Len Iode has been an excellent member for Odan-Urr for a long time now, always willing to lead whenever needed and putting forth his best for the club. Today I’d like to spotlight these things and tell you all how he has been a wonderful Equite, clan builder, and mentor to others.
To start, Len Iode has served 10 months as Rollmaster of Odan-Urr. This involved a number of tasks he accomplished on a regular basis. First, he handled the standard Rollmaster emails; which include welcome emails, awol emails, rogue emails, and rogue warnings. Second, he handled master-student pairings and everyday member assistance. This includes pulling people together by doing individual member reach outs and volunteering to host several community events. For the former, this required sacrificing free time to personally reach out at all hours of the day, depending on the member’s availability. For the latter, consisting of 3 separate occasions, he spent a considerable portion of his Saturday midday hours running community events. On average attendance was 2-5 members per event and focused on the very hard problem of getting together gamers. He showed a tenacity to engage and hold other members’ attention and foster a friendly environment where every clanmate and non-clanmate was welcome. This includes day of setup, the actual hosted event, drumming up participants, and blasting out reminders for community events. Third, he helped run the clan in the small but crucial things needed to keep it running. These included tasks like tracking Odanites in public channels so we could ensure those channels best served them and that helping ensure our members were engaging with the club’s various communities on telegram, providing Odanites with weekly recurring competition roundups for a period of several months to promote club activities, and hyping the Great Jedi War before and during the event.
During that time he also filled in as PCON for 3 months, wherein he executed the duties of PCON. For the first month, he ran the day to day activities of the clan as PCON. Some of these tasks include a clan report, competition hype, and the time consuming member management. For context on member management, this was not the smoothest of times for Odan-Urr and it required close telegram oversight, taking on average 3 hours per week. For the second and third month, he helped run the clan behind the scenes. This included his input on clan documents (proposals/changes), general competition hype, and member management. This also included clan emergencies as they popped up that had short timelines. Of note, I recall the many sessions for clan documents, taking on average 2 hours, that were had in order to polish off a clan document or implement a new change. For a specific example of our longer sessions, the fictional elements of the clan we discussed (PeaceKeepers, Odanite Defense Forces) involved both content creation and discussion and generally required 2-3 sessions. With everything totaled, that’s 48 hours over 3 months.
For projects he oversaw for the clan, he created a number of new additions for Odan-Urr. First, he lead the creation of the Jedi Codes wiki page, which at the time was very useful in informing not only our clan but the rest of the Dark Brotherhood on the diverse views held by the Jedi of Odan-Urr. It involved reaching out to fellow Odanites to deploy and create its content, predominantly the context that preceded each individual code as well as the list of practicing player characters. Not counting the codes themselves or the practitioner names in the word count, that is 539 words of content. Second, he led the creation of the Loyalist Academy on Kiast, which is an entirely new institution of learning for our clan’s military personnel. It gave our loyalists a place to write creative stories as they flush out their relationship as a soldier for Odan-Urr. This included 1723 words of content as well as working with his fellow Odanites to ensure it was deployed. His time commitment has already been stated in the PCON paragraph above.
In addition, he provided assistance on other Clan projects he didn’t lead. This list includes no less than our clan coalitions, our house reorganization, clan event calendar, and the clan fictional proposal. For the first, he was key in helping flush out the Peacekeepers, engaging in group discussion as well as 77 words of summary content, which started out as a much longer document. His time commitment has already been stated in my PCON paragraph above. For the second, he was an active contributor on a 9 page document to reorganize the House. This included active discussion over gdoc and 367 words of original content creation that helped shape the house/clan moving forward. This involved around 3-6 hours of work. For the third, he was a much needed person to bounce ideas off of, involving around 1 hour of work in total. For the fourth, he provided a critical comprehensive review for the first working draft of our fictional planning document, which spanned 14 pages and included both House and Clan content. Though he did not create its content, his comments and suggestions were very much appreciated and were helpful in forming future clan events. This involved around 1-3 hours of work. I really appreciated all his help in these efforts.
In terms of pure activity, Len Iode has completed 28 competitions, 3 PvE matches, 3 fiction activities, 2459 words of fiction, 3 run-on posts worth 1488 words, 1 ACC match, 8 SA courses, 1 SA degree, and 11 news comments. Moreover, he hit most of the bins (9/12) for participation during the recent GJW, which was great to see. During that event, he placed 7th place in ‘The Story so Far’ (Phase 2 miscellaneous), 1st place in the Event Long Battleplan, and 5th place in the Small team co-op fiction. During his adventures since his last recognition, he has accumulated 1 Gold Nova, 1 Crescent with Amethyst star, 1 Crescent with Sapphire Star, 3 Pendats of Blood, 4 Clusters of Fire, 11 Clusters of Ice, 6 Clusters of Earth, 10 Clusters of Graphite, 1 Seals of Loyalty, and 10 Seals of Discord.
As you climb up the ranks of Equite, it's important to think bigger picture and put in your time improving the club. In summary, Len has done this well while serving Odan-Urr admirably with his contributions to projects, leadership, and his activity. I hereby recommend that Len Iode be awarded a Sapphire Blade with all the opportunities to stab things that go with it. Thank you so much for everything you have done for Odan-Urr. You’ve helped so many people and I’m proud of you. Odan-Urr, and its community, wouldn’t be the same without you. Have fun and make sure you poke lots of people with your new sword. >:)
Aura Ta’var
High Councillor, Odan-Urr
Aurora "Aura" Ta'var, 2020-01-01 21:59:03 UTC