[Elfsea] next.....

[Robin Mitchell-Mabry]

You might want to talk to Ramon/Neil about his "portable" chess set. It
needed repair but ...
HL Robin

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From: elfsea-bounces+smabry=flash.net at ansteorra.org
[mailto:elfsea-bounces+smabry=flash.net at ansteorra.org] On Behalf Of
willowjonbardc at juno.com
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 4:51 PM
To: elfsea at ansteorra.org
Subject: Re: [Elfsea] next.....


Why did they think Defender wasn't going to be a good event? If it is
something that can be worked on we should talk about it. Sometimes people
think that the people in charge, those who do everything, as always going to
be in charge so we can sit on our duffs and let them handle everything. The
result of our laziness is we have no political conflicts and we have no
creative input. The lack of our creative input results in apathy, which
causes us to not go or to go and do no work. If the autocrats are willing to
work with us I say lets us go to them and tell them things that would make
us "happy" with the event. I know sometimes we can't head up the event, but
I am sure the autocrats would be willing to try to find some up and coming
organizer to head it up if we are willing to do some work. We just need to
remember that given a weekend not all of our ideas can be done. 

Here is an example of what I am talking about. My son Lord Jonathan the
Younger wants to run a games, chess, backgammon etc tourney at an event. He
hasn't been able to find an autocrat who was willing to let him have it. I
know this is a small activity, but it has always been the high point for my
sons when they were younger. It allows younger people and older to interact
on the same field. Even if it makes  a few people happy it is worthwhile. 

Another example would be a quest. I can run it, but I could help.We need to
have more events where the young people and the old people do things
together. Elfsea used to be famous for its quests in which the quest teams
had to have a young person. Now that we have youth fighting and boffer
fighting we could have  a mixed age quest and have each team needs a boffer
fighter. 

We need to present our ideas to the autocrats. Many times people are willing
to do these things if they just know about them. The only problem is
workers. For any activity you must have the people to do it. 
My son is willing to run the gaming tournament so there should be no problem
with him doing that. I on the other hand cannot run the quest so there would
be a question about us doing that. 

willow de wisp


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