Dark Jedi Master Aidan Kincaid, aka Shadow, should be credited with nearly every design concept and invention found within the new ACC. Shadow's ideas crafted a new ideology to focus on story driven character sheets and in turn a story driven ACC. This new ideology was designed in order to bring the ACC to a wider audience and support our club's transition from a gaming organization to a fiction oriented organization. The development of Fate based character sheets is owed to Shad, multiple aspects of our new grading mechanics designed to enhance story are owed to Shad, and nearly every current ACC venue is owed to Shad's editing/writing. Shad's work on the ACC has been spectacular, time consuming, and we are fortunate that he has provided us with his efforts. An Emerald Dagger is a well deserved award and one that fitting for a member who worked without expectation of any award at all. Thanks Shad. I appreciate everything you gave to this project. - Grand Master Pravus

Without Shadow, I wouldn't be involved in the ACC much at all... and I wouldn't have picked up the character system. Shadow's influences, though, extend far past these two systems, to virtually every fictional endeavor we have worked on. New NPCs? Shadow can do it. Wiki needs updating? Shadow already realized and has started doing it. In a way, Shadow's work on the fictional side of this club is almost everywhere, yet he absolutely refuses to take credit for almost anything, making it difficult for the average member to really see his contributions - beyond the stellar quality of his writing that routinely places in every competition.

Back to the ACC specifically, Shadow co-write the ACC Guide with Halc, wrote or adapted every single current venue in the database, created the initial site plan from which Kalen built the site, and has edited every single document we've had relating to the ACC, to judging, and to any other endeavor. On top of that, he served as a Judge through Open Beta, and was one of the most active participants in the ACC tournament, where he has now reached the Finals.

To put it simply, Shadow more than deserves this Emerald Dagger. He has been absolutely essential to not just this project, but just about every fictional project we've worked on over the last year. ~ Mav

Grand Master Declan Roark, 2014-05-08 14:03:53 UTC