Re: [Mid] Scrolls Laying around/was Joining SAC

>I'm getting caught up on two days of mail here, so I'm responding to an
>old (yesterday's) topic. Forgive me for playing Devil's Advocate, but it's
>been one of -those-weeks and I'm feeling ornary.

Go right ahead. I'm having one of those weeks myself.

>Obviously, I can see how people hate seeing something that they worked
>hard on just tossed aside by someone else.
>
>But, well, you gave the scroll away. At that point, it is no longer
>yours, and if the recipient wants to not treasure your gift with his life,
>let him.

This is true. It is, however, very difficult to watch 30 to 50 hours of
work shoved into an armor bag and ruined in 2.5 seconds.

>Is this disrespectful? To not care about something that was given to me? I
>don't think so. I don't do it out of spite or anything like that. I just
>simply don't care whether I have a scroll or a little elephant pin.

Disrespectful, to a degree yes; ungrateful, yes, I think so. The scrolls
people receive are gifts from the Crown to show Their appreciation for
whatever it is you have done to come to Their attention. Tossing a scroll
into a feast gear box unprotected and forgetting about it is kind of like
tossing the hand knit Irish wool sweater your Grandmother gives you for
your 21st birthday on the floor in the bathroom and leaving it lying near
the toilet ...... Only the scroll's open market value exceeds that of the
sweater.

>I know that my Barony likes me and that they appreciate the things I do; I
>don't need a tangible reminder, and I certainly don't need to hang it on
>my wall to be seen everyday. Makes me think of the old Saturday Night
>Live skits... "I'm good enough, and smart enough, and gosh darn it, people
>like me!" Knowing that I am liked and that I play well with others is
>valuable to me, but I don't feel the need to show it off, especially not
>to others.

That's a great attitude to have, but if someone were to give you a hand
rendered visualization of your family tree, wouldn't you want to frame it
and hang it... if only so you could look at and admire the skill that went
into making the piece and look over the names of your ancestors every so
often? Most people would. That is one of the things that the scrolls are
about. Hanging it is not about your accomplishment, necessicarily; hanging
it is often about the gift (of a scroll) itself. Most people appreciate a
thing of beauty and want to see it.

>I didn't ask for a scroll, I would have been just as happy had I not
>recieved one.

I'm not saying this to be mean, but on the practical side, perhaps the
Kingdom Signet's office should keep a list of people who have expressed a
preference to not receive a scroll for whatever their reasons might
be. That way, scribes won't be wasting their time making scrolls for
people who don't truly want or appreciate them.

This is one of a *very few* kingdoms that gives out completely hand done,
individual scrolls for every award. People from other kingdoms are often
floored when told by someone from the Middle that we are able to do
that. Some kingdoms use preprinted scrolls that are colored in and the
names written into the appropriate places. For gosh sakes, the West has a
backlog of over 2500 scrolls. If some of those people were to express a
desire to not receive a scroll for their award, the West's Signet office
would be happy to oblige them, I'm sure.

Just my two cents,
Smiles,
Despina

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"Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment
escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment."
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From: "Amy L. Hornburg Heilveil" <aheilvei@uiuc.edu>
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Received on Fri Jan 11 16:34:15 2002