Mad Men of Shangri-La

The ***Mad Men of Shangri-La*** were a group of Unknown [?] Clan Members, not just UNKNOWN [?] Trading Company Members, that met in the Shangri-La hotel, EDSA, Mandaluyong City on 10AM(GMT 8+), 29th of April, 2017 to discuss an important project on the group's collective future.

## The "Mad Men"

The term "Mad Men" was coined by Irishkaiser in a drunken roar during the discussion on what to name what they were doing, out of styling themselves after the alpha, alcoholic, business-savy members of Sterling-Cooper-Draper-Pryce Ad Company in the TV Series *Mad Men*. It was jokingly claimed that coming up with a group name took up 50% of the meeting time, which is inaccurate and false, but the naming did take up half of a bottle of Chivas Regal before they submitted to "*Mad Men"*, out of submission for fear of taking up time.

Only two of the entire group were committed MineZ players. The rest either abandoned MineZ or were regulars of other games. This is important as the concession required by the other, non-MineZ members would not agree to making the project simply MineZ-based, seeing it as "thinking too small" and "irrelevant to the big picture". The Mad Men themselves were all members of the Unknown [?] Clan who knew each other in their youth. Taking advantage of their grown-up lives, honed skill sets and connections, the Mad Men decided to pool their collective resources together to create an institute that will be centered around the well-being and commonwealth of each other and their associates, in particular the Unknown [?] Clan and all its holdings.

## Shangri-La Conference

The Mad Men chose Shangri-La Hotel for it being central to where the majority Philippine [?] Clan Members lived which was only some train rides away to those who lived the farthest. Spyware(Irishkaiser) and Veracity(Vergath) pitched the project's purpose and idea to the others, which was received with both skepticism and enthusiasm. In the end, everyone believed in the idea of pooling and centralizing their resources and all were willing to participate, but a lot wanted the institution to first become self-sustainable, before contributing which resulted in the establishment of Phases.

Phase 1 involved no guaranteed returns on their investment and only those willing to invest were to invest to start a solid capital.

Phase 2 would be after the group becomes more than sustainable, effectively covering the costs of the net negatives(server and service costs already procured by the clan as a whole). This Phase would result in the return of investments.

Phase 3 was "Let's see where we go from there".

The group later finished their discussion later in the day by about 5:45PM-6:00PM, but didn't go out for drinks after consuming a considerable amount of alcohol early in the day and in the afternoon. They later continued their discussions on Facebook later that evening to cover things they forgot to mention.

## references

1. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/UnknownTradeCo/comments/686xjn/10pmest\_or\_10am\_gmt\_8\_29th\_april\_conference/?st=j25upj2m&sh=b8c5edd6
2. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/UnknownTradeCo/comments/68js9d/the\_empire\_the\_companys\_official\_news\_source\_210/?st=j25vb1dw&sh=6a941969