Archenksov has completed a successful full year as Consul of Odan-Urr after transitioning from the Proconsul role before transitioning to what is going on eight months as Combat Master since his last promotion. He has been an exemplary leader in every role he has taken on. He is a great communicator who has a vision that he shares, inspiring others towards his approach and doing so with commitment. Capable of making decisions that need to be made and standing by them to drive things forward from day to day. It’s been a pleasure working with him in the capacities I’ve had the pleasure and look forward to having him be part of any team. For much of this work as a Consul he has earned a Ruby Scepter last October as well as an Anteian Cross for his work on the Creatures project for possessions.

As Combat Master, he showed his willingness to make decisions and commit with refinements to improve things for members who interact with the CS system. Properly communicating with the membership taking questions and discussing challenging elements of the system like time outs, creating conflict, how to handle possessions items like armor and inappropriate content, Then working out loadout changes to remove ambiguity between possessions and the ACC and sharing updates with membership. He clearly has a vision of what the ACC should be and listens to members to make it as enjoyable as possible for as many people as he can.

To create content for members, he has organized or helped in running 37 different competitions as part of larger series, a five-week long puzzle competition series for the entire Brotherhood, a range of competitions during a cooperative event between Clan Arcona and Clan Odan-Urr exploring the Collective faction, a set of light competitions for Clan-Odan Urr to develop their assets and a large scale competition for Odan-Urr focused on the Clan storyline. Focusing on large sets of well-organized content for members.

While organizing, he also participated in an incredible 258 different competitions, while earning during that time 111 crescents and 11 Novas. This included many different puzzles and trivia competitions, as well as gaming, poetry, run-ons and other covering every activity type in the club.

For all the successful demonstration of leadership, as well as a highly productive and active member of the community, I strongly recommend Archenksov for promotion to Equite 4. Congratulations.

Mav & Evant

Master Aramis Taelyan, 2019-09-19 02:09:37 UTC

Combat Master is not an easy job. You’re usually stuck between a rock (Grand Master) and a hard place (member wants and expectations). Fortunately, I’ve had the pleasure of working alongside our newest Combat Master—Arch— as he stepped up to fill the role. This was not the first time we worked together, of course, as our journey together started long ago when I was serving as CM. At the time, he called out my lack of punctuation in my bullet points on the newspost that was calling for ACC Judge applications. Since then, I’ve watched him say [adorable] things like “I’ll never be a house leader”, “I’ll never be a Consul”, and “I’ll never be CM”.

Heh.

Fast forward to the present, and I’m honored to be adding my voice of support to his elevation to Equite 4 for the following reasons:

Before he stepped up into the role of Combat Master, Archenskov served dutifily as Consul of Clan Odan-Urr—making a concentrated effort to work with the Dark Council to improve relations between club level leadership and the members. Any time I asked for advice, input, or feedback on Voice-related Fiction, Arch was always quick to get back to me and respond to my queries. He did this with a level of poise and rationality that set the bar and example for how to be agreeable and work for the betterment of the club and the membership, even if you didn’t always exactly agree with what the club leadership was doing. This willingness to help and empower others while speaking up for what you believe is the hallmark that sets leaders and regular members apart in my eyes, and Arch has done this time after time while setting a living example for not just his members, but for his summit and other Dark Summit members as well.

As Combat Master, Arch wasted no time in picking up where he left off when he previously served as a judge. He immediately set to work on auditing existing documentation with a direct plan to clean up ACC Venues, clarify sections of the ACC Guidelines, and improve the wording on the ACC rubric to work more for both the Judges and members reading those judgements. He quickly focused on trying ways to improve the judging process by implementing a ‘rule of two” to help increase cohesion and consistency with grading between different Judges.

He has overseen a judging team and taking part in qualifying 22 new members into the ACC platform. This not only covers new members, but also returning veterans, and does not account for the time and attention to reviewing and providing feedback for members that needed extra boosts to pass their exam on the second or even third try. As with his process as Consul, his professionalism and poise have been boons to the ACC’s image among members that have, historically, avoided the platform entirely. These conversions are key to the future of the ACC, and Arch’s attention has no doubt helped fuel this. To date, he has overseen the same staff of judges that have completed grading on 39 ACC matches.

Part of those matches included the grading of the club-wide Spring 2019 ACC Championship. To accomplish this, Arch used a data pool of members that had shown interest or activity in the ACC and personally recruited the 32 members to participate in the bracket. Beyond that, he made sure that matches were graded between rounds in an extremely timely manner to keep things moving and to beat the deadline/impetus of a looming Great Jedi War. This tournament would not have been successful without his careful planning, attention to detail, and most importantly his execution.

As an admin, Arch has made a number of quality of life updates to the Character Sheet system. Most notably, he went through the Wikipedia documentation for Force Powers and annotated (with hyperlinks!) what Feats apply/tie to the respective Force Power in the description boxes of the template. This has made it much more efficient for even someone like me that knows most of the Feats off the top of his head since coming up the bulk of them. This is just another example of establishing easy to access documentation and quicker reference for members using the CS documentation to write their ACC matches and other fiction related activities. His monthly reports have all been full of changelogs of things that have changed, tips for the ACC, and other helpful communications that are integral to keeping members up to date and engaged with the platform. He also was key in helping identify poisonous/venomous creatures in the new Creatures system and aided with getting their descriptions coded and written up.

I can’t think of many members that I’ve served alongside that have so readily deserved this honor, so congratulations, my friend, and I know there’s a million things you haven’t done, so just you wait....

— M [dot] Ty

-W

Voice of the Brotherhood

Exarch Marick Tyris Arconae, 2019-09-18 14:58:46 UTC

Arch is one of the people who is well known in COU. While I can't speak to his work as Combat Master, or his numbers in events, I can say that since he was Consul he has been nonstop in his work to improve the Clan, and assist its members. This has been accomplished in numerous ways, from offering advice on how to handle different leadership positions, to helping with proof reading for various competitions, to cheering people on and putting out reminders of competitions for people to participate in. I believe for all of his work he deserves this promotion to Equite 4.

-Tisto

High Inquisitor Tisto Kingang, 2019-09-18 18:18:37 UTC

Archenksov has been a steady rock for Odan-Urr for some time, both in terms of leadership and activity. Much has been said for his leadership of the Clan but as his Proconsul I’d like to add that he was wonderful to work with for several reasons. As a workmate, he was always willing to lead from the front and put forth just as much effort as the rest of us. As a mentor, he showed me what it meant to be a Consul in today’s DB, lessons I still carry with me to this day. As a clanmate, he was always there to lend a helping hand, even when he was tired or the train tried to kill him 3x in one day. I really appreciated it and so did the rest of the Clan. In terms of positions, he has served as Shadow Academy Docent, Combat Master, Consul, Appeals Panelist, ACC Judge, and Proconsul at some point during his last promotion and now.

In terms of activity, Arch has completed 258 competitions, 5 PvP matches, 18 PvE matches, 1 ACC battle, 12 ACC battles judged, 11 Fiction Activities worth 13,924 words, 5 Run On posts worth 2,840 words, 6 SA courses, 1 SA degree, 11 SA courses graded, 19 news posts, and 65 news post comments. During that stretch he acquired the following: 1 Ruby Scepter, 1 Anteian Cross, 4 Gold Nova, 4 Silver Nova, 3 Bronze Nova, 4 Crescents with Diamond Star, 26 Crescents with Ruby Star, 34 Crescents with Amethyst Star, 43 Crescents with Sapphire Star, 2 Crescents with Emerald Star, 2 Crescents with Topaz Star, 4 Pendants of Blood, 182 Clusters of Fire, 36 Clusters of Ice, 24 Clusters of Earth, 42 Clusters of Graphite, 1 Dark Side Scroll, 8 Scrolls of Foundation, 10 Legion of Scholar, 1 Seal of Loyalty, 15 Seals of Wrath, 17 Seals of Fury, and 11 Seals of Discord.

I’m incredibly proud to have served Odan-Urr with him and it is my honor to recommend that he be promoted to Equite 4! Congratulations my friend, Odan-Urr wouldn’t be the same without you. In the words of Dr. Frank N. Furter, “A toast.”

Aura Ta’var
High Councillor, Odan-Urr

Aurora "Aura" Ta'var, 2019-09-19 01:58:42 UTC

Hard to exactly say where I should begin with Arch. In the time I've been here in the DJB, Arch has been a great help to me when I needed it. They showed to me that they were great for leadership, as well even at times reached out to encourage me to try applying for roles in the past. When I first showed interest in a position of either BT, AED, or QUA, Arch immediately privately messaged me and encouraged me, saying that they believed I'd be good at it. Yet that doesn't even begin to mount to the number of accomplishments that Arch has done over the years. I feel if I were to try and put all of that into words, I'd be doing them a bit of a disservice for the amount of dedication they've put into not only this clan but to this club.

While that part has yet to be seen, Arch, you've been a great inspiration and I can say that in the time I've been here in the DJB, you're certainly one of the ones who've not only made it entertaining but also like there was a good semblance of second family. Here to you, the best birb.

** Ethan Martes**
BTL, Odan-Urr

Ethan Martes, 2019-09-19 02:03:23 UTC