Exarch Report 06: Forward Progress
Envoy Corps Bounty: 002
Shin’era Terlan—charged with impersonating Inquisitorius agents and committing acts of violence against an innocent town on the planet Nevarro in an effort to frame the Brotherhood as malicious—has been subdued and captured. A team of Envoy's was able to fight through her bodyguards and a band of pirates to catch her before she could flee on her modified speeder. Through a team effort, it was the Iktotchi, Cade, who managed to land a crippling blow with his lightsaber, cutting the fleeing Togruta’s arm off at the shoulder.
The Envoy Corps shuttle handed Terlan to the enforcers at the Envoy Corps headquarters on Arx minor, where she was placed in maximum security holding designed to contain and interrogate even the most elusive of Elder Shadows. Some time later, a statement would be released by Shin'era Terlan herself, taking credit for her actions on Nevarro and clearing the Brotherhood’s name in relation to the incident.
Exarch Report 06
Table of Contents
Development
New Snapshot Feature
While many of you have gotten used to attaching a snapshot to your RPs with the /rp snapshot command, James has now added a nifty feature that will aggregate all of the snapshots and let you display them all in a single window.
James also fixed the bug that prevented iOS devices from clicking on snapshot links, but this tool is invaluable for both players and DMs to quickly/easily access the snapshots that have been appended to an RP session!
New Edit Fields
Another change that I think is for the better is the new /rp edit function. This function will now use a “form” that you can fill out instead of having to type out multiple-entries when setting up the description details of an RP activity.
This function will replace /rp set ultimately, but you’ll still see it until we’re able to fully phase it out.
Envoy Threads (Attire) added to selector
Thanks to the combined work of the Herald Team and Eleceos/Rhylance, we now have the Envoy Threads available in different styles in the Robe Construction tool! You can find them under the Armor filter. You can go with a cape + cap, no cape, or, as the kids like to say: no cap! Feel free to leave your preference in the comments using #nocap #nocapes #yescap #stoptryingtomakecaphappen etc.
Shout out to Zosi'val'ria (aka Siv aka Tor/Rumi) for right-away repping the design after hitting Rank II in the Players Gonna Play supplemental society trophy!
In my own efforts to help hype the Exarch reward items, I got a commission of Marick wearing a take on the new Envoy Robes, as well as the Golden Envoy Badge and Golden Envoy Glasses to show off these new cool items!
Stylish and efficient, I’d say. All of that is to say: the more RPs you run or participate, the more cool stuff you can get!
Rank Tracking
I’ll be tracking these metrics semi-manually month-to-month so we can observe a baseline/pattern of how quickly (or not quickly) members progress through the ranks. As it stands now, I think our projections and scoping are working out well, but we’ll always be looking at ways to tweak or adapt to Roleplaying activity utilization!
To start off in our first month, we saw 28 “Player’s Gonna Play” trophy rank increases, and 5 “You Can Certainly Try” trophy rank increases!
We’ll monitor to see how this goes each month.
Live/Voice Session Testing
Some folks might be excited to hear that we’re working on testing the possibility of voice-based roleplaying/tabletop sessions and how they could be counted for Envoy Marks. To accomplish this, we’re looking at using a type of b0t that can do an audio recording of the session on discord, and then provide a text-based transcript that can be used to verify the validity of the session.
I’m currently testing, (off server) with our very own Grot, a 2-part session where we are using a prototype D10 system built on the “Blades in the Dark” game mode. It was actually a lot of fun, and we were able to utilize our existing Brotherhood character sheets to play!
Keep in mind, while this opens up a world of opportunities, anything that counts for Envoy Marks (and website credits/xp) would need to still be grounded in Brotherhood/SW lore, and utilize Brotherhood systems (Possessions, Loadouts, and CSs).
Staffing Update: Help Wanted
I wanted to thank Shimra for all of his work as a part of Exarch Staff. As part of my first group of staffers, Shim was very vocal in all of our society building discussions, always was the first person to submit a completed RP, and many other things you can find in his Sapphire Blade write up.
That said, he’s decided to step down from his position, which while sad, means we have another opening to join staff!
Here is what I’m looking for in our next team member:
- The ability to help submit RP logs to the Voice Staff for processing RPs.
- Active presence on Discord and willing to drive conversation in
#rp-lobby. - Willing to help run monthly Exarch-sponsored RPs in the form of Bounties, Missions, or Contracts for the Envoy Corps.
- Contribute in discussions of new features, updates, and policies for the Envoy Corps in
#exarch-chat - Comfortable helping and answering questions about the RP functions and mechanics for members, and jumping in to help new Game or Dungeon masters with their RPs
- Have passed the Activities 104: Roleplaying exam.
- Excited about the Envoy Corps and RP activity!
I should also note that Exarch Staff get a bonus to Golden Envoy Marks by serving in the position, so it's a very active role, but one that does help with your progression in that Trophy!
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. Otherwise, send all applications to: [Log in to view e-mail addresses] by Friday, April 21st, 2023.
Featured RP
Speaking of Exarch-sponsored RP, we just concluded last months Envoy Corps RP: Bounty 002, as seen in the reports intro. You can check out the log here for all the cool details!
Great work to Techie, Cade, Tahiri, and Nero for completing this trial!
You can keep up with the Exarch-sponsored RPs here on the Wiki.
Helpful Resources
You can find everything you need in Roleplaying Handbook Wiki. This page hosts links to Exarch Resources such as maps, rulesets, system types, and information about Role Playing activities the Brotherhood.
Some useful pages to bookmark:
- Exarch Resources Google Drive Folder
- Envoy Corps Wiki
- Envoy Corps Trophy Rank Rewards Table
- Envoy Corps Items
- Envoy Corps CS Feats
- Character Sheet Reference Tool
- Roleplaying Handbook
Development Changelog
Bot changelog:
- /rp snapshot is now /rp snapshot create to make space for the new /rp snapshot list command
- Snapshot rendering was slightly changed to work around an iOS Discord bug
- RP session parameters can now be updated using /rp edit instead of /rp set. Both still work, but /rp set will be retired eventually. Due to Discord only allowing five modal fields, the start and end time RP parameters were combined into one.
- closed out old RPs with no activity to make sure members got credit / marks for their previous work that qualified
- Envoy Corps wiki updates
- Updated Shadow Academy exams
- Supplemental Society rank-up emails deployed
Closing
That’s all for now.
-W
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No nat1 appearances.
I'm not first, but great report ;)
Yay RPs Nice report.
I made it into the Wally report! As someone who has recently decided to dive head first into the RP side of things here, I am excited to see the changes and updates already under way!
Whooo! Awesome report Wally. Very nice duds Btw, like hot damn. #nocap Hair like that can't be held back ;) Super excited about how the RP system is going, the updates and changes to make it better. I think this will work out for some major comps I want to put on :)
Awesome!!!! Dig this!