Consul Report

2008/01/26, 10:20 PM, Consul - Clan Taldryan

Report #27 - January 26th, 2008

Greetings all,

Reports, reports, wOOt. Not a huge one now, but a nice one I figure. Changed up the title graphics just a bit and Jac fixed up that awesome banner above, big thanks to him on that!

The Clan title that was brought up awhile back is now finally set, the Sentire Taldryae. This provides another fictional area for members to develop in if they want to that works hand-in-hand with the Clan, plus with this title comes the option of commanding one of our Clan ships. Chaos and I will pick two of the most active every two months to take up the spots, another way for us to honor those that serve the Clan well. The first two inductees are DarkAmiz and Shadow Taldrya, congrats guys! You can check out a short description of the title and current/past members by clicking here.
Update a lot of little website things since my last report. The Clan Codex was fixed up quite a bit, fixed up a few errors on the Clan Forces page, plus added new graphics that DGM Muz made for a couple of our Clan Possessions. Graphics for the two Swords of Shadows and Sword of the Avenger are up here.
Still aiming at having a House Feud within the Clan starting the second week of February. This will be happening fictionally a few months after the Vong Incursion and feature a more classic enemy I think, should be fun for young as well as old members featuring all areas of competition with a few new takes hopefully. We'll be pinning this down in the next two weeks.
Last year Clan Plagueis came out with a Clan History course for the Shadow Academy. Doing one of these for Tal has been on the "To Do" list for a long time but is finally being worked on. DJK Daar Kareth will be heading this up with Ace, Alanna, Chaos, and myself helping out. This will be something that new members will be able to take towards promotions and actually get some useful information from relative to the Clan. Look for updates on this in future reports, this one shouldn't take too long to get setup.

Tons of news from the Brotherhood at large this past week including the new website layouts, several reports, and some game updates. Best thing to do here is simply visit the website and start skimming down, lots of good information out here. I love this website layout change again, it's just an amazing job by those in our Seneschal Office.

Brotherhood News - Click Here, Right Here, This Line!

Weekly Gaming Events & Competitions Page - Right Here, Our Own Handy Website

Gaming Servers Page - To the Wiki Page We Go

DB-Wide Events

<li> What Dreams May Come (Ends on 01/31)

<li> Balance (Ends on 01/31)

<li> Balance GFX (Ends on 01/31)

<li> January Gaming Competition (Ends on 01/31)

<li> Gaming Nights (Ends on 12/31)</li>

Clan-Wide Events

<li>Tally Table Tennis Comp (Ends on 02/01) NEW!

<li>Art of CTF: Taldryan Style (Ends on 02/11) NEW!

<li> Taldryan Topic: Lanchi Unrests (Ends on 01/31)

<li> TT Article Competition: Take II (Ends on 02/29)

<li> A New Hope: Tal Trivia (Ends on 12/31)

<li> Reports Work - For Everyone (Ends on 12/31)</li>

House Archanis Events

<li> None at the moment, Coming Soon</li>

House Dinaari Events

<li> Resurrection of Dominus Sicarius (Ends on 03/30)</li>

House Ektrosis Events

<li>Why you belong in Phoenix? (Ends on 01/31, for BT Phoenix Only)

<li>The Gauntlet (Ends on 02/01, for BT Hex Only)

<li>Ektrosis Run On -- The First to Strike (Ends on 03/30) NEW!

<li> Ektrosis Fiction Series: In Search of Sklib (Ends on 03/31)

<li> AED's Challenge (Ends on 09/24)</li>

We also have the Inter-Club Training Event which occurs every Saturday on IRC in #outerrim. Details on that should be on the competition page as well.

The second event in the Quick and Easy PCON Comp will be awarded by Chaos soon followed by a third event. Two new events we have are a fun and easy web based event by JH Tirano and a CTF gaming event, both are great so check the website for more details on those. For those looking for more to do I encourage you to really check out the fiction events open to the entire Brotherhood and our Taldryan Topic event. So far I have received 0 submissions for that, terrible I know. That one is pretty easy, all you need to do is read over the planets locations in the system manual and go write something and develop that.

Transferred to House Archanis

Welcome APP Kandar!

Transferred to House Dinaari

Warm welcome back to GRD Vicar!
Welcome APP Jared Lang!
Welcome APP Torrin Kane!

Transfered to House Ektrosis

Welcome APP Zarel!

Transfered Out

None, good deal!

Clan Only

Chaosrain Taldrya promoted to Exarch!

House Archanis

Nirnaeth Arnoediad promoted to Novice!

House Dinaari

Liku promoted to Novice!

House Ektrosis

Lokasena "Sena" Corvinus promoted to Dark Jedi Knight!
Narad Na Lexu promoted to Protector then Guardian!

Major props to Chaos and Sena on their promotions, well deserved! Congrats to Halc on his Anteian Cross for leading the Dark Fire Brigade, Nirnaeth and Sklib on winning Tal Trivia last week, Narad/Rigar/Halc/Shadow and others on Crescents, plus Tirano and I for Clusters from gaming!

Not Brotherhood or Star Wars related, but something I'm really excited about is the coming release of Super Smash Bros. Brawl for the Nintendo Wii. If you have no idea what this is, check it our here and if you do you still might want to check it out. I loved the past two games in the line that came out for the Gamecube and Nintendo 64 so I've been following this one since the first news broke. Should end up with a huge list of playable characters, stages, and modes, plus online play which is a big step still for Nintendo. I've been a big support of the company since the mid-90s and am happy they have hit the loyal fans with some major titles on the Wii so far, can't wait to play this game.

The last week or so I've been a bit bogged down on things in real life, but i'm pushing along and should be getting better the farther we go. The Clan is pushing along well for this time of year, several out doing stuff, a few have submitted Tal Times articles, and projects are in the works. Keep on being active and have fun!

~ Important Links ~

Clan Taldryan | Clan Codex | Competitions Page | IRC Guide

Dark Jedi Brotherhood | Antei Combat Center | Shadow Academy

Message Boards | DJB Wikipedia | Dark Side Codex

~ Summit Members ~

Consul Duga Taldrya Arkarso ([Log in to view e-mail addresses])

Proconsul Chaosrain Taldrya ([Log in to view e-mail addresses])

Archanis Quaestor Andan Taldrya Marshall ([Log in to view e-mail addresses])

Archanis Aedile Mercur "Fire-Knight" Matsuki ([Log in to view e-mail addresses])

Archanis Envoy Gobhainn Sgath ([Log in to view e-mail addresses])

Dinaari Quaestor Vladet Xavier ([Log in to view e-mail addresses])

Dinaari Aedile Tarax Eosphoros Kor ([Log in to view e-mail addresses])