[Sca-cooks] cooks guild gear

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

> About every six months, we're supposed to be inventorying our
> Provincial feast gear, but there are about four people in the group
> actually capable of and interested in doing this (and three of them
> are on this list; when the fourth gets sufficiently bullied by the
> other three, it's time to actually do it -- hint hint). In theory, we
> do this, and every time we or one of our cantons uses the gear, we're
> supposed to print out a checklist either of all the stuff or
> specifically what is needed for the event, and use that checklist to
> make sure everything is returned or otherwise accounted for. This is
> supposed to control equipment losses and help us make up shopping
> lists for new equipment, but we still lose equipment every so often.
>
> In theory, this system should work flawlessly, but clearly it does
> represent some time and effort. Then again, anything worth having is
> worth maintaining.
>
> Adamantius

We have a baronial Quartermaster, who is responsible for the contents of
the "shed". The "shed" used to be a real shed on someone's property, but
after various sorts of problems with that practice, it's now a storage
unit. All the baronial gear that is not regalia (we have a separate
regalia minister for that) is inventoried, and the quartermaster keeps
track of it. If you want something from the shed, or have something to go
into the shed, you must contact the quartermaster and make arrangements to
either get it to her or meet her at the shed. And you sign off on it, so
she knows who has what.

So far this system has worked extremely well. Certainly we know that, for
instance, there are four roasters in the shed, and when the stuff
comes back after the next event there should again be four roasters in the
shed. If there aren't, the quartermaster has a signature and knows who to
go after.

It also means that you know who left the pots in a disastrous state, if
such were to happen.

Yes, we're paranoid, but we've been burned too many times not to be.

Margaret