WEEKLY AEDILE'S REPORT #3

< INTRO >

Hello, people!

This is Priest al'Lan Mandragoran reporting.

Not a very busy week this one... and to be honest, I found it rather frustrating. We have several interesting competitions running, and yet no one did anything. Not only that, but a day before the original due date of the "Preparations" competition, our current House competition, I found that some people were still unaware of it, even though it was announced when it was launched, then again in my report and in the form of a reminder.

Well... I was a little disappointed, but I was told by a friend that I expect too much of people. I don't think that was too much, but I guess I do. :-)

< HOUSE NEWS >

• Only one transfer this week. Guardian Algaron Xerves has decided to leave the House for the Rogues, due to RL business. Good luck with real life mate, I hope you can return to us soon. :-)

• Our Quaestor has given me his blessing so I may work on an idea I had. Soon I'll be running a short RPG game for those in the House who are interested. It'll be a Star Wars game of course, where you use your character to play. I'm still working on the idea, but let me know if you like/dislike it. :-)

< COMPETITIONS >

• The Great Jedi War is expected to be sometime in February.

• Our House has a competition running called "Preparations". Members must write a short story on how the summit and the House are getting ready for the Great Jedi War. The best story will be awarded a Crescent with Sapphire Star, and the second best a Crescent with Emerald Star. It should be one page long at least, using Arial font, 12pts sized, and the deadline for submitting it is now January 27th. There is no maximum limit of pages, but we're not looking for a novel here. Members should submit it to Loor ([Log in to view e-mail addresses]) and me ([Log in to view e-mail addresses]).

• There's a fun run on open to the Clan at http://www.ehnet.org/mb/viewtopic.php?t=3957, join us in harassing Saitou and Snij!

• For those looking to improve their writing skills, kill some free time and have some fun, I highly recommend the Krath Combat Center at http://www.minos.net/~krath/combat/page.php. Go in there and challenge someone. Hell, you can challenge me for an easy start, I'm not that great fighter. :-)

• The Headmaster has started a very interesting competition. Here are the details:

This is a competition to design the Shadow Academy's actual building. A solid design for the building will add to the roleplaying feel of the Brotherhood, and this will also likely be made into a Jedi Outcast level.

There are two categories available here - graphical and fictional. Participants may wo

rk in teams of two. Teams may only submit to one of the two categories.

Awards will be as follows:

Crescent with Diamond Star x 2

Crescent with Ruby Star x 2

Crescent with Amethyst Star x 2

1 set of the above will be for each section (graphical and fictional).

You have until January 31st to get your designs in.

I have listed below the things I expect to see in all designs. These are fairly basic guidelines, but so we don't end up with something way off target...

All entries should have:

• Classrooms (1 per Order minimum)

• Combat training area (for lightsaber instruction)

• Living quarters for guests, Apprentices in training, the HM, staff, etc.

Recommended:

• Recreation area

• Physical training gymnasium

• Force training area

The building may be single or multi-level, above or below ground... anything you feel works. I will be taking the best design to the DB JK2 mod team after any alterations I feel are necessary to it - most likely for gameplay issues.

Good luck, folks. ;)

• This month's KMTs are:
  

Poem:

"Hymn to Pain"

Style: Limerick

Min: 1 page

Max: 3 pages

Font: Arial, size 12

Describe a painful experience your DB character has gone through. You can adapt a real life situation if you wish, or adapt a role-playing situation or the like.

Fiction:

"Invasion"

Style: Short Story

Min: 2 pages

Max: 10 pages

Font: Arial, size 12

You feel a strange twang in the back of your head. Something is not right at your Clan's HQ. You leave your studies and investigate, only to find a horror beyond horrors stalking your fellow clanmates! You track it, trying to keep out of sight, but you fail. The horror has found you!

Use this and write an interesting, original short story. The more unique and interesting, the better!

(Krath Monthly Topics are sent to Tronsta at [Log in to view e-mail addresses] and be sure to CC me, [Log in to view e-mail addresses] on it).

< CONCLUSION >

In my time in the EH, I heard several times people saying that they wouldn't take part on a given competition because they weren't good at what it asked. People... being good doesn't matter, participating does. It is participation that'll grant you rank and position promotions. There's no point in not taking part of a competition because you're not good at poems, or funny stories, or graphics, or whatever it is about.

From now on I don't want to hear that again, if you're not going to submit something because you ain't got the time or you didn't like what the competition is about, then say so. If you tell me you won't take part because you're not good at it... I'll... I'll..... (/me takes his pills)

al'Lan Mandragoran

---

KP (Krath)/AED/Acclivis Draco of Scholae Palatinae [KSOE: ENV]

(SC)/(SE)/DC-KC-O-CS/(BNB)/Cr-1E-2A/(LSS)/LoA/CoL

{SA: G:LS-K:CORE-K:GS-S:ISET}