MS Update Around the Boards 5 March 2008

Around the Boards for the week of 5 March 2008!

Welcome to another thrilling edition of Around the Boards! Be sure to check out some of these events If you have questions or news let us know.

The JCC

The JCC now has its very own *shiny*
New Users Thread. It's full of links, advice, and other goodies designed to help newbies to the JCC acclimatize to the forum better.

FanFic

The 2008 Fan Fiction Dare Challenge results are in! Check this thread for the winners! Congrats

Video Games

Check out the Top 200 Games! The results are in for games #200-181, the rest of top 200 are on their way.

Census and Games

C&G has started a new series of DECISION Polls. These polls are decided upon by you and can be suggested by you! Just head on over to the Poll Suggestions thread in the forum. The first poll is a fun one to determine what colors Tyi-Maet_Nefer will wear for the next week! In the future many more serious polls may be undertaken.

The Tabletop Games Tournament has moved into the second round. Come vote for your favorite game!

Mafia is currectly in the sign-up stage. We have a few spaces left to fill; come play!

Fan Art

Voting for the Winter Fan Art Challenge is currently underway. The deadline to vote for your favorite is March 9th.

Star Wars Community

The famous "Sleepy" series has come to Star Wars Community, in the form of the Ghost Ship Executor. Stop by and help us make history. The recruitment/Sign-up thread can be found here.

The Arena

One of the greatest of all time retired this week when Brett Favre retired as quarterback of the Green Bay Packers. Stop by and discuss his career, your memories and his place in history.

Small Screen Star Wars

A brand new poster competition is underway in SSSW! Head on over to this thread for all the details. Try your hand at creating the first Clone Wars TV poster! See some amazing artwork! The ball is definitely rolling for this television series.

EUC

The EUC elected a new Chancellor for the EUSenate. Please congratulate Sinrebirth and stay tuned for fun ideas.

Also, the EUC is currently discussing in the EUSenate our reactions to the Force Tournament. Anyone who has been paying attention please feel free to add your comments to the discussion so we can make the tournament better.

Classic Trilogy

The CT ReWrite Contest restarts next week.

LFL Projects/Indiana Jones

Just a reminder about the LFL/Indy IV forum! Check it out to catch Indy IV news and Trailers!

 

And spam. Don't forget the spam.

 

^^^^

Play as a canon Star Wars character onboard the flagship Executor.

And perhaps... you can even be the Murderer...

 

Ice Cream Man is canon.

 

Well, then. You know what to do. Begins with a "J" and ends in "oin!"

 

Join in if you know what's good for you!

 

Great job, Dajuan!

 

Excellent update. Its really cool to see so many forums taking part.

 

I don't know if I'm posting this in the right place, but I never get notifications and wonder why. I set some important threads on Active Notification in hopes to remember the boards in my busy school life, and it doesn't work for me, nor my best friend, nor who knows who else. Can anything be done about that?

Lavenderrose73

 

And our amazingly awesome game returns with:

The CT Scene Write/Rewrite Contest: Game 24 (Super Game 3) - Kyle Katarn's Rebel Mission

Soon after the Battle of Yavin, Mon Mothma asked Kyle to investigate the destruction of Tak Base resulting from the Battle of Talay. Kyle accepted, and took on Jan Ors as his mission officer. Kyle's investigation revealed the Imperial Dark Trooper project, led by Clone Wars veteran General Rom Mohc. Several clues led Katarn to Anoat, where he captured Moff Rebus, an infamous Imperial weapons engineer. After raiding a testing facility for phrik on the planet Fest, Kyle was led to the Gromas system, where said mineral was being mined and the first stage of the Dark Trooper was manufactured. After destroying the facility, Kyle had to rescue Crix Madine from an Imperial detention center on Orinackra and traveled to the Ramsees Hed docking port on Cal-Seti. There, he was able to track a smuggling ship that was making runs to the frozen planet of Anteevy, where the second stage of Dark Trooper construction was being completed. Kyle destroyed the facility on Anteevy and was led to Nar Shaddaa, where he located a nav card describing the activities of all the smugglers involved in the Dark Trooper project. Upon leaving the planet, though, Jan and he were briefly captured by Jabba the Hutt.

Kyle was able to regain the card, rescue Jan, and escape Jabba's space cruiser. Katarn and Ors infiltrated the ISO building on Coruscant, where he was able to decode the nav card. He also fought and defeated Boba Fett there. Using the new information from the card, Kyle and Jan tracked one of the smuggler ships to the Refueling Station Ergo. Kyle hijacked this ship and used it to sneak onto the Executor, which was the only ship that knew where the Arc Hammer could be found. Once on board, he smuggled himself aboard the Arc Hammer, where the third and final stage of the Dark Trooper was being manufactured. After a battle against General Mohc in the only Dark Trooper Phase III exoskeleton in existence, he proceeded to blow up the Arc Hammer and escape, destroying the Dark Trooper Project for good. In gratitude for his bravery, Mon Mothma awarded him the Star of Alderaan. - From Kyle Katarn on Wookieepedia: The Star Wars Wiki

This challenge is to be based off of this event in Kyle Katarn's life in the Rebel Alliance. You don't have to do it exactly as it happened in canon and you certainly don't have to do that entire thing if you don't want to, but I personally am challenging you to do it. So, here are your options:

1) Take a piece of that event and write on scene off of it;
2) Take that entire event and write one massive scene off of it.

It's up to you which one of those two options you'd like to go with, but those are your two options. This is a rather lengthy project here, so I'm going to give you a week and a half and say that all scenes must be posted by Friday, March 21 at 11:59pm Board Time/Pacific Standard Time. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask.

Good luck!