Hello my friends, time for another Aedile report.

Congrats!

Let me start with a few congrats. Yayy for Tron becoming PCON, Yayy for Fenris at DJK, Yayy for BOB getting SWL, Yayy Tsingtao on getting a Dark Cross!

Random Musings

Okay then. Well my camping trip was a bust, my buddy broke his nose Saturday noonish chopping firewood. Serves him right, as he and his GF kept the whole campsite up until 4am the night before with loud and tasteless "noises". I mean, I support happy couples- but take that up the trail a ways out of earshot. I was hoping to have a peaceful vacation, but it was not to be. Needless to say, although I did the first aid on him I didn't feel very sorry for him at all.

Had my first experience with mainstream wikipedia today. I was trying to create a factual article on my boss (a major psychic) and it got deleted not a minute after I put it up, by some jackanape with many comments on his talk section about being vicious with the deletes. All I have to say is, some people must not be very happy in their personal lives to be a wiki-nazi like that. I bet he doesn't get many dates, at least not with humans. Living ones, that is.

We have it good here in the DB, as our wiki folks are pretty nice.

IG's:

So far I have submitted 4 entries. I'm gonna try to squeeze another in, but I may not have time. The deadline is now May 14th, 11:59 PM EST. Those are hard Seals to get, so I highly encourage you to participate.

http://independencegames.stormraven.org/independencegames/IG08/index.html

The Rollmaster's Trivia Comp

is now well underway. Participation has been great so far, and awards for round one have been submitted. The crescents for Round One are out, and the Legion of the Scholar should be out shortly thanks to Tron. Round Two is in progress.

http://www.darkjedibrotherhood.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=5242

The Simus Institute:

http://www.darkjedibrotherhood.com/wiki/index.php?title=Simus_Institute

This is looking very interesting... thanks to Ashura for taking the lead and all those who have added ideas.

Clan AWOL Check

Is now underway. Be sure to let Faeril or one of your superiors know you are still with us.

Some Fiction

I leave you with this, from my Swordhand entry a bit ago:

"Macron stared impatiently at the cold window that separated him from open space. The twinkling lights of an ion engine set reflected back from the cold porthole glass of the wreck in the mirror image of his armored visage's eyes. This indicated that his guests had arrived. Few living things called the ancient hulk home, and most of the ones that did were monstrosities of some sort. Now there would be two more sentient beings as the "trainees" arrived onboard.

Two more to walk the strange old decrepit halls and forge their spirits as hardened light saber artists. The madman was notoriously difficult to train with. Some students occasionally died or broke under the intense training. "Perhaps two more to join the shades," wondered the Sith aloud with a frown.

...

Rumor had it that the studies with the Sith Lord and Master Trevarus Caerick had fragmented his mind further, causing him to be removed as Consul by the Star Chamber's machinations. "You fight in the Wars, and this is your reward. Fascinating," he snarled. "Well, I suppose I had better go greet my guests. Mandatory saber training by Masters of individual styles as ordered," he mumbled to himself. "Dren. Damn Dark Council meddling in my affairs again. May they be damned to scream in the nine Hells of Zandru."

The alchemist ran his fingers over the bulkhead wall as a calming diversion, imagining what would happen if it were to suddenly cease to exist and his suit failed. "First, my eyes would pop out as the nitrogen in my blood boiled," he giggled inside the helm. His footsteps echoed in the cold corridors as doors hissed open and shut. The Keibatsu sat on a repulsor sled, and keyed the transport to take him the dreary 300 meters to the dusty old hangar bay. "Then my lungs would hemorrhage and freeze," he whispered. Mental exercises such as these kept his mind occupied usefully. "Then..." his voice trailed away in whispers of imagined gory events."

cheers, Mac

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SWL Mononoke "Macron" Keibatsu Sadow

Fourth Caste of the Inner Order

Consul Emeritus

Aedile of HLK