It's rare for a member to make the kind of mark that warrants recognition with a Sacramental award in a short amount of time, but some people are such a dense package of both individual activity and leadership that one is left with no alternative other than to award them as such. Qormus Aquilla is the stand out on the Plagueis summit, both as a consumer and producer, to such an extent that a Sacramental award is the only reasonable recognition for what he has done.
As an individual, he has submitted to a, frankly, insane 64 competitions since his last recognition at the end of July. This includes a 24 of 25 finish for the recently finished Pro Bowl where he scored three top-three competition finishes, earned 166 total points, and ninth overall out of 56 total competitors across four Clans. Overall, he has placed in 23 of the competitions he has entered, earning 3 Diamond, 1 Ruby, 5 Amethyst, 7 Sapphire, 5 Emerald, and 2 Topaz Crescents. He has collected 50 Clusters of Earth for gaming, 9 Clusters of Graphite for graphics, and 15 Clusters of earth for his 5,562 words of fiction. He is without a doubt the pinnacle of personal activity.
What makes the above even more impressive, however, is that he was able to dedicate that level of attention to his own personal activities while at the same time performing to a level of excellence in leadership that most others would struggle to achieve with all of their focus devoted to it. In the lull period between the Rite of Supremacy and the Pro Bowl I challenged my Quaestors to develop a competition event that they individually could run to fill the gap, and Qormus stepped up to the plate with a gusto. The Aliso Summer Festival consisted of a four week long event of three competitions per week that Qormus developed, implemented, and scored all on his own. His promotion of the event via reports, email, and generated 110 total entries across those 12 competitions and was, from where I am sitting, a perfect warm up for the Pro Bowl that was greatly responsible for Plagueis increasing its total entries by more than 100 from the RoS in the Pro Bowl. During the Pro Bowl itself Qormus worked tirelessly to push both his team and his House to participate, sending out no fewer than 14 email messages to both the House email group and his members individually to promote the event. He also coordinated with his subordinate Battleteam Leader Aleister when messaging the members within Opress to ensure they weren't getting over messaged as well, with Aleister handling direct reach outs to those members and Qormus on email engagement. He has even, within the day of having them assigned, completed all of the recommendations for member awards within his unit as a result of the Pro Bowl. His work continues to be nothing short of outstanding.
One of the greatest honors a Clan summit member can have is to bestow a Sacramental award upon one of their members. The first of those awards is an even bigger milestone, and one I am thrilled to be able to award. Thank you, Qormus, for all that you have done since joining the staff. It is my hope that writing awards like this becomes, simply, the norm. Congratulations!
Master Selika Roh di Plagia, 2021-10-22 22:00:41 UTC