[indent][center][div="font: italic 23pt 'Cambria', 'Arial', sans; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; letter-spacing: -1px;"]Ever Grande City • February 2013[/div][div="font: italic 15pt 'Cambria', 'Arial', sans; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 2px;"]"the gateway to victory"[/div][/center]

[div="font: normal 15pt 'Cambria', 'Arial', sans; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: -1px;"]• Foreword[/div]Wow, we're already in February; January sure did come and go, didn't it? As always, we hope you enjoyed the last month's time and continue to enjoy your time here, as it will do nothing but improve. On to the review of what's happened in the past month here at Ever Grande City!

[div="font: normal 15pt 'Cambria', 'Arial', sans; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: -1px;"]• #EverGrandeCity[/div]With the removal of the Pokemon Online server, we have established an official IRC channel, which you're all welcome to join us on! Just click on the Chatbox link at the top of the page, and take a look at the IRC Tutorial and Help Thread created by SlimShady if you need any aid connecting.

[div="font: normal 15pt 'Cambria', 'Arial', sans; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: -1px;"]• New Sections[/div]We've introduced a new section titled Archives where you can look back on our past events/celebrations, pranks, and generally funny threads. There's also a Festivities section that cna be used to commemorate birthdays, holidays, weddings, etc, (basically any event you could celebrate in life) as well as promotions-- and speaking of promotions!

[div="font: normal 15pt 'Cambria', 'Arial', sans; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: -1px;"]• Promotions[/div]This month, we've had a whole slew of exciting promotions, so here is a quick run-through of who was promoted. You can further congratulate these people in the new Festivities section!

Hisoka to Moderator
Hisoka was a long-time Elite Member, and we are proud to have someone as level-headed and well-contributing as her on our staff team!

Noir to Moderator
Yet another Elite Member promotion, we found that Noir is exceptionally well kept and is a lovely member overall, and we are happy he is also joining the staff team!

Heartfilia to Super Moderator
Heartfilia has been a Moderator for nearly a year now, and we are very ecstatic to have him step up to the role of Super Moderator!

[div="font: normal 15pt 'Cambria', 'Arial', sans; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: -1px;"]• Other/Current Events[/div]The Destiny RPG, headed by [user=]Pokemon Trainer Blue[/user] and [user=]Trainer17[/user] is officially open! They've been hard at work, gradually adding certain threads/guidelines so that the RPG can run efficiently and effectively, and would be thrilled if everyone would participate in this very enjoyable role-playing game!

The Video Game Review Contest, hosted by SockPuppet, is currently running and is accepting entries until February 13th, the day before Valentine's Day. Visit this thread for more information, and get to reviewing!

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