Erin has thrown herself into her dual roles of Emissary and M:SCL, working to develop a recruiting messaging strategy, ensuring regular social media postings, redesigning our recruitment rewards system, co-writing and releasing the first member newsletter, and working with other DCers to develop XP values for regular site-based staff work. On the SCL side, she has worked wonders with our data reports, continuing to develop new reports and make the existing ones more useful--not to mention taking on the time consuming but important task of organizing, analyzing, and sharing the data with the DC and CONs--but her greatest accomplishment was taking the lead on coding the new ACC judging system, which all told took 80+ hours of work over several months and has allowed us to finally roll out the second half of the revamped ACC society.

On top of all of this, Erin has been a regular and vocal participant in DC discussions, often yelling at Howie so I don't have to. Thanks and congratulations!

Lord Dacien Victae, 2024-07-03 16:27:54 UTC

Zuji, Diy, the Goat, Flyndt... A m'they'dy of many names, titles and abilities. I'm going to zip us through the statistics of Zuji's antics since their last award last November. In this time Zuji has participated in a whopping 172 competitions, only 34 of which were containers. They also organised 1 comp, and co-organised 10 with me for the Gods, We Dine in Brimstone event. This earned them 38 Crescents, 2 of Diamond, 7 Ruby, 11 Amethyst, 9 Sapphire, 5 Emerald, 3 Topaz and 1 Quartz. Zuji has also participated in 32 gaming activities, earning 203 clusters of fire, along side 34 clusters of graphite and another 32 Fiction activities. These include 7 typical fictions, 22 participant roleplays and 2 DM'ed sessions, all coming together for a total 83 Clusters of Ice for 48,406 words written just in the last 7 months. That's INSANE. Though of course it doesn't cover everything as Zuji hit up the Shadow Academy recently, passing 17 courses for 3 additional degrees with all of their effort combined leading to a rank up in both roleplay socieities, 1 in the Shroud and 1 more in the Collegium itself. This activity has earned 679,620 credits for Clan Arcona.

But to speak only on Zuji's abilities to make the site weep as they complete puzzles on their phone, would be to miss out on the most important aspects of them.

For the last four months Zuji has been my Proconsul. It was a difficult decision to make at the time and I'm sure there's a few people who were sick of hearing me pondering it by the time the decision was made. I made the right decision, and that is proven every single day. They are constantly on the ball helping with members, whether its in the server channels or in dms you can count on Zuji to be there. They have been the back bone of the successful Arc-Announcements channel and there's been more than one time where I've dropped news personally and still been beaten out on getting it in the channel before they do. Zuj has also been pushing for reminders of recent conversations in our summit channel and its been invaluable. Sometimes conversations are quite long and their effort to ensure that a TLDR with the prominent talking points highlighted is provided has been vital for the summit. All this while being on the front lines of encouragment, knowing the members well enough to know what to throw their way in a lovely tactical manner.

And this is just what can be seen in our channels. Only myself and Atty can attest to how important Zuji was to the running of the Gods event. They wrote a huge chunk of all the event fictions, being the live soundboard for all the ideas. Originally the event was supposed to be 3 more entire events, with Tiexsema coming to light later on in the series. Zuji was an integral part of the conversations that managed to not just compress the event into what it became, but making my haphazard display of ideas into a flowing narrative. While I made spreadsheets for grading, they worked on making a physical map with the locations of the event pinpointed and the environmental effects so the membership would have a better mental view of what they were facing.

Not that this even covers everything, even now we have nights where we spend hours discussing Arcona's fictional future and the angles we might take. What the future holds and the plans for it. They've been a huge support to me, directly as we've introduced new structural changes and how best to trial and implement them. They were there for me, the summit and the clan as a whole back in January. From proofreading my announcements to the clan, to helping settle my anxiety and that of others, while also actively stepping up to make sure the correct information was being shared, they were a huge part of why things went so smoothly. When it comes to reports, Zuji has been pulling the competition and news hauls without even being asked, and we've settled into a fairly even split with it just naturally. They're also consistently looking for ways to get others non-site xp, looking into others who might be able to do those sweeps and get experience in the formatting and process of report writing even before they're considering leadership.

More recently, Zuji has been on the lead for the Award Sweep this quarter. Real life has stolen some time from me and I've not been worried for a moment because I know that Zuji is not only able, but proactive and willing to step up and ensure that with my limited time we can get it done and make sure our members get the best we can give them. And not to make this too long, but their efforts haven't been restricted to just within Arcona. Zuji regularly interacts and encourages members outside of the clan, and even has been noted stepping up as player in a roleplay beyond expectations. To quote Anders:

"Diy here has been aiding me with Immortal Sith Part 2.5. Even as a participant, they kept up to speed with all the RP scores, hit points, and rolls, making life a lot easier for both myself as the DM and their fellow participants."

This RP went on for months and while I wasn't in it, I've been in the same series of rps for part 2 and 3 and witnessed the organisation, level-headedness, improvisation and overall awesomeness you need. It's hours of effort, dedicated note taking and clear, kind communication that they weren't even asked to do. They just stepped up to help and honestly that alone, is the makings of greatness in this club.

Zuji. I may have surpassed you in rank and become the master, but I won't ever pass you in the impact, dedication and love you have put into this community.

Envoy Zuza Lottson, 2024-06-23 12:30:54 UTC

Turel earned this RS through his turely relentless gaming activity. Congrats! Enjoy the (belated) cluster money.

Lord Dacien Victae, 2024-05-28 13:56:02 UTC

Since his return to Vizsla on March 23rd of this year, Arcia has participated in 67 competitions, 67 gaming activities, 1 RP, and won clusters: 6 Diamond, 6 Ruby, 8 Amethyst, 7 Sapphire, and 5 Emerald. Alongside that is 2186 CFs. And of course, 375080 credits earned for Vizsla.

That is incredible for a month's time. Thank you for your service and looking forward to next month's numbers!

-Socks, VizCon

General Socorra Tenebrosa Nhar’qual Erinos, 2024-05-23 19:13:16 UTC

Zuza stepped up as Consul during a challenging period and immediately addressed member concerns, resolved pressing issues, and formed a new leadership team. She effectively managed the transition, tying up unfinished projects and storylines from the previous summit. Additionally, she demonstrated exceptional coordination skills by collaborating with three other clan summits to organize the "Of Fire and Brimstone" event, which attracted 50 participants from the involved clans.

Zuza's exceptional leadership qualities are evident in her proactive approach to resolving the difficult situation she inherited. Her dedication and hard work were instrumental in reassuring her fellow Arconans and ensuring a smooth transition. She is one of our most active and outgoing leaders, always engaging with her members and reaching out to her fellow Consuls to develop and improve relationships between the Clans. Her ability to handle the most difficult leadership situation the club has faced in a decade further exemplifies her competence.

Furthermore, Zuza's commitment to recognizing and rewarding members' contributions is commendable. She initiated a review of awards upon assuming leadership and promptly recommended deserving members for medals. To ensure ongoing recognition, she has selected and trained her summit to conduct regular award reviews, guaranteeing that all members receive their medals and promotions in a timely fashion.

Overall, Zuza's performance as Consul has been exemplary. Her ability to navigate challenges, coordinate events, and prioritize member recognition demonstrates her exceptional leadership skills and dedication to the well-being of the clan. Congrats, Zuza!

Lord Dacien Victae, 2024-05-16 17:54:09 UTC

There is little that I can't say about Alaisy that wouldn't speak to the efforts and contributions that she has contributed to Taldryan both since her arrival as well as her eager appointment as my Magistrate. From the very first moments, she reminded me of myself when I joined Taldryan and became a Quaestor; always eager to push the story, develop our lore, and get her little non-ewok hands all over everything she could even if that took away from things that myself or the Pecan could do leaving us with naught but crumbs.

Just in this last quarter, she has completed a staggering 256 competitions while organizing 44, and co-organizing 4 of those; bringing in from that 115 (!) Crescents, 5 Clusters of Fire, 128 Clusters of Ice, 108 Clusters of Graphite, 17 society rank-ups, and contributing nearly 1.5 million in credits for us. Which in a three month span is an IMPRESSIVE endeavor.

In her spare time when she isnt doing competitions, she spear-headed the Fortress Cloudhaven Roleplay with myself as a backup in case she needed it but unsurprisingly ended up not, orchestrating and running the story over two massive sessions spanning well over the end of the event due to its popularity and the random needed improv when things would start to go off the rails. Since then, she has been diving head-first into the Dalicron Prelude; Sins of an Empire, and the following Phase 1 development due out later this year. Where Meleu has been backbone focusing the worlds and environments, she has been the architect behind the lead organizations and groups that will be further defining and fleshing out those creations. Anders, as the one who worked with her on those, went into more detail so I won't touch on them as directly.

She has also been working on NPCs for both campaigns, updating our NPC rosters, characters, and upcoming for release; revised population count numbers to account for expansion with Dalicron refugees and the raising of the Caelus system to a major population center in the outer rim. This also includes numerous expansions on our capital world of Kasiya itself, where she has actively been working on fleshing things out even further than they had already been with incredible detail; both through RPs as a participant in her role as Governor, as well as district-focused work during the RPs ran by our Emissary Erinyes that saw members of nearly all the Clans visit Port Kasiya itself.

Not even just that, but her discord presence each and every day like clockwork has been the highest out of the entire summit; rivaling that of even Discord addict Anders, helping to make sure that the summit is constantly visible both for our members in terms of social engagement, as well as to the brotherhood at large. Even those who aren't our members, she gladly socializes with and helps when they have questions or need help. Her efforts easily ensure that we have a warm and welcoming environment for all members of the Brotherhood, which is something I am proud to see.

For everything you have done over this last quarter, I want to extend this very special thank you Alaisy in the form of a Ruby Scepter. You truly help define Taldryan, both in name and our ideals, as well as what it means to be one of us. You've earned this easily.

Thank you Alaisy.

~Signed,
Lady Second Cassandra Oriana Taldrya
Supreme Chancellor of the Taldryan Republic
Clan Taldryan

Sage Cassandra Oriana Taldrya, 2024-05-14 13:00:16 UTC

Tahiri is one of the most steady contributors to Clan Plagueis's success as can be found anywhere. Recently returned to the summit in December after a hiatus, she has made contributions as both a consumer of content (and oh boy does she consume that content) as well as a leader giving back to the community.

Activity wise, she's been absolutely on fire since her last recognition. Competition wise, she has participated in 445 total non-container competitions while earning the following placements: 6 Diamond, 18 Ruby, 52 Amethyst, 56 Sapphire, 30 Emerald, 17 Topaz, and 7 Quartz crescents for a placement rate of 42%. Additionally, she's been kicking the crap out of gaming to the tune of 1,325 Clusters of Fire and an additional 192 Clusters of Earth. She's also been a bit of a monster on the fiction front, wracking up 24,072 words of fiction between fiction and RP. On top of that, she's pocketed 50 Clusters of Ice, 28 Clusters of Graphite, and 13 Seals of Transcendence while earning 10 society rank ups as well! She's even hosted a pair of competitions.

More than that, though, Tahiri has been a valuable piece of the Summit staff for Clan Plagueis. She stepped back up into the role last December when we were really in need of a Quaestor, giving me another chance to work with her. She really stepped up, working to push the sort of peer to peer style member engagement that Plagueis has always valued. She's also continued to release her monthly reports as well, ensuring that the membership is informed and up to speed while making sure to remind them to DB that day (one of the goals of our Clan report cadence). She ensured that awards and promotions are actioned on behalf of her charges in House Ventress, a critical function that is the foundation of positive member interactions. And beyond that she's always been someone to engage in the kind of community building activities, be it an RP session or hosting a gaming party, that build the atmosphere of Clan Plagueis in a positive way.

Tahiri's continued contributions to the Ascendant Clan are hard to assign a value to, but in the sense that what she does is priceless as opposed to unclear. She is a constantly up-beat presence for the members, putting the best foot of our Clan and Club overall forward with everything she does. For all the work and activity she does, I'm honored to be able to recommend her for her second Ruby Scepter. Well done, Tahiri!

Master Selika Roh di Plagia, 2024-05-14 01:10:16 UTC

Other people will discuss Korvis’ (Vynn Salm’s) leadership and its impact on the club, but I’ll just say this: even though the man has retired, he continues to display those same qualities. Korvis has served as a Magistrate in my office for nearly two years now. During that time he has helped run two Life Day Celebration Series competitions with the rest of the staff (one since his most recent recognition as a member of my staff), always trying to provide an interesting and fun experience - even as he was gearing down to retire from Consul. He’s remained committed and consistent throughout his tenure with the Regent Staff, throwing his hands into any work that comes his way and bringing his own ideas to the table and putting in the work for it to see completion.

Our main priority since his last recognition has been the Crafting System. Countless hours of discussion pre-launch and post-launch, Korvis was part of the team effort to see our test of the system through, contributing on discussions for both lightsabers and corvettes to determine how they would work in their respective corners, while participating personally in the development of Corvettes by providing ideas for fifteen crafting materials (writing descriptions for four of them), doing a substantial quality control check with Teebu on all lightsabers and corvette crafting materials (forty-five separate pages) correcting a couple errors, before going through the process of stocking all of the lightsaber crafting materials, corvette crafting materials, and member corvette upgrades to the stores. On paper, it doesn’t sound like a lot of work, but in reality this is all stuff that we do manually using a bunch of spreadsheets and the website, and we’ll work through maybe five to ten different ideas before we settle on a path that might be altered.

In addition to his work on the crafting system, Korvis has been leading the charge on bringing a long-requested type of land vehicle to possessions, completing the entire development for seventeen different pod-racer prototypes that are just awaiting final pricing and review. Korvis recognized the members’ desires and without prompting put in that work himself to research and develop this impending release like he usually does. The man will rewatch seasons of SW media with a pen and paper to record what he can and bring that to the members, and his dedication to improving this club as a whole and leading from the front lines is consistently displayed even through his work as a Magistrate.

For his leadership as a member, countless hours of work as a Magistrate, and consistent devotion to the Brotherhood, I am happy to recommend Vynn Salm for a Ruby Scepter.

KORVIS GETS AN AWARDIS. I coined that.

Anubis, 2024-04-16 18:32:24 UTC

Wally has continued to drive the RP train forward with remarkable success. During the first year of the Envoy Society's operation, more than two million words were written across nearly 200 completed RPs by over 150 different members. Wally was not personally involved in most of those RPs, and a great deal of credit is due to his staff and to the members and leaders of our seven clans for RP's incredible success, but it's safe to say that Wally has used his role to encourage widespread adoption of RP and to provide tools and advice to those interested in trying it. Without his contributions, I'm confident that RP would not be as successful as it has become.

In addition to his Exarch work (which also included running a DB-wide survey and working to implement some tweaks to Golden Envoy Mark awarding in response to it), Wally has helped out as my magistrate most significantly by drafting the One-Year XP Survey.

Lord Dacien Victae, 2024-04-01 13:47:23 UTC

Aiden Lee Deshra, formerly and perhaps better known as Rylance, has been a tremendous asset to the Fist staff and gaming community since rejoining the Fist Office a year ago. As a Magistrate his direct responsibility is helping take care of the queue, a duty for which Aiden has proven to be the most reliable and productive in the Fist office. In this current term Aiden has provided detailed review and timely processing for 533 gaming submissions directly impacting 113 unique members. To put that figure in perspective Aiden personally processed 37% of all gaming submissions during that time period.

Beyond his administrative duties with the queue Aiden has participated in every staff discussion and policy decision over the past year. He's been involved in and provided critical input to the development of 5 new platform proposals, a major policy change for Casual Queue (Cards Against Humanity Special Rule), and the overhaul of the GMRG society rewards and progression. His experience on staff and perspective as an active member of the gaming community has been crucial in every policy decision made this term.

On behalf of the gaming community thank you for your steadfast and quiet work behind the scenes to help make the gaming experience better for all members.

Councillor Turel Sorenn, 2024-03-05 18:16:43 UTC