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Loaded the bullets with my blood in the rounds

Shout-outs

New Magistrate!

The Avatar project that Socorra started has been a sort of bottomless hole from the beginning. I’ve touched on this in my previous report/s and I have officially stopped the project. this is still true as i believe avatars are something that is so hard to get right that you should really either pay for a commission or otherwise employ an artist to make you one.

That said, as promised, I have found an artist able to cover and finish the already requested avatars.

I’ve taken on Seyda Norith as a Magistrate until she finished this project. She is already done some of the avatars in the list. check them out:

The rest on the list now will be finished relatively quickly and sent to their owners. If you have submitted to this form, you can expect a mail from Seyda pretty soon.

Support the art community

As mentioned in my part reports, my primary long term goal in this position is to kickstart and develop a strong art community in the DB, be it official or unofficial. the first steps have already been taken and there are exceptional individuals who have made this possible. This time I will award one such individual for their efforts.

Atyiru Caesura Entar has worked tirelessly on Arcona’s art community and has, since it’s inception, constantly supplied new art and improved her own and others’ works through hard work, dedication and solid critiques. With Arcona’s TG art group becoming so popular I will open a DB wide TG group where we cna all share our artworks freely and get advice and help from our fellow artists.

For her efforts, Atty receives the first custom robes I have officially released as Herald. Congrats Atty :D

Codeboy and Wikichick

The website designs were released not too long ago. Yeah it was a huge job and thankfully it went without a hitch. We have received overwhelmingly positive feedback about the designs and there’s no one happier than me that you guys like them. Apart from the DC and Staff who gave us very good feedback, I have to thank two individuals for their help.

The first is of course our Senechal, Codemonkey and website overlord (or Codeboy as I like to call him ;D) James Lucius Entar Arconae. His speedy responses to my inputs and corrections (and there were a lot of them) have made this project (a huge undertaking, mind you) as short as it possibly could have been. It was started on july 21st and finished on August 8th (with the final graphic additions). That’s 19 days. Yeah, do the math… I’ll wait :P So as you can imagine my gratitude to Codeboy here. Thank you James. You’re the bestest :D

The second individual is Selika Roh di Plagia, Wikitribune and Magistrate to the Herald - or just Slags :P His input and critiques helped me “seal the deal” and his addition to the banners you can see on your left and right made the site look even more impressive. Thanks Slags. Keep the critique game on man. I really do need quality control :)

Yeah, she's a sweet six shooter, she knows how to get down

Path and Order based recruitment headers

Well i showed you a teaser of this last time. This time I’ll show some more. Now that Paths is officially being released (pretty soon) I think it’s only fair. The whole website design is based around the new Orders and the idea of welcoming new members into the fold through these headers. Each of these, when implemented, will link to the Join page with the specific order already selected… at least that’s the idea.

So here are the first four. The last one, Gray Jedi, is under construction at the moment. Each header will have a caption added to it, though what sort of caption it will be we will determine at a later date. The images of the characters were provided by Baxir Vol and Arcia Cortel. Thank to both of them :)

Non-Force sensitive Custom Items

We’ve been talking about the new nn-force sensitive orders in the DC and what kinds of Saber equivalent Custom items they could get at EQ2 and up. You can expect more detailed info on this project, and some teasers, in my next report, though what I can say for now is that they will most definitely be Blasters/Slugthrowers and Vibroblades.

Which ones? I don’t know yet so stay tuned and keep an eye on my reports.

Until the kick-back, when my heart hits the ground

News Banners

You may have noticed two new headers on the site related to Battlefront and Episode 7 news. You did? Good. Hope you like them. That’s not where we’re stopping, though. Our Recruitment Tribune, Yacko has sent me several requests for more Headers. Why?

Why not? :P Like I told him. we have this awesome site and we have to use it. the more good graphics we have the more people will notice. So here are the three we’ve managed to do until now. we have six more to go. Stay tuned ;)

Warbanners, Sabers and Requests

Let’s start with

Sabers

In the past two weeks four were completed. From left to right:

• Revak Kur by Mirus Hi’ija
• Aerwin Tribwell by Selika Roh
• Uji by Arcia Cortel

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Warbanners

By Selika:

• Aerwin Tribwell
• Vivackus Kavon di Plagia
• His own

By Rhiann Baenre:

• Turel Sorenn

By Arcia Cortel:

• Seraphol Ceartas

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Graphics Requests

By Selika Roh

• Darkblade

By Arcia Cortel

• Turel Sorenn
• Sith Bloodfyre-Tarentae

Extremely proud of my team right now. Good job guys. :)

She said: "You think you're so tough, baby put your hands up"

There’s a Form for that

*Warbanner Request

*Custom Saber Request

*Leadership Graphics Request

*Second Sons Artwork Volunteers:

*Complaints

*Herald FAQ

DB Art Community Telegram Group

If you’re interested in joining the TG group and sharing your art, be sure to click the image below:

Ask the Herald

Cable asks: Vyr: I've heard you pick skittles out of a bag to determine the colours of robes you create. Is this true?

Yes it is, very true. in fact i have a mix of skittles and M&M’s. If I eat an M&M it’s gonna be an armor. A skittle means robes. So there you go.

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Teikhos asks: There's a bird chewing on my toe. What do I do?

Birds don’t have teeth.

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Malik asks: What custom weapons will mundanes get?

Look up :P

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Teikhos asks: Who can I whine at to make me an avatar when I hit Defender?

Commission it from the fine list of artists up there.

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Sang asks: how much wood can a woodchuck Chuck if a woodchuck could Chuck wood?

A woodchuck would chuck so much wood he wouldn't know how much wood he chucked.

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Terran asks: Why can't I have a purple theme? Why are you repressing my purpley manliness?

Go to the main site and type in purplehaze.

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James asks: Can I get an octarine colored site theme?

You can get anything you want. :P

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Atty asks: So, art trades are an utterly awesome thing. Would you like to see more of that around the club, and do you have any other ideas for spreading the casual gfx love? (maybe expanding a TG group?)

Yes, I would like to see more art trades in the club. Much, much more. As for the TG group, It has already been Created and the link is up there. ;)

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Terran asks: What sort of specific information should be included in graphics request so that the Staff can complete the request in a timely fashion?

Colors, styles and fonts. best if you know all three if you wanna be specific. For example:

“I want a signature in the style of the SWTOR logo, with the SWTOR font and golden colors.”

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Wally asks: I want to be Darth Vader. How come I can't have Darth Vaders armor and robes? Why are you repressing my creative freedome to play the character I want?

No.

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Viv asks: what is the fictional justification for a light sider being on the DC?

She is useful to the grand master. Check his sheet for more info on that. Right now, she is one of the competent commanders in the Brotherhood and keeping her away from her army (COU armed Forces) weakens Odan-Urr. The GM can also keep an eye on her because she has risen through the ranks very, very quickly. All that and he can use her talents. on the other hand there is a backstory why Vorsa hasn’t rejected the role. Ask me about it via chat and I’ll tell you more. ;)

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Turel asks: Are there any plans to run any Herald comps similar to the "Design your own saber" one that ran not too long ago?

November. Day of the Fox.

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Terran asks: When are we going to get more cool mundane-style "robes"?

Herald Style Hanukkah. December.

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Sang asks: how are those ACC matches going? Got any more for me to proof?

pretty well, if Atra grades them soon :P Don’t worry, i’ll ask for your help again. You’re good at your job ;)

Closing word

This one was a bit short and low on content but no less important. I am your Herald, and you are informed.

See you Space Cowboys. ;)

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