Blitz Friday April 04 (NOT 05, sorry!), like NOW

[Xavier]

yeah, 4 hours is probably a minimum unless you plan on getting wiped out early.

as for IRC, the easiest is probably to use one of the many web clients. try google "irc web client" or some such.

for more serious IRC use, download and use mIRC. you should be able to find simple mIRC tutorials online. just remember you want to point it at any gamesurge server. once there, you can type:

/join #dominions

to get into the channel we'll all be in.