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[The Gold & Glory Newsletter]
a strong finish, a fresh beginning
Week of... Dec. 27th, 2015 - January 2nd, 2016.
"But Jaliqai," you say. "You're late with this week's newsletter!"
To which I say: ".......yes."
All joking aside, this week has been super, super busy for everyone, and double that for Gold & Glory! Not only that, but I've decided to follow a slightly different newsletter schedule -- writing up the happenings of the week in hindsight towards its end, rather than writing about the previous week at the start of the next!
That said, it's time to get on with it! Keep reading for details about our week!
In addition to taking on a heaping handful of new members -- more on that soon! -- we've shifted around our branch's name just a bit to be a little less corny a little more accurate as to what they do. As such, the changes are as follows.
Speaking of changes, we have a promotion (IC) to announce! Because of her hard work making sure that all the new Bounty Hunting branch recruits are up to snuff, Klarimel Surtsthalsyn has been promoted to Bounty Hunting Branch Leader! Congratulations, Klar! (Now please don't kill all our recruits!)
Admittedly, we had to slack a little bit towards the beginning of the week in regards to recruitment, what with the final preparations for the Golden Gala eating up all of our time. However, as soon as the Gala finished, it was right back into recruitment we dove!
This week, we ICly welcomed the following new members:
We've still got another handful of recruits in the works OOCly, which we're steadily working through the list to get settled in with the FC. Likewise, if you yourself are interested in joining up with Gold & Glory Hunter's Guild, you can find our recruitment application HERE!
On December 30th, we held our first official public event: The Golden Gala. To say that the even was an amazing success would be a vast understatement! People poured out of the wood works into the Gold Court for an evening of socializing, good food, and gift-stealing fun, and we couldn't have been more pleased with the overwhelming turn-out and show of support!
We also had a survey going during the event to gather feedback to use when planning our next large scale event. I just wanted to share one piece of data that we received:
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All forty-two people the responded to the survey said that they had a great time, and we are absolutely humbled and thrilled to hear it! Seriously, everyone, we're over-the-moon that everyone seemed to have such a great time, because we definitely had fun putting it on for you!
I also wanted to take a minute to congratulate some of our big winners from the evening!
Finally, I want to give a special shout out and thanks to West O'hteco and the rest of Crescent FC for helping out with the event! It was a great relief to have some extra hands on board to serve guests, and West herself did an amazing job of engaging people for photographs -- sets of which you can see HERE and HERE!
With that, our Golden Gala comes to a close, most assuredly to return next Starlight season! In the meantime, we've already begun preparation (well ahead of the fact, this time!) for our next big event: Valentione's Day! Keep your eyes peeled (and your gilpurses ready) for more details in the next few weeks!
Finally, we've got one last announcement to make: The Bountiful Chest is looking for tavern staff! You don't have to join the FC, and we don't expect you to center your whole RP life around us. But we are looking for people who want to help us make the tavern feel more alive and who will assist us on our incoming Tavern Nights and other Public RP events!
If you're at all interested, check out Ryssmyna's flier HERE.
Gold & Glory hopes that everyone had a Glorious Heavensturn, and that the year to come is even more Bountiful than the last!
To which I say: ".......yes."
All joking aside, this week has been super, super busy for everyone, and double that for Gold & Glory! Not only that, but I've decided to follow a slightly different newsletter schedule -- writing up the happenings of the week in hindsight towards its end, rather than writing about the previous week at the start of the next!
That said, it's time to get on with it! Keep reading for details about our week!
changes to the branches
In addition to taking on a heaping handful of new members -- more on that soon! -- we've shifted around our branch's name just a bit to be a little less corny a little more accurate as to what they do. As such, the changes are as follows.
- Hunters of Bounties (prev.) became, simply, the Bounty Hunting Branch.
- Hunters of Whispers (prev.) became, simply, the Intelligence & Strategy Branch.
- Hunters of Treasures (prev.) became, simply, the Treasure Hunting Branch.
- Hunters of Coin (prev.) became, simply, the Crafting & Mercantile Branch.
- No change to either the Medical Branch or Clerical Branch.
Speaking of changes, we have a promotion (IC) to announce! Because of her hard work making sure that all the new Bounty Hunting branch recruits are up to snuff, Klarimel Surtsthalsyn has been promoted to Bounty Hunting Branch Leader! Congratulations, Klar! (Now please don't kill all our recruits!)
new members & recruitment
Admittedly, we had to slack a little bit towards the beginning of the week in regards to recruitment, what with the final preparations for the Golden Gala eating up all of our time. However, as soon as the Gala finished, it was right back into recruitment we dove!
This week, we ICly welcomed the following new members:
- Aeron Volkova -- Intelligence & Strategy Branch
- J'aeda Rhenli -- Treasure Hunting Branch
- Vexlu Dhoro -- Bounty Hunting Branch
- J'salha Khah -- Bounty Hunting Branch
- Tatsu Kaisuri -- Intelligence & Strategy Branch
- Ryanti Veanysus -- Intelligence & Strategy Branch
- Tyo Amariyo -- Bounty Hunting Branch
We've still got another handful of recruits in the works OOCly, which we're steadily working through the list to get settled in with the FC. Likewise, if you yourself are interested in joining up with Gold & Glory Hunter's Guild, you can find our recruitment application HERE!
the golden gala: a glorious success!
On December 30th, we held our first official public event: The Golden Gala. To say that the even was an amazing success would be a vast understatement! People poured out of the wood works into the Gold Court for an evening of socializing, good food, and gift-stealing fun, and we couldn't have been more pleased with the overwhelming turn-out and show of support!
We also had a survey going during the event to gather feedback to use when planning our next large scale event. I just wanted to share one piece of data that we received:
All forty-two people the responded to the survey said that they had a great time, and we are absolutely humbled and thrilled to hear it! Seriously, everyone, we're over-the-moon that everyone seemed to have such a great time, because we definitely had fun putting it on for you!
I also wanted to take a minute to congratulate some of our big winners from the evening!
- Gwyn Trahaern -- Wind-up Ifrit Minion!
- Reppu Hijiri -- Fat Cat Minion!
- Rido Kurisu -- Littlefoot Minion!
- Tywyll’ra Stumog -- Survey Grand Prize, Winner's Choice Art Commission!
- Alexaria Whiteraven -- Survey Runner Up, Chibi Commission!
- Y'dyalani Kyar -- Survey Runner Up, Chibi Commission!
Finally, I want to give a special shout out and thanks to West O'hteco and the rest of Crescent FC for helping out with the event! It was a great relief to have some extra hands on board to serve guests, and West herself did an amazing job of engaging people for photographs -- sets of which you can see HERE and HERE!
With that, our Golden Gala comes to a close, most assuredly to return next Starlight season! In the meantime, we've already begun preparation (well ahead of the fact, this time!) for our next big event: Valentione's Day! Keep your eyes peeled (and your gilpurses ready) for more details in the next few weeks!
the bountiful chest is hiring!
Finally, we've got one last announcement to make: The Bountiful Chest is looking for tavern staff! You don't have to join the FC, and we don't expect you to center your whole RP life around us. But we are looking for people who want to help us make the tavern feel more alive and who will assist us on our incoming Tavern Nights and other Public RP events!
If you're at all interested, check out Ryssmyna's flier HERE.
happy heavensturn from gold & glory!
Gold & Glory hopes that everyone had a Glorious Heavensturn, and that the year to come is even more Bountiful than the last!
