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It had been a crazy night. After the notorious lightweight Voden decided to drink excessively, his body failed him early in the night. Dreadfully tired, he managed to stumble into his quarters where he fell into his bed, still fully robed. His sleep was full of dreams, mostly of getting into bar fights due to his pugilistic nature. He woke up once in the middle of night, cotton mouthed and dreadfully dehydrated. He slowly lifted himself to his weak legs and then awkwardly made his way over to his refrigerator. In there, he grabbed a milk carton and began to consume large gulps of it.

Putting it back slowly, his mind began to race on the night before. So many regrets consumed him. However, he had a fucking good time. That's what it was all about in the end. With that satisfaction of this knowledge, he slipped back under the covers of his cot. For a bit, he remained awake, continuing his trend of self reflection at night while he remained in bed. His insomnia soon subsided though, and his eyes closed to signal his inception back into the dream world.

His dreams remained relatively uneventful. Soon though, he heard someone shouting his name. "Voden!" The Obelisk stirred in his sleep. "VODEN!" He was not aware that the voice was in his room. And now, the owner of the voice was shaking him violently. His eyes opened, but remained in a squint as they tried their best to ensure little light as possible entered. He saw the silhouette of his harasser, and it didn't take long before his eyes adjusted to reveal Prelate Etah d'Tana -- the house rollmaster.

"What?" Voden felt his stomach curdle. "What do you want?"

"You impossible fool! Don't you know what today is? You're a battleteam leader now, Voden! Responsibility, responsibility! Now, you have a report to do. Remember?" Usual Etah. Voden never could find himself comfortable with the Rollmaster's excessive nagging. Still though, the Prelate was correct, and he was obligated to submit that report today. With a deep breath, he rolled out of bed and right onto the floor. On all fours, he quickly lifted himself up to his feet and felt his stomach drop.

"I'll get right to it! Right after I-" Voden's face turned a deathly pale as he quickly ran into the bathroom that was adjacent to his quarters. Etah's face was of disgust and frustration for having to handle what he wholly considered... a fool.

Well, to start, this is my first report as battleteam leader. I guess that's kinda newsworthy. First week as BTL, too. Woo!

Secondly, we have an Arcona Arena Tournament in the works. A lot of people have signed up already, but for the sake of letting you know, sign ups are still active. Running on an ACC-similar platform on the DJB message boards, combatants will meet in epic writing beat down. If you're interested, email the Consul at 3drufio[at]gmail[dot]com.

THIRDLY, vowelchick is running an IRC RPG event on 12/10. Signups will run until 12/9, and you can find them HERE. Currently, Arcona is rocking attendance by making up 2/3rds of the participants. Amusingly, there is only three people signed up. It just sounded more impressive when I said that we have 2/3rds participation.

ANYWAY, the roster search has been totally PHP'itized by the uber l33t Orv. Since I've been dossier stalking for a bit now, I've experienced the coolness of it first hand. No more MySQL injection attacks... right?

By the way. Dessan is back and brought dbb0t with him. For those of you familiar, that's the bot that people randomly type !lookup 9648 all the time. Yeah, the bot is utterly useless since you can run the same operation and get better results on the site, but hey. Dessan is obviously dejected from RL so being active in the DJB again will help him escape. YAY DESSAN! :D

More interestingly, fifty and seventy are the only numbers divisible by ten that, when spelled out, have as many letters as ten divides into them. Therefore, fifty-four and seventy-four are equal to the numbers you get when you count the letters digit by digit. Thirty-six and forty-five have this same property in reverse, that is, the first word has the same number of letters as the second digit, and vice versa.

Are any of you even alive? Since ascending to BTL, I've heard absolutely nothing from any of you. Emails would be nice. Also, maybe try to get on IRC and occasionally PM me. I'm `Max. Thanks, guys.

At this point, my whole goal is to recruit and get some members in the battleteam. Why? Right now, in all realism, my line up of members consists of Cybey's. Yeah. Not the most active members. I want to get in contact with all of you, reassess what's going on, and go from there. With some more members, we can consolidate our power base and exponentially increase activity which would be great. My goals for the battleteam is to get some competitions going so we can all work together to develop our collective unit as a group.

Over this next week, expect a lot of emails from me, unless you respond. In which case, things should flow pretty efficiently. Kay, thanks guys! :D

Aliens v. The Dark Brotherhood -- Crossover fiction competition. The moron stated that there's a 3000 word limit and then a 1000 word limit. Further investigation revealed that the maximum is 3000 words and that the minimum is 1000 word. BUT HEY! Everyone makes the occasional mistake.

DB Christmas Competition -- Write about who would make a good Dark Santa. Not a good Darth Santa. A good Dark Santa. Seriously.

The Name is Keibatsu... Shikyo Keibatsu -- Finding this competition was refreshing after all of the vowelchick comps. Regardless, this competition is a fiction too. And a graphics one. I guess Shikyo decided to cover all bases for the sake of actually having participation in one of his comps. Here's the catch though... first place gets custom robes. Totally worth participating for them.

Create Zakath's Report Headers! -- Our beloved Quaestor is in need of some report headers! Please make him some, please!

Arcona Trivia Mk. VI -- I don't think this is running anymore, but the end date is 12/31, so I'm going to add it. Maybe we can try to get it going again? That would be cool.

Well, that's it. My life right now is pretty awesome. Feel like I have things set perfectly. Hopefully I can maintain this pace, haha. Anyway, I promised a summary for these things and I would hate to go back on my word. So without further ado, here it is, nicely appended:

• This is my first BTL report! :D

• Arcona Arena sign ups are going!

• Sign up for the IRC RP thing.

<li>Members

<li>Expect some immense contact. Gotta figure out what's up this week.

<li>Projects

<li>This week is gonna consist of lots of recruitment and communication. Before we start anything drastic, we've gotta assess our situation. That's all, really.

<li>Competitions

<li>There's lots and lots of competitions! They're mostly fiction, but there's like, two graphic comps up right now if you're interested.

<li>Closing

<li> That's all folks! I hope you enjoyed reading this report more than I enjoyed writing it! Later. :)

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