It is always very gratifying to see members giving back to our peculiar little corner of the internet. Some folks end up taking on a particular role- be it Clan leadership, DC service, working for a particular office or facet of the club. For Kojiro, he has seen multiple tenures as a Battle Team Leader, a period as an Aedile, a period as a Quaestor, service to the office of the Headmaster and the Regent, acting as an Appeals Panelist to the Justicar and most recently a stint as a Magistrate to the Fist. Now, while I cannot attest to the work that Kojiro has done as he has served to assist the various DC offices.
What I can do is to attest to what I have seen as a member and of course what I have observed. There are some things that are easy to look at. For example there are some hard stats that one can look at. I mean, you know the things like: organized 29 competitions, co-organized 16 comps, the 281 total comp participations (or 244 if we aren't counting containers and the like. Kojiro has completed some 11 PvP matches, some 39 PvE activities, and some 22 total fiction activities. Those 22 fiction activities have generated some 17715 words of fiction, with another 4371 words spread between 3 Run Ons and 6 RO posts.
In a normal recommendation, I think this is also the part where I would point to his Sapphire Blade and the content of the Merit awards that Kojiro has earned. And I will likely get to them in a bit. The thing about it is that Kojiro is worth more than the sum of his statistics. I mean, when you look at a member with as much time invested in our wee club, there are things like the seven flavors of Vendetta Seals found in his trophy case. Justinios, myself, and several leaders have weighed in over the years into the nature and the energy that Kojiro has brought to the table under the many names that he has carried over the years. It is certainly commendable when you look upon the range of positions that Koji has offered his assistance to. In 2017, then-Consul Locke attested to his efforts to support Clan activity and fictional development. He has supported the unit as the likes of our current Proconsul Darkhawk, former Rollmaster Tasha'Vel, former Consul Sanguinius, formal Praetor to the Headmaster Jax Bendal, and former FIST Justinios Drake have all attested.
A large thing, even beyond the breath of Kojiro's contributions has been in part the length of time in which he has been supporting the club. Of all the things that Kojiro has done to support Clan Naga Sadow, I feel that he has more than earned some recognition. Look at the sheer number of competitions he has over the years, look at the mystical/wandering flavor he brought while leading Marka Ragnos to try and complement the militant flavor of its sister house, look at the sense of comraderie he tried to bring out in his fellow Sadowans, look at the way he has tried to leverage new abitilies and new ideas over the years, look at the way he tried to push to get things done, look at his contributions to projects like Creatures in Possessions (a matter of public record), and looking at how even with his activity is lower now than it has been, he still has been quite willing to offer some ideas and insight into how we can better leverage story elements and pillars of our club. When he saw a hole in the way that things were being run, Kojiro has tried to fill said hole.
Without Kojiro's part and influence in past events, I think there would be a real Koji-shaped hole. He is starkly individualistic, passionate about many things (in both club and in real life), and he obviously possesses a desire to give back to our community. He has organized or co-organized interesting and engaging competitions like Rest and Relaxation Marka Ragnos Style, Star Wars mad libs, a post-RO event following action on Mygeeto, a serialized fiction series revolving around Marka Ragnos called The Seige of Heaven and more. He was part of the success of the Sands of Time event that saw 18 participants in 2017, the Below Zero event which saw 15 unique participants later in 2017, the 2018 New Dawn series that collectively saw 15 unique participants, the HMR Long Road competitions that saw 9 unique participants over its 6 competitions in 2019 and he was also a part of the Prepare for War pre-Vendetta event that saw 9 unique participants on the eve of Great Jedi War XIV. All of that doesn't even touch upon the competitions that Koji organized or co-organized as a Magistrate.
Koji has brought an energy and a determination to the table that has is more enviable. I mean, I can poke open the wiki and back that up rather easily. For example, in Great Jedi War XIV, he was cited as one of the members who had exerted "maximum effort" in the Vendetta. This was a feat he has also accomplished back in Great Jedi War XII. His dipping into the more 'leadership' and contribution-heavy elements of the Brotherhood seem to have started pretty solidly in 2014 when he picked up Battle Team Leader. Since that time, he has sought to carve out his little niche where he can give back.
I think that when I step back and look back at what is available on the site from the times before I had joined the club, when you examine the whole of Kojiro's Dark Brotherhood career, that he has earned a spot amongst the line of Adepts that our club has produced.
I guess drinks in your honor will be on me tonight, Koj. Congratulations!
Bentre
Adept Bentre Stahoes, 2022-01-11 01:05:30 UTC