The following are a list of IC topics which will be covered in the next 
Weavercraft meeting, in this order.

1) Introduction of the newest members of our Craft 
2) Update on recent promotions 
3) Promotions! :)

The following are a list of OOC topics which will be covered in the next 
Weavercraft meeting, in this order.

1) Your Craftmaster is once again alive. :) 
2) Importance of reading local help and checking the bulletin board 
3) Policy on Search 
4) Forthcoming new infobot material 
5) Mentoring system 
6) Open Forum - time for anyone who has an issue they'd like to raise, a 
comment to make, etc.


One of Johann's assistants sets down a glass of juice for Morayne.

Weavers> Fiona giggles nervously, "Um...Hi Opa! Bad day?"

Duvetyne snorts, "Old enough to have been drinking wine for turns."
Tuvia grins as she stares at the veritable feast. "I can't believe it a 
  break from fish!"
Taking some fried triangles of cheese from a pot, Johann lets the oil 
  drain from them before handing them to Duvetyne. He admonishes Duvetyne 
  to be careful because they are hot.
Morayne takes a sip of her juice, obviously content with that.

Weavers> Tuvia eeps at Opa's venting. What happened?

From Haldi's shoulder, Nikko reaches out to snatch a bit of roll.
Jorai burns her tongue, trying to get whole triangle into her mouth.

Weavers> Opa growls. Long story.

Tuvia holds her knife and a fork in her hands poised over her meal. She 
  seems uncertain where she wants to start in first.
Opa rushes down from her office, looking apologetic as she sees everyone 
  already eating.
Haldi absently munches on her food as she watches the rest of the room.
Duvetyne blows on her cheese to cool it, waving to Master Opa.
You sit down at the Craftmaster's Table.
Morayne mmms, and finally decides to tackle that herdbeast.
Jorai looks over her shoulder, raising a greasy hand to the Master.
Johann nods and sends one of the drudges into the kitchen. The drudge 
  returns and places a roasted herdbeast dinner in front of Morayne.
Tuvia finally starts in on the mouthwatering roast.

Weavers> Varina does her OOC apology. I'm here in body but that's about 
         all. I"ve taken on a second job and I'm absolutely wiped.

Opa takes her seat quietly, grinning at Varina and raising a hand in 
  greeting to everyone else. "Johann, is there any of that 
  marvellous-smelling herdbeast left?"

Weavers> Opa hugs.

Pest hophops over to look longingly at Tuvia's plate.
Morayne wows, staring at her food, before suddenly looking up and waving 
  to Master Opa.

Weavers> Tuvia hugs Opa and wishes destruction on anyone who messed with Opa!

Haldi giggles and tosses a bit of heardbeast at Pest.

Weavers> Morayne thinks they're gonna get it no matter what! :)

Pest snatches the bit out of the air and quickly waddles closer.
Jorai breaks off a bit of the breading on her cheese, offering it to the 
  little 'lizard.
Opa smiles gratefully as Johann passes her a fully-loaded plate, and 
  starts eating, looking about to see how everyone else is doing.
Tuvia chews blissfully on a juicy mouthful before she glances up at the 
  Master's tables. She puts down her knife and waves to Master Opa.
Pest looks overwhelmed at all the food and spins around snatching at it all.
Duvetyne finishes her cheese.
Taking some fried triangles of cheese from a pot, Johann lets the oil 
  drain from them before handing them to Duvetyne. He admonishes Duvetyne 
  to be careful because they are hot.
From Haldi's shoulder, Nikko gives Pest an indignant chirp and flaps his 
  wings.
Tuvia cuts a piece for him and holds it out on the end of her fork. 
  Lightning reaches out daintily and plucks the meat from the fork and 
  pops it into his mouth.
Varina smiles at Opa and gestures towards the plate, "A fine meal he's 
  prepared indeed."
Morayne takes a deep whiff of the savory aromas of her meal before 
  enthusiatically digging in.

Weavers> Tuvia hmms. Blue pops the meat into his mouth.

Jorai gawks at Ty, "Where do you put that all?"
Opa takes her first biteful and nods enthusiastically as she chews, 
  giving Varina a closed-mouth smile of agreement.
Jorai is awed by the blanket of silence
Tuvia tears a corner off her bread and dips it into the sauce before 
  eating the piece.
Pest sidles over to Jorai's plate and snitches some more cheese while 
  she's not paying attention.
Varina pauses, her fork in the air, and grins, "If you eat like this 
  every evening, I'll be visiting even more often."
Duvetyne giggles, "It goes...Well...hips mostly..."
Jorai blinks, "What..hey!"
Opa chuckles. "Well, most evenings I don't make a point of coming down 
  for regular meantimes. There's always a pattern to be cut, or a message 
  hide to be written."
Pest ducks around behind a drinks pitcher and looks at Jorai, his eyes 
  whirling.
Opa looks back in Johann's direction. "But he does manage to whip up a 
  good lot of food every night, he does."
Maarle has connected.
Opa smiles as Maarle enters. "Come in, sit down, grab a plate of food."

Weavers> Maarle wavies. :)

Maarle blinks, surprised, and nods as he enters. He sees the food, and 
  rushes over, a big grin on his face.
Jorai pushes her plate a bit closer to the FL, "Go on, might as well 
  fonish it."

Weavers> Iyles Feels so /lonely/ at the Jman table all by himself! ;)

Morayne looks up, her mouth stuffed full of herdbeast and greens.
Tuvia passes another piece of meat up to her firelizard before finishing 
  her greens.
Maarle sits down at one of the Apprentice Tables.
Pest looks at the plate, then over at the journeyrankers table. He sees 
  a -very- full looking plate over there...
Maarle moves over to the apprentice tables and sits down, though barely 
  touching his food...
Opa smiles again as Maarle sits, setting down her fork and speaking to 
  the room at large. "I'm delighted to see so many of you could make it 
  tonight. I know the new spring season has most of us running every which 
  way."
Johann nods and sends one of the drudges into the kitchen. The drudge 
  returns and places a roasted herdbeast dinner in front of Maarle.
Iyles picks at his food quietly, listening to bits and pieces of the 
  conversations around him.

Weavers> Fiona says, "What number is the journey rank table?"

Haldi happily shovels in food as she listens.

Weavers> Haldi says, "#3"

Pest stands and leaves the Apprentice Tables.
Duvetyne tosses a bit of breading at Iyles' head.
Pest sits down at one of the Journeyranker Tables.

Weavers> Maarle goes to switch off a few +watch'es... ;)

Pest coasts to a landing near that interesting looking plate and sniffs.
Tuvia swipes the last bit of sauce from her plate with the rest of her 
  bread, and sits back chewing slowly to savor the last bite.
Opa takes another bite before speaking again. "In fact, we've a number 
  of new faces since last we met like this. One of them's even here. 
  Maarle, can you stand up for a moment?"
Iyles frowns at the bread-ball that hits him, glancing around for the 
  guilty apprentice (These things only happy by Apprentice mischeif), but 
  doesn't see who, so settles back again.
Tuvia +rwho wvr
Maarle blinks, and stands up, surprised.
Tuvia OOC> Oops!
Opa chuckles. "Everyone, this is Maarle, one of our newest junior 
  apprentices."
Pest grabs the bread as it bounces past him on the table.
Morayne grins, chewing on a juicy bit of herdbeast.
Tuvia claps politely and nods to Maarle.
Haldi giggles and waves, "Hi Maarle."
Iyles smiles approvingly, quiet as usual.
Maarle ohs and feels a little less sheepish about standing up. He grins 
  and waves, pruopmtly sitting down, not liking to be the center of 
  attention. His face seems a bit flushed. He says "hI" though...
Morayne swallows and says, "Hi Maarle."
Opa smiles. "Other new apprentices whom you may have noticed just 
  joining some of your classes include Harumi, Josien, Cyllan and Wesley. 
  I'm sure you'll make them all feel welcome."
Duvetyne smiles to the new arrival.
Varina smiles at the apprentice, nodding and leaning over to whisper 
  approvingly about the new arrivals.
Blue Lightning warbles contentedly and settles down against Tuvia's neck.
Opa nods at Varina's whispering, then turns her attention to the 
  journeyrank tables with a pleased smile. "I'm also very happy to be able 
  to welcome one of our journeyrankers back to the Hall. Iyles has been 
  spending a number of months visiting Igen Hold, as well as his family 
  in the Southern Continent, but has now returned."
Iyles smiles sheepisly and waves a hand in a quick little motion.
Haldi grins and waves towards Iyles in her overenthusiastic way, "Hi Iyles!"
Jorai smiles to the Jman as well.
Pest grabs a bite off the -very- full plate whilst Iyles attention is 
  distracted.
Morayne grins brightly at Iyles. "Hello!"
Opa grins at the contrast between Iyles' quiet wave and Haldi's 
  boisterous greeting.
Tuvia gives the journeyman a quick wave.
Maarle waves to Iyles, but in his own little corner.
Duvetyne says to her table, just loud enough to be heard by everyone in 
  the room, "And he says he doesn't get out much..."
Tuvia's eyes widen a little as she looks in the general direction of Iyles.
Opa then looks over at the apprentice table, smiling again as her glance 
  falls on Fiona. "I'm also pleased to announce that Fiona has been 
  promoted to senior apprentice since we last had one of our big dinners."
Morayne turns big eyes to Fiona. "Fi! Congratulations!"

Weavers> Fiona says, "Um... Fi is at Benden at the moment..."

Iyles doesn't notice the firelizard at first, until he lowers his gaze 
  after what he feels is an appropriate time, flushing a little. He pauses 
  as he notices the lizard and quietly pulls his plate away from the 
  creature.

Weavers> Morayne flushes. "oops."
Weavers> Jorai giggles

From Haldi's shoulder, Nikko gives a chirple in proxy for his sillypet.
Haldi giggles and applauds, "Yea Fiona!"

Weavers> Tuvia grins.
Weavers> Opa eeps! I just assumed that every single weaver on the knot 
         was here, since I tend to ignore spammy Contents lists. :} Sorry. 
         Rescind that. ;)
Weavers> Morayne grumbles. "one of these days, I'll learn."

Opa's glance fell on Fiona's *firelizard*, yes, that was it...

Weavers> Maarle grins.

Tuvia smiles happily for Fiona.
Jorai applauds, just in a general happy sort of way.
Morayne umms, yeah, relay that to Fi.
Pest gives the journeyranker a humph and waves his wings at the mention 
  of his silly.
Duvetyne nods, "She was helpful in that fabric project we had...Good for 
  her..."
Opa's glance then shifts to look around the whole room. "And speaking of 
  promotions..."
Haldi munches on a piece of bread as she looks around at everyone.
Maarle grins and applauds, Fiona...spiritually...? ;)

Weavers> Morayne wonders if she yelled loud enough if it'd reach Benden...
Weavers> Fiona has a long ear...

Taking some fried triangles of cheese from a pot, Johann lets the oil 
  drain from them before handing them to Duvetyne. He admonishes Duvetyne 
  to be careful because they are hot.
Opa grins as the room goes totally silent at that opener, and continues. 
  "When new apprentices begin to show dedication to their craft, we tend 
  to want to reward them. Morayne? Maarle? Could you come forward please?"
Duvetyne mutters to herself, "Shells and shards I love this stuff..."
Maarle huhs and stands up, coming forward, a flush still on his face.
Morayne gasps, standing nervously and walks up.
Maarle stands and leaves the Apprentice Tables.
Morayne stands and leaves the Apprentice Tables.

Weavers> Fiona giggles, "Together again, guys." ;)
Weavers> Maarle notes a 'reptition' of events... ;)
Weavers> Morayne groans. "It's not funny."

Opa's smile broadens as the two approach with nervous expressions. 
  "Shells, I'm not going to bite the two of you. I just wanted to give you 
  these." From her shift pockets, she pulls out two full apprentice knots.

Weavers> Opa says, "Am I missing something? :)"

Haldi giggles and applauds, "Yea!"

Weavers> Maarle says, "If you know Rayne's and my alts, no... :)"
Weavers> Opa doesn't. So I live in blissful innocence. :)

Morayne's mouth drops into a O... and she is speechless for once 
  (without food in her mouth).
Maarle blinks very surprised and looks at the knots in confusion.

Weavers> Morayne grins at Varina, Fiona, and Haldi.
Weavers> Maarle chortles.

Opa explains to Maarle. "You see, I take the knot on your shoulder now, 
  and replace it with this one." She grins teasingly.
Tuvia taps the table with the end of her fork in admiration for the 
  newly promoted. "Good going!" she cheers.
From Haldi's shoulder, Nikko squwaaks as Haldi bounces, but adds a 
  congratulatory chirple.
Morayne stands there with a silly grin on her face as she watches Master 
  Opa replace Maarle's knot.
Maarle laughs a little, nervously twinged his voice is and he takes the 
  replacing of the knot with good humor.
Opa chuckles and gives Maarle's new knot a little pat before repeating 
  the ceremony for Morayne.
Jorai applauds gently, her smile a bit tight.
Tuvia covers a laugh at the bemused expression on Morayne's face.
Pest stands and leaves the Journeyranker Tables.
Morayne turns, and stares a bit at her new knot, finally saying, "Thank 
  you, Master Opa."
Opa smiles. "Well deserved."
Maarle looks at his knot, a bemused expression coming to his face.
Pest soars in a circle over the two apprentices before dropping to a 
  landing on the top of a tapestry.
Maarle he grins and says, "Thank you, Master Opa!"
Duvetyne chews her cheese, glancing at Jorai.
Varina smiles warmly as she agrees, "Congratulations, you two."
Morayne is sort of coming out of her shock, and bows to the two masters 
  before returning to her seat.
Haldi grins adn keeps right on applauding.
Morayne sits down at one of the Apprentice Tables.

Weavers> Maarle is sure someone is laughing their head off out there...

Maarle bows and follows Rayne.
Maarle sits down at one of the Apprentice Tables.

Weavers> Fiona isn't laughing. nopenope.

Opa grins at the two newest full apprentices before continuing. "There 
  also comes a time when apprentices reach new levels of achievement, in 
  both their craftwork and their willingness to take initiative. For 
  these..." She gives a little nod of her head to Iyles.
Jorai catches the look, shrugging a bit and snagging a cheese off Ty's 
  plate.
Tuvia taps a passing drudge lightly on his arm and takes a glass of 
  juice from his tray. She murmurs a thanks to the drudge.
Maarle starts to mechanically eat his food for once...it seems shock is 
  the only way he ever eats food...

Weavers> Morayne pouts. "IT's not funny."

Haldi munches on her roll again looking around to see who else is 
  getting promoted.

Weavers> Jorai is convinced she's missed something.
Weavers> Tuvia hmms. :)
Weavers> Maarle sighs, "You'd have to know our alts..."
Weavers> Opa is in the same boat as you, Jorai. The trick is to just 
         turn your nose up at these people and ignore them. ;);)
Weavers> Morayne noddles. "And then some." She glares at Fiona.

Iyles pushes his chair back slowly with the scraping sound of wood on 
  stone and rises slowly to his feet. He paces, hands clasped behind his 
  back to the apprentice table, pacing along behind one bench then down 
  the otherside, occasionally pausing for a moment behind one apprentice 
  before moving on, as fickle as a hatchling on the sands. He comes to a 
  stop behind Haldi, laying a hand on her shoulder, "Apprentice, would you 
  join me at the journeyman's table?"

Weavers> Maarle glares at Haldi then..
Weavers> Iyles says, "Spam! Yay!"
Weavers> Fiona says, "Wha?... What'd I do?... (innocent look)"
Weavers> Opa cheers. :)
Weavers> Jorai does know your alts :) Still doesn't get it..
Weavers> Maarle says, "Whee! go haldi!"

Haldi's mouth is full as she turns and glances up at Iyles, "Huh?"
Iyles clears his throat, "Or, journeyman, should I say."
Maarle grins a huge grin at haldi, in congratulations.
From Haldi's shoulder, Nikko does a dance, poking Haldi with his wings. :)
Morayne stares up at Haldi, her recent promotion totally forgotten as 
  she claps (perhaps prematurely) for Haldi.

Weavers> Morayne blinks. "Who told you Jorai?"
Weavers> Jorai is an omniscient sort

Haldi swallows quickly and turns to look at Master Opa with a stunned 
  look, "Me?"

Weavers> Maarle says, "Who told you, Jorai?"

Opa leans back comfortably in her seat, taking the opportunity to eat 
  some more of her dinner. She swallows and nods to Haldi. "Oh yes, indeed."
Iyles nods, "Go on.." He waits for a moment, then resumes his walk, 
  coming to stop behind Duvetyne, "You too."

Weavers> Morayne heaves a big sigh.

Duvetyne flicks little bread-balls at Jorai.
Duvetyne looks up, in mid-flick, "Huh?"
Haldi grins and stands up. Seeing Iyles go over to Duvetyne she laughs! 
  and applauds.
Maarle grins and applauds Duvetyne too.
Jorai starts to make a snotty comment, then blinks, "Huh?"
Duvetyne toss her napkin over all the bread-balls, standing gracefully, 
  "Why, thank you, sir."
Morayne grins, hugely. "Whoo whoo! Go Haldi, Go Duvetyne!"
Pest goes into lizard giggles at Ty's reaction.
Opa shakes her head wryly as the attention of the room comes to focus on 
  Ty in the middle of food-flicking.
Iyles tsks at the bread-ball, but lets it pass without comment this 
  time, "Would you care to join us at the journeymans table?"
Duvetyne blinks prettily, offering her arm to Iyles, "Only for you, my 
  dear..."
Tuvia grins and calls out, "Go on, walk the tables!" She raises her 
  glass in a salute and taps the end of her fork on the tabletop again.
Opa grins as a number of other apprentices follow Tuvia's lead and start 
  banging on their tabletops.

Weavers> Tuvia grins. "I haven't tapped the tables since my friend

Iyles rolls his eyes, tho his cheeks turn a pretty shade of red, "Erm." 
  SO much for the official journeyman. He does take Duvetyne's arm, 
  determined to get back to his seat as soon as possible.

Weavers> Tuvia continues, "my friend's wedding in November!"

Jorai laughs, "Someone should have warned him."
Haldi giggles and bounces over to plop into a seat at the 
  journeyranker's table.
Haldi stands and leaves the Apprentice Tables.
Haldi sits down at one of the Journeyranker Tables.
Duvetyne puts her hand in Iyles', "You sweet talker, you..."
Duvetyne stands and leaves the Apprentice Tables.
Duvetyne sits down at the Masters' Table.
Duvetyne stands and leaves the Masters' Table.
Duvetyne oopses.. ;)
Maarle laughs.
Iyles snickers a little and greatfully slips back into his chair.

Weavers> Tuvia giggles at Ty. :)

Opa OOC grins. No.
Duvetyne sits down at one of the Journeyranker Tables.

Weavers> Duvetyne winks.

Morayne grins.
Morayne leans over and says to another apprentice, a bit too loudly. "I 
  thought he was a bit lonely."
Iyles leans over his plate, suddenly finding his food so much more 
  interesting.
Duvetyne scoots her chair up close to Iyles, not letting go of his hand.
Tuvia glances over at Morayne. She whispers, "Who Iyles?"
Opa looks on approvingly as more seats in the journeyranker tables fill 
  up. She smiles at the newest junior journeyrankers, then exchanges a 
  grin with Varina.
Maarle smiles and starts to spoon in his wherry meat, filling up his 
  stomach rapidly.

Weavers> Haldi wheeees! I'm a journeyranker!
Weavers> Maarle grins, "Congrats Haldi! :)"

Tuvia glances over at Ty and Iyles. When she sees the joined hands, she 
  smiles before whispering, "He's not going to be with Ty!"
Morayne leans close to Tuvia and whispers, "The Journeyman!"

Weavers> Morayne cheers for Haldi!
Weavers> Tuvia hurrahs for Haldi and Ty! :)

Varina smiles broadly, "Good job, both of you."
Morayne claps loudly for Haldi and Duvetyne!
From Haldi's shoulder, Nikko peers about at the new table and new plates 
  to snitch from.
Opa says "Well, if no one has any objections, I'd like to move into the OOC 
  portion?"
Maarle switches to ooc'ness, and cackles.
Morayne nods okay at Opa. "Fine by me."
Tuvia nods as well.
Duvetyne squeezes Iyles' hand and smiles oh-so-sweetly at Johann, "I 
  will take that wine now, thank you very much..."
Pest thinks Ty might have wanted to get in some more flirting first. ;)
Jorai drops her feet on the tableand starts picking her teeth with a bit 
  of hay. ;)
Opa noodles. Terrific. Well, first of all, congratulations to all you 
  promotees. :) Keep up the great work, everyone.
Opa grins at Pest. Yes, well.
Duvetyne oh greats, "Now we're out..."
Iyles congrates on promos and stuff, and now must be on his merry way. 
  G'luck with the rest of the meeting. :)
Opa wavihoos to Iyles. Thanks for coming!
Morayne wavies to Iyles.
Duvetyne pouts at Iyles.
Jorai laughs at Ty
Tuvia waves to Iyles. Bye!
Haldi waves, "Seeya Iyles."
Pest swoops down to devour what's left on Iyles plate. :P
Iyles waves :) and flees? :)
Iyles walks through the doorway towards the teaching rooms and the rest 
  of the west wing.
Iyles has left.
Maarle lags.
Morayne turns her attention back to Opa.
Duvetyne has disconnected.
A drudge shoos away the firelizards while other drudges wake up the 
  sleeping and ask them to go home.
Duvetyne has left.
Nylie has left.
Opa says "The first item on the OOC agenda, as you can see, is to announce 
  my return to the land of the living. :) I am finished this term, yay! 
  Thanks for bearing with me and offering support in my period of stress. 
  :) Right now I'm concentrating on catching up on just about everything. 
  I'll be doing a bunch of things that were mentioned last meeting - 
  finding us a healer, implementing the grey-dye-goop TP, putting weather 
  in the +lhelp, etc. etc."
Opa says "If there's anyone for whom I've promised to do something in the 
  last few months, and haven't, and who thinks it may have slipped my 
  mind, send me a reminder +mail. Don't want to forget anything or 
  anyone. :)" 
Pest Yays! "Goop Finally!"
Opa grins. Yes, once again, hurrah for goop. ;) Stay tuned.
Maarle grins, "I'll be that's haldi..;)"
Opa doesn't think Haldi goes in for greys. :)
Haldi huhs?
Varina says "I'm afraid I'll be out of things until after January 6th. 
  two jobs and a toddler are really wearing me out."
Morayne laughs. "Grey's too boring for Haldi."
Maarle ohs. :)
Jorai thought Ty did the grey cloth?
Pest <different grey>
Opa nods. Yes, everyone must send Varina sympathetic hugs.
Haldi sends SYMPATHETIC HUG to VArina :)
Pest sends -very- sympathetic and understanding hugs.:)
Opa would personally be winded with just the toddler.
Morayne sends Varina two SYMPHugs. :) ANd a coupla hershey ones too.
Maarle sends a sympth hug too. :o :)
Tuvia ohs. That is really three full jobs, plus housework!! Tuvia gives 
  Varina a /real/ sympathetic hug as well!
Varina oooohs, "thanks, folks! You're all swell. I love ya all. all of ya."
Pest nodnods at Opa. Yup!
Opa says "Next up, (ain't it nice to have your crafters rally around you in 
  times of stress? :) Jorai suggested the other day that I remind everyone 
  of the importance of being familiar with the information on our local 
  help (+lhelp), as well as checking the bulletin board regularly."
Jorai lifts a tentative hand in the air
Opa says "So. Reminder: EVERYONE, BE FAMILIAR WITH THE LOCAL HELP INFO AND 
  READ THE BBOARD REGULARLY. :) *ahem*. There. :) Actually, I may joke 
  about it, but really, the +lhelp has been written for the express 
  purpose of answering just about every basic question that you guys might 
  have about how things work around here. The bulletin board keeps you up 
  to date on what's new around here. Puh-*leeeeeze* look at them both."
Opa noodles. Yep, Jorai?
Opa hrms. Lag. Fun.
Jorai says "Iyles finally woke up enough to check for us, and Fiona did, 
  too, the 'oglist' does work for Jmen and not Apprentices."
Morayne blinks. "oglist?"
Haldi says "Oglist?"
Tuvia echoes that.
Maarle says "oglist...doncha know? ;)"
Maarle says "What's oglist anyways?"
Pest nodnods. "I got 'huh?' when I did it." She grins at the others, "I 
  can see who'd read the +lhelp..."
Opa nods. Yes. I got your +mail when I logged in. I'll recheck the code 
  that I wrote up. I thought I'd allowed for apprentices and senior 
  apprentices to use that command. Apparently not. :} 'Twill be fixed.
Morayne glares at Maarle. "Okay, so what is it?"
Jorai nods, "When I joined, those commands weren't there :) And didn't 
  realize the post about the lhelp being fixed meant there was completely 
  new info :} The ones I can get to work are cool!
You say "'oglist' is one of the commands in the display tent. It's all 
  explained in the +lhelp."
Morayne makes a note to go read that.
Haldi grins, "I think that's a hing ;)"
Maarle girns and points himself to the +lhelp... ;)
Haldi says "Hing=hint"
Maarle grins even...
Jorai grins
Opa grins. "Guys, if you have any questions about the Weavercraft, like 
  how to run the display tent, or what keys are present on our knot, etc. 
  etc., assume that the answer is somewhere on the +lhelp. Then ask if you 
  can't find. :)"
Opa grins at Haldi. Yep, big hint.
Morayne smiles sheepishly. "Hint taken."
Opa hugs all round. Thanks.

Weavers> Fiona goes ooc and drops herself in rather than working through 
         a lizard.

Opa says "Hookay, next. Search policy."
Fiona has arrived.

Weavers> Tuvia hurrahs for Fiona. :)

Morayne /now/ grins at Fiona and congratulates her. :)
Fiona hides in a corner... shhh I'm not here. ;)
Maarle grins, "Need new glasses, ayup..."
Pest has left.
Fiona motions to Pest, who flitters over and lands on his shoulder.
Opa says "What with Benden's upcoming Search, Varina and I have discovered 
  that the Weavercraft Search policy which has been around in a vague word 
  of mouth form since we were apprentices is now no longer known by 
  practically anyone else but us, and so we wanted to solidify it for you 
  guys."
Jorai makes goofy faces at Fiona's ghostly spectre
Opa says "First - master Weavers can't be Searched. :)"
Opa grins at Fiona's ghost. Velcome. :)
Maarle grins, "Well, I'm out ;) j/k"
Jorai damns! :) Was hoping to get rid of her slavedriver ;)
Varina nods in agreement, "What I thought was obvious, I suddenly 
  realized no one else had a clue existed."
Haldi grins, "Masters being searched would be a bit... passe."
Varina says "they don't take old folkies like us anyhow."
Maarle grins, "We need more weavers on them dragons, yes we do. :)"
Opa says "Second - journeyrank Weavers (junior and standard) will not be 
  granted release to be Searched. Maybe some day if our journeyranker 
  population gets to overflowing, that stricture will be released, but 
  until that time, no. Keep this in mind if you're entertaining thoughts 
  of applying for Search."
Fiona waves in a ghostly fashion to y'all and admits to being clueless...
Opa noddles at Varina. That's right, the Weyrs would laugh themselves 
  silly at any master who handed in a Search application. :)
Maarle would too. :) Hehe. :) Masters as weyrlings. :)
Morayne chuckles.
Opa says "Third - any number of of apprentices can apply for any one Search, 
  but I will ask the Weyr involved not to choose more than two weavers to 
  actually be Searched."
Opa doesn't think that'll happen very often though, but who knows. :)
Fiona blinks, "Um... has that come up with this search?"
Opa shakes her head. Nope. :)
Jorai shoulda tried that when she was asked by the Weyr :P
Opa says "The above policies don't apply to Weavers who are interested in 
  being Stand-only candidates (i.e. people who want to RP being 
  candidates, but are in an understanding with the Weyr that their 
  candidacy will not result in Impression)."
Morayne oohs and thinks that might be interesting.
Tuvia ohs. "I didn't think about that..."
Maarle laughs, "I have enough trouble impressing FLs. :)"
Morayne oocly snorts. "yeah, right."
Opa says "On the other hand, having more than two Weavers as Stand-only 
  candidates is a little much, so for any Search, the first two Weavers to 
  ask permission to be Stand-only candidates get it. :)"
Maarle grins, "We're ooc, Rayne. :)"
Tuvia grins. "But given Tuvia's busy busy IC life... She'll pass."
Jorai giggles at Tuvia
Fiona laughs at the thought of the entire hall doing a stand-in. :)
Morayne knows, just wanted to emphasice that.
Maarle likes it! :)
Opa laughs at Fiona's thought. Yes, well.
Morayne grins at Fiona. "Wanna?"
Maarle says "OOC + OOC = IC? :)"
Morayne @baps Maarle.
Fiona smiles mysteriously at Rayne, "Hope I won't have to."
Opa also @baps Maarle. :)
Maarle @tickles Rayne.

Weavers> Duvetyne says, "I'm sorry everyone, I have to go again, will 
         there be a log?"

Maarle doesn't @tickle Opa tho ;)
Morayne hahs, she's a Master on her side.
Tuvia giggles.

Weavers> Jorai didnt even see you arrive.

Opa says "Note that these policies just apply to Weavers - residents of our 
  Hall are different. Of course, if I find that twelve of them want to 
  apply, I'll probably have a little talk with the Weyr involved, but. :)"

Weavers> Opa nods. Yep!
Weavers> Tuvia waves goodbye to Ty!

Morayne suddenly freezes, log-shy. ;)

Weavers> Morayne waves. "C'ya Ty."

Maarle has no intention of app'ing for search, but wouldn't mind 
  standing in... :)

Weavers> Fiona waves By Ty!
Weavers> Maarle wavers. :)

Varina giggles and can't wait until we have twelve residents to give us 
  that sorta headache.
Opa says "These policies are not meant to be restrictive. Instead, they're 
  just to make sure that our population doesn't get totally depleted by 
  Search. :)"
Opa grins at Varina. Well, yes, we have nowhere near twelve residents at 
  this point. :)

Weavers> Opa waves. Thanks for coming!
Weavers> Duvetyne says, "Thanks! Seeya all!"

Fiona thinks there ought to be a policy that you have to recruit soemone 
  to take your place. ;)
Opa says "This policy will be added to our +info information. Which leads to 
  the next item on the agenda. :)" 
Maarle laughs, "Create an alt then ;)"
Jorai oohs, might try that idea too, Fiona :)
Morayne frowns. "Cheater. Why don't you just have the alt go on Search?"
Maarle grins, "Umm...because then he wouldn't know what he didn't get 
  himself into... :)"
Morayne groans and waits for Opa's next item.
Fiona didn't mean just create an alt, but I guess that would work. 
  "Cause the alt wouldn't have as much background yet, Rayne."
Opa says "Very, very, *very* soon, I shall be sending Tiercel the text for a 
  complete overhaul of the Weaver information for the infobot. This will 
  include the policy on Search, as well as some new information on things 
  like ranks, postings, etc. I'll be making an announcement on both the 
  Weavercraft bboard and the general bboard when this happens. Stay tuned. 
  It's happening soon, honest. :)"
Opa beams at Fiona. That's a great idea! :)
Opa says "Kind of like planting a sapling for every tree you chop down. :)"
Maarle makes a note: Don't apply for search if you know what's good for 
  you... ;)
Morayne nods and agrees with Fi's original intent.
Fiona nodnods, "Yup. BTW, didn't Tiercel retire as a wiz?"
Tuvia asks, "Is Tiercel still working on the infobot?
Maarle says "Ayup."
Opa grins at Maarle. Naw, I don't want to discourage folks from applying 
  for Search if it's what they truly want to do, but on the other hand, I 
  don't want to watch all our crafters disappear, either. :)
Maarle meant Fiona's comment.
Opa says "Yes to both Tiercel questions."
Tuvia grins at Fi's ghost.
Fiona adds to the recruitment part, "I think we all should be doing 
  that, anyway. When a few of us put stuff in out @doings, we got new 
  apps. soon after."
out=our
Opa says "Since succumbing to the stress demon, I've also postponed work on 
  the Weavercraft Encyclopedia. Once I catch up with everything, I'll keep 
  working on that, but I'd like to extend the offer again to everyone 
  who's interested in helping to volunteer. :) (if you don't know what I'm 
  talking about, +mail me privately and I shall explain All :)"
Opa bounces. Yesyes, recruit, recruit...we can never have enough new 
  victims. 
Opa :)
Jorai saw a sisal bath scrub while Christmas shopping, bowled her over.

Weavers> Morayne notes that there are people in the OOC lounge we could 
         go pester after the meeting.

Opa says "Can I go on to the next topic?"

Weavers> Jorai LOL

Tuvia nods to Opa.
Maarle noddles. :)
Opa hookees.
Opa says "The mentoring system. <deep breath>"
Morayne falls over in shock. ;)
Haldi grins, "uh oh."
Maarle braces for the hurr, er, speech. :)
Fiona jumps in while Opa is typing. "I have access to a video capture 
  thingy for the Encyc. if we want picture." She then shuts up. :)
Jorai pouts at Fi, I want one!
Fiona grins at Jorai, "Only if you take my father along with it. It's his."
Opa says "Since I became CM, I've put the mentoring system on hold, largely 
  due to our lack of journeyrankers, but also because I felt I wanted to 
  do something more with it than had been done up to that point. What has 
  happened with mentoring in the past is that an apprentice gets hooked 
  up with a JR or master, and then RPs that that person is their mentor. 
  OOCly, they could go to them for help or to get their stuff approved, 
  that kind of thing. But not much was ever done with it, ICly or OOCly, 
  as far as I could tell. So..."
Jorai ROTFL
Opa grins at Fiona. Cool! I have a scanner, myself. Pictures would be 
  great - useless for the infobot, I admit, but great for the web page.
Haldi has access to a scanner, but isn't sure if I can send the picts to 
  you :)
Maarle has access to a computer, and he's happy, geez! :)
Varina says "If you have the ability to ftp, you can send them taht way."
Opa says "What I'd like to do is rebuild the mentoring system based on 
  what you guys would like to get out of it. Do you want it to be purely 
  for RP? Do you want it to be super-IC like in the books, where a master 
  will have a few special journeyrankers and apprentices - the master 
  mentors the journeyrankers, and the journeyrankers for the most part 
  mentor the apprentices. Or what? Do you think we need a mentoring system 
  at all? I eagerly await your thoughts. I'd like to start up a discussion 
  about this on our mailing list."
Opa says "You can email the pics to me, Haldi."
Fiona says "This thing does video capture. We could put scenes from 
  Terminator right into the web page if we want...(no I don't know why 
  we'd want to)"
Varina ROFL!s
Opa says "Were there any looms in Terminator? :)"
Morayne snorts and ROTFL!
Jorai dies laughing
Maarle hmms, "I like the mentor idea, but it's going to be very hard to 
  orgainze..."
Fiona laughs, "That's what my father has done with it so far. Cut apart 
  Terminator... but ANYWAY... about the mentoring thing."
Jorai says "Yeah, didnt you see where the newer Terminator model turned 
  into one? ;)"
Varina says "what part of it do you like, Maarle?"
Opa says "Well, it's my job to do the organizing...you guys just tell me 
  what you'd like to see, and I try to figure out a way to make it 
  happen. :)"
Maarle says "The part where there is some organization to the craft, 
  becuase up till now, I've been wandering around for a bit oocly..."
Opa . o O ( Attack of the vicious killer looms! )
Varina says "we'll worry about the organizing, if you can tell us what 
  you want... yeah, what Opa said."
Maarle grins, "Then again, that's what my alt did... ;)"
Opa hi5s Varina. Are your CM and C2 in sync, or what. :)
Fiona agrees with Maarle, "I'd like some RPed classes."
Tuvia smiles. "It
Varina woops and hi5s! Yeah, we know what's going down.
Maarle says "Also, yeah, the RP prospect is huge. :)"

Weavers> Tuvia hates when she does that.
Weavers> Opa takes foreceps and extracts the rest of the sentence from 
         Tuvia's mouth. ;)

Tuvia smiles. "It'll be interesting to do some of that RP."
Morayne noddles. "Yeah, RPed classes'd be neat."
Maarle looks at Rayne, "Noddle?"
Opa grins at the immediate comments and encourages you all to go out and 
  email those thoughts to the mailing list.
Tuvia coughs a little. :P <Wheeze! Hack!> "Thought I couldn't get that 
  out before!"
Morayne shrugs. "Opa noodles."
Maarle says "You've never before..."
Opa would be delighted to have RPed classes going on, personally.
Jorai would love classes, she's got all this info from the Healer's 
  +info on dyes before she new there was a web page :/
Opa noddles and noodles, depending on her mood.
Varina says "I've thought of RPing classes before, but never bothered to 
  ask if any one was interested 'cause I thought people might be bored 
  with 'em."
Maarle snorts, "Never bored of RP> :)"
Varina @thwaps herself. "That's what I get for assuming."
Jorai chuckles, "Dragon training is the only classes any of my alts have 
  ever had. Not tired in the least.
Maarle says "My alt, well, never really had a class RP. :)"
Opa grins. Well then. No more assuming. :) Any other comments on this 
  mentoring thing before I open the floor?
Morayne grins. "Some of the crafts have @emits as classes...those are 
  interesting, but canned."
Tuvia grins. "Never had one either, only an impromptu fish gutting class 
  from Tuvia's <grin> love."
Morayne thinks mentoring is good.
Opa nods at Morayne. "I'd like to get away from canned stuff and move 
  further towards creative RP."
Fiona thinks more structure ingeneral would be good, "We all spend too 
  much time sitting around the hall." :P
Varina wants some apprentices to shove around, yep. :):) I mean... to 
  guide and direct creatively!
Haldi giggles.
Opa *grins* at Varina.
Morayne laughs. "okay, that's all I have to say on this for now. Will 
  use mailing list."
Maarle remmebers a certain @emit session...
Morayne chortles. "oh yeah..."
Jorai pouts at Varina, "Tired of me already?
Maarle grins, "/that/ was fun. :)"
Tuvia nods. "I'm going to love really learning some things (anything) 
  about weaver related stuff since I don't personally know much about it."
Morayne noddles and turns to Opa.
Maarle knows nothing about weaving in general :)
Morayne agrees with Tuvia..."Most I've learned is warp and... uh..."
Opa nods. Righto. Okay, well...the floor is now open. Anyone with an 
  issue they'd like to raise can page me to get on the queue.
Opa stagewhispers, "Weft!" ;)
Varina says "tired of you, jorai? not at all! you just whet my hunger. i 
  want more! more! more! *grin*"
Jorai cackles
Jorai wants someone to explain to her about a distaff
Haldi grins, "Weft and Warp. Loom. Shuttle. Heee
Morayne brightens. "Weft?"
Morayne blinks. "What's a distaff?"
Opa will give it another minute or so before she closes the floor. :)
Jorai starts mumbling 'knit one purl two' under her breath ;)
Morayne grins at Jorai, and picks at her cross-stitching.
Opa says "Okay folks, Tuvia has a TP suggestion. :)"
Maarle woos.
Haldi turns her eyes on Tuvia :)
Tuvia smiles. "There's a tapestry in Tillek's GH desc that has a corner 
  torn off."
Morayne nods attentively.
Tuvia continues. "Skye, Tillek's harper is thinking of a legend or story 
  to go with that Tapestry."
Tuvia adds, "Caervel says it's alright, and to let him know what the TP 
  might be when we've figured it out."
Fiona logs off to kick her email software for a minute...
Fiona has disconnected.
Tuvia says as well, "The tapestry has actually been in Tillek's GH for 
  10 IC turns so it has at least some history!"
Tuvia grins. "I thought since it
Morayne noddles.
Fiona has connected.
Maarle grins and nods.
Tuvia continues, "since it's a weaver type item, the weavers can get 
  into it as well. "
The tapestry itself has a desc that says it has faded somewhat, and it 
  depicts dragons and riders flying out over the ocean.
Maarle woos, "Exploration of the SC?"
Tuvia says, "The tear in the bottom would be an interesting lesson 
  material. How do you fix a missing corner.
Morayne nods. "Whee! Classes."
Maarle grins, "You use scotch tape :)"
Haldi @baps Maarle!
Morayne shakes her head. "No! Elmer's white glue."
Maarle is quoting the 'male weaver handbook'. :)
Tuvia laughs. "I haven't the foggiest. Caervel and Opa," Tuvia nods at 
  Opa, "will need to approve of anything that comes up."
Morayne shrugs. "you can't eat scotch tape."
Opa grins at Tuvia. Sure. I just ask that it be canon. :)
Maarle doesn't eat glue, ick!
Opa says "Otherwise, folks have pretty free range around here with TPs, I 
  think."
Jorai remembers when Pendat was CM at 19. Oy.
Opa's jaw drops. Jorai, you were around in the Pandat era?
Haldi says "Who was Pendat?"
Jorai sorries, Pendat was male, that's the connection there ;}
Fiona giggles and thinks Jorai is showing her age...
Morayne blinks. "Jorai, is there something you're not telling us?"
Jorai LOL
Jorai was an Apprentice Weaver with her more widely-known alt in 1992 :)
Tuvia grins. "I can't wait to mull it over with Skye. :)" She looks over 
  at Jorai. "Sounds like a long time ago from everyone's reactions." :)
Fiona ACKS!!!
Opa *grabs* Jorai by the scruff of her neck, intent on sucking every 
  last drop of memory from her. :)
Haldi pounces on Jorai, "Who who who who who who who who!? ":
Jorai says "Encil had just created these looms that were sposed to be so 
  great, I could never find them!!"
Jorai says "There weren't ever any classes then either ;)"
Tuvia says, "'92!!! I've only discovered MUSHing in September '95!"
Opa thinks it sounds good, Tuvia! Will you let us know when things get 
  more solid?
Maarle says "I went mushing Spring of '95...March 18, 1995 to be exact."
Tuvia nods and can't wait to mull it over some more. "Any input will be 
  appreciated everyone! :) "
Opa begs Jorai to look over the Weavercraft history page on the web and 
  look for any errors and/or gaps of information she can fill in?
Morayne grins at Tuvia. "me, end of June 95."
Jorai oys, she'd be happy to try Opa, her memory ain't so hot, as you 
  have learned recently ;)
Morayne checks and finally connected June 27 1995."
Fiona October 25th... but who's counting?
Maarle laughs, "Fiona's a young'un? :)"
Fiona blushes, "Don't it show?"
Maarle says "To mushes...I'm prolly the youngest here... ;)"
Opa joined up in October '93, but didn't create Opa 'till December. But 
  *anyway*...thanks oodles, Tuvia, I'm looking forward to hearing how this 
  shapes up.
Haldi came about Oct 11 but her player was here before :)
Varina says "d'oh! you beat me by a month, Opa!"
Morayne grins as everyone checks their birthtimes...
Opa grins at Varina.
Tuvia nod nods and grins at Fiona. September 13 was the date for me. 
  You're younger than me! :)
Maarle says "Birthtime, I wasn't here till Aug 28 :)"
Opa says "Before we start placing ourselves on the newbie-dino scale, :) is 
  there anyone else who wants to page me with something they'd like to 
  bring up?"
Morayne shakes her head.
Varina has to go, expecting a phone call on the hour.
Maarle doesn't have anyting.
Tuvia waves to Varina. "Bye!"
Morayne waves to Varina.
Maarle waverlilypaddies to Varina :)
Jorai eeps, snugs Var
Opa nods. Righty-ho, then, this meeting is officially over...I'm turning 
  off the log. You can all relax and let loose now. :)