1: My apologies for there not being a monthly topic this time around. Unfortunately my rl job has proven to be very work intensive and I've spent at least 50% of my working days working 11 hour days, which leaves me with little time out for the DB as well, although I am just about managing to keep even with things at the moment.

2: My Praetor (Cooch, this is a wake-up call...) was supposed to have had the results for August's monthly topic out by now. Since he hasn't, everybody beat him till he sends them out.

3: Next month, at the request of KE Betja Jun, Quaestor of Ektrosis, I will be starting up a monthly run-on as well as monthly fiction and monthly poetry competitions. I would ideally like to see entries from each House, and I will be sending out my guidelines on participation and medals to your leaders shortly, as I need to check them out with KPN Shadonyx first since he up and changed all the requirements. :P These run-ons will purposefully have extremely open topics, but I would like for them to be treated as serious, character-building opportunities. For the future in the Krath Order, a greater aspect of role-playing is certainly going to be more integral than it has been in the past.

4: KP CyberGuy and DA Mejas Doto have been commissioned to work on the new Krath Combat Center. This looks to be an exciting addition to our current facilities, and I must say from the layout I've seen from Mejas so far it looks extremely good. I look forwards to unveiling the finished product as soon as KP CyberGuy has finished coding and uploading the site.

5: Work on the Krath Wargame continues... soon, my younglings... soon... ;)

6: Any Krath Quaestors and Aediles currently not subscribed to [Log in to view e-mail addresses] please subscribe yourselves or speak to me.

7: I'm looking for a new Krath website in all singing all dancing PHP. If you feel you can provide a new layout and/or PHP code, here's your chance. ;) PHPers will need to provide the url of at least one site they have worked on previously, and layouters should just send me their layout, preferably zipped. Winners of the layout design will get nice medals, and the PHP coder of my choice will also get a nice medal. :D You don't have to be Krath to take part, but the site must be purple. That's the only design restriction. :P