by MashinShin, Charis “Jr.”, and Chiyuki

It has been a busy couple of months in the Aspirant Dormitories, since the release of  The Gathering Storm.  There’s been a ton of new arrivals, including charis sedai, roran bloodlust, mottlee (returning member), Onis OLeia, Makarra, Elliara, Lord of 13, Rednax, Feon Ceseth, Duncan, Jadelollipop, rubberneckin81, craftyreader, dapianoplay3r, Horus, Little Miss and AlJonin Bullmannen.  They all found excellent Houses in the Dorms, and were appropriately *glomped* upon arrival.

The aspirants are also getting raised at an alarming rate, with Alanna to the Blue Ajah, Ireond to der’Manshima, Mashira to the Red Ajah, Torrie to the Red Ajah, mcs0083 to Manshima, MashinShin and Mirshann to Acccepted, and Bursius to der’Manshima.  Congratulations to all of them!

The Kilaine Cup is nearing conclusion for this Term, with this month’s activity being the last for the Term.  December’s activity:  “Hide the Candy Cane”  (sounds a bit naughty, doesn’t it?).  The objective is for aspirants to go around the boards hiding a particular candy cane graphic in their posts.  Then the first aspirant to “steal” the candy cane (by quoting and replying to the post) gets points for their House.  It has been a fun and great way to get the Aspies all over the Ajahs and Disciplines.

That brings us to the end of this month’s Whispering Hole.  If you have a suggestion or if you’d like to submit something to the Whispering Hole, please email it to daesdaemar@whitetower.org with “Whispering Hole” in the subject line.  See you next month!

by MashinShin, Charis “Jr.”, and Chiyuki

Who doesn’t love gossip?  Who done what, with whom, and when did they do it?  We’ve got all the dirt at the Gossip Corner; we’re even better than Perez Hilton!  If you have something you’d like to submit to the Gossip Corner, please email us at daesdaemar@whitetower.org, with “Gossip Corner” in the subject.  Now, on to this month’s latest dish.

Around the WT

Mushy bondings were in the air around the WT recently!  Several couples took the plunge, including Cairos and Mystica, Tynaal and Jadira, Aldazar and Mashira, MashinShin and Mirshann, Dah’mir and Tigara, Mother Ducker with both Elgee and Ladria, and Minuet and Bursius.  The ceremonies were grand and a good time was had by all!

The Yellows and Blues combined forces to torture auction off the WT Staff.  The bidding phase ended recently and now you can vote on what all the WT Staff members should be forced to do in the threads on the Great Hall.

Around DM

We’ve heard rumors that over in the RP, the White Tower and Black Tower Divisions are about to work out a deal and start bonding each other willy-nilly.  This sounds like a lot of fun and we propose that we kidnap some BT Org members and bring them back here to bond.  Mmmm. Insanity.

A new story we’ve heard is that the Keeper is trying to start up the WT Org Newsletter again.  We can’t imagine who would bother reading or even worse, writing for such a thing. 

The Seanchan Org recently had their long-standing leader, Emperor, step down due to his ongoing struggle with cocaine abuse and anorexia.  They then raised a new leader, Zashara.  She is already demanding to be called Empress and seems to be on as many drugs as Emperor was…so…congrats, Seanchan?

Links to this month’s bondings/raisings/promotions:
Dragonsworn1991 to LilyElizabeth – Souvra Bond: 06/11/2009 http://forums.dragonmount.com/index.php/topic,49855.0.html
Dragonsworn and Tynaal Consen – Souvra Bond: 25/10/2009 http://forums.dragonmount.com/index.php/topic,49333.0.html
Dragonsworn and mmeeshal – Souvra Bond: 25/08/2009 http://forums.dragonmount.com/index.php/topic,47271.0.html
Tynaal Consen and Jadira Paerael – Souvra Bond: 22/11/2009 http://forums.dragonmount.com/index.php/topic,50685.0.html
Elgee and claireducky, claireducky and Ladria – Souvra Bonds: 29/11/2009 http://forums.dragonmount.com/index.php/topic,50944.0.html
Mystica and Cairos – Souvra Bond: 20/11/2009 http://forums.dragonmount.com/index.php/topic,50617.0.html
Mirshann Uuranor Souvra bonded MashinShin al’Mashiara (December 1, 2009) http://forums.dragonmount.com/index.php/topic,51062.0.html
Dah’mir and Tigara -Souvra Bond (November 29,2009) http://forums.dragonmount.com/index.php/topic,50969.0.html
MashiraSedai bonded Aldazar Ashan as Warder – 27/11/2009 http://forums.dragonmount.com/index.php/topic,50900.0.html
Minuet bonded Bursius (december 17, 2009) http://forums.dragonmount.com/index.php/topic,51595.0.html
Mcs0083 to Manshima (November 20, 3009) http://forums.dragonmount.com/index.php/topic,50988.0.html
MashinShin al’Mashiara to Accepted (November 29,2009) http://forums.dragonmount.com/index.php/topic,50971.0.html
Mirshann Uuranor (November 29, 2009) http://forums.dragonmount.com/index.php/topic,50971.0.html
MashiraSedai to Aes Sedai: 23/11/2009 http://forums.dragonmount.com/index.php/topic,50700.0.html
Torrie to Aes Sedai: 24/11/2009 http://forums.dragonmount.com/index.php/topic,50752.0.html
Bursius to der’Manshima of Me’Arearth (December 12, 2009) http://forums.dragonmount.com/index.php/topic,51451.0.html
Ireond to der’Manshima (November24, 2009) http://forums.dragonmount.com/index.php/topic,50794.0.html
Alanna to Aes Sedai (november 13, 2009) http://forums.dragonmount.com/index.php/topic,50292.0.html

That’s all the dirt we managed to dig up for this month’s edition of Gossip Corner.  Check us out next month for another slightly factual update!