if you intend to resell. This is more for guildies helping guildies, rather than profit. Thanks :)

Requests

Alphappy is looking for:

• Nova Driver ★★★★★
• Biohazard ★★★★★
• Shadowtech Alchemer Mk II ★★★☆☆
• Umbra Driver ★★★★★

Stocks

Dai's Extras

Just let me know if you want these! First come first serve, at Basil price :)

• Supernova ★★★★★
• Volcanic Plate Shield ★★★★★
• Crest of Almire ★★★★★
• Radiant Silvermail ★★★★★
• Elemental Hood ★★★☆☆
• Magic Hood ★★☆☆☆
• Shadowtech Alchemer ★★☆☆☆
• Wolver Coat ★★☆☆☆
• Wolver Coat ★★☆☆☆

Alphappy's Extras

All recipes sold at Basil's price to guildmates. If I'm not on, feel free to send a request via in-game mail. You do not have to send the money right away, but if you do I have no intentions of keeping it without mailing the recipe back. You can also leave a request on my talk page.

4-star recipes - 10,000 crowns

Ash Tail Cap	Ash Tail Coat	Blazebrand	Blizzbrand
Cold Iron Carver	Dark Thorn Shield	Faust	Fiery Atomizer
Gigawatt Pulsar	Graviton Bomb	Hunting Blade	Miracle Cloak
Miracle Hood	Plasma Capacitor	Prisma Driver	Salamander Mask
Sinister Skelly Shield	Wise Owlite Shield	Wyvern Scale Helm	Wyvern Scale Shield

3-star recipes - 4,000 crowns

Chroma Mask

Drake Scale Mail

Horned Owlite Shield

Iceburst Brandish

I also have numerous 2-star recipes I don't feel like listing here, feel free to ask about them.

Guild Scrapbook

External Links

See what Aurora folks are up to outside of SK!

• Arc's SK blog (sorta outside of SK...~): http://spiralsnipes.tumblr.com/
• Check Ankokuflare out!