News

The 100,000th post came courtesy of new staffer Caesar, posting in the fabulous A Perfect FFVI World: Change it or leave it thread!

That, of course, concludes our contest as well. And, as my own personal luck would have it, we have two winners. Nobody guessed the exact day, but both DarkPaladin and Zodiac should be thanking Caesar for making them the closest guessers. They will now have first crack at a special mousepad or mug, available only to them. Of course, should they decide they don't want those special edition prizes, they can also have their pick of any other mousepad or mug from CoNStore.

What are these prizes, you might ask? Well, they'll have special customized items featuring the new CoN logo, debuting right now for this occasion:



Congratulations to our two winners, who can expect to hear from me soon, and thank you to everyone who brought us our first one hundred thousand posts!

Until Halloween, everyone can get a discount on all CoNStore items purchased through CafePress. I know that we don't sell a lot there because items are a bit pricey, but for the next week you can get $10 off any $25 order. Just fill your cart and use code DES1 at checkout to get the discount.

I wonder if I can use that to buy the prize for the 100K Post Contest...

We're looking for volunteers to join SilverFork on the news team.

Your task as a newsposter would be to locate news stories relating to Final Fantasy and Square-Enix, and of general interest to RPG fans, and report on them for CoN's front page news.

We're after people with the following qualities:

• Enthusiasm about games to the point of enjoying searching out news about them;
• A good grasp on proper usage of English, including spelling and grammar;
• Prepared to spend time to ensure their news reports are of the highest quality possible.

You would be required to make a certain number of news posts per month - that number will depend on the number of staff we take on to the position.

If you're interested, please e-mail climhazzard@cavesofnarshe.com to let us know. Please provide a sample news article in the e-mail, exactly as you would post it to our news forum if you had the job. Feel free to ask any questions either by replying to this post or sending e-mail as detailed above (though if it is a general question with an answer that could well benefit other potential applicants, the former would be preferred).

We look forward to hearing from you!

As I mentioned in my previous news post, announcing the new moderation team, we are picking up some helpers also to pitch in on other tasks around the site. In a completely unfair slight against them, it's taken me forever to actually mention them and give them the recognition they deserve. So allow me to remedy that by doing so now:

• Silverfork, who as some have already noticed is anchoring down the news posts these days.


• Kappa the Imp, who'll be working with Neal and me on the visual aspects of Fanart production as well as site data maintenance.


• Mimic, who will also be working with Neal and me on the database aspect of Fanart; as well, he too will be working on general data maintenance for the site.


• Del S, who will be assisting Mr Thou with Fanfiction production.

My apologies for taking so long, guys. We appreciate having you a lot more than the delay in this post would lead you to believe.

With all this new staff available, it was bound to happen for new things to find their way on the site. Well, it is now beginning with a new batch of fanfics, specifically for FF6 (and you can expect some new updates on other games sometime soon).

Said batch proposes a piece from Del S, whom previous submission got him first place in our Gogo Fanfiction contest, held in the Spring of 2004. It also introduces a new writer among us, with three pieces from Manapriestess. We hope you will like her unique style just as much as we do.

All four fanfics can be viewed on our FF6 fanfics page. Happy reading to all fanfiction lovers.

Again, I never can make these things happen fast enough for people not to notice before I can say something. So a lot of you probably already know that we've got a new block of moderators joining up today.

We selected some people that we can work with, who have good dispositions, at least some smarts, and some knowledge of moderation tactics. Our new game forum moderators also will display a nice big chunk of specific knowledge to the games they will be modding.

So, welcome to our new moderators!

• Mr Thou, upgraded to Global Moderator


• Hanyou, a Global Moderator


• Sabin, moderating Final Fantasy IV


• Caesar and Djibriel , moderating Final Fantasy V and Final Fantasy VI


• Super Moogle, moderating our General Topics and Gaming forums

We sincerely hope that these new folks will keep up the completely oppressive and "Nazi"-ish method of moderating forums that you all have come to expect and enjoy.

On another note, we will be adding some folks in the very near future to help with maintenance tasks around the site - we have already selected a few and will be letting you all know when they start to get cranking.

Thanks a lot to all!