Aeotheran Orbit
Thirty Minutes Until Zero Hour

The shuttle lazily coasted towards the planet's surface. Re-entry was a breeze for Lieutenant Sarias and she almost enjoyed the possibility that something, anything could go wrong so that she had some sort of challenge to contend with. Still, things were going as smoothly as a nerf fur rug after a good wash. Footsteps emanated behind her and she looked over her shoulder as a figure approached from the rear passenger compartment. Their hand laid gently on her shoulder and gave the woman a nod of respect.

“Clear flying today Overlord. We should be arriving at the Build Site in about ten minutes,” she knocked her hand against one of the shuttle's readings. “Says here clear skies all the way so we should be fine.”

Overlord DarkHawk nodded and turned his gaze to the viewport which had begun to change hues and tones of colour as the planet became more focused and space was left behind them. Seng Karash sprawled out before them as the shuttle zipped across the sky and made its way to a partially constructed building that stood upon a hill overlooking the city.

“That has certainly gone up rather quickly,” the Warlord murmured to no one in particular. “I am sure it will be beautiful once it is done but it is rather…ostentatious to say the least.”

“Well, you know these religious types. They want everyone to know they are here, even if it costs the world in more ways than one,” the Lieutenant remarked.

“Quite,” the Shadow replied in a tone that gave every indication he did not want to go down that route of discussion. “I am going to resume my seat. Lieutenant hail Adept Keibatsu and advise him we are nearly there.”

House Shar Dakhan Building Site
Fifteen Minutes to Zero Hour

The shuttle settled down upon the landing pad. It was about a five-minute walk at a decent pace from the pad to the main doors of the construction site, a small incline led up to a grandiose structure. This was intentionally engineered so as to have visitors and adherents have to focus their gaze upon the heavens. Beneath the deep hood, Darkhawk carried a perplexed look about him as he began the walk. His personal Blackguard and Warhost fell into step around him, their heavy boots kicking up dust as they made the climb.

The first indication that something was wrong could be seen just as they rounded a tree-lined bend in the path. Several bodies lay upon the dirt road, a couple of them were adorned in robes and carried rudimentary training sabers, and the others more confusingly bore the armour of the Warhost. DarkHawk and his retinue approached cautiously and two of the men broke off and began raking over the corpses for signs of what had occurred.

DarkHawk turned to his Warhost leader “Anything Captain?”

“Eh…yes Overlord. These robed men appear to be Acolytes or clergy of some sort,” he gestured to the two robed bodies. "As for the others, they are definitely Warhost soldiers but they all seem to have this band around their upper arm. I don’t recognise the insignia, my Lord. This one here, well eh this one has been gutted by a lightsaber and the Acolytes have definitely been gunned down.”

DarkHawk simply stared at the man, then at the fallen before raising his eyes to the building above. His mind flashed back to the stories of the atrocities the last time Kojiro Keibatsu had been in a position of power. A deep sigh escaped his lips.

Adept Keibatsu, what have you done now?

Go read the rest Here

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Good Day Shar Dakhan,

This is a brief introductory report to say hello and let you guys know what’s going on with the House. I’ll give a quick introduction to who I am, what I do and what I have done upto this point. I know most of you know me and I am also very aware that our numbers may be small but I have some plans to get us back into fighting shape until a new QUA can be found to replace Malisana who has recently and sadly stepped down from his role.

So as I said I will give a brief introduction to who I am, it’s the same one I generally give and given I’ve been in CNS for a long time it’s not anything a lot of you won’t already know.

So I’m Kojiro or full name Kojiro Keibatsu Sadow of House Keibatsu and a Son of Sadow. I have up to this point been in the club for sixteen years, this September will be my 17th and that is pushing half my life here which makes me feel very old every time I think about it. My list of roles is rather long having spent many years in Regency and the Fist Office and served as AED and QUA in HMR. BTLs in different clans and houses as well as served in the Headmaster Office at the time things changed over to Disney. I was part of the Regency Team that created Creatures and I got to name the Shop, the Iron Menagerie which is still my proudest moment in the club. Given how long I have been kicking about I am a rather old-school leader when it comes to the way I do things. I am fond of monthly reports and fiction that feature members. I generally run two to three comps a month and touch base on a monthly basis to see how people are doing.

On top of this, I am a fan of putting myself on the back burner and ensuring you guys are the central focus of any House stories. I may make an appearance for plot purposes but you guys and gals are the lifeblood of this House and that means you will be featured more often than not. Of course, given I am only the interim QUA my way of doing things may not be the same way that the new QUA does things so after the 31st of January things, of course, may change.

As for who I am outside the club. I am 34, an Archaeology student at Aberdeen University in Scotland with hopes to move to Edinburgh for Palaeontology but will have to see. I am big into my music, wargames, painting, adventures and just generally keeping myself busy. Play D&D in two campaigns and run am learning to drum. I am not that exciting really but I am easily contactable on Discord and by email ([Log in to view e-mail addresses]).

House Stuff:

So In regard to the House. I am not going to fully push into promising everything that will be done by myself as in 16 days someone else may have the helm and do things their own way with my support. To that end, I will be running a couple of basic competitions which begin on the 23rd of this Month.

Once a QUA has been selected I will be working with them to better the house, get everyone involved in events and have fun. I have a mini-plot which follows the departure of Mal and should tie us over until the middle of February which will allow the new QUA to get installed and used to being in the House.

I am working on the fiction so please expect this to drop by the end of the Week. If you would like to be featured in the next months please hit me up and I am happy to throw anyone in if it makes sense.

There were some awards given out to our members recently. I would like to highlight these before I wrap up:

• Grand Cross - Adept Malik Sadow
• Dark Cross - Savant Kristeva

TLDR:

So aye in wrap-up:

• Aeotheran has a small conflict occurring between Sadow and the Residents of the Planet. Go read the fiction to see.
• Comps start on the 23rd. A fiction and a Puzzle.
• Oh and go apply for QUA if you wish to take the position.

Next month hopefully will have remastered Markdown and put images and nice shiny graphics in. But until then, apologies for the basics of this report.

Best of Luck and Respect Guys;

Koji