Re: MR: Disc: Pay-to-Fight

[Jay Shaner <JSHANER@frederick.solarex.com>]

Poster: Jay Shaner <JSHANER@frederick.solarex.com>


Greetings from Konrad.

Alfredo wrote:

" When faced with a kingdom law with many distressing side-effect, I take
| a great deal of hope to hear The Man Who Will Be King say, "wait and see
| what happens", much more so than hearing anyone else speak thus.  Perhaps
| this is another example of what Henry Best said about the Prince asking
| where the fire extinguishers are."

What are the many distressing side-effects?  The only thing I have heard so 
far  is not wanting to pay $20 for an associate membership to be able to 
authorize.

Regards,
Konrad
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| From: owner-atlantia
| To: atlantia
| Subject: Re: MR: Disc: Pay-to-Fight
| Date: Wednesday, July 03, 1996 11:48AM
|
|
| Poster: edh@ascc01.ascc.lucent.com
|
| >                                 [...] I do agree with you that it is a
| > real pain to train a fighter, watch him/her improve, take them to an
| > event and say "well now you can watch the fighting and maybe afterwards,
| > if anyone has anything left in 'em, you can try someone different".  It
| > is very iritating.  I deal with it all the time with My weekly practice
| > here.  Currently I am training five non-members and hope to get them 
paid
| > and authorized before Pennsic.
|
| Let me say that I feel Your Highness's pain in this matter, and would
| like to suggest a temporary solution.  Now, I assume that the gentles
| are you are training are currently non-members because they are still
| unsure if the SCA is right for them, and so are not ready to make the
| finacial investment.  (May I further assume that they are young people
| with more time than money on their hands?)  There are other finacial
| investmest associated with a fighter's life -- the cost of armor,
| weapons and so on -- which I suppose are covered by the Silver Key.
| Well, perhaps there could be a kind of Silver Key for "loaner" 
memberships.
| Then a newby could, at no additional cost or obligation, experience full
| membership before deciding to commit his own money.  Then, if he does
| decide to drop out after a few months, is there anything in Corpora or
| Kingdom Law that would prevent the remaining months of his membership
| being transferred to another newby?  Well, yes, I suppose there must be.
| Still, the amount of money lost is small, when absorbed by the group.
|
| His Royal Highness goes on to say
| >                                 My advice to you is to keep training and
| > teaching, enjoy doing it, and wait to see what happens with the
| > pay-to-play.  Until then keep copies of the membership form around!
| >
| > HRH  LOGAN
|
| When faced with a kingdom law with many distressing side-effect, I take
| a great deal of hope to hear The Man Who Will Be King say, "wait and see
| what happens", much more so than hearing anyone else speak thus.  Perhaps
| this is another example of what Henry Best said about the Prince asking
| where the fire extinguishers are.
|
| Secondly, though I hesitate to correct a Prince, might it not be more
| correct for you to sign your missives "MRH" for "My Royal Highness"?
|
| -- Alfredo
|
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