Hey hey Ventress. As promised this, this is going to be a big report. Now I know it’s going to be a big read, I’ll try to make this as pain less as possible. Sorry this is a little late, I had a few hiccups in RL, but should be back on track now. We have the Pro Bowl now officially started and lots to get through, so let’s strap in and get to it.

Table of Contents

1. News
   1.1 Dark Brotherhood
   1.2 Clan Plagueis
   1.3 House Ventress
   
2. Activity and Shinies!
   
3. Competitions
   
4. QUA Q&A
5. Final Thoughts

News

Dark Brotherhood

• PulseFeed News Aggregator: Clan Updates #18 - Check out the latest news of the happenings within the clans and brotherhood as a whole.

• Regent Report: Unfortunate Circumstances - Anubis/Zxyl announces his step down as Regent of the Brotherhood. Thank you Zxyl for everything you have done with the possessions system and for the Brotherhood as a whole! Goodluck in your next endeavors, and have fun now that you don’t have quite as much on your shoulders!

• Voice Supplemental #17.3 - Kyuzo Added - New species added!

• M:Voice Report #3 - Rei Rei has report summarizing all the new updates to the Voice and staff have made in the system along with a few other things.

• Fist Supplemental Report -Pokemon Unite Added As A Supported Platform - I think the title says it all. However, make sure you read Turels’ full report for details on clusters and screens.

• Voice Supplemental #17.4 - Cragmoloid Added - Another new playable species added to the list.

• Graphics Society Update 1.01 - Check out the Graphics society update, including everything from difficulty settings to Freelancer awards. Also check out the survey, it helps the Herald and his staff.

• Regent Report #1 - Thran has been announced as the new Regent, so check out his first report and see what he’s got cookin’. Congrats dude! Also a big Thank you to Zxyl for all the work you’ve put in!

• Home Page Update Survey - Erin has a survey on how everything is now sorted on the new homepage, along with how you as a member navigate the site.

• HM #14: A Day Long Awaited - Arch announces some project finalizations, including search bar for the academy exams,

• Emissary #5 - Check out Erin’s report, filled with stats, new Trophy, and the newsletter. Although the newsletter had to reissued, so check out in full here.

• Pro Bowl VIII: Convergence - Slags announces the official rules, the scoring system, and then the Opening Ceremonies! Goodluck to everyone and go check the team rosters.

• ACC Championship - Singularity Semifinals - If you’ve been keeping up with the ACC tournament, it’s the SEMIFINALS!! Check out the last 4 opponents in the arena!

• Amendment to Brotherhood Chat Policy - A new amendment and a quick reminder to test games for the competitions.

• Exarch Report 13: Lucky Number - Wally gives us the deets and updates on projects, the Leader board of the top 10 Envoys, and just some other fun information. Also awesome shout out to my Godson, Bril!

Clan Plagueis

There are some amazing reports for Plagueis. Check them out!

Our Dread Lord made the first announcement of the Aliso Summer Festival, and teased us about the upcoming Pro-Bowl! Check out the announcement above for all the details. Yay!!! Plagueis Consul Report #28: Summer Fun Time

TuQ gives a run down of the clan activity and other fun things! Plagueis Proconsul Report 4: It’s Getting Hat In Here.

Titius makes a very quick and to the point report. Tyranus Quaestor Report #4 - What a bore!.

House Ventress

Let’s start off with welcoming Captain J.C Riggs, and welcoming back both Kul’tak Drol and Kor Vaal to the clan, and to our wonderful house. Welcome you guys!! Hope everyone is settling in alright and am getting acquainted with things. As always let me know if you have any questions.

As you all know the Aliso Summer Festival ended a bit ago and now we are in the first week of the Pro Bowl. But before we get into that, let’s take a moment to delve into the results of the ASF for some fun stats.

• Out of the entire clan, we had 13 participants all together. That was almost half the clan, not including myself or Titius.
  
• In true Plagueis spirit, there were only two people who truly did “All The Things”, and got the biggest extra point of the event. Congrats to TuQ’uan and Nora!!!
  
• We had 6 unique participants in the ASF 24’ RP, all of which were able to enough.
• Each house had almost an equal amount of participants in between the two weeks; W1 having 9 total participants, 3 from Ventress and 5 from Tyranus. W2 having 12 total participants, 4 from Ventress and 6 from Tyranus. Total event was 13 participants, with 6 from Ventress total, and 6 from Tyranus total.
  
• We had 48 entries total for W1 and 47 entries for W2, with the 6 entries for the RP, that makes a total of 101 entries for the entire event!
  
• A couple of Week 2’s competitions and the parent competition got upgraded awards due to more than 10 people participating. Great work everyone!

Thank you everyone who participated and congratulations again to our top 4 participants, Nora, TuQ, Azmodius, and Cymbre!!

Pro Bowl VIII

IT’S HERE FOLKS!!! Pro Bowl VIII has officially started and it looks like we’re headed to Jedha and dealing with more Children of Mortis. There are only two teams this year, the Frogdogs and Rotworms, on discord you will have been assigned one of the these roles and be in a team chat. Below I’ll run and break down the Event Long and week 1 competitions. Most are super easy to do and there is the huge factor that there are Novae on the line for this Pro Bowl, as this will be only big event for the DJB this year. Now for the comps themselves:

• [Pro Bowl VIII: Event Long] Roleplay: Pretty straight forward for all the RP veterans, but if your new or just recently returned here, then this is a new feature on discord and is super easy to use. Teams are to be made of 2 to 4 participants, and at least 1 to 2 members be from different clans, no cross teams. Make an RP thread (ask Wally and staff if you have any questions about things), get to writing using the prompt provided as a guide, and have fun.
• [Pro Bowl VIII: Event Long] Treasure Among the Ruins: Graphics competition, that can be done alone or with up to 2 more people for a team of 3 max. You have to create a dossier of graphical information, w/ some writing too, about an ancient artifact or crystal that the children of Mortis are after. Now if you are on a team, make sure you note who did what and that it's noted for the judges in some way. Only one person on the team needs to submit the entry. Alright now let's get down to Week 1 comps:
• Puzzle: Puzzle, pretty straight forward. Go to the site, complete the puzzle with the proper amount of pieces (99), screenshot and submit.
  
• Star Wordle Part Deux: Guess what the word is. (Note: if you had done one before and now don’t see it, check this news post).
  
• Button: If you’re on discord, there’s the Button channel dedicated to it. Just jump in, wait for a bond to be planted, and clip a wire to earn points. Super Easy!
• Meme Roast: Exactly what it means. Have fun creating memes.
  
• Crawl Creator: Create the iconic crawl before each of the Star Wars films, except in your own words and describing what your character or clan is doing on Jedha.
  
• Broken (Kyber) Heart: Create a depiction of a location on Jedha, something that still remains after the destruction of Jedha city by the first Death Star. It can be structural plans, or a full scene of the location either there or from a map.
  
• Cluster Race: Exactly as it says. Play with other DJB members, earn the most clusters in any and all gaming! Go go go!
  
• The Finals: If your into the game The Finals, well this is the comp for you. Get your matches in and go for gold.
  
• Fiction: Create a fiction over 500 words about securing a treasure hidden on Jedha for the Brotherhood. Good luck.
  
• Places on a Fractured World: In the same style, create an ACC venue location set on the fractured surface of Jedha. Take a look at the Venues page for the style and description process, and I would suggest taking a look at Jedha’s Wookieepedia for inspiration.
  

Now that I’ve done this for the Week 1, look out for an email in a similar format for weeks 2 and 3. Good luck and remember participation is key for your team. Even if you don’t win many comps, participation is the key to your team winning.

Activity and Shinies!

July and August awards!

Ronovi Tavisaen

• 1 Sapphire Blade
  

Warlord Furios Morega di Plagia

• 3 Crescents with Ruby Star
  
• 2 Crescents with Amethyst Star
  
• 2 Crescents with Sapphire Star
  

Captain J.C Riggs

• 1 Crescent with Diamond Star
  
• 2 Crescents with Ruby Star
• 1 Crescent with Sapphire Star
  
• 1 Crescent with Quartz Star
  
• 34 Clusters of Fire
  
• 3 Clusters of Graphite
  

Marcus Armani

• 1 Sapphire Blade
  
• 1 Crescents with Emerald Star
  

Kul’tak Drol

• 1 Crescent with Amethyst Star
  
• 1 Cluster of Ice

Nora Olen

• 3 Crescents with Diamond Star
  
• 8 Crescents with Ruby Star
• 30 Crescents with Amethyst Star
  
• 33 Crescents with Sapphire Star
• 22 Crescents with Emerald Star
  
• 6 Crescents with Topaz Star
  
• 195 Clusters of Fire
  
• 3 Clusters of Ice
  
• 94 Clusters of Graphite
  

Livia Mariquita Daffel

• 1 Steel Cross
• 89 Clusters of Fire
  

Mystic Kor Vaal

• 1 Grand Cross
  
• 1 Crescent with Diamond Star
  
• 1 Crescent with Amethyst Star
  
• 6 Clusters of Fire

Agron Dyrce

• 1 Crescent with Sapphire Star
  
• 1 Crescent with Topaz Star
  

Vishi

• 1 Anteian Cross
  

Tahiri Thorn Morte Tarentae

• 3 Crescents with Ruby Star
• 7 Crescents with Amethyst Star
  
• 10 Crescents with Sapphire Star
  
• 5 Crescents with Emerald Star
  
• 5 Crescents with Topaz Star
  
• 2 Crescents with Quartz Star
• 305 Clusters of Fire
  
• 3 Clusters of Ice
• 6 Clusters of Graphite

Competitions

• Pro Bowl VIII - Ends 09-22 - PRO BOWL TIME FOLKS! And there are Novae up for grabs this time. HYPE TRAIN!!!
  
• [Diablo 4 - Season 5] Infernal Hordes, not puzzles (August) - Ends 09-02 - For all the Diablo 4 players in the club, check these comps out.
  
• [Envoy Corps] RP Competition: Bounty 005 - Ends 09-04 - Envoy RP mission. Get your team of 2 to 4 together and catch the guy.
  
• Slice of Life: 001 - Ends 09-24 - Atty brings us a fiction comp series that explores the little details that make up our characters lives.
• Star Wars Sith and Jedi Puzzle Series - Ends 09-29 - Check each week for more puzzles.
  
• Cryptogram Extravaganza Series - Ends 09-29 - Nora has cryptograms for us to decipher!
  
• The Hallway Series - Ends 12-01 - Anders brings us a little bit of everything.
  
• Spot the Difference: Star Wars Edition - Ends 01-19-25 - Nora brings back her spot the difference comp series. Goodluck spotting the differences this go around.
  
• 2024 NFL Pick 'Em - Ends 02-10-25 - DJB NFL draft picks.
  
• Saints and Sinners - Ends 01-05-25 - Fiction fiction series exploring both the 7 deadly sins and the 7 virtues.
  

Look out for more fun competitions planned soon for both the house and the Brotherhood. Find more competitions here

QUA Q&A

I decided to open up a Q&A for fun. Got a couple of questions, and will answer them both OOC and IC if I can.

Katrila asks:
Why is Azorian Citadel so lame compared to Fort Dooku?

• OOC: Honestly, I still don’t know a whole lot about the Citadel, other than what’s on the wiki. I’m thinking in the near future, I’ll be having some competitions, and/or some RP’s, where House Ventress, and possibly even House Tyranus, will be exploring more of it. Also Fort Dooku is awesome cause Khryso, who is awesome with wiki stuff, helped create and build up the Fort itself.
• IC: I don’t know how it can be lame. I mean, is it on a cold moon? Yes. Is it on the bottom of the seabed? Yes. However, the tactical advantage we have verses Fort Dooku is that we are able to cut off from the surface and still be able to attack. Fort Dooku can leveled by orbital bombardment pretty easily.
  

Kul’tak asks:
Can we get a Krayt Dragon?

• OOC: Absolutely dude!!!
• IC: Yes. We can get a Krayt Dragon, but it may have to stay on Aliso. Unless we find a breed that can take freezing temps and swim through ice and snow, we’ll have difficulty taking care of it on Cilix. You also have to promise though, that you’ll help in taking care, feeding, and making sure it doesn’t go on any rampages.

Final Thoughts

This has been a little late in coming. Hoping with the cooler temps coming my way, I won’t be so strapped for energy. Now let’s get out there and get some Pro Bowl entries in and win some shinies. Can’t wait to see what you guys all get in shinies by the end, whether you’re a Frogdog or a Rotworm, I’m routing for you. Good luck!