Ninjas conducted covert operations designed to disable and knock out the Dark Brotherhood Website. Fortunately, Jac Cotelin, his trusty buffalo, and a band of Pirates to include the recently returned Code Monkeys foiled their plans.

Welcome back, sweet sweet DB website. We have 99 problems, but a Mysql injector ain't one.

News

Website: Our website was attacked by a web crawling evil virus that infiltrated our database via the forms found on many of our pages. Jac was able to obtain a safe back up of our website and safe guard it with protections. Everything appears to be in good working order. We appreciate everyone's patience and understanding during the website outage. Please be sure to thank the SCL staff when you see them.

Arcona Consul: Open for Applications: The position of Arcona Consul will remain open for applications until 3 September. if you are interested in applying, please do so in the next few days.

The Great Jedi War: In the following days we will begin to release information and promotional material for the 9th Great Jedi War. Raken has been hard at work on the plot, back story, and storyline for what the next Vendetta will be. I liked the last GJW a lot, but I love this one. Watch out this week for the Teaser Trailer!

Uneasy Alliances: The CSP, CP, Arcona Feud has come to an end. Congratulations to CSP on another Feud win. The scoring of this competition was surprisingly close and all three Clans can be proud of their performance. In honor of the event, I will be awarding the first place Clan a special prize in the next couple of days. Results are still pending on the individual scoring leader, so stay tuned.

Character Sheets: That whole Ninja attack on our database has put the Character sheets a little further behind schedule. Jac and crew are currently working on a revamped timeline and we look to see something here pretty soon. If you have any questions about the new character sheets, email me and I might be willing to provide you with the xls showing all the force powers.

Awards

Raken: anymore, we don't even know what a man is...a real man is in the forest right now cutting down a tree...he's not at a club on his iphone with manicured facial hair and butterfly doors on a '92 celica gt

Real Life

Allies and Friends II: Today, the Emperor's Hammer ended its ban on dual membership between our club and theirs. In the past if you were an active member of the DB you could not be an active member of the EH. Today, in a long overdue decision, GA Ronin ended that ban.

I saw a few people discussing this topic and one of our members was concerned that if they joined the EH, they might receive some sort of hateful response from the DB. This is not the case. We have never had a dual membership ban between the EH and the DB and to be honest, many of our members remained DB members over the past several years. We have no policy against this sort of dual membership and even went out of our way to protect the individuals who wished to have fun in both clubs. I am happy to see that the EH made this decision today, because it is long overdue. Internet/Star Wars Organizations should never place club policies in between the friendships of members. I won't ever do that and I am happy to see the EH had decided to stop doing it as well.

So, EH members, come on over. Aabsdu has an apprentice robe with your name on it. :p

Final Thoughts

Done!



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The site went down and up. It's back, so yay, right? Sort of. Apparently, there have been some issues, and people have not been able to post in their battles, or make challenges. I'm not sure what's up, but I did pass on the emails I've received to Jac and given him the heads up on it. If and when he figures out what it is and gives me the 411 on it, I'll be sure to pass it on.

Taldryan completed their Swift Justice competition, and the Clans of Arcona, Plagueis and Scholae Palatinae completed their Three-Way Feud, as well. Good job all around. I hope it was fun for everyone (minus the site downtime for the Three-Way Feud).

Stuff slowed down dramatically for everything, the ACC included during the downtime. I'm sorry about that, but it happens. My suggestion to you for the future would be this: expect the unexpected. Sites go down, whether through scheduled maintenance or otherwise. The good coding people try to limit how much our site is down, and we appreciate them for that. But for the future, to prevent losses from happening (to info) like this again, try and save your fight/fight posts in a document on your own computer so you don't have to start from scratch.

With things being up and running again, we're going to be getting back on track to where we need to go. Changes are in the works for the ACC, and I'm going to make a quick rundown of a couple of things that will be affecting people the most.

1) Custom Weapons are being wiped clean. Yep, everything approved thus far is being unapproved and done away with, but not forever. In the past, Custom Races were almost freely allowed, and then smart people decided that, since there is such variety in Star Wars, there had to be good reason for new, Custom Races, and good reasons why we had not heard of them before. Stuff like that. This is basically what's going to happen with Custom Weapons. Look over what info is needed for Custom Races, and you'll have an idea of what will be required of you to send in for your weapons. I will also point out that, much like Custom Races, Custom Weapons will not be limited to specific people/one person, but will probably be added to the Weapons list as a whole.

2) The ACC Armory is being wiped clean. No more magic gauntlets, or "Champion's" weapons and stuff. The weapons list is even being redone, and what it will be is a representation of the ACC's own armory (i.e. the weapons you can check out/use while at the ACC facility that you don't own). It won't list everything. I can't imagine the DB is going to hunt down relic weapons "just cuz." We're going to offer to train people in weapons that art state of the art, and actually provide a benefit to our warriors. Why would we arm people with swords and train them to fight Jedi, when Jedi fight with lightsabers and blasters, and other state of the art stuff? There's more to it, but that's as basic as I can make it for now.

3) Clan Weapons. I liked the idea of Taldryan's Ateliuc Blade in the ACC Armory, and I figured, since the weapon is designed to really mesh with their Clan Powers and enhance that aspect, why wouldn't every Clan have something similar? So yeah, I want to see each Clan have a unique weapon that is held by one person at a time, the method of gaining it determined by the Clan, etc. So I'll see what I can do to work with the Clan Summits on possibly making a competition to create it and stuff. We'll see what they want to do.

4) I recently got a new computer. I can game again. I like a lot of what Dante has planned, and since he has been active in the ACC and really trying to work a bond between gaming and the ACC from his end, since I can game again now, I'd like to try and help out from the opposite end. How does this affect you? Who knows, but you may see me getting sniped by Kraval again once in a while, depending on whether he's gaming lazy still. That's right, I'm throwing down the gauntlet, punk.

It's ok. Kraval loves me.

Have a great weekend, ladies and gents.

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27 August 2008
Headmaster Report #14

This report was suppose to be released earlier, but the website attack pushed it back, as it did a lot of things. Anyways, it's just a short update really, so on with it. I saw Star Wars, being faithful, and... well... ugh. You'll love it if you are six years old, otherwise it was just average. The series is definitely geared towards younger generations, that's obvious, but there were cool moments, and it got better towards the end. I can't understand the animation style, but the soundtrack was awesome. Here are some of my favorite lines from the movies, that I can remember:

Pineapple Express: "What's down there? A rancor?"
Tropic Thunder: Tom Cruise's scene, too vulgar to type out
Star Wars: Ziro the Hutt, funniest part of the movie

• ATTACKED! The Jac Strikes Back! Reports indicate damage to the Arcanum was limited, and the Academy is already up and running again.
  
• IRC Trivia September 7th, 11 AM EST
  
• New course pushed back to mid-September
  

Report time.

So yeah, unless you were on LOA for the last few weeks, you'll have seen that the DB got hit with an SQL injection attack. It took some time, but the Jac restored the site from a backup and him and the staff managed to seal off the vulnerabilities so that it can't happen again.

We're starting to work on the stuff for the next War. Last time, we didn't really have a whole lot of time to build up to things, and kinda dropkicked everything into place. It worked out pretty well. But this time is going to be far better, I think. Pay attention to the fictional updates that Raken is putting up. There's good plot stuff in there. And yes, there's some seriously face-melting stuff that we're going to be doing for this war that will trump what we have been doing in the past. And there's stuff that we'll be able to do this time that we wanted to last time but couldn't manage due to time and whatnot. We're sure that you'll like it.

Muz projects: still plodding along on the faces stuff. Arion is working on finagling the code for this monster. still grinding away on other stuff for more secret projects.

Mejas Doto has stepped down as Consul of Arcona after a tenure of almost a year. In his absence, a vaccuum has formed in that clan. As a result, Sarin and I are asking for applications for the position of Consul. Requirements. Shoot your apps to Sarin, Raken and I.

Congrats and thanks go to: Jac, Orv, Sil, and all the other people who've helped to bail the site out of trouble.
Kaek and sklib for reloading and manually processing all the missing data needed.
Mejas for his work as consul. Well done, all around.

And that's all for this time. If you guys have any questions, or need any help, shoot me an email, or PM me on IRC. Have fun!