Sven Rawioni has been hard at work within Arcona through his time as QUA and beyond. Through this effort he has reached the goal of Amethyst Kukri.

Envoy Zuza Lottson, 2024-01-15 23:26:45 UTC

The Red Paw'ed one himself. Archian is a bundle of feathers, fur, claws and tails but that chaos doesn't stop him. Tali can speak far better to his term as Aedile and overall proficiencies as a leader so I will just stick to the numbers on this one.

In his 8 months as Aedile, Archian ran a total of 12 competitions, only 1 of which as a co-organiser. Not only that but since his last award Archian participated in a total of 182 competitions, 22 of which were containers, working hard to pull in 35 placements, one of which being a Silver Nova from the most recent war; Of which I'd be remiss to not mention that he earned 10 Seals of Transcendence for his efforts. Not that competitions are the only thing Archian makes a point of being involved in, Dm-ing 1 roleplay with 19659 words, as well as being involved in 11 other roleplays, conjoining with his fictions to create a total of 26 fiction activities for an even greater total of 78 Clusters of Ice. His drawings have collected 60 Clusters of Graphite and across 8 gaming activities our favourite red floofer earned himself 35 Clusters of Earth.

This is a pawsome amount of activity and while I said I'd let Tali handle everything else I'd love to draw attention to one other figure that I usually don't bring up in recommendations. Archian has made 34 news post comments since his last medal. That might not seem like a huge deal but considering how often I catch myself missing news posts, this is a small but mighty show of dedication to keeping up with the club and his interest in it.

I'm very happy to be recommending this award to you Archian, make sure to keep it away from Tajga!

Envoy Zuza Lottson, 2024-01-15 20:42:18 UTC

Dr. Bril Teg Arga has been a busy bee since his last award back in July. Participating in a WHOPPING 174 competitions (145 non-container), he hasn't been shy of going beyond participation. No, this *Bril*iant chap has earned himself crescents, 4 of the Diamond variety, 4 of Ruby, 3 Amethyst, 11 Sapphire, 8 Emerald, 4 Topaz and 1 Quartz star. That is 35 placements which considering those numbers include this years Vendetta, is damned impressive. Speaking of the war, Bril earned 16 Seals of Transendence, as well as a Silver and a Bronze Nova with his efforts.

Just to round off the numbers, across 23 gaming activites he has earned 2 Clusters of Fire and 271 clusters of earth. He also has 45 clusters of graphite under his belt and a massive 222 Clusters of Ice from 38 Fiction activities across the last several months. Never mind all that, but he even took to the books to secure that Doctor title, completeing 6 courses and 4 degrees.

I'll let Sivall speak to Bril's character, but cor blimey, do the numbers hold weight. Bril, you told me once that you wouldn't let hitting the higher ranks stop you and you have held to that word. Thank you, and keep it up.

Envoy Zuza Lottson, 2024-01-15 20:00:17 UTC

Just with Ood's Quaestor work this year, there is roots laid down. He entered Galeres, the House in something of a state fictionally and in reality, and took it up like he'd been here before and knew exactly the route to take. He has spent hours past his bedtime (much to our chargin) story working to bring Galeres into a fresh life, including the big decisions on what paths to follow and how to do them. He also has been pushing to run competitions as often as he can, currently running an event for the House where a great disaster has struck and the members of our militant house must act in disaster relief. He has run a total of 19 competitions just in this short time since his return and there is NO shortage of plans on the horizon. This also includes weekly checks of members to see and award people and a overall enthusiastically large push to breathe a breath of fresh air into Galeres in the chats and one on one with older members.

But, onto the numbers. Since January last year, Odd has participated in 158 competitions (28 Container), 13 of which during the GJW this year, and earned 64 placements, with two of them being a Silver and a Bronze nova. This is a HUGE percentage of competitions won and a momumental effort. His efforts also include 13 fiction activities, scoring 27 Clusters of Ice, while also collecting 13 clusters of graphite, 7 SA exams and 9 Society rank ups. All of this while performing duties as the Right hand of Justice!

Frankly the energy that Ood has for the club after all of these years is inspirational. I can't count all the rings on this tree, but in the last 3 months as Galeres' Quaestor he has been a boon for us all. Mostly. Sometimes we need him to pause because he gets ahead of us in his rush. Of all the problems to have however, this is probably the best kind.

Envoy Zuza Lottson, 2024-01-15 02:33:28 UTC

Zen was the sole author for Writing Dialogue. This worked out to 1920 words of course notes and an exam to functions as a mini writing workshop for members. The use of video from canon Star Wars media was ultimately Zen's idea, as he wanted to use the sequence from ANH for an exam question; hopefully he hasn't come to regret that after seeing his work sit in limbo for several weeks while Zuza and I figured out how to handle video content through a centralized SA account.

While he's not the SA's most prolific grader, Xen's courses tend to be a heavier lift than most exams. In particular, the Test of Wisdom is significantly more work to grade than your average SA exam, as Zen has to review an entire story--running several dozen pages in a few instances--and offer detailed feedback to the submitter. Then he has to review the whole thing when the member resubmits to assess their improvement. It's a step above and beyond what most other Professors or Docents have had to do over the years, but it's something Zen has taken on with gusto. I and the Brotherhood's writing community appreciate his work.

Alethia Archenksova
Headmistress

Headmistress Alethia Archenksova, 2024-01-14 18:30:40 UTC

The man behind the scenes so to speak Raistlin tends to keep a low profile. That however doesn’t mean he is not an active and productive member of the Vizsla Summit. Since his last recognition Raist has participated in 62 competitions, 23 Gaming activities, and 2 Role Playing sessions. This has garnered him 8 Crescents, nearly 350 Clusters, and Seals of Transcendence. That is pretty active for a guy who works more than I do which is saying something.

On top of that he has been instrumental in my wiki projects the last 6 or so months. He has been heavily involved in creating the Korus Wiki Page with numerous sections being attributed to him personally. These include Raistlin's Respite, The Oasis, and The Bulwark. Additionally, he did all the planning and writing of the Nox Company Wiki page that was recently uploaded by me. Both of these were start from scratch ground up wiki pages with minimal guidance from me. Just an incredible effort to take up on his own voluntarily. The Nox Company just showed up in my inbox like some magical gift from the DB gods. It is nice to have people with that kind of drive and initiative on the summit. As someone who has done several of these wiki articles from scratch, I can attest to how much work and time goes into writing, formatting, and researching a wiki article. let alone two quality entries.

This doesn’t even include all the discussions and planning on implementing so many of our other changes such as the change over to Magistrate roles or introducing the various factions in and around Zsoldos. His contributions to creating lore for Vizsla have been substantial and well-developed. His advice is always well respected in the Summit Chat and I am happy to recommend Raistlin for this Amethyst Kukri!

Vynn Salm, 2024-01-14 18:29:30 UTC

It has been nearly 7 months since Kah'ri's last medal. In that time, Kah'ri has stepped up into a leadership role. In this position, he has been eager to learn, eager to execute, and eager to improve. Not only has he shown an eagerness for all of these things, he has done them.

Kah'ri has now been QUA for nearly 6 months, helping to lead CSP through a GJW along the way. IN this time he has participated in 109 competitions, stacks of crescents to boot, he's leveled up in societies 10 times, participated in 4 RPs as a participant and run one as the DM. Kah'ri has been involved on all fronts when it comes to member activity, but where he has really come to shine is as an emerging leader of Clan Scholae Palatinae.

If I need something done, Kah'ri is always the first to jump at the chance. Of the 15 competitions run during CSP's Sithmas event, Kah'ri supplied the concept for 7 of them. He routinely contributes, even if he is not running the event. During the Sithmas event, he completed in all the events while encouraging others to do so as well. Kah'ri is also instrumental in advertising the clan events. He has also personally reached out to our members with AWOL warnings and continues to show a unmatched dedication to his role.

Beyond the daily operations of being QUA, Kah'ri has also taken up a project of creating Renders of CSP's Headquarters. One of these renders is visible in my last report. Throughout the process of creating these pieces, Kah'ri has been receptive He has also created images for all of the CSP Artifacts, which can be found on the Wiki. Including several gifs for the Rajk Opal. I also got a a kick ass render of CSP's SARLAC Station from him. Throughout the process of these projects, Kah'ri has been nothing but receptive and responsive to criticism. He takes it well, focuses on how he can improve and then does so. I've been so impressed with this, I'll be putting him to work on a long backlog of images the Clan needs.

In addition to this project, Kah'ri has provided me with the swish new graphics for my Consul report. His work stands miles above anything I could make and he volunteered without question.

Kah'ri places improving the experience of our members above anything else and has grown every single day in his role as QUA. I am so greatful for his positive attitude, work ethic and drive. I cannot wait to see what else he has in store for us. Congratulations Kah'ri. Keep up the fantastic work!

Emperor Thran Occasus-Palpatine, 2024-01-11 02:55:57 UTC

Socorra is just a flat-out tornado of activity. Seemingly everywhere there is a competition to be done she is on it. Since the end of October. She has organized 39 competitions and she teamed up with another member to co-run 1 for a total of 40. That is 1 competition on an average of 1.5 days. She has also participated in another 54 competitions during that time. She has DM'ed 2 Role playing sessions and participated in another 14. Just truly impressive numbers especially for such a short period.

Socorra has been the Proconsul of Vizsla for a short time. However, her work both inside and outside is considerable. I will let Noobi elaborate more on her work for the Regent staff and such. Having worked with her on that staff for a while now I can see her dedication to making things for members and just how far-reaching that work is for the club in general. She dives into everything like her activity and it is fantastic to see her back in the brotherhood and succeeding at a high level.

Vynn Salm, 2024-01-02 00:12:05 UTC

It's been almost exactly a year since Zuza's last recognition for her work on the HM/SA staff, a period that neatly overlaps with her service as my Praetor. Although I discussed much of her work in her recent promotion, now I'm stuck trying to figure out how to quantify that in terms of XP.

Part of Zuza's job over the last year has been, as I put it in the promo rec, "Deputy Arch." She had to prepare to take on the HM role in case I was unavailable for any reason. Sometimes she got something to show for it, like the 36 exams she graded during this period or credit for running the Q4 Decathlon competitions. But usually it meant that she had to give up time that could have been spent gaming, writing, or doing anything at all that would've been more fun so that she could deal with continuity training. I have no idea how long she spent on this. I know simple tasks, like when I walked her through grading SA exams, were pretty quick: that was a 13 minute call in January. Other times it was more involved: when I gave her a full overview of staging SA courses, which includes preparing and uploading assets, creating the course on the site, creating the exam, and repeatedly previewing and tweaking everything, I know she sat patiently on the call for a little over an hour. But I don't know how long she spent looking through the style guide and building the template for the upcoming societies courses, or learning how to make course updates through the admin panel (which only she and Zen have done among current staffers), or handling the off-site issues tracker and bug report system (which only she's done), or learning how to update the Ruby script that governs degree progress.

Zuza also provided skills that I don't have. I knew the gifs for Comms 101 were outdated and needed to be replaced but I don't know how. So Zuza did it, and then she taught me how she did it. My only experience with video editing is a school project in 2005, so it fell to Zuza to create the video for Writing Dialogue. I made her track time on that one, so I know it was about two hours of harvesting clips, editing, and re-editing.

Since this summer, Zuza has officially been the point person for a lot of what is now Emissary work. Specifically, stalking our new joins and doing individual, private outreach to them. It was a natural evolution of the ad hoc new member engagement she'd been doing and the informal taskings I'd been giving her to poll newer members about the Essentials courses and other SA projects. She was the only person in the club working this as a primary duty before the Emissary position opened; now she's still doing it but she's at least part of a team.

I guess I should step back and acknowledge that a lot of people don't think that "chat" is work. Well, if it's not work, why is it so damn hard to get people to do it? At every level of this club, purposeful communication is critical for getting results. But it's a struggle to get people to go out and promote their competitions. It's a struggle to get supervisors to give their subordinates actual instructions or feedback. The CONs sit in their chat complaining that the DC doesn't talk to them while we sit in our chat complaining that the CONs don't talk to us. For years, it's been an uphill battle to get people to talk about the work their peers and subordinates are doing so they can get timely medals and promotions. I used to tell my junior summit to "do one thing and talk about it" and it was like pulling teeth. It's impossible to quantify the energy expenditure or impact of this, but the units where people do it are active and growing and the units where people are not doing it are not. So it's tempting to write off "Zuza talks to new people" as a charming personality quirk, but that's ripping her off. It was direct tasking from her boss that she faithfully executed for half a year. Recruiters, sales reps, pollsters, and others make a living doing the same thing. When Zuza was starting conversations with twenty-something Discord-authenticated new joins, getting into voice and video chat and gaming sessions with them, that was an intentional time investment in the future of this club and a mission so important it just got the first new DC position in six years.

Zuza, thank you for all your work over the past year. I look forward to seeing what you and Qormus can accomplish in the new office.

Alethia Archenksova
Headmistress

Headmistress Alethia Archenksova, 2023-12-20 19:23:39 UTC

Adept Malik Sadow has been grinding away at the XP ladder in order to reach another accolade in his career. Over the past few months this Old Guard of Sadow has put forth an impressive stack of activity. Most recently he racked up seventy one points for Sadow during the Great Jedi War XVI: Transcendence. He participated in seven comp bins and placed in five GJW Comps. Those contributions led to CNS having the highest participation rate throughout the war! He has participated in over one hundred comps earning himself close to a hundred clusters along this trek.

Not only that, to further his DB education he took on courses at the Shadow Academy earning himself two degrees in Communications & Activities. Malik's commitment to our little Star Wars family is difficult to quantify in a manner commensurate with who he is. However that commitment is always on point and leading by example. He has been the BTL for Sapphire Squadron for nearly a year and under his leadership Sapphire witnessed an increase in activity from its members which helped bolster our participation rate for the War.

As one of our resident Old Guard, his council is both persuasive and impactful at all levels of the Clan. His experience and knowledge has contributed to multiple developments of Clan possessions, story arcs and the overall dynamics of the Clan. As a former member of the Club’s Star Chamber the Adept is a valuable member to have in and Clan.

It is with great pleasure to be a part of this award recommendation. This is just a small token of the Clan’s appreciation for everything you do. Congrats Sir and well deserved!

Adept DarkHawk Sadow, 2023-11-21 13:02:16 UTC