[Northkeep] Fighter Practice

[Kevinkeary at aol.com]

Beg your pardon, most bodacious lady seneschal, but the knight  marshal's 
exact words were "After the events of last night there will be no  gaming 
allowed at fighter practice." He has neither retracted, clarified nor  modified 
those words. I do not expect him to at this point. I asked what the  event 
was, and he told me (and all of us) that he had already described it in  
full. I have since by other means learned exactly what the event was and who 
was  involved. I do not need any more such information.
 
I do not, in fact, require anything else. I will abide by the knight  
marshal's decision as I currently understand it unless he changes that  
understanding or he is overruled, neither of which I advocate. I will assume he  has 
acted as he feels he must.
 
I find no other fault with your reasoning and hope your efforts bear fruit  
and ease the feelings of those involved, and hopefully teach those that 
need it  a lesson in personal responsibility and contributing to the common 
good.
 
Peace,
Kevin
 
 
In a message dated 10/5/2011 5:37:08 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
zeurburt2003 at yahoo.com writes:

Sarran  wasn't saying that no one could ever game again. He was simply 
stating that an  "event", whatever it was last night, with that particular 
gaming group was  going to prevent them from returning. I think some people were 
taking this too  personally. If you do not know what the "event" was, or 
were a part of this  "event" then there is no reason for anyone to take offense 
or feel threatened  in any way.

After reading people's posts, I have decided to  create a sign in list for 
everyone who comes to fighter practice to sign up  next to a specific chore 
so that not only does the cleaning get done, but  every one coming, whether 
to fight, socialize, do crafts, or game, will have a  job to do in exchange 
for using the hall. This way NO ONE is exempt from  helping out and NO ONE 
should feel like they are the only ones cleaning. No  fingers need to be 
pointed at anybody else, no one needs to list who cleans  and who doesn't, and 
no one else needs to defend themselves anymore  because from here on out 
everything will be different.

If a  specific group refuses to clean simply for coming to socialize or 
whatever,  they can simply find another place to gather. This would be no 
different than  if everyone who attended a demo had to pay a site fee of some 
sort. If we had  a location that was 100% free, this would be a different story 
altogether and  I believe more people would even show up to socialize. But 
we do have a  sight fee, and I'm sure everyone wouldn't mind "paying" that 
fee to use the  facility. I know I will. From now on, even if I'm just 
stopping in to say Hi  and pick up waivers, I will sign the list; I will do a 
chore. And, I hope  everyone else will  too.

Dervilia
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