Ruka aka Satsi aka Atty was promoted to EL1 four years ago largely on the strength of her work in Arcona and on the Voice staff. Today, I am happy to promote her once again for her dedication to her clan and to the club's fictional direction. For the last two years she has been back on the Arcona summit helping to organize events and manage our largest clan while somehow also finding time to play a major role on the Exarch staff and write so many words of fiction that I'm worried the site might break if I write the number down. She's also a long-time member of the DB Story Group and has contributed substantially to our club-wide plot development over the last several years by engaging in discussions and helping to edit every single vendetta fiction released in that time.

Since her last promotion she has earned an Emerald Dagger, a Ruby Scepter, and a Sapphire Blade in appreciation for her efforts. Now she's hit one more major milestone in her DB career. Congratulations, Atty!

Lord Dacien Victae, 2023-10-14 19:18:34 UTC

I see Atty’s promotion to EL2 as a no-brainer. Years of leading from the front in ARC, an absolutely insane amount of club writing, countless bouts of helping members regardless of unit, time in the trenches of the Voice Staff, and enduring the absolute insanity of the story group (not to mention constantly trying to fix my inconsistent ability to write).

Atty is deeply passionate about this club, with a default setting of “help”. I can’t think of another member who so consistently jumps at helping members with such speed and intensity. Countless hours of her life has been spent aiding all kinds of people in this club, be it with writing aspects, figuring out how to use the site, or just lending a supportive ear for a vent session. I personally benefited from her relentless desire to help people so many times, throughout the years she spent on Voice staff, her continued time in the story group, and just in general as a friend.

She already has a mountain of awards and accolades awarded to her. It’s time to recognize her as a “Master” in this club.

Congrats Atty, and thank you.

Idris

Lord Idris Adenn, 2023-10-12 19:47:55 UTC

Atty immediately stepped in to aid me in my work as Exarch when I knew I was about to be diving deep into the weeds of launching a new system for the Brotherhood. I knew that there were very few people I trusted to do so, and was delighted to know that Atty would be interested in joining. She very quickly digested the infrastructure of how we wanted to promote and organize RPs, helped assist with policy crafting, idea generation, and overall support in conversation around how RP could work, run well, and become a day-to-day platform. She was instrumental in reviewing the backend setup of the Envoy Corps, and has evolved with our infrastructure to stay on top of approving RPs after they are finalized. This was a manual process for most of her time on staff, but even now with the automated approval button, staff are required to review transcripts to make sure things are kosher.

Beyond her role, Atty organically promotes and embodies the RP Society. She is empathic, listens, remembers people’s characters, and is an out of character “DM” by encouraging and helping anyone from a seasoned veteran to

On a personal level, Atty’s impact on the Brotherhood will be covered elsewhere. But I will pile on by pointing out that when you ask what an Elder in this club should be, let alone a leader, it’s hard not to point to Atty as the prototype. She is a member of the story group, a member of the Exarch Staff, a Proconsul, and one of the most active members when it comes to collecting Clusters of Ice. Seriously, she currently holds the record by over 1,000 more CI’s than the next highest. But a lot of those Clusters come from her writing and collaboration with others. Of learning their characters, and finding different ways to make them feel welcome and included.

All of that to say, I believe that there is no question or lingering doubt that Atty not only belongs among the rank of Elder 2 in this club, but that she is the model of a modern major Master— one that other members and leaders alike should strive to.

I could go on, and on, which probably would be fair retribution considering how many 10+ page fictions I’ve had to proof read over the years. But from the bottom of my heart, Congratulations Atty. This club would be a very different, much less bright place, and I’m honored and privileged to not just get to work with you everyday, but to be your friend.

-W

Exarch

Lord Marick Tyris Arconae, 2023-10-12 19:53:24 UTC

She goes by many names: Atty, Atyiru, Abbey, Ruka, Cucumber, Tiny, Shipmeister Meister of Shipping. And she’s been around for ages in the Brotherhood (ten years as of this past February). Now it’s time to bump her up a notch and make her already OP characters even more ridiculous.

But first in this news broadcast, statistics! Since her last promotion in November of ‘19, Atty has earned over eighty four thousand XP from organizing 26 competitions, co-organizing 18 more, and participating in 265 not counting containers and brackets (which would bump that up to 302). Of those she’s placed in 105, including 16 Vendetta competitions evidenced by her six Gold Novae, five Silver Novae, and five Bronze Novae, giving her a roughly forty percent placement rate, to say nothing for the number she’s outright won (and pending the results from the latest GJW XVI). Of those, her shining achievement is in the fictional sector (given that I’m constantly reminded that I need to catch up to her schutta ass in Clusters of Ice on the leaderboard) (One day, Atty). Again, simply since her last promotion, she’s earned 1,127 Clusters of Ice from forty eight fictions, thirty RPs as a participant, twelve as the DM, and three Run-Ons, amassing a total of five hundred twenty four thousand four hundred sixty three (524,463) words of fiction! In less than four years!

Now if only I could get her to put some of that effort into our AUs.

But hey, there’s other activity in there. While she’s not much of a gamer, she’s still netted 11 Clusters of Fire and 90 Clusters of Earth. Ever an artist, she’s also collected some 148 Clusters of Graphite from just doing what she normally do. Got herself a Dark Side Scroll, a Seal of Loyalty, and 51 other Vendetta Seals of Visions, Enmity, and Ascension. Going back to school, she’s also completed 26 Shadow Academy courses, gained three degrees, and even graded a course. All of this activity has collectively earned her an Emerald Dagger, a Ruby Scepter, and a Sapphire Blade.

And as the droid B1LL-E-M4YZ says, “But wait, there’s more!” In the last almost-four years, she’s done a whole lot of work for the Brotherhood. Her work for the Voice spanned over two years, First as Praetor, then Magistrate, and finally as Special Magistrate; and she finished out her tenure as an ACC Judge with 10 months in the seat. While a Judge, she was credited with (to directly quote Archenksova), “Atty reviewed the revised edition of the ACC rubric prior to publication in order to ensure it benefited the ACC community as a whole and to check against staff groupthink. Her contributions resulted in the re-categorization of inappropriate profanity use in posts, and she also directly engaged with other reviewers' comments in order to clarify their thinking and the implications of their contributions.” In March of this year, she stepped up as an Exarch staffer, helping to make the DB’s new roleplay system and society flourish. All this while she’s been on the Brotherhood Story Group, which isn’t tracked by the site, but no less helps to drive the fictional flow that gets published to the club at large.

Of course, most importantly for me, she’s been kept out of retirement by being the Arconan Proconsul for both me and my predecessor Consul. In that capacity she has been a constant help and stabilizing agent. Aside from crowning some new Arconae title-holders, she’s written four reports when the CONs were off in the refreshers doing stuff, and both reviewed and co-authored at least seven Clan fictions. Most of those fictions revolved our Clan events, including the latest Godhunt event, our co-op with Odan Urr, the Great Slug Raid, and more while under Rhylance’s Consulship. Even more recently, she stepped up in my stead to represent Arcona as the delegate for the 2023 Pro Bowl event. As tired as she claims to be, I can’t seem to get her to sit still.

That’s part of her charm, really. As a leader, she’s exceptionally hard working and easy to work with. My own life has taken me away on several occasions, and she is perfectly able to act under my intent without need of direct instruction, and I’ve never come back to an Arcona wondering what the bloody hell has been happening. Because she gets people. Atty is just as constant of a presence in the Discord chat(s), and has only managed to increase her population of cultists stoledopted apprentices by grace of her constant presence and wealth of knowledge that she so readily shares. When folks get riled up, she is most often the one to defuse things and bring everyone back down to Coruscant (or Earth, if you must use the proper turn of phrase). These are the kinds of things that can’t be captured in numbers, and that even I and my prolific writing have difficulty painting the picture.

Atty has been around for a decade in the Brotherhood and is arguably all but a household name among its members, such is the reach of her impacts. I could say nice things about her all day, but the recommendation has to close somewhere. So for now, Atty, thank you for everything that you do. You’ve been there for the club, for Arcona, and for me more times than I care to count, and I am happy to recommend this promotion. Congratulations.

Qyreia Arronen
Consul, Clan Arcona

Qyreia Arronen, 2023-10-14 14:56:32 UTC

• Have 1 Shadow Academy Sage degree
• Have 2 Shadow Academy Maven degrees
• Have 2 Shadow Academy Savant degrees
• Have 90 academic credits
• Have an average course score of 97% or above

dbb0t, 2023-10-05 17:27:57 UTC