Subject: Re: SC - site fee entitlement

[kat]

Bonne of Traquair asks:

> I think that is the attitude around here.  I was just curious to know
> how those places that have this policy manage it.  Are only "titled"
> positions eligible for free admittance?  (cook, autocrat, gatekeeper)
> or further down the line?  What about the MoL?  any deputies?

Well, in our Barony, when you buy a ticket for a feast, you are buying a 
*seat.*  On that philosophy, all the folks who *sit* and eat pay full 
price.  All those who stand in the kitchen *the whole time* and cook pay 
nothing--they wear grubbies and don't bring feast gear or claim a chair in 
the hall.  (Of course they get fed; they also get chocolate, love and 
undying gratitude; and sometimes footrubs and breakfast in the morning.  No 
joke.)

Traditionally, servers pay half-price, and it's the Autocrat's decision 
whether to throw in half-price tickets in the bribe--- I mean, incentive, 
for the entertainment.

Attendant Royalty get free tickets (they are at head table and hold court 
between courses, which after all *is* work) but their entourage are never 
comped; they pay full price like everyone else.  Sometimes, if there's a 
tournament, two free feast tickets get thrown into the prize basket for the 
winner, and he/she and partner get a seat at head table as well; that, too, 
is determined by tradition of particular event and by the Autocrat's 
decision.

Anyway, that's how we do it in Darkwood.    My two cents.

Regards,

	- kat



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