SR - Principality Work Mirage (long but important)

[Casey&Coni]

Dieterich hier,   (skip down past the quotes for the new stuff if you'd
like)

I'd like to address a common thread I've seen.  I love my good brother
Lyonel greatly despite his misunderstood views of the poetic and graceful
high tongue (as everyone knows, Christ himself spoke a dialect of German...
Westphalian, I believe it was).

Sir Lyonel and Melody bantered-

>Lyonel aisai.
>
>Melody says:
>
>>Ok, my two cents on the principality--simply a pragmatic one from a
basically
>>lazy soul.  From someone who loves my job (chronicler) but hates the
>paperwork
>>(reports) I can't help but seeing the creation of a principality as
another
>>layer of (needless?) beauracracy (sp? --it's just too early for me to
spell).
>>Couldn't we just work on fully utilizing the system we have?


**here Lyonel said some good stuff that I agree with and will get back to
later**
... but then he said this...

>Will the Principality be more work than a region?  Certainly.

**and then he said some more stuff to support it**
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Okay, gang, this is where our views depart... I heard a few people saying
the same thing at the meeting in Tempio- "... so much more *work*...
bureaucracy... red tape... yadda yadda yadda".

What a bunch of hooie.

There are exactly two offices out of the current *eight* that will be
affected at _all_ : the chronicler and the herald.

The chronicler, rather than just keeping track of what groups within the
region are publishing will have to publish a newsletter at least
bi-annually.  Pug stated something to the effect of "... but I think we all
agree that we'd want it to be monthly..." .  Sorry to repeat a theme, but
don't speak for *me* on that issue, Pug; I neither proscribe to that point
of view nor do I take it as given that 'we all' subscribe to it.  So twice a
year, at minimum, we have to put out a newsletter.  I chatted up former
kingdom chronicler, Baron Theodoric, about it and he said it would be about
as difficult as publishing the flyer for a good event... possibly less as
the subscription could hardly be a great deal higher than 219... our current
paying headcount.  He then told me that he, at least, would *love* to do it
and could think of a couple others that would too.  He told me it would be a
wonderful proving ground for potential new kingdom chroniclers allowing them
to get their feet wet before doing the platform diving level skills it takes
to do the kingdom newsletter.

Now the office of the currently regional herald vs. the proposed
Principality herald...
What is all that 'new work'?  Well, the regional herald already reviews
every submission that comes through from the region, so there's no new work
in submissions.  And we already have field heralds and court heralds at each
event to perform their tasks so there's no new work there.  We'd have to
have heraldry and names submissions for 'all those Principality arms and
awards'... wait a second- that's only about 10 submissions and only once so
that can't be it.  Lessee... that leaves us with the Order of Precedence
(AIIIEEEE!!)

Now wait a minute... what would we need to do with the OP... exactly?

Somebody would obviously have to wade through the Kingdom OP and take out
all the names of folks who live here... once.  Okay... I already heard a
volunteer to do that from Tempio.  Then, once a month or so, somebody would
have to add in all the awards given to our folks.  Gosh, that just doesn't
sound so bad, now does it?  Let's say we have 219 paid and another 200
unpaid but playing... we'll go high and say that they each get an award a
year... that's roughly 400 entries per year or 33.333 per month.  It's an
important enough job that it might even be a good idea to assign it to one
specific person thus adding *just one position* to our roster of officers.

Our current officers have to report already, so there's no work added there.
The reeve still takes care of the books and audits so there's no work added
there.  The chirurgeon won't have any higher levels of boo-boos to report.
The seneschal still makes everybody play nice and keeps track of the law.
The A&S minister still... still... (what does the regional minister of A&S
do?)... ahhh, keeps track of the group A&S reporting.  The hospitaller still
hospitals.  The marshall still keeps track of warrants.... OH MY GOSH...
ALMOST NOTHING CHANGES!!!

except...

and here I borrow from my brother Lyonels apt wording...

>Yes, Melody, we could just work on fully utilizing the system we have, but
>what would it accomplish?  Would it provide us the entertainment of
>Principality events?  Would it provide us the additional pomp of
>Principality arms, coronets, courts, and guards?  Would it allow us the
>opportunities of forging new traditions, composing new songs, creating new
>ceremonies, and strengthening the delicate bonds we already have with our
>nearer neighbors?

And we get to give younger fighters the shot at being Prince before they
tear off and try and do the King fling thing.  And we get a proving ground
for officers, too.  And the Crown gets to have a really neat *Royal* set of
representatives down here.  And, and, and....

Okay, so for a sum investment of perhaps *one* extra office and a minimum of
*two* newsletters, we actually get all of the stuff in the paragraph above?
We actually get the pride and rewards that come with doing the work we're
already doing??  Wow.

Slap me around and call me 'Frenchy' if I'm not in on this one.


Ritter Fr... errr... Dieterich





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