Vice Delegate's Desk

Greetings, TNP! Another week, another report! This week, I will report on the transition and discussion regarding my new community engagement initiatives, similar to last week. Now, let's kick off this week's report.

Transition

Since last week, I have gained 9 endorsements, and remain in 5th place. Only one endorsement separates me from 4th place Ethnon, while 3rd place Pallaith is only three ahead of me. Siwale has taken the #2 position once more and has built some ground between himself and Pallaith. This means we need only 10 more endorsements to complete the transition by July 1st, which is the goal I set. Siwale currently sits at 944 endorsements, ahead of Pallaith who has 937 endorsements. My endorsement count is currently 934. The Security Council is exploring strategies to get me over the final hurdle, depending on my endorsement growth over the next few days. Our delegate Gorundu maintains a sizable gap between 2nd place despite losing 6 endorsements.


More WA Data

Last week, there were 1,405 WA member nations residing in the North Pacific. Now, we have 1,380 of them, meaning we have lost 25 member nations. This is better than the previous week when we lost 40 member nations, but we still continue to lose a good amount.

Community Engagement

I have resumed the SC's community engagement initiative discussion. I look to commence one of my activities as soon as tomorrow and will continue to plan and release the other ones.

Next Week

During the next week, I will resume posting in my transition tracker and will hope to report by the end of the transition. I will also report on the success of my community engagement initiatives. I also am considering working on declassifying both forum and discord logs.

Conclusion

I continue to make good progress in the transition, and it has nearly been completed. The SC has resumed planning my proposed community engagement initiatives and we look to release some of them soon.

If you have any questions or concerns about my performance or the SC in general, feel free to leave a comment or contact me directly.

Au revoir,
Chipoli
Vice Delegate of The North Pacific

Greetings TNP,

I’ve returned yet again as the guest host of the Vice Delegate’s Report!

What happened?

Delegate @Gorundu has declared a one-week absence starting today. This makes @Chipoli Acting Delegate for the time being and me Acting Vice Delegate as the first available member in the Line of Succession (Pallaith prefers the Court life at the moment). This will be my third time wearing this hat over the past year. Rest assured, we’ve got things covered.

What’s the Security Council’s plan for this upcoming week?

The Security Council will continue to conduct its day-to-day business as normal with me serving as Acting Chair. A major focus will be on continuing to bolster Chipoli’s endorsement count. While the transition has concluded with Chipoli now in the #2 position for endorsements, there is still opportunity for growth.

How do the WA numbers look?

We currently have 1343 WA nations in TNP. This is a loss of 37 nations since the last report which continues to follow the trend lately of WA nation decline. As such, Gorundu’s endorsement count is also gradually declining but remains firmly in the #1 position. A decline in activity isn’t uncommon in the summer months and I still think we are adjusting to our new normal from the Frontiers Update.

What’s going on with the community engagement initiatives?

As these are Chipoli’s babies, I won’t be pursuing them during my short time as Acting Vice Delegate. Chipoli anticipates resuming the planning and implementation once he returns to his Vice Delegate duties.

I hope everyone is having a great week! If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to reach out to me.

Take care,

Acting Vice Delegate

Hello, TNP! This will be a different kind of report, since for the first time in my tenure, I don't have the transition to report on, because it did conclude around two weeks ago. Our Delegate @Gorundu has ended his absence a couple of days early, so here I am, back as your host of the Vice Delegate report. This week, I will focus on my future plans, as not much has gone on in the present. Let's begin!

Declassification

During the next few weeks, I will focus on declassification on Discord, and secondarily, on the forums. We were having a bit of trouble getting the text logs from Discord, and we will focus on resolving that issue. I also have a couple of forum threads picked out to declassify as they are now over a year old and will continue moving older threads back into the public archive to comply with changes in FoIA laws.

WA Numbers

Currently, there are 1,328 nations residing in The North Pacific. This continued decrease also reflects in the Security Council's endorsement numbers, and almost all of us have lost a chunk of endorsements, and continue to do so. Our delegate Gorundu has fallen under 1,000 at some point this week, but currently, he sits at 1000 exactly. Despite my best efforts, I continue to lose endorsements, and I currently have 909 of them, which is still 2nd place in the region, which is 11 ahead of 3rd place @Siwale.


Community Engagement

I ran an edition of "Ask The Security Council" two weeks ago, and I received 3 responses from my fellow Security Councilors, and no questions were submitted from the Community. I would like to see an improvement in engagement this week, and I will be trying out the program again. I am also working on a Security Council survey, with a potential contest involved!

Next Week

During the next week, expect more of the same. I will continue reporting on the state of our WA numbers, and I will give y'all an update on my community engagement initiatives and declassification.

Summary

On the WA front, we continue to lose our endorsements. I have rebooted the "Ask the Security Council Program" with mixed results. I also have some declassification work planned.

If you have any questions or concerns about my performance or the SC in general, feel free to leave a comment or contact me directly.

With hope,
Chipoli
Vice Delegate of The North Pacific

Hello, TNP! Things have quieted here in TNP, and the Security Council is no exception. There's not much but the usual. I'll report on our WA Numbers, my declassification work, and my community engagement initiatives.

Declassification

Over the past week, I have worked on a total of eight total threads. 4 of them are going out into the public for the first, and are from @Kastonvia's third term. The remaining four are threads from several years that have been worked on in the past by former Vice Delegate @Cretox. I have presented them to the Security Council for review, and they should be released by tomorrow. I have also completed the first discord declassification since Kasto's tenure. I will be releasing logs directly from the Security Council during the January-May 2018 term. Happy reading!

WA Numbers

Since our last report, we lost 16 WA member nations. Currently, we have 1,312 of them in The North Pacific. Our numbers have been decreasing for months and the fall has only been accelerated after the Frontier/Stronghold update. I have fallen below 900 endorsements, and I currently have 899 of them, a decrease of 8 from last week. Fellow Security Councilor Ethnon/@Marcus Antonius currently is in 3rd place with 885 endorsements. @Gorundu has officially fallen below the 1,000 mark, and it is the first time no one in NatiionStates was in the quadruple digits since late 2021. He currently sits at 990 endorsements, which is a decrease of 10 despite his best efforts. Can we rebound? In this day and age, I'm not too sure.


Community Engagement

This week, the "Ask the Security Council" program is seeing significantly improved results. While I still don't have any questions from any of you, I have received 5 responses so far, which already is an improvement from last week. I'd like to take this opportunity to encourage as many of my fellow Security Councilors to add their responses, and if you have anything you want to ask the Security Council, please let me know!

Next Week

Next week, I will update you on the WA status of The North Pacific, and I will keep y'all updated on my declassification and community engagement progress.

Summary

We continue to lose WA member nations, leading to a decrease in endorsements for myself and our delegate, Gorundu. The "Ask the Security Council" program is showing more promise than it did last week, and I completed some declassification work that will be released to you all shortly.

If you have any questions or concerns about my performance or the SC in general, feel free to leave a comment or contact me directly.

Buenos Noches,
Chipoli
Vice Delegate of The North Pacific

Greetings, TNP! It's time for another weekly Vice Delegate report! I will be reporting on my plans for declassification, my community engagement initiatives, and the state of our WA numbers. The vote to recall Delegate @Gorundu is now open, so expect to see a couple of changes to the host of the Vice Delegate report in the future.

Declassification

I have now released every single thread before @Hulldom's Vice Delegacy, and I will look to focus on Discord Declassification. I have set a goal to get one or two terms completed by the end of this week, so I will go to work on that. Those logs would be from @Siwale's Delegacy, @Deropia's Vice Delegacy, and @Pallaith's Vice Delegacy. If you are interested in taking a look at past declassified threads, go to the War Room Redacted Archive.

WA Numbers

We have lost 24 WA member nations, and we currently have 1,288 of them in The North Pacific. This is a continuation of the trend we have been experiencing for months, largely due to our reduction in spawns due to the Frontier/Stronghold update. I have decreased even more since last week and have fallen to 887 endorsements, which is 11 lower than last's week. There is a decent chance I will have to step into the seat soon, so I will focus on API endotarting in the next week to try and increase my count. Delegate Gorundu is faring no better and is well into the 900s at 974 endorsements, a loss of 16 endorsements. I am a comfortable 20 endorsements away from the closest Security Councilor to me, @Marcus Antonius.


Community Engagement

This week, the "Ask the Security Council" program is not doing as well as I thought. I have only received one response, but hopefully, this is because I just asked a difficult question ! I will look to encourage more responses from my fellow Security Councilors and will continue to work with @Lionsmeow and the gameside advocate team to promote this week's question. I also paused work on the survey to work on another project, so you all stay tuned for that!

Next Week

Next week, I'll give you an update on our WA numbers, and I'll keep you all informed about my declassification and community engagement efforts.

Summary

We continue to lose WA members, and Gorundu's and my endorsements continue to decrease, I released my batch of declassification work, and I am continuing to work on the "Ask the Security Council" program.

If you have any questions or concerns about my performance or the SC in general, feel free to leave a comment or contact me directly.

Take care,
Chipoli
Vice Delegate of The North Pacific

By now everyone knows what's happened within the last week or so. Once again, for the second time this year, our Delegate has resigned and necessitated the Vice Delegate to step up and serve as Acting Delegate. That means that once more, the duties of Vice Delegate fall to me as the next in the LoS. It's only fair I do this now, since the last couple of times it would have fallen on me, Siwale stepped up because I always seem to be on the Court when I am needed in this role. Maybe I should stop running for Justice, who knows.

I will hold down the fort, no worries there. There's a lot of work to do that's similar to what happens in a new term, but it's happening at the same time the existing term is also starting to wind down, and we have to start looking at the next election. As a result, I can't promise any movement on Chipoli's old plans. We are interested in bumping the endorsement numbers best that we can, so there may be some additional public outreach from me and the SC in the near future, but as for actions from this office, those will be likely limited to basic housekeeping, monitoring SC threads, VD checks, etc.


As is our new tradition, I have posted the most recent snapshot of endorsement levels available (this one is from roughly 24 hours ago). It is unfortunately more positive than current reality, as the Acting Delegate's current endorsement count is now 885 while mine is 867. We knew that the frontier update would do a number on us, but our mid-term transition cost us close to 100 endorsements all at once. I suspect that gap would have been less even with Gorundu still in place, but this shows that we cannot be complacent with endotarting. Endorsements shed fast these days, and if we want to get anywhere close to where we used to be, we have to keep at it. I can only ask so much of those of you who actually bother to keep up with this, but some casual encouragement of your friends on the RMB certainly couldn't hurt. I don't want to come off as overly doom and gloom here though, compared to the other feeders we're still doing really well. TSP currently has 587 endorsements on their delegate. TEP has 494, TWP has 437, and NPO has 406. The next highest endorsement count below ours is TCB's at 632. The fact that we can still shoot for 900 and stay somewhere in our historic low-range is worth at the very least a pat on the back and should make you feel some assurance. But if this is our high zone, we shouldn't be surprised if we slip even further at times. Just part of getting used to the new reality, but I think we're still pretty good at this endorsement thing.

I would be remiss if I did not remark on current events in the RA which relate to this office. There is a proposal on amending the law around citizenship which would make it possible for nations to be barred from citizenship based on the region they come from, if the region is designated to be one that merits such treatment. My contribution to the discussion, until earlier today/yesterday, was to propose simply adding nations from regions that have diplomatic restrictions placed on them to the list of people the Vice Delegate automatically rejects. This seemed simple and cleaner, and sidestepped the whole vote on restricting citizenship directly thing. Since the VD would have to deny them in either version of the proposal, it didn't seem to matter since the RA would have the final say on it regardless. I recognize now that this notion was misguided on my part. I can speak for many members of the Security Council, as well as myself, when I say that generally, we do not wish to make it a common occurrence for people to be barred from citizenship in The North Pacific. I do not subscribe to the notion that the Vice Delegate rejecting someone is automatically an affront to democracy or risking a fall down a slippery slope, because the Vice Delegate cannot ever unilaterally stop someone from becoming a citizen, only the RA backing him up can do that. However, I have always believed that it should be an uncommon occurrence. I believe that restricted regions will not lend themselves to many applicants who would need to be rejected by the Vice Delegate, but the fact is, that possibility is far easier to happen than any of the others currently on the list of people the Vice Delegate would reject. And worse, that category of nation is the most nebulous and potentially flimsy of causes. While we hope restricted regions would be rare and applicants from them rarer still, we still would be in the position of deciding whether or not to turn people away simply because of the region they come from and nothing else. My gut tells me a lot of applicants from such regions would be passed by the RA if the only thing the VD can say is "I was forced to reject them, so what do you want to do?" Therefore, if we do consider taking this step and opening up this type of scenario in future citizenship debates, I accept that a high threshold for declaring regions to be restricted in this way is advisable. We should continue to be very careful in how we restrict citizenship, and very deliberate with those we target. The more discussion and the more consensus we get on it, the better. It should continue to be rare and significant when someone is rejected by the Vice Delegate, and the RA should always be the final arbiter on whether or not the rejection passes muster.

As always, this office is open for question and comment, and any assistance I can provide, including related to questions about the SC or any of its business. I will endeavor to make these reports weekly, or at least often enough to impart important information. And if I may, I would encourage any of you interested in this side of regional governance to inquire and give it a try. Even if you get turned away or don't win an election, the process can be a good learning opportunity, and you may just get a shot like our last few Vice Delegates. Whether the possibility of having to step all the way up to Acting Vice Delegate or Delegate is appealing or not as a long-shot outcome is appealing to you or not is up to you to decide, but like any part of NS, we can always use new blood to keep us fresh and current.

-Pallaith

The September General Election has begun, which means we will soon have a new official Vice Delegate in place, but in the meantime, I am still here acting as the Vice Delegate for a while longer. I'll cut right to the chase this time.


When you consider where we were when the transition to our acting delegate was complete, these results continue to be disappointing. The decline can be felt in many places however, so we have to be mindful that the decline is still likely to continue, and that we have to work that much harder to overcome it. Especially in light of recent events, which you are all well aware of by this point. The gap between Acting Delegate Chipoli and myself was low enough that a group of invaders could come in and bump him out of the delegacy for an update. This is not something that typically happens, and it is a shame on the part of the entire Security Council that we did not take better care in addressing it ahead of the bump. We should not live in fear of such things or stop our generous endorsement culture, but it served as a good reminder that we cannot let our watchful eyes get too tired, and that we have to continue to step up our game as much as the rest of you do in increasing your endorsements. Acting Delegate Chipoli has addressed our response to this event elsewhere, and we are taking steps to respond and shore up our security, but this is still one of the most basic ways to guard ourselves. I implore you, if you are in the World Assembly and have not yet endorsed the delegate, please do so! At this point I would advise you to focus those efforts on him so that the gap between us grows larger. And if you have not joined the World Assembly, whatever your reason may be, please consider doing so. Times are getting interesting, to put it mildly, and war is potentially on the horizon. We will need you in the WA shoring us up with your endorsements, and because the days of frontiers are continuing to take a toll on us. If you want to be more active with your WA, perhaps consider enlisting in the NPA, and lend us your strength on the battlefield instead. There will be a lot to do there in the days ahead.

Again, I am sorry that we let the events of August 27 take place. Lesson learned. Now it's our turn to teach others. I hope that TNP can count on your support to help us respond, and to be ready should malicious actors return again. If you want to get involved in any of the things I mentioned, or want to help in some other way, feel free to reach out to me directly and I will help point you in the right direction.

-Pallaith

Possibly a dumb question.. do either Brendog/RocketDog/Xagill or Lord Lore have discord accounts in TNP gen? If not, does the SC view this as a concern?

El Fiji Grande:

Possibly a dumb question.. do either Brendog/RocketDog/Xagill or Lord Lore have discord accounts in TNP gen? If not, does the SC view this as a concern?

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I'm pretty sure that they both have accounts in TNP gen.

El Fiji Grande:

Possibly a dumb question.. do either Brendog/RocketDog/Xagill or Lord Lore have discord accounts in TNP gen? If not, does the SC view this as a concern?

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Can confirm they do have discord accounts.

I found out last night. It was just my internet being laggy. It was a dumb question after all.

Hey there! I have taken a bit of time to adjust to the tempo and duties of the Vice Delegacy, and sorry for not making any sort of a formal report and/or statement over the past week since I was elected and all. Nevertheless, rest assured that the Security Council is still alive and kicking, and we are doing some things in the background at this moment.


First, on the Delegacy transition. When both me and Kasch took our oaths, we started with barely below 600 endorsements each. We have made some progress in crossing the 650-point mark over the weekend, but we had a 13 WA drop on Sunday, so in the diagram above, it looked like we had a slight dip in endorsement counts. The Security Council has put out a dispatch alert for Kasch, and we also personalised direct telegrams to nations that were not endorsing me or Kaschovia. We have also activated our Gameside Advocates in constantly advertising for the endorsements on the Regional Message Board as well. Regarding the graphic: I am in the midst of re-designing and testing a newer and updated graphic that can compare the numbers over a longer period of time, and should expect that graphic being a mainstay by either the next or the following Vice Delegate Update. On a somewhat related note - a number of active endotarters have been receiving telegrams and/or notifications from Security Council members alerting them about breaching Article 5.2 of the Security Council Procedures. We appreciate your patience as we try to build up the gap towards the top, and hopefully the region can continue their endotarting activities soon.

On other matters, the Security Council is currently voting on the application of Chipoli to the Security Council. When the vote is done, we will present the application to the Regional Assembly for consideration.

- Fregerson

Can we expect another report soon given it has been two weeks since the last one and we are in the middle of a relatively tough transition?

Gorundu:

Can we expect another report soon given it has been two weeks since the last one and we are in the middle of a relatively tough transition?

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I have been busy in the last few days, and finalising a new format for the report. Can expect it by midweek this week.

The last 2 weeks have been busy for me, and across the entire region, there has also been lots of changes. First of all, we are now at war. With the NPA mobilising WAs to pile in other regions, such as the current pile in Solidarity, this also means that we will take a slight dip in World Assembly nation counts as well. Second of all, we had a change in personnel in the Security Council, first with @Loh resigning from the Security Council so as to return to R/D gameplay, and then with @Chipoli's SC application passing the Regional Assembly. This keeps us at 10 SCers as a whole



As you can see from the above, over the past 2 weeks, the Security Council as a whole has been decreasing in raw endorsements. While we acknowledge this does not look as good as a whole, this is also partially due to the redeployment of our NPA WAs in Solidarity. The good news is that our Delegate continues to be on the rise, increasing by over 34 endorsements over the last 2 weeks as our total World Assembly count starts to dip slightly. The 700 mark is something we would like to maintain for a baseline, and we would be putting out another region-wide Telegram asking for endorsements.

- Fregerson

Can you provide any updates on the efforts of the Security Council to assist with the transition? I think that’s the most crucial information at this time and is unfortunately missing from the report.

Will the Line of Succession be reviewed because of Chipoli's acceptance into the Security Council?

Halsoni:

Will the Line of Succession be reviewed because of Chipoli's acceptance into the Security Council?

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Straight to the top, right after Ghost. We need more active SCers at the top of the LoS like Chipoli.

Gorundu:

Can you provide any updates on the efforts of the Security Council to assist with the transition? I think that’s the most crucial information at this time and is unfortunately missing from the report.

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We currently have an active Dispatch sent out for Kaschovia. Personally, when I have been endotarting, I have also personalized the individual telegram to make sure that "Endorse Kaschovia" is listed at the top. The Gameside Advocates are also working to advertise endorsement for the Delegate on the RMB and for new members.

Halsoni:

Will the Line of Succession be reviewed because of Chipoli's acceptance into the Security Council?

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Not on the top of our considerations right now.

As the region might have been aware now, in the middle of this week, we experienced a series of unendorsement campaigns, in which members of our Security Council, as well as our elected Delegate Kaschovia, was targeted. The Security Council noticed unusual activities in the endorsement of these members, and after talking to some of the members of our region, we uncovered the campaign. As the Vice Delegate and head of the Security Council, I promptly sent out a region-wide telegram to all World Assembly members, requesting everyone to ignore the said telegrams, and once again stressed the importance of endorsing our Delegate, Vice-Delegate and members of the Security Council.



With regards to the endorsements, we are still facing decreasing WA numbers, but as compared to the situation last 2 weeks, we are starting to some increase in endorsement counts. We issued a second dispatch ping for Kaschovia, and combined with the recent region-wide telegram, we managed to keep Kaschovia steady above the 700 mark, and will be looking to continue increasing those numbers. Currently, our work is shifting to the possibility of restarting the Keepers of the North automated dispatch, a side-effect of the r3npocalypse whose effects we are still facing today.

- Fregerson

It has been a busy time period for me IRL, and while we continue to keep tabs on the endorsement, I didn't have much time to churn out a report.



While our endorsement counts have improved over the last 2 weeks, thanks to the return of a number of our WAs from the operation in Solidarity, we continue to have around 100 endorsements away from the top. The Security Council, as a whole, have been looking into ways as to how to deal with the endorsement issues we are facing. In particular, we are also looking at nations who are currently sitting around the soft endorsement border (550 nations as of the writing of the report), in particular a few nations who have been refusing to comply with telegrams asking them to accommodate the soft endorsement border as per Article 5 of the SC procedure. We are also trying to reach out to new nations to get them to join in the endorsement effort, with the Delegate and myself working on more direct telegrams to nations not endorsing us.

- Fregerson

With Siwale and Loh resigning and more resignations on the way, is there something the Security Council is going to do to replace the people who resigned?

To follow on with that question, are more SCers going to resign any time soon? They should step forward now.

Halsoni:

With Siwale and Loh resigning and more resignations on the way, is there something the Security Council is going to do to replace the people who resigned?

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The Security Council isn't like many other bodies like the Court, the Speaker's Office, or the Election Commission, so resignations don't impact the work of the Security Council as much. Of course, if anyone is interested in applying to be a member of the Security Council, they are welcome to apply to join our ranks

Skibidi Toilet:

To follow on with that question, are more SCers going to resign any time soon? They should step forward now.

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For a moment I thought you were going to resign, then I realised you were no longer an SCer.

Mr. Vice Delegate,

I've noticed that a dispatch with incorrect information is still being linked and mentioned in many places around the region, including in the "Please endorse Delegate Kaschovia!" dispatch that @Sil Dorsett published approximately 17 or so hours ago.

Given the resignations of both Siwale and Loh from this past month, as well as your election as Vice Delegate and the passage of Chipoli's Security Council application, I'm wondering if there are any plans in the works to either replace this dispatch or have it updated somehow with more accurate and timely information.

I'm sure that you're already aware of this, but I just wanted to post here in the interest of anyone who might wish to check up on the situation with some of the old TNL dispatches that the Security Council has continually made use of.

I'll step in here. I'm currently working on scripts that will resume automatic updates of the dispatches. Once I've finished that and tested it, I'll turn the code over to Elu who will deploy it and have The Northern Light run it. This should take care of the problem.

Sorry for the late update, but as a whole, our endorsements have been on a steady increase over the last 2 weeks. We have managed to get Kaschovia into the 2nd spot, and are now pushing to get Kasch to the 800 endorsement mark next. The weekly WA Report by the Delegate in conjunction with the Security Council was also an avenue for us to trial the update of the Keepers WADP dispatch, and Sil is helping to work on scripts (with his server) that will make the update of the dispatchs automatic. For now, we are trying to get manual updates up, but this would have to go through Elu and we understand Elu has a slightly busy schedule that makes this manual updating unpractical.

- Fregerson

The week has generally ended well for the Security Council, with increases in endorsement among most members across the entire Security Council. Kaschovia is still slightly short of 800 endorsements, but we believe it would be achievable over the next few days and we can slowly slide Kasch into the WA Delegacy. Other than that, there would be nothing much to highlight in terms of endorsement gathering.

With Eras going on a holiday and taking a break from the Security Council this week, we are in the midst of planning a shuffle of the Order of Succession to accommodate the recent personnel movements in the Security Council. This will be presented to the Regional Assembly once we have agree on the Order.

- Fregerson

With a loss of 24 World Assembly nations over the last 2 weeks, we encountered yet another roadblock in trying to get endorsements to cross the line. With the weekly World Assembly Report, more people are getting aware of the notion of Keepers of the North, and we are tapping on our own card reserves to encourage more people to be a Keeper of the North. To assist in speeding up the transition, I would personally be conducting a draw between now and next week. For every 50 Keepers above 400 as of next Sunday (when the report is released), I will be conducting giving an epic card to 2 lucky winners. In addition, if the transition is complete by then, I would be adding one legendary card to the lucky draw. Everyone is encouraged to help spread the message when sending out their endotarting telegrams, so that we can get a huge lucky draw and get this over and done with.

- Fregerson

With a loss of 24 World Assembly nations over the last 2 weeks, we encountered yet another roadblock in trying to get endorsements to cross the line. With the weekly World Assembly Report, more people are getting aware of the notion of Keepers of the North, and we are tapping on our own card reserves to encourage more people to be a Keeper of the North. To assist in speeding up the transition, I would personally be conducting a draw some time next week. For every 50 Keepers above 400 as of next Sunday (when the report is released), I will be giving an epic card to 2 lucky winners. In addition, if the transition is complete by then, I would be adding one legendary card to the lucky draw. Everyone is encouraged to help spread the message when sending out their endotarting telegrams, so that we can get a huge lucky draw and get this over and done with.

- Fregerson