Hi there guys

Well my first week as PCON is at an end and I have to say its been a

week I enjoyed. Challenging and a tad frustrating at times but if

things are too easy they aren't worth having as my mother always says.

Anyhow enough of the MotherWelsh philosophy :P

As weeks go activity has been great in the Clan I have to admit I was

initially surprised by the sheer amount of medals that have been

awarded to you guys. I take my hat of to you. It's one of the things

that make this Clan a great place to be, we might have our moments but

then who doesn't? At the end of the day we've all been friends and

worked well together for varying periods of time so please don't let a

difference of opinion split us apart.

Other stuff that's been happening recently as Anshar mentioned is

Smoke being awarded a Sapphire blade. Congrats Smoke, you're a great

guy and you deserve it for all the work you put into Tridens. Drinks

for him at the Ale Pond!!!!!

I'd also like to thank each of you who replied to my email last week

regarding the Master/Apprentice scheme and I'm happy with the number

of active pairings we already have and also the interest shown by many

members both not only to put aside some of their time and train

members in things but also in the people who wish to learn about the

DB and practise gaming. Kudos to you peeps.

Something to look forward to is a Clan run on starting tomorrow. For

those of you who are new here or to the Club this is basically

something on the Forums in which people take time to post to a story

outline to flesh out the story and hopefully come to a happy ending

(not a good explanation but I don't want to put the SA graders out of

business ;) http://www.darkjedibrotherhood.com/dbjedi/shadowacademy/sa/index.html

there's a run on exam there and even if you only read the course notes

and forgo doing the actual exam you should have a decent grounding in

the subject) For those of you who were here for the last major Run-on

i.e Sword's Sheath you'll know that rewards will be handed out to

participants. So on Friday when this run-on is released go out and

post some good posts so you can make some work for Anshar and I

reccing medals!!!! :D

Circle audit going on as well which will see some changes happening I

guess. This audit will attempt to determine how viable it is to keep a

circle running I,e do you have enough numbers and do you do comps on a

regular enough basis etc and from the mail threads I can see that

there's some constructive work going on with getting these circles

back to peak efficiency.

I think that's all I got for this week, attached you'll find a excel

spreadsheet with all the medals everyone's earned in it. So all it

leaves me with to say is I hope everyone enjoys there week and stays

safe, especially any of us who'll be going out on November 5th to

celebrate Guy Fawks Night. Stay safe around those fireworks and hope

that you'll all be safe and sound to get my next report (and no that

isn't an incentive to start throwing fireworks at me ;))

Take care people

Welsh