[Sca-cooks] AoAs

[Michael Newton]

I hope that wasn't just a simple AoA, I hope that you got a service award as
well, something like that should garner a GoA service award for the both of
you.

Thorbjorn
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From: "Siegfried Heydrich" <baronsig at peganet.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 5:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] AoAs


>     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
> > --
> > Phil & Susan Troy
> >
> > troy at asan.com
> >
> > "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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