Introduction

A Message from the Quaestor

Hallo, my lektastic Qel-Drominians!

Holy smokes! SO. MANY. THINGS! Unless you’ve been living under a space rock (wait, don’t we technically live inside a space rock?), you must have noticed the absolute flood of shinies that our Clan Chat has been inundated with. The new XP system has been unveiled and it’s being rolled out in force. This means that no longer will your DJB careers be beholden to the craven whims of an opaque and unknowable MAA, but there are Numbers that will grow as you Do All The Things ™ and when your XP total grows big enough—BAM! Rewards galore!

I for one am happy to see this improvement and hope to see y’all scooping up them rewards, awards, promotions, and what have you. After all, who doesn’t like XP?

On the home front, I’ve been battling away a persistent cold that’s probably not COVID since I can still smell things. On the upside, blackcurrant juice is amazing and you should drink some even if you don’t have a cold. Also, it’s purpl.

Signed, Your Elder Lekhead

A Message from the Aedile

Awoooo Qel-Dromans.

It is February, and our basic instincts are taking over the control. We are all feeling loveeeee! So please check out the Arcona AVD comps.
Also Oh My Woooowies - how many awards, promotions and credits we had received. Arcona Invicta! It's just the beginning of the month, so what's more to come? You shall see creepy laugh

Muzzles up! Your Reddish Archian

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. House Fiction Update
3. News
4. Awards, Promotions and Transfers
   
5. Crescent Leaderboard
6. Competitions
7. In Closing...

House Fiction Update

Phantom Complex
Port Ol’val
41 ABY

A colorful collection of cutlery lay spread on deep purple velvet, their honed blades glinting in the artificial light of overhead illum-strips. A constellation of crosses lay beside them, equally resplendent against a sea of deep ultramarine. With great sacrifice and effort came just rewards and as she plucked the first of the multitude of awards from the table, Tali Sroka let her gaze rest upon the rows of faces she’d grown to know and trust. They had earned this, after all they’d been through.

“For exceptional bravery in defence of our homeworldt, I am pleasedt to awardt you vith this Grandt Cross,” Tali smiled as she pinned the gleaming bronzium emblem to the Barabel’s lapel. “The Consul vishedt to addt: Goodt shooting, uh, schutta.” She added with a hint of a blush at Qyreia’s choice of expletive.

“Coming from her, it is a high honor,” Druzk hissed with a bow.

“Privateer Mex?” Tali called out the next recipient.

The Verpine buzzed with surprise but approached, casting awkward glances over their shoulder.

“The Master at Arms sends his regards,” Tali smirked as she handed them an intricately scribed cross. She thought better of trying to pin it on Mex’s carapace.

“Gratitude,” the young Verpine buzzed excitedly, clasping the shiny in their hands and retreating swiftly to their perch.

“Eilen Ru’tyari,” the Twi’lek called out next, plucking a medal off the supple velvet. “I vas vorriedt that ve hadt lost you. But I am pleasedt that you returnedt. Atyiru sends her best.”

The lanky Bothan flushed under her fur, awkwardly shuffling while her tail swished to and fro. “I—will have to tell you the full story some day. Maybe. It’s a long one.”

“Looking forwardt to hearing it,” Tali replied with a smile.

Read the rest of the Fiction here.

News

Arcona News

Awards, Promotions, Consul Report

• Valentine's Day 23 Event, please subscribe, submit and enjoy! Check out the event!

DB Wide Updates

• Two New Courses are now life! Check them out in the Headmistress report here!
  
• News from Regent! New items to buy! And information about Regent's Roleplay! Good stuff
  
• Justicar Report- Hands and Appeals Panelists open positions! Apply! Apply! We need brave new people!
  
• Zuza Lottson as the New Praetor! PAWTASTIC!!! And also some refurbishment of the fundamental courses in the Shadow Academy.
  
• How to write a good story? Here is the lecture about it from Professor Zentru'la. Read about it here.
  
• Uuuu! Capital Ship Upgrades re-open? New shiny things! Look at the Regent report about it here.
  
• Combat Master updated the ACC guide - go on check it out! Because We have more battles to come!
  

Awards, Promotions and Transfers

Crescents, Clusters and the Awards (lots of them) - almost like the Butterbats swarm this month!

Marick Tyris

• 11 Clusters of Ice
  
• 3 Clusters of Graphite
  
• 1 Crescent with Diamond Star
  
• 1 Crescent with Emerald Star
  
• 1 Crescent with Topaz Star
  

Thanatos Entar

• 1 Amethyst Kukri (Oooo! Curvy!)
  

Tali Sroka

• 1 Amethyst Kukri (Shiny and purpl!)
  
• 1 Sapphire Blade
  
• 1 Crescent with Ruby Star
  
• 4 Clusters of Ice
  
• 3 Clusters of Graphite
  

Archian

• 1 Sapphire Blade (The blue goes with the Red)
  
• 1 Grand Cross
  
• 1 Steel Cross
  
• 1 Dark Cross
  
• 4 Crescents with Ruby Star
  
• 1 Crescent with Amethyst Star
  
• 7 Clusters of Ice
  
• 3 Clusters of Graphite
  

Mune Cinteroph

• 3 Clusters of Ice
  

Eleceos

• 1 Amethyst Kukri (Amazing work, Ele!)
  
• 1 Grand Cross
  
• 1 Anteian Cross
  
• 1 Crescent with Diamond Star
  
• 1 Crescent with Amethyst Star
  
• 2 Crescent with Sapphire Star
  
• 2 Crescent with Emerald Star
  
• 2 Cluster of Ice
  

Edema R'uh-Kalinor

• 1 Sapphire Blade (Well earned, E!)
  
• 1 Grand Cross
  

Ellen Ru'tyari

• 1 Amethyst Kukri (Way to go, you majestic space-ferret!)
  
• 1 Sapphire Blade
  
• 1 Grand Cross
  

Aru Law

• 1 Amethyst Kukri (Please don't pawn it immediately...)
  
• 1 Grand Cross
  
• 1 Dark Cross
  
• 3 Clusters of Graphite
  

Leeadra Halcyon

• 1 Sapphire Blade (Who doesn't like a blue stabby?)
  
• 1 Grand Cross
  

Lucifer Scorpio Romanov

• 1 Sapphire Blade (Woo! Get it!)
  
• 1 Grand Cross
  

Mex

• 1 Grand Cross (Shinies galore!)
  
• 1 Steel Cross
  
• 1 Anteian Cross
  
• 1 Cresent with Amethyst Star
  

Doon Sulvir

• 1 Grand Cross (Well-earned, Softpaw!)
  
• 1 Steel Cross
  
• 1 Anteian Cross
  

Druzk Zornosz

• 1 Grand Cross (Way to go, Druzk!)
• 1 Steel Cross
  
• 1 Anteian Cross
  

Blithe

• 1 Anteian Cross
  

Crescent Leaderboard

Below you will find the numbers used to determine the scoring and the leaderboard itself. Once the dust had settled this month, our own Red eked out a victory over our reigning champion and snatched the Blind Key for February. Congratulektions, Archian!

If you don’t want to be featured in the Crescent Leaderboard, let your House leadership know.

• Diamond: 7
  
• Ruby: 6
  
• Amethyst: 5
  
• Sapphire: 4
  
• Emerald: 3
  
• Topaz: 2
  
• Quartz: 1
  

Name	Points	Placement
Archian	29	1st
Eleceos	26	2nd
Marick Tyris	12	3rd

Competitions

Here’s a curated list of tasty comps to occupy your time this month:

• It’s that time of the year again! Chocolate, roses, awkward glances, stuttered confessions of tender feels. Get you kicks in this year’s AVD!
  
• We’ve got new stuff for our Space Port! Celebrate with these light and easy comps!
• Here’s a comp series after our Aedile. Go tame some monsters!
  
• Qel-Dromans, we require your spy skillz to crack this code.
  
• How good are you at writing dialogue? Wanna get better? Here’s a fun challenge.
  
• Intercharacter rivalry, now depicted by the medium of stick figures!
  
• Hearty Mando puzzle, for the Valentines.
  
• Eleceos is running Haikus! Get them while they’re hot!
  
• Last character question, for now. How do you see your character shuffling off the mortal coil?
  
• More character development of a different nature: What is your character’s fatal flaw?
  

AskLekNFang

• Strong desires some answers:

  • ”So with Tali gaining Eldership, does she have a preferred way of being addressed? ( Dame Sroka? Lady? mommy?”
    
    • Tali: “V-vell I vouldn’t mindt if one day I vere a mom—NOT LIKE THAT!!!”
      
    • Archian: "Leky Purple Lady? looks with confusion at the Quaestor "

• Ood Bnar gave as this question:

  • ”Now that Tali's all Elder-Elder-ly-like, is she going to be yelling at me to get off the lawn? Cos I'm allowed to be on here! I prevent the lawn from getting direct sunlight and scorching!”
    
    • Tali: “Ve have lawns on Ol’val?! My lekku are too tiredt to vave at you anyway…”
      
    • Archian: "No shouting allowed. You would scare the baby. Looks in the corner "

In Closing…

A new dawn is breaking in DJB history, and I’m glad you’re all part of it! The XP system is going to make for fairer and hopefully speedier promotions. That means that when you majestic people Do The Things we will get you more shinies and points to spend on new Skillz and Feats on your character sheets! So with that in mind, enjoy your Valentine’s! <3

As always, if you have concerns, ideas, feedback, recommendations or a general need to chat, we are always here for you. Whether on Discord (KuyAurelian#4515, Archian #0136) and or email.

Signed,

Purple Lek & Red Fur