[Sca-cooks] AoAs

[Siegfried Heydrich]

    Hmmmm. Took me 5, but the main reason I got it was because the local
Seneschal and I conducted an investigation of an Exchequer who was
embezzling shire funds. We're not talking small potatoes, either. It was
WELL over $2,000 that we could document, and probably another $500 we
couldn't. We gathered the information, took it to the Crowns, took it to the
cops, had him arrested, got him convicted, then got his membership
permanently revoked. He was convicted of 8 counts of forgery (he had forged
the previous Seneschal's signature on checks), 8 counts of petit larceny,
and wound up doing a year in the pokey with 20 years probation. He was
listed in my Kingdom Heralds files as 'banished, exiled, and executed'.
    That kind of impressed the pointy hats that I was a serious guy, I guess
. . . Took another 5 to my bird (which ought to be called the order of the
albatross), and then I guess I peaked. Oh, BTW, the Seneschal I did the
investigation with wound up on the BoD.

    Sieggy

----- Original Message -----
>
> > Don't worry Misha.........It took me eight years of ACTIVE service to
get an AOA.
>
>
> Six for me. There was a time when living in Ostgardr was essentially the
> death knell for any type of award or recognition. Then they found out
> that when nobody else wanted to bid on a large Kingdom event, we would,
> and when the kingdom's funds had been mismanaged and they needed a huge
> infusion of cash, we could raise thousands for them in one day.
> (Pie-a-Peer!!!) All of a sudden we were loved again.
>
>
> > It took another 11 years to get my Kingdoms Arts and service
awards.....at this rate a peerage when I am eighty might be
feasible.........
>
> Gee, it only took me two years after my AoA, but I shudder to think of
> what it would have been had not a good friend sat on the throne. As for
> the peerage, a mere, shameless, eight years after that.
>
> I always love it when I hear helpful tyros telling total newbies that an
> AoA is something that just happens when you've been in six months or so...
>
> Adamantius
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> "It was so blatant that Roger threw at him.  Clemens gets away with
> things that get other people thrown out of games.  As long as they
> let him get away with it, it's going  to continue." -- Joe Torre, 9/98
>
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