If you'd like to become a Weaver, there are two possibilities: You can take the traditional, frequently taken route, and apply as an apprentice. Or, if you're an experienced roleplayer with a good knowledge of PernMUSH, you can apply to become an 'older journeyranker'. 'Older journeyrankers' are journeyrankers over the age of 30 Turns who live at the Weavercrafthall.
If you'd like to become an apprentice, you'll need to interview with one of the master weavers.
Minimum requirements for Weaver apprentice applicants include:
If you would like to interview, contact one of the master weavers, (typing '+rwho wvr' when online lists all weavers currently online and their ranks) and ask if you can schedule an interview. If no one is available, please +mail the Craftmaster and Craftsecond ('news weavers' online lists who they are) asking for an interview, and mentioning the times you are available.
The interview consists of three sections:
If you aren't a good descer and/or don't want to write descriptions, don't worry - it's alright to join the craft purely for roleplay. If you don't want to write descriptions, simply tell your interviewer at the time of the interview.
Usually, you'll be told right away whether you've been accepted as an apprentice. Sometimes it may take a bit longer, but you should definitely get a reply within a few days of the interview. If you don't, we've probably lost you in the mess of our real lives. :) Drop us a nice reminder +mail.
Once you become an apprentice, you should type '+lhelp new crafters' in a Weavercraft room online. That'll hopefully help to answer the question 'where do I go from here?' :) If you have any questions about apprenticing, feel free to contact the Masterweaver or Craftsecond.
Beyond this, the character can be anything you like. If you want to be an older journeyranker, please +mail the Masterweaver online with your character proposal. You will probably be asked to RP as that character and have an interview of some sort.
You should also look over the Weavercraft bulletin board to get up to date about the latest happenings in the craft. Including the command '+bbread/wvr new' in your @aconnect attribute will show you any new bulletin board posts whenever you log in ('+help bb' and 'help @aconnect' online for more).
Feel free to spend some time exploring the crafthall and meeting up with your fellow crafters who live here. The Great Hall, for instance, is a great central room for weavers to meet up with each other and roleplay. Get out and have fun.
As a weaver, you should familiarize yourself with the information which the Weavercraft has placed on the infobot (Type '+help info' online for more). Type '+info weaver' online to start reading. The local help for the Weavercraft is also extremely valuable. Typing '+lhelp' while in a Weavercrafthall room online will show you a list of Weavercraft local help topics.
If you're a new apprentice, you'll want to @link yourself ('help @link' online) to one of the apprentice dormitories. There's a male dorm and a female dorm. You figure it out. :) If you like, you can @create a cot for yourself, or, if you're not code-savvy, type 'cot request' while in one of the apprentice dorms online.
If you're a new older journeyranker, you'll want your own room leading off the journeyrankers' hallway on the second floor. If one hasn't been created for you yet, it probably slipped our minds. Let the Craftmaster or Craftsecond know, and they'll @dig one for you.
The normal procedure for delivering a description is to +mail the text to the customer and RP the transaction. If a customer wants a coded object, you may provide it for them if you wish.
Typing '+lhelp commissions' will give you more information about taking on commissions for the Weavercraft.
Check the Weavercraft's bulletin board regularly - available commissions are sometimes posted there. It's a good idea to put the command '+bbread/wvr new' in your @aconnect online (type '@edit me/aconnect=$,;+bbread/wvr new'), so that you will see the new notices whenever you log on.
Make sure your 'pos' indicates you're a Weaver ('+help finger' online for more).
Stating online in your @doing that you're a weaver who's accepting commissions (type something like '@doing Weaver, accepting commissions') can attract customers.
Your mentor, if you have one, might be drowning in commissions and may be only too pleased to give some to you. :) It can't hurt to ask.
The Weavercraft display tent can always use new items. As well, each area of the Weavercrafthall has a different theme where you can display your descriptions (+mail Opa or Varina to get your descriptions added). Even if you have no commissions, there are always descriptions you can write. However, if you're an apprentice, make sure you get your work approved before putting it on display.
Weavers are also encouraged to come up with ideas for special projects they'd like to take on. Page or +mail Opa and Varina if you have any.
The tent is comprised of three areas: the main area, which one comes into upon entering the tent from outside, the clothing display area, which you can get to from the main area, and the tapestries and other goods display area, which you can get to from the main area. You can also go back and forth between the two display areas.
Since action occurring in the main area of the tent cannot be heard from
either of the two display areas, there are a number of commands
available in the main area to communicate with people in the display
areas. They are:
| cdsay ogsay | cdpose ogpose | cdemit ogemit |
Two more commands are also available to any weavers of Apprentice rank or up. These will be useful when making a copy of an item in the tent for a customer (more on that in a moment). 'cdlist' will give you a list of all the objects in the clothing display area and their dbrefs. 'oglist' will do the same for the tapestries and other goods display area.
If a customer would like to have one of the objects, they are to receive a copy. None of the items in the tent are to actually leave the tent, although customers may want, especially for clothing items, to pick items up and try out their commands. Just make sure the customers don't walk away with them. :) RPing bargaining with customers is always a fun time - 'news bargaining' and 'news prices' will be helpful. Any customers who like one of the descriptions in the tent's +views should feel free to use them, with the proper crediting.
To make a copy of an item on display, first @create a new item, then
@parent the new item to the original (using the dbref of the original
which you saw from the 'cdlist' and 'oglist' commands mentioned
earlier). All weavers of Apprentice rank and up should be able to
@parent without any problems (if you get an error message, talk to
Opa).
After doing this, typing the command 'wvr help
Junior apprentices who get requests for items on display in the tent
should get a weaver of Apprentice rank or up to make the copy. If no
such weavers are online, explain to the customer that they will get a
copy as soon as possible, then +mail Opa and/or Varina asking for the
copy to be made.
Weavers can have their projects put on display in the tent. If you are an
apprentice, you MUST get approval of your project from a journeyranker or
master before it can be put on display.
All projects which consist of just a description and no code should be
displayed in the tent as +views.
Contact Opa
to get your description put as a +view in the display tent.
If you have a coded item you wish to put on display, you may do so.
First, @parent your object to #11248. Next, type '@lock/parent
ICly those in the Weavercraft eat together twice a day, so the
RPed dinners are considered spolight events in the normal schedule. All
members of the Weavercrafthall are more than welcome, including staff,
residents and weavers posted
elsewhere on
Pern.
The dinners are a time for all the members of the crafthall to
congregate and roleplay with each other, and for the
Masters
to keep everyone else abreast of what's happening in the craft. During the
dinners,
new members of the craft
are officially introduced and important IC matters are announced. It's
often also when
promotions
are handed out.
OOC announcements and issues that involve the entire Weavercraft are also
discussed during these dinners, after all the IC matters have been dealt
with. If you have comments, ideas or concerns that you wish to discuss
with the entire Weavercraft, please bring them up during the dinner.
Input from all members of the Weavercrafthall is welcomed.
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As well, no more than two Weavers will be released for any one Search.
This isn't a restriction on how many Weavers can apply, however, the
Masterweaver will ask the Weyr involved that a maximum of two Weavers
actually be chosen for Search. In addition to this, a maximum of two
Weavers will be released as Stand-only candidates - this will be a case
of first come, first served. These policies do not apply to
residents.
These policies are not meant to be unduly restrictive, rather,
they are in place to ensure that we don't lose so many crafters to the
Weyrs as to severely deplete our population. :)
3.3 Weavercrafthall Meetings
'Dinner' events are the regularly scheduled meetings of the Weavercraft.
They take place in the Great Hall (type '+go weaver-gh' online) at
9:30pmET on the third Tuesday of each month. Reminders will be posted on
the Weavercraft bulletin board when a dinner is coming up. If you miss
a meeting, you can either ask Opa to email you the log, or retrieve the
log yourself at
http://www.interlog.com/~kms/Weavers/Logs/. Depending
on the state of Opa's RL, it may take a while for her to finish
editing the log, so be patient. :)3.4 Mailing List
The Weavercraft has its own email list. It's presently low volume, but
important discussions do sometimes take place on it. Anyone who is part
of the Weavercrafthall - weavers, residents, crafters posted here, etc.
- can subscribe. Just email:3.5 Search Policy
For obvious IC reasons, master Weavers will never be Searched. Also,
since the Weavercraft currently has a very small population of
journeyrankers,
journeyrank Weavers will not be released for Search
either, unless they wish to be Stand-only candidates (i.e. the Weyr
Searches them under the strict understanding that their candidacy will not
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