ANST - Court Herald Style

[Lori Campbell]

> I also write down the people who are getting awards.

This is a really good idea if you are lucky enough to have time. 
Often, however, heralds are handed a stack of scrolls just as 
everyone is ready to process in for court.  If you happen to be
a new herald and have never even seen the scroll texts, you get the 
time-honored privilege of sight reading and deciphering the strangely 
structured english and calligraphy - not to mention the fun of trying 
to record who got what, for your report, as you give the scrolls 
away.... 

Here's a suggestion for new heralds.  If you know (or strongly 
suspect) that you will be heralding court, try to get the scrolls 
about an hour before court.  You should be able to fill out your 
heralds report and decipher any names and text you can't clearly 
read.  Also, Post-it notes work really well for writing down phonetic 
spellings of names  - and they're easy to remove as you pass the 
scroll off to whichever noble is holding court.

- just a suggestion from someone who has never actually heralded a 
court, but who has on occassion tried to make life easier on those 
who do.

- Kat MacLochlainn
  Barony of Wiesenfeuer
  lcampbel at ossm.edu
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