I do think having descriptions for arcs is a good feature, but they need to be specified in only one place, which means probably something similar to the _tags.yml file.
This is especially important because RPs can belong to multiple arcs, so the arc_description field will do super wacky things in that scenario.
Reorganization of the Arcs page is something I have some other ideas for that I hope to actually address sooner rather than later.
fixes https://github.com/xiagu/jekyll-rp_logs/issues/21
and adds descriptions to arcs.