What do you say to someone who has done so much for the club and just keeps going? I’ve written many of these for you and each time I’m just as proud. This one is especially important because of your continued support at the position of Quaestor. Leadership can be hard and demanding and not always convenient but you keep at it anyways no matter what life throws at you. Your dedication is commendable and I think you are doing an awesome job. You’ve also been one of the hardest working members I’ve ever known in this club. It’s been my absolute pleasure to work beside you and along with you throughout all these years. You’ve been a good friend and good company to the whole clan, whether it be your activity in discord or elsewhere. Your impact has been felt and cemented. I appreciate everything you’ve done and I will always remember the loyalty shown Odan-Urr and the club. :)

This Ruby Scepter feels like a culmination of skills over all these years, both as a leader and member. As your friend, teammate, and clanmate, thank you for the time and energy you put into the Clan. Congratulations!

Appius is an incredible active member of the community and a strong valuable leader. Congratulations on the medal!

Appius continues to be a fantastic Consul for his clan. He pushes the boundaries on what it means to be engaging and active as a Consul; staying in constant daily communication, creating interesting storylines and events, providing opportunities for his members to be active and pushing them to engage with the wider club.

He's been in this role a fair amount of time now, and continues to prove he is a force to be reckoned with. We complement people who can do club-wide events from their phone, but Appius takes it way further: a phone is his near exclusive access to the club, and has been that way for years. All his activity, communication, and leadership the last couple years, he's doing all that from a phone. That is impressive in its own right it, but the fact he maintains the activity and leadership capabilities he does and doesn't let it slow him down is even more so.

Almost everyone knows Appius, and if they haven't they're probably heard of him given his good nature and capability of building relationships not just with members of other units, but the leaders of those clans to form a strong coalition of leadership and comradery. He is an active participant in many aspects of the club, and goes out of his way to be the best leader he can. Appius deserves this award.

Appius is an exceptional Consul, and one of those people that make the club a fun place to be for everyone in Taldryan. Appius has created an excellent environment in Taldryan for people to enjoy the club's activities, and I hope it continues for a long time to come.

From a galaxy, far, far away,
Exists a man of red and lightning gold.
His name is thought odd, Appius Zappius Wight,
A Taldryan Chancellor with that Mandalorian light.

While crapping thunder with saber strikes,
He seeks pirate plunder for Taldryan likes,
A hero of the people, zappy and all,
Unlike that Palpy, please don't be a Palpy.

Across the galaxy he there roams,
Bringing thunderous applause everywhere he goes,
For the betterment of the second Galactic Empi-uhh.. Republic, yeah...Republic,
Ensuring a true safe and secure society.

With a short by his side,
Serving as his guide,
He'll never hide or be led astray,
To bide his time with his lightning-themed ashtray.

And when Taldryan has won,
Its enemies fewer than one,
Dark robes he'll wear,
Assuring great care.

New Ruby Scepter in hand,
Practicing his groovy stepper moves with a band,
A new lightning constellation is born,
and Teebu becomes a thorn.

Congrats Appy!

I have known Reiden for a very long time now in the Brotherhood. I saw him grow from a Journeyman to a Knight. Everyone pitched in and helped him believe in himself and achieve that feat back then. And now, he pays it forward. He continues to be an amazing example of what a member should be. He is always ready to help any member with any questions, no matter who they are or where they come from. He has been an instrumental part of the CSP Summit staff for 2 years now, during his time as Rollmaster and continuing on as Quaestor once the previous position was dissolved. Everyone knows you can count on Reiden to guide members, both new and old, to better understand how our organizations works. He makes the Brotherhood a more cohesive and better place overall.

He is incredibly active on Discord, which is the lifeline for our online community. He is our puzzle master, always working hard in the puzzle mines to bring in those diamond crescents almost every single time. Reiden, you drive me absolutely crazy sometimes, and you have more than earned this Ruby Scepter. Congrats!!

Reiden has long been a pillar of the CSP community. His positive encouragement of others and guidance of members is unmatched amongst his peers. He is constantly assisting people with questions about their fictional development, complimenting artists on their work, and contributing to the general good. This behavior is not limited to the halls of Clan Scholae Palatinae, either. Reiden takes this attitude abroad as well.

Reiden has also been one of the most active members of Clan Scholae Palatinae for a very long time. Take one look at his total credits earned for the clan and that proves my point. Earning CSP over 5,000,000 credits for Clan Scholae Palatinae, his total is greater than 2nd and 3rd place combined. When it comes to puzzles, there is no equal.

Reiden has earned this medal for his outrageous levels of sustained activity over an outrageous length of time, his contributions to our community and clan, and the continued support he gives to those around him.

Congratulations Reiden, Keep up the great work!

Make a society. Well, not a "society." I don't know, some sort of incentive structure where when people do stuff they get stuff. You'll figure something out. It should be tiered, unless it shouldn't. See what James thinks. Oh, maybe there could be two of them? It definitely needs to have all the society stuff. We'll just call it a pillar or something. Oh, we can't do two of them, way too many credits. They'd have to be half sized. And this is a society, the other ones are pillars. Maybe just do one track but make sure it covers GMing and participating. And this isn't a society, we were being metaphorical when we called the other ones pillars. This can't be a society anyway, the INQ already covers CI stuff. What? This is why you thought it shouldn't be on the CI in the first place? But it's just fiction. No, we can't just use the INQ, RP isn't just fiction, it needs its own thing. But James says it has to be its own two things using the trophy system because otherwise it'll be a nightmare to code.

I suspect when people saw the Envoy Corps launch, they thought that the hard part was, you know, the Envoy Corps. The lore, the unlocks, the progression, that stuff. As the person who dumped this task on Wally's lap, I can say authoritatively that all that was the easy part, not least because he had a lot of help. The hard part was actually getting the thing done. Every tiniest aspect was picked apart and debated, including what the goal was, if it was happening, how we were even allowed to talk about it. The rewards themselves went through no fewer than three separate approval processes: Voice for the feats, Regent for the items, Herald for the dossier skins. The whole thing had all of those people (and the DC at large and the Exarch staff and other helpers) weighing in on the overall design, and then James reviewing it to make sure it was actually doable. Almost all of those people are opinionated, busy, and have their own equities to manage. At every single point in the process, things had the potential to stall but only the Exarch was going to keep it moving.

I spent six months talking through the stupid thing without even truly getting started. In that amount of time, Wally was able to gently shoo me away and then get the entire project designed and launched, and now I'm joining sessions and interacting with other members I don't even know just so I can get some sweet sweet Envoy Marks. Lasting impact achieved.

Alethia Archenksova
Headmistress and Exarchissa Emerita

I come hither to bear witness unto the deeds and capabilities of Marick Tyris, aka Wally, aka Boo-boo Bear. Sir Wall has done phenomenal work for Club and Clan, as clearly conveyed by my commenting compatriots, so my care is to give just cause by conveyance of competitions, Crescents, and Clusters. And you have no idea how happy I am that our system supported that alliteration.

Since his last recognition last January, Wallball participated in a solid eighty competitions, not including containers or brackets (which would bring it up to eighty nine), averaging just shy of six competitions per month. Depending on which number you go with, his eighteen Crescents and four Novae give him a rough average of 25% placement rate. This mathematical wizardry tells us that not only does he like to #doallthethings, he also puts out solid products. What's more, twenty seven of those competitions were pure Vendetta material as evidenced by his Seals of Ascension. Completionist energy, yo.

Now, for a guy that has done so much to stand up the Brotherhood's roleplay society, it comes as absolutely no surprise that Wallson — again, in only a little over a year — has cranked out a tremendous 90,798 words of fiction (for comparison, The Hobbit hovers at just over 95 thousand; mull on that poodoo). This has earned him a lovely two hundred ten Clusters of Ice to go with his collection of other Clusters: thirty five of Graphite, eighty two of Earth, and one hundred of Fire. He also earned a Dark Side Scroll for his work on the BT Voidbreaker wiki and getting it as the featured article; and a Scroll of the Master for bringing up our own Mex from tiny newblet to JM4.

Wallker Edgelord Ranger is truly a powerhouse member of Arcona and the Club as a whole, and he very likely deserves more credit than he gets. For now, I hope he appreciates his new shiny beating stick, and the utter shenanigans of this note on his dabalicious self. Thank you, Wally.

Qyreia Arronen
Consul, Clan Arcona

As a Battleteam Leader, Wally does what he always does, in all he does: goes 110%, Plus Ultra. He regularly put out reports, lead by constant example in participating in every single DB, Clan or House event that came up, minor or major, and always went above and beyond doing as much as he could for his team. Whether this was hosting fictional parties in RP, defining team lore and spirit, promoting and awarding his members, teaching leadership skills and practical competition skills and literally anything else brought up, answering questions, participating in discussion and CREATING discussion and community, being a listening ear and friend...Wally. Does. Everything. Everywhere. All at once. None of us can keep up with him. And we're all grateful for his care, time, and attention, as a leader, advisor, Arconae, member, and friend.

That attention, as attested, is not limited to his BTL role. It has been for the whole Club for the last decade and last year. It's noteworthy that of those written words Q mentions to make Roleplaying a reality in the DB, 31207 of those words were participating for the express purpose of engaging other to participate, and 35001 are from DMing the roleplay itself to create that experience for others. There wouldn't be RP without him. It's a big success in our Clan with his help, and it's wonderful to see it coming to the Club at large too, as I can attest both as an observer and a recent staff member under him.

Thank you for everything, Wally. May this award be another signifier to what comes next.

Proconsul, Clan Arcona

DarkHawk has been an incredible member of the community, both as a leader, and as a member. Participating in over 100 competitions and organizing several dozen more. It's been great to see him move up the ranks over the years and succeed as a PCON, and now Consul and leader of the Clan. I look forward to seeing him bring that same energy and leadership in the future. Congratulations.

Since his promotion in August, Korvis has kept his foot on the gas pedal. He has organized or co-organized over 30competitions, participated in 31, and written roughly 4,000 words of fiction. During that time, Vizsla's membership has grown and its activity as measured by competition participation has been very strong compared to the rest of the club. He has also done a great job picking and motivating his summit and rewarding his members. Keep up the great work, Korvis!

Korvis has been an incredible leader of Clan Vizsla, keeping the community involved and updated and helping provide opportunities for fun. The DJB is lucky to have leaders like him willing to devote so much of their time creating these opportunities and just engaging with everyone. Congratulations on your award and thanks for everything you do as a Consul.

Socorra is one of Arcona’s “old guard” that managed to claw her way out of retirement, and she returned with a vengeance. In raw stats, since her merit recognition in January, she has organized no less than 31 competitions, co-organizing 2, and participating in a staggering 222, 29 of which were from GJW XV as evidenced by her collection of Seals of Ascension. From that, she has collected 54 placements that included a Gold Nova, a Silver Nova, and 5 Bronze Novae. From gaming, she collected 1 Cluster of Fire and 23 Clusters of Earth. Where she really shines though are in fiction and graphics: 122 Clusters of Ice from over 54,000 words of fiction across regular fiction activities and roleplaying, and a staggering 158 Clusters of Graphite from her many quality contributions in the DJB art community. Additionally, she also mentored a newcomer into Knighthood, garnering a Scroll of Indoctrination, plus a Seal of Loyalty for her steadfast dedication to Arcona so soon after her return. Even in the Shadow Academy, she has been particularly busy, cranking out 38 courses and earning 4 SA degrees in the process.

Within the Clan and House, she has worked as Battleteam Leader for the last 8 months to reinvigorate House Galeres by generating a new Battleteam — the Dajorran Marshals, a space-cowboy vigilante group dedicated to patrolling Arcona’s home system — from the prior Spectre Cells Battleteam to which she was originally appointed. In that time, her primary efforts have been to instill a sense of belonging in the BT as well as vigorously generate activity through several large RP efforts. The latter included not only generating story arc material, but also the myriad maps that went with them for the members to reference the course of the plot. This was all in addition to her esoteric work as Praetor to the GM.

Socks has been a welcome return to the Clan. She tackled the learning curve of a long absence, came in swinging, and set herself and others up for success in the process. So thank you, Socks, for all of your hard work.

Qyreia
Consul, Clan Arcona

Since she has returned to Arcona, Socorra has been a wealth of knowledge to inquiry about leadership skills and guidance to facilitate the betterment and growth of the house. In her return and during this time to share her presence on the Summit, Socorra has assisted in running two house events, Operation Stormfront and The Blindshot Games. She has assisted in preparing and setting up the competitions within both events. She has picked back up the rhythm of being a leader quickly as the Operation Stormfront was just at her appointment of BTL of Dajorran Marshals. Socorra is deserving of the Ruby Scepter by all of her accomplishments previously acknowledged by Qyreia and Nehalem, and the continued dedicated drive to improve membership experience with her hard work as the House Battle Team Leader and throughout DB leadership as the P:GM.

Jael Chi'ra
Quaestor, House Galeres

Thran continues to be an amazing usurper Proconsul. While he may set me on fire...or mind-trick me to go walk away...or openly flaunt my authority...he's always got his the clan's best interested at heart.

Thran has taken point on working with the QUAs over the last few months while I have been focused on assisting with the ProBowl. We've laid out several projects for the both of us to finalize and publish in the last quarter of 2022 as we continue to rebuild the CSP story arc.

By the numbers, Thran continues to dominate, having recently taken first place in the ProBowl; leading the Rotworms to victory for the second year running.

Competitions:

• 23 Organized
  
• 89 Total Competitions
  
• 80 Unique Competitions
  

Activity:

• 32 Gaming Activities
  
• 7 Fictions
  
• 7,420 words of Fiction
  
• 2,288 words of burning his boss Roleplaying
  

Crescents:

• 10 Diamond
  
• 18 Ruby
  
• 7 Amethyst
  
• 7 Sapphire
  
• 2 Emerald
  
• 1 Topaz
  
• 1 Quartz
  

Clusters:

• 299 Clusters of Fire
  
• 20 Clusters of Ice
  
• 475 Clusters of Earth
  
• 38 Clusters of Graphite
  

Zxyl has managed a steady flow of content to the possessions system, and helped bring in planetary assets. While working away at the list of deliverables to finish the system. In addition to his work in helping maintain the integration of the possessions system into the Vendettas we run to make them more rewarding for members. In addition to this, he has also hired a great staff that has been mentored and trained on the system to help spread transparency to everything and mentor a future set of leaders who can help continue to see the system succeed and stay balanced. For all this great work, thank you. Congratulations.