Event History

CSP's own little ball of chaotic witchy pyromaniac. Rayne.

I have had the extreme pleasure of watching Rayne operate within CSP for the last 3 years. She has been nothing short of a shining star for the Clan. Rayne leads by example. She is omnipresent and supportive of the clan like no other person. She bleeds CSP.

Her participation numbers are second to none. Since her last medal she has run 1 competition, participated in 63 competitions, earning 22 crescents, a handful of clusters and a seal of loyalty, and ranked up in one society. Look back through the last 18 months and those numbers get absolutely gigantic. Her consistency is what really impresses me. Rayne has been one of the most reliable and constant members in all of CSP history. She deserves to be recognized for that alone.

What the site doesn't show is everything else she's done in her official roles within the Clan Summit. Rayne has been my right hand as PCON for 8 months. In that time, she has really stepped up into her role. Everything that happens in CSP Rayne has a say in. She has been an absolute sponge soaking up all the information that I can pass to her.

She has helped me in every single capacity that a PCON can. She helps run competitions with the QUAs. She guides the summit and contributes to every conversation. Beyond this, she's recently taken on a major project, remapping and fancying up Seraph, the Homeworld of CSP. This project involves the rewriting of political, geographic, and other aspects of the planet. She’s developed over 10 additional landmarks and has already updated the previous political breakdown to the past history of the Caperion system. This update has been needed for well over a year and if it weren't for Rayne taking it on, it wouldn’t have been done. She's shared updated maps with the Clan, and even taken to asking people where they live on the map.

Rayne has also been my sounding board and editor for all of the Clan fictions that have been published in the last year. She has personally reviewed everything and sent the details back to me with markups and suggestions. That is at least 4 publications reviewed prior to release. Beyond that, Rayne has curated a list of Mobile Friendly Games and activities that have been included in our past Clan level events. At her suggestion, we have begun to include more of these mobile friendly games in our activities and we’ve seen an increase in numbers there. The list is maintained on the CSP leadership Google drive allowing access from all leaders.

Rayne maintains our wiki pages, updating them where necessary. This is a project that she has been working on since she was QUA. She’s updated numerous pages, cleaned up our categories and Rayne has worked as my official sounding board for all ideas that I have. Beyond that, she has helped me to develop the model that we use to run CSPs day to day activities. Rayne also assisted the Clan in the development of several social media sites. While they are underused, the development of these social media profiles is part of an ongoing plan for recruitment and retention. She routinely monitors our members' activity logs and recommends the appropriate awarding actions. To put it plainly, I could not accomplish anything in CSP without Rayne's help

Prior to her time as PCON, Rayne served 7 months as QUA. In her time as QUA she contributed with the same vigor that she does as Proconsul. Most of her awards during this tenure were based solely on the XP she earned from the veritable hailstorm of activity that she was doing at the time. However, this is a great opportunity to acknowledge that her contributions as QUA did not go unnoticed. All of the work that was put in as QUA that went under-awarded did not phase her. She kept doing what needed to be done. During her time as QUA, she was the first to promote our activities, developed an idea for a CSP Clan Fiction Chat, where members can discuss their characters, undertook the wiki cleanup project, There is a reason that Rayne is where she is today: Her hard work and dedication to CSP.

Rayne is not only an excellent role model for the Clan, she is the future of CSP's leadership. She has learned everything there is to know about how to run our Clan and I look forward to the day where I can pass over the throne to her. CSP would not be the same without having Rayne in it. Keep up the fantastic work. Drinks are on you!

Thran Occasus-Palpatine, 2024-07-14 21:24:08 UTC

Zuza remains ridiculously active, but this medal is largely due to XP she earned from the recent end of diminishing returns for clusters. Congrats, enjoy the credits!

Lord Dacien Victae, 2024-07-08 14:33:12 UTC

There's not a whole lot I can say to describe you, Jafits, but your history presents you well. A tireless warden, a man who has watched over Clan Odan-Urr for years, who served throughout where you were needed, and maintained a tireless efficiency. You've been a welcome and active member of our roster throughout my term and well before. You've been an inspiration for me, to say the least, to continue pushing forward and remaining active, despite it all even when I don't have too much to say. Your dedication to turning up and turning out is one of the elements that has shown me, no matter what, that life resided in Odan-Urr, waiting to be nurtured back.

Councillor Wolfe, 2024-07-04 20:33:21 UTC

The Hothfather himself, a man who has served positions all throughout Odan-Urr, alongside the Council, and trained many others who have helped to continue the spirit of Urr. Your exploits are, however, the kind which I can only begin to regale, having, myself, been gone throughout some of your more prominent postings, and not yet a member during others, but I can attest that since you've returned to Odan-Urr your presence has undoubtedly been felt. Between the sheer volume of competition participation and the levels of gaming submissions, you have been a force to reckon with. You've smashed into our leaderboards and shown through your actions that you were ready to put our names among the top competitors throughout The Brotherhood once again. As we've leaned into a historical bent, referencing old factions and restoring House Hoth, you've thrown yourself around and offered insightful inputs, helping solidify the future plans and routes for the Clan. I can certainly say I've been glad of your renewed presence and the impact it has had.

Councillor Wolfe, 2024-07-03 23:53:14 UTC

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.

Praetor Barafu Endrin, 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 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