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Morayne steps out of a temporal anomaly with a swirl of mist. 
Cyllan wanders in, shuffling her feet as she does so and carrying something 
  in her arms. 
Opa takes a seat at the head of the council table, shuffling a stack of 
  writing hides in front of her. 
Morayne steps cautiously into the room, looking around with great 
  curiosity. 
Haldi plops into a seat and grins. 

Weavers> Jorai says, "IS there a jump #? :)" 
Weavers> Duvetyne says, "No one seems to know of the IC way to get 
  there..." 
Weavers> Opa says, "#955." 

Farilan waves as he comes walking in. 
Cyllan strides over to a seat near haldi and flops down into it. 
Varina shuffles her stack of hides and sits at the table with Opa. 
Fiona follows closely behind the others, unsure of her way around the weyr. 
  She takes the seat next to Haldi. 

Weavers> Opa grins. I figure people would probably get lost trying to find 
  the IC way. :) 

Jorai hurries in, panting. 

Weavers> Wesley grins. This is an IC meeting, yes? 

Opa looks around, smiling as weavers start pouring in. She waves as Acacia 
  arrives. 
Wesley takes a seat near the back. 

Weavers> Opa says, "The first part of the Weavermeet is IC, yep." 
Weavers> Wesley kewls. 

Duvetyne opens the door, and goes back out to the weyr. 
Duvetyne steps into the room from the weyr and closes the door. 
Acacia steps into the council chambers, running her hands back through her 
  hair as she look around for just the right seat. 
Haldi grins at both Cyllan and Fiona as they take the seats next to her. 
Opa looks about the table and points inquiringly to a spot near Varina. 
  "Over here, Acacia?" 
Acacia catches Opa's pointing out of the corner of her eye and immediately 
  starts to make her way over to just that spot, whispering something to 
  Opa as she sits down. 
Acacia whispers "What a fine choice, dearie." 
Duvetyne takes a seat. 
Haldi glances curiously at the woman Master Opa is talking too. 
Cyllan leans over to Haldi and smiles nervously. She mutters to Haldi, "... 
  is... meeting." 
Haldi grins brightly at Cyllan, "Don't worry. It's fun." 
Jorai cracks her finger, glancing about at the others and toying with her 
  necklace. 
Opa chuckles and nods, finally turning to address the room at large. "Well, 
  it's wonderful to see so many people here tonight. I know the 
  surroundings are strange, but we're very lucky that Weyrwoman Vivian has 
  allowed us this space to meet tonight." 
(OOC) Morayne says, "topics" 
Opa * grins. 

Weavers> Jorai is glad to see no one's Status is screwing up her rwho this 
  evening ;) 

Morayne *oops. :P 

Weavers> Fiona sticks her tongue out at Jorai and changes hers. :_ 
Weavers> Jorai spoke too soon anyway, Broccal's does *sigh* 

Opa chuckles as the room goes dead silent, and exchanges a grin with 
  Varina. "First of all, I want to congratulate everyone on the fine work 
  they've done putting this Turns' tithe together." 
Opa Turn's, even. 

Weavers> Broccal says, "broccal's does what?" 
Weavers> Jorai says, "Your Status is too long :)" 
Weavers> Duvetyne woo woos... :) 

Opa says "Although of course we still have to work hard to help the Fort 
  Weyrfolk unload the tithe train, I do hope everyone can have a good time 
  while they're here, and get to know some of the people that work to 
  protect us." 

Weavers> Broccal says, "awc :blushes." 

Broccal sneaks in, finding a seat 
Jorai sneaks a look at Duvetyne, certain someone will manage to have a good 
  time. 
Opa * notes this evening that Varina's client is being nasty and so is my 
  lag. The operative words are 'bear with'. :} 
Duvetyne winks at Jorai. 
Haldi leans forward to rest her elbows on the table. 
Opa smiles around again at all the faces before continuing. "At any rate," 
  she shuffles through her notes, "the first news I have to tell you is 
  that Craftsecond Varina will be moving back to live at the crafthall." 
Haldi frowns ever so slightly as she catches the wink Ty gave Jorai. 
Cyllan beams broadly, looking from Opa to varina as she does so. 
Haldi blinks and grins widely at Varina, "Yeah!" 
Morayne grins glancing Varina's way. 
Opa grins at her second. "Given the wonderful help she's been this past 
  month, this is very good news." 
Fiona sits up in her seat and smiles at Varina, "That's great!" She leans 
  over to whisper to Haldi. 
Varina grins as the folks start to look at her, nodding in confirmation. 
Broccal smiles widely at Varina, glad she'll be closer so he can bug her 
  easier. 
Opa takes a breath. "The other news has to do with our headwoman. As many 
  of you are aware, she took a rather nasty fall a few sevendays back, and 
  is having real trouble getting around like she used to. She's also 
  getting rather along in Turns, and so to give her a much-deserved 
  rest, we will be having a new headwoman." 

Weavers> Haldi sorries about that... but I got booted. I missed anything 
  after Cyllan csmiled at Master Varina. 
Weavers> Opa says, "Just some happy poses. :)" 

Damian dashes in, looking relieved he finally found his way. 
Opa beckons as Damian arrives. "Come on in...find a seat...if you can." 

Weavers> Damian says, "That's the last time I try and find an actual 
  entrance for this place." 
Weavers> Broccal grins. at least you found a way. 

Opa smiles at Acacia. "Acacia of High Reaches Hold will be travelling back 
  with Varina to be our new headwoman. She has a good deal of 
  experience...well, all over Pern, actually. I hope everyone will make her 
  welcome." 

Weavers> Morayne cheated. :P 
Weavers> Farilan waggles his finger at Morayne :) 

Haldi smiles brightly at the new headwoman. 

Weavers> Morayne beams innocently at Farilan. 
Weavers> Broccal offers some of his rl pizza. 

Morayne turns and grins brightly at Acacia. 
Opa makes teeny gestures at Acacia to wave or stand up or say a few words, 
  or something. 
Broccal nods at Acacia, looking her over. 
Acacia lifts her hand from her side, just over the edge of the table to 
  give everyone a lil' hello wave without disturbing Opa's flow...then sees 
  she's supposed to say something, she stands up... 
Acacia sort of just sits there for a second, ruffling a hand in her 
  hair.."Um..." she laughs lightly, "Hello? Yes..it's good to meet all of 
  you after visiting the Hall so often looking for a stray weaver from High 
  Reaches, I hope you'll all stop by my office when you feel the need, 
  or just feel like chatting." she blushes lightly and promptly sits 
  down with a lil' plop. 
Damian smiles 
Acacia grins goofily and gives Opa a shrug with her hands open at her 
  sides, "That's about all the babble I can muster without biting my tongue 
  at the moment." 
Morayne keeps a warm smile on her face and watches Master Opa. 
Opa grins at Acacia in thanks, then turns back to the throng. "Acacia's not 
  the only one who will have joined our Craft recently, though. We've had 
  some new additions...Farilan? Damian? Can you stand up, please?" 
Fiona looks up from inspecting the inlaid table to smile welcome to Acacia. 
Cyllan leans forwards, resting an elbow on the table edge. 
Wesley just sits back. 
Damian stands up, smothing his hair back with his hand. 

Weavers> Wesley isn't catching any of this...later on I'll just /recall the 
  last 1000 lines or so from this world, and log it.:D 
Weavers> Fiona says, "We need food in here to have something to do with our 
  hands. :) Anyone want to send in a drudge with snacks?" 

Opa waves her hand towards the two young men. "These are some of our new 
  apprentices, as are Yudit and Faile, whom some of you may have already 
  met. As well, Jaydi is one of our new students, and Rinalis has come to 
  foster at the crafthall." 
A dirty little personage wearing a grubby smock scuttles in bearing a tray 
  full of fruits and cheeses. She leaves it on the table and rushes out 
  without a word. 
Damian sits back down, grabbing a piece of fruit. 
Cyllan's eyes widen at the food and hastily leans forwad, grabbing a 
  redfruit. 
Haldi snags a piece of cheese and leans back to listen to 
Morayne almost sighs with relief and goes for a piece of fruit. 
Wesley deftly snags a redfruit as the tray passes him on its way in. 
Haldi listens to Master Opa 
Opa looks pleasantly surprised, and thanks the drudge before she leaves. 
  "Oh, how nice...munchies." 
Farilan gets some cheese and fruit. 
Opa takes a piece of cheese as the tray passes by her, and comments, "Also, 
  in the past while, we've had some promotions. Josien and Kahori have been 
  promoted to full apprentice, while Julaina has been promoted to full 
  journeyrank." 

Weavers> Fiona babyidles from time to time... :) 

Broccal reaches out to snag a largish piece of cheese and then lean back to 
  take in the meeting 
Haldi grins and cheers for her promoted friends. 

Weavers> Jorai says, "I can show a desc for Show & Tell too, if that's what 
  Cyllan is listed for :)" 
Weavers> Jorai throws things in during lag :} 
Weavers> Wesley gets bored in other words, and unidles, paying better 
  attention. 
Weavers> Opa grins. Sure! 
Weavers> Damian says, "Fi, are you babysitting or something? That's the 
  second time you've mentioned that." 
Weavers> Cyllan says, "List? There's a list?! Shards i missed it :)" 

A second drudge follows shortly after the first, bearing a tray full of 
  mugs and a large pot of klah. 

Weavers> Haldi grins, "Fi is a mommy :)" 

Opa looks out over the various faces, and takes a bite of cheese before 
  continuing. "And speaking of promotions..." 

Weavers> Jorai laughs :) 
Weavers> Broccal says, "congrats, fi" 
Weavers> Damian says, "Ah. I stand corrected. How old is the younker?" 
Weavers> Jorai says, "SHe's been a mommy for a year ;)" 
Weavers> Fiona says, "Well, not Fi, but her player. ;) yup a year old. :)" 
Weavers> Haldi says, "Yeah, about a year I think :) eleven months or so :)" 

Wesley somehow manages to intercept the tray on it's way in, and pours a 
  mug of klah for himself, thereby roping himself into pouring for the rest 
  of you. 
Jorai sneaks a piece of cheese when the rest have grabbed their choice. 
Morayne smiles at Wesley, "thanks." 
Damian takes a mug from Wesley, and sips it. 
Wesley glances towards Opa as promotions are mentioned, nodding to the 
  people thanking him. 
Cyllan smiles her thanks to a drudge as she is handed a mug of klah. 

Weavers> Damian says, "Hear that Wes. Now you're a drudge!" 

Opa snaps her fingers, and points at three people in succession. Cyllan, 
  Damian and Farilan. 

Weavers> Broccal says, "drudge, or dredge?" 
Weavers> Wesley grins. 

Haldi glances at Cyllan and smiles. 
Damian looks a bit surprised, and looks over his shoulder to check if 
  someone is sitting behind him. 

Weavers> Cyllan is lagging :) 

Farilan blinks a bit and looks up at Master Opa. 
Cyllan blinks and raises an eyebrow, "Master?" she asks. 

Weavers> Wesley sighs, and for one breif moment thought she was gonna point 
  at him. Ah well, boo hoo hoo and all that. :} 

Morayne alternately sips klah and munches on her piece of fruit, watching 
  the activity. 
Wesley sighs slightly as the promotions are announced, and sits back down 
  quietly. 
Opa manages rather well to keep a perfectly serious face. "You three have 
  managed to show dedication to your craft since you arrived. That deserves 
  to be rewarded. She pulls three full apprentice knots from the bowels of 
  her pockets. 
Opa +" 

Weavers> Broccal blushes as he comes back to consciousness 

Haldi giggles and nudges Cyllan forward. 
Cyllan peers, her jaw dropping. "Thanks" she stumbles out. 
Broccal applauds the promotions 
Fiona glances around quicky for Joseana. Seeing that the jman is noy 
  looking her way, she says around a mouthful of food, "Congrats, y'all." 
Opa looks about the table. "Hm...this is going to be difficult. How about I 
  pass or toss the knots down to you?" 
Cyllan shuffles to her feet and nods. "Pass would be easiest, master Opa. 
  Tis a little cramped." 
Morayne cheers for the three. :) 
Damian stands up and makes his way over to the Masterweaver. As this is a 
  useless endeavor, he nods and removes his Jr. Apprentice knot. 
Opa nods, handing two of the knots to Acacia. "Could you pass these on down 
  to Cyllan and Farilan?" She turns to Haldi on her other side. "And this 
  one to Damian?" 
Cyllan unpins her junior knot and grins sheepishly. 
Acacia carefully hands the two knots to the next person down the line, 
  smiling down the table at the recipients. 
Haldi grins brightly at the promoted apprentices. 
Farilan smiles at the new headwoman and removes his old knot and puts the 
  brand new one in it's place. 
Cyllan carefully pins her new one in place, before sitting herself down. 

Weavers> Broccal says, "who said something about my weaver status??" 
Weavers> Jorai grins, "Guilty." 

Haldi grins and passes the last knot over to Damian. 
Opa grins, then snaps her fingers again, and points to two more people. 
  Broccal. Morayne. 
Damian takes the knot and pins it in place. Sitting down, he raises his mug 
  and silently toasts his fellow promotees. 
Morayne jumps. "Me?" she squeaks. 

Weavers> Fiona laughs, "Opa's in a snappy mood tonite." :) 
Weavers> Damian says, "Men on Film. *Snap*" 
Weavers> Opa grins. <snappysnappysnap> 

Broccal chokes slightly on his cheese. 

Weavers> Broccal wonders if Opa has a whip hidden somewhere? 
Weavers> Morayne snorts. "Probably." 
Weavers> Damian tries to restrain himself, but cannot. "Broccal with 
  cheese?" he inquires, and then ducks. 
Weavers> Haldi grins, "Naw, that's Joseana ;) 

Fiona grins at the brother and sister. 

Weavers> Fiona LOL at Damian! 
Weavers> Broccal grins. melted cheese? 
Weavers> Wesley . o O ( And the truth of Broccol's fantasies come out. ;) ) 
Weavers> Morayne smirks... "Nah, Broccal and Cleese." 

Opa produces two more knots, but these ones show the pattern of senior 
  apprentice. "I think it's appropriate that I should give the two of you 
  these knots together. You've both done very well." She smiles. 

Weavers> Haldi laughs! 

Broccal's face lights up with delight. His grin seems to last forever, and 
  ever, and ever... 
Morayne is staring rather open mouthed before she's reminded to shut it. 
  "I-, uh, thank you Master Opa." 

Weavers> Wesley . o O ( Mymymymy, weavers have sick imaginations. I love it 
  here. ) 

Broccal stammers, "Thank YOU, Master Opa!" :) 

Weavers> Broccal says, "and we love you, Wes" 

Opa makes as if she's about to toss the knots over. Looks like Broccal and 
  Morayne will have to think fast. 
Duvetyne smiles and claps for Broccal. 

Weavers> Wesley . o O ( Down, boy. ) 
Weavers> Wesley grins. 

Broccal springs up, bumping the table, and making it wobble. 
Morayne hurriedly gets up, and makes her way over. 
Opa lightly throws the knots in an arc across the table. 
Broccal follows his sister, going to get that longed for knot. 

Weavers> Damian says, "It's up!" 
Weavers> Opa grins. Dive, dive! 
Weavers> Fiona says, "Dive for it broccal!" 

Broccal lunges and snags a knot out of the air, holding it up, ready to 
  spike it. 
Jorai chuckles softly, still nibbling her cheese. 
Morayne blinks and neatly catches the flying knot with both hands. 
Varina reaches down and grabs another Senior Apprentice knot, then looking 
  around, fixes her eyes on an apprentice. "And some one else that has more 
  than earned her promotion. Can you catch, Jorai?" And she swiftly tosses 
  the knot Jorai-ward. 
Cyllan giggles and watches. "Nice catch!" 

Weavers> Damian says, "And it's good!" 

Opa grins, turning to watch Varina's interplay with Jorai. 

Weavers> Wesley grins. "You guys LIKE giving apprentices heart attacks, 
  don't you?" 
Weavers> Opa muahahahaha. 
Weavers> Wesley suffers from a massive coronary. 
Weavers> Morayne can't wait to be Masterweaver (yeah right) so she can do 
  that. ;) 

Broccal quietly replaces his knot, giving Jorai congratulation, a tad 
  loudly you'd think. 
Acacia looks worriedly at the knot flying Jorai-ward, as if if she doesn't 
  catch it she won't get it at all. 
Jorai eeps, dropping her cheese on the floor as she attempts to grab for 
  the flying knot. 
Fiona laughs as the knot flies toward Jorai. She ducks as it soars over 
  her. 
Morayne is still in a half-daze as she securely fastens her new knot. 
Damian keeps Lightning engaged by giving him a piece of fruit, so that he 
  doesn't go after the things flying through the air. 
Blue Lightning folds his wings back and accepts the piece of fruit. His 
  eyes track the motion of the knot in the air. 
Varina smiles at the senior apprentices. "Good catch. Good job. All of 
  you." 
Haldi giggles and applauds. 
Broccal beams his happiness Varina-ward 
Jorai blushes, fumbling the knot a few times, "Thank you, ma'am." 
Opa smiles, nodding in agreement with Varina. 
Morayne plunks back down in her seat, grinning idiotically. 

Weavers> Kalera walks in moving in very slow motion--my lag is horribale 
  tonight...might make this stay brief. 

Opa waits until all the congratulations seem to have died down, and then 
  holds up one more knot...this one that of a junior journeyranker. "We 
  have one person here who would normally be walking the tables were we at 
  the crafthall. However, since we have to make do with what we have 
  here, I shall ask Haldi to come up and distribute this knot to its new 
  owner." 

Weavers> Kalera looks at aall the weavers online and faints. 
Weavers> Opa waves. Hi, Kalera! 

Duvetyne raises her eyebrows. 
Haldi blinks and scrambles up out of her seat. Worming and squirming her 
  way through the room she works her way to Master Opa. 
Opa hands over the knot to Haldi, and then sits back and watches with a 
  smile on her face. 
Broccal watches Haldi, wondering who the lucky Weaver is. 

Weavers> Kalera sighs. "this lag is too much..can't stay. 

Haldi grins and turns. Standing up straight and putting a mock serious 
  expression on her face she /slowly/ works her way back through the crowd. 

Weavers> Opa waves, then. Hope it's better next time, Kalera. :) 
Weavers> Kalera smiles. "thanks Opa." 
Weavers> Fiona stays veryvery quiet in hopes that baby will just lay there 
  for a while.. shhhhh. :) 
Weavers> Broccal wonders if Fiona is hunting wabbits? 

Opa takes the opportunity to check a few things off on her writing hides, 
  but still paying attention to where Haldi's going. 

Weavers> Wesley was just about to say that!! 

Haldi's eyes sparkle with amusement as she finally comes to a stop behind 
  Fiona's seat. With a barely contained bounce she taps on the girl's 
  shoulder. 

Weavers> Fiona says, "Sweepy wabbits, yup! :)" 
Weavers> <Wesley> *BOOM* 

Broccal laughs at Fiona's reaction. 
Morayne claps her hand over her mouth, watching her two friends. 
Fiona glances up at Haldi, a hopeful glint in her eye, "Really?" 
Damian laughs, raises his mug, and says, "Congratulations, Fi." 
Haldi giggles, "Well, if we can't have you walk tables here, at least you 
  can walk seats. And of course really silly, it's not as if I'd be a 
  journeyranker and you'd be an apprentice for ever." She giggles as she 
  fumbles with changing the knots. 
Wesley grins at Fi. "Does this mean I have to salute you now??" 
Fiona reaches up to unpin the brooch holding her knot on with a trembling 
  hand. She takes Appol off of her other shoulder and, with a concentrating 
  look, sends the green off seacraftward... 

Weavers> Broccal loves Morayne's @doing 

Opa smiles as she looks on. "Well done, Fiona." 
Cyllan smiles at Fiona, almost bouncing in her seat. "Congrats Fiona." 
Haldi giggles and does a little dance as she makes Fiona sit down in the 
  seat she once occupied. 
Fiona hops up and gives Haldi a fierce hug before bouncing into the next 
  seat. She smiles widely at the others around the table. 

Weavers> Haldi hates to promote and run, but I have to get going... :( Is 
  someone logging the rest of the meeting? 

Blue Lightning rocks from one leg to the other barely containing his 
  excitement as he watches the interchange between Fiona and Haldi. He 
  stares at Fi and chirrups with warm pride for his pet's friend! 

Weavers> Morayne sure hopes so, cuz she wasn't! 
Weavers> Opa noddles. I am, yep, and it'll be available via ftp as soon as 
  I can edit. 

Acacia laughs lightly, giving Fiona a thumbs up once she finishes bouncin' 
  'round. 

Weavers> Wesley is goign to get a log of the whole thing with /recall 
  later. Filtering out the stuff from my other worlds. 
Weavers> Haldi waves then, "Seeya peoples" 
Weavers> Morayne wavies. C'ya Haldi. 
Weavers> Opa waves! Thanks for coming, Haldi! 
Weavers> Opa *just* misses. Drat. 

Damian catches Fiona's eye and does a crude imitation of a spinner creeping 
  up the side of his mug with his free hand. He smiles, and salutes her 
  with his mug. 

Weavers> Fiona grins, and Fi's turnday is tonite too. Good day for me. :) 

Opa takes a breath, and looks around cheerily, nodding. "Congratulations, 
  everyone with new knots. A wonderful demonstration of what lies ahead if 
  Weavers apply themselves." 
Fiona giggles at Damian and wriggles in her seat. 

Weavers> Wesley says, "BOO!!!! No pep talks! No pep talks!!" 
Weavers> Wesley grins. 
Weavers> Tuvia grins. "Congrats all! Double dose for you then Fi! Happy 
  Turnday!" 
Weavers> Broccal ignores Wesley to listen to the Master. :) 
Weavers> Morayne OOCly adds on to Opa's statement. "A good football team? 
  We can catch :)" 
Weavers> Damian says, "Go out there and weave one for the Opaer!" 
Weavers> Opa groans. :) 
Weavers> Broccal lol at Dam 
Weavers> Wesley declares Damian master of all bad jokes. 
Weavers> Jorai has a few choice words for the power company..outage # 4 
  today :P 
Weavers> Broccal short outages, eh? 

Opa says, "And to that end, I'd like for people to catch up on what others 
  are currently working on. Cyllan, did you have something to show us?" 

Weavers> Damian changes his @doing. 
Weavers> Opa hands Jorai a shiny, bright, very hard and painful shovel. 
Weavers> Jorai laughs! 
Weavers> Opa groans *again*. One of these days, Damian and I are going to 
  get into a very bad punfest, I am sure. 

Cyllan nods and stands. "Yes, Master Opa, just here." 

Weavers> Morayne groans. "Too many punners around here... It's just not... 
  (nope, not going to say it.)" 

Cyllan carefully holds up the dress that has been resting next to her, 
  gently shaking out any creases that may have formed. 

This dress is unusual in design, being made essentially of two parts--a 
fine linen shift of snow-crisp whites caressed by a covering of sumptuous 
indigo-velvet. The white linen shift has a plain square neckline but a 
scalloped hem--both have been edged in ornate embroidery. The tiny anise 
flowers--the yellow and whites crisscrossing, strike a resemblance to 
Queen Anne's lace and provide a perfect harmony--offsetting the spectral 
colours that unfold in the tunic that lies atop. The tunic--loose over 
shoulders and with the barest of puffed sleeves--comes to a tight 
conclusion at the waistline, its sole purpose the accentuation of the 
wearers petite figure. Tiny silver-green leaves have been painstakingly 
embroidered, ending in an perfect imitation of a small posy of 
spiky-lavender flowers, clasping the tunic in place. The skirts 
billow out, as if spilling over the gentle curves of hips--the luxurious 
folds swirling in silent movement--the colours mutating from sublime 
violet-hues, to twilight-indigos, to the deepest of midnight-blues. 

Opa sits back in her seat and watches with interest. "Do go right ahead, 
  then." 

Weavers> Wesley says, "And you say I spam! ;) (Actually, that's rather 
  nice.)" 
Weavers> Opa . o O ( Holy cow :) 
Weavers> Cyllan says, "You can't show something like that without spam! :)" 
Morayne wows. "Gorgeous," she whispers. 
Weavers> Damian says, "I spam what I spam, and that's all that I spam. (I'd 
  better stop.)" 
Weavers> Tuvia says, "Beautiful!" 

Damian says "Wow." 

Weavers> Cyllan thinks she bounced Varina off line :( 

Broccal's eyes widen in approval at the dress. 

Weavers> Morayne grins. Death by Spam. 
Weavers> Wesley thwaps Damian, and moves him to Xanth. 

Jorai smiles, her fingers twitching as if itching to get a touch of that 
  fabric. 
Damian's mouth drops open. 
Cyllan looks nervously at the dress. "Is it OK?" 
Varina smiles as she looks at the apprentice's display with pride. 

Weavers> Damian says, "Been there. Amateurs. They import Mundanian puns." 
Weavers> Morayne chuckles. "yeah, you can be my spam generator for Xanth." 

Opa smiles as Cyllan lays the dress out carefully on the table. "That's 
  very lovely work, Cyllan. Is it for anyone in particular?" 
Fiona continues to finger the knot under her brooch as she admires the 
  dress. She laughs at Cyllan's question. "I think it's more than ok." 
Broccal focuses his attention on Master Opa. 
Cyllan nods, shaking a little with nerves. "A Journeywoman healer's wedding 
  dress." 

Weavers> Wesley says, "STOP THE PUN-ISHMENT!!" 
Weavers> Wesley grins. Hey, it worked. 
Weavers> Damian says, "No, no. The proper phrase is, "Use a pun: go to 
  jail."" 

Opa raises her eyebrows. "Really? She decided not to go for the traditional 
  red? Interesting." 

Weavers> Damian says, "Red?" 
Weavers> Fiona points Damian toward the info encyc on weddings. 

Cyllan smiles. "She prefers blue it seems." 

Weavers> Broccal says, "red is traditional as bride's colour for pern" 
Weavers> Fiona says, "...and the DLG I think. :)" 
Weavers> Kalera says, "I lost my lag!!! yea!!!" 
Weavers> Opa shrugs. _Dragonquest_ tells us that red is the traditional 
  bridal colour. But not everyone on Pern these days follows tradition. :) 
Weavers> Broccal says, "white is for the bride's maids, right?" 

Opa nods. "I think she will be very pleased. Are there any special 
  techniques you used to make the dress that you'd like to tell everyone 
  about?" 

Weavers> Broccal says, "CONGRATS, Kalera! :) Welcome back" 
Weavers> Damian says, "Well the encyclopedia says that the bride wears 
  craft or hold colors." 
Weavers> Fiona icks at the thought of Fi in red. I'm going to have to have 
  Haldi do a special tint for her. Yup, white's the bride's maids. 
Weavers> Kalera says, "are we in the middle of a meeting?" 
Weavers> Damian says, "Ayup." 
Weavers> Morayne giggles. "Um, yeah." 
Weavers> Kalera says, "and do I need to change clothes and jump on a dragon 
  to get to the hall?" 
Weavers> Opa nods. That's one interpretation, because one of the colours of 
  Famira's Hold was red. On the other hand, _Dragonquest_ specifically says 
  'traditional red'. So... 
Weavers> Tuvia says, "I wonder how they ended up with red as the 
  traditional color. Does anyone know the makeup of the original settlers 
  of pern?" 

Cyllan nods. "A few. The dye method is one I learnt at home, in Ista. The 
  local weaver and I found it in one of the ancients records." 

Weavers> Opa says, "We're at Fort Weyr, Kalera. :) #955." 

Opa looks rather interested. 
Fiona watches the colors swirl in the skirt of the dress as she listens 
  with interest. 

Weavers> Broccal says, "weren't they basically, a mixture of all of earth 
  ppl?" 
Weavers> Broccal says, "and, of course alpha centauri" 

Cyllan says "The trick is mordanting the indigo at the right temperature" 
  she continues,"Too cold its darker, too hot and its lighter." 
Morayne nods intently. 
Kalera her poofs into existance from nowhere. 
Kalera stumbles into the room. "Um...Hi everyone..." Kalera smiles and 
  dashes for the open chair. 
Opa smiles at Kalera's entrance, waving her in, and nodding sagely to 
  Cyllan. "That makes sense. It seems to have worked rather well." 
Cyllan points to the embroidery. "Thats an idea I came up with after 
  talking to her, the healer that is. Thought it'd bring some orginality to 
  the dress." She looks up and frowns. "Tis OK though?" 
Fiona smiles a Kalera and points to the empty chair next to her. 

Weavers> Damian says, "Look out! LagFall!" 
Weavers> Fiona acklags! 
Weavers> Damian is buried under tons of Lag. 

Opa chuckles. "I do believe we're all of the consensus that it looks 
  beautiful." 
Morayne nods enthusiastically. :) 
Damian agrees. 
Kalera settles into the chair next to Fiona and tries to catch up on the 
  meeting, mumbling something about wagons under her breath. 
Farilan smiles. 

Weavers> Cyllan says, "That mean it's approved then? :)" 

Jorai nods, looking at the set with a bit of jealousy... 
Fiona pulls the food tray farther down the table to keep it away from the 
  lovely dress. She smiles at Kalera and whispers to her. 

Weavers> Opa grins. Ayup. Just replace 'wearers' with 'wearer's'. :) 

Opa smiles, looking around the room. "Is there anything else with reports 
  of their latest project to share?" 

Weavers> Cyllan whooops. Typo :) Thanks :-) 
Weavers> Tuvia groans, "And she asks if it's okay? It's beautiful!" 
Weavers> Opa grins. Gorgeous work, Cyllan. 

Cyllan carefully retrieves the dress from the table, pakcing it away. 
packing it even 

Weavers> Morayne chuckles. If Rayne ever gets married... whee... 
Weavers> Cyllan brushes her nails against her tunic :) Told ya I liked desc 
  :) 
Weavers> Farilan proposes to Morayne :) *runs and hdies* 

Jorai pulls a package from under the table, clearing her throat, "Master 
  Opa, I have a copy of a piece I did, which I was hoping to have displayed 
  in the tent?" 

Weavers> Morayne laughs. "What was that Fari?" 
Weavers> Farilan says, "nothing :)" 

Opa looks over at Jorai with interest. "Certainly...can we see it?" 

Weavers> Morayne eyes him mischieviously. "You may regret that yet." 

Jorai smiles, her cheeks redding, "Yes ma'am." 

Weavers> Opa nods. That's right. She may say yes. >>duck!<< 
Weavers> Farilan hides behind uhm..... Cyllan 
Weavers> Wesley grins. 

Jorai carefully places the package on the table. 

Weavers> Broccal coughs. Excuse me? I think I may have something to say 
  about THAT! 
Kalera watches intently to see what everyone is bring. 

Pulling back the brown paper, you see a deep crimson dress of the finest 
cotton gauze. Lifting it out, you notice it is sleeveless, the neckline a 
pleasing scoop, meant to flatter the wearer's elegant line. The skirt 
splits at the waist, falling in two long panels. While the bodice is 
fitted, the panels flow freely, allowing for ample movement and coolness 
of the wearer. Peering back into the package, you see a pair of supple 
sisal leggings in a brilliant shade of gold, accompanied by matching 
gold slippers. Both leggings and slippers have a slight texture to the 
sisal, resulting in a swirling, petal-like pattern when viewed from a 
certain angle. At the very bottom of the paper, you find a set of 
garnet-studded hair combs and a simple gold choker with matching bangle 
bracelet. 

Weavers> Jorai refrains from spamming people as she doens't know how to do 
  what she did to emit it to everyone ;) 

Damian leans forward, trying to get a better look and to snag a redfruit. 
Opa peers over at the package to see the split skirt within. She smiles 
  admiringly. 

Weavers> Cyllan notes it was a wait cmd on an emit Jorai :) 

Damian says "Very nice." 
Jorai chews her lip nervously, her fingers moving to the rings on her 
  necklace as she avoids looking at anyone else. 
Kalera oos. 
Opa nods as she looks over the cut, the colour, the texture. "Oh, my, that 
  would fetch attention in our display tent." Her eyes glaze over with 
  thoughts of marks. 
Kalera says "Nice color!" 
Fiona stands to lean over the table. She admires the fabric, "Did you weave 
  that pattern in? That's fascinating." 
Jorai ohs! "Goodness no, I got the fabric from bolts in storage." 

Weavers> Morayne says, "Are there roses on Pern?" 
Weavers> Cyllan nods. Ayup :) 
Weavers> Damian says, "I think so. There's a jar of 'em in the caverns of 
  Fort." 
Weavers> Morayne says, "A jar?!?" 
Weavers> Wesley . o O ( So if madonna got a character here, she could keep 
  the tattoo, if there were tattoos. ;) ) 
Weavers> Opa nods. If anyone's ever confused about whether a plant exist on 
  Pern, though, you can always ask the healers. 
Weavers> Cyllan bleahs! Cadburys I guess? 
Weavers> Damian says, "Dunno, but they're cut roses, as I recall." 
Weavers> Cyllan says, "Or try +info healer herbs" 
Weavers> Tuvia says, "I like it Jorai! :)" 

Fiona nods thoughtfully, "I may have to brave the storeroom soon, then. 
  It's beautiful, Jorai. It looks comfortable, too." She sits back in her 
  seat to allow the others to peek. 

Weavers> Jorai says, "Cool! Thanks! :)" 
Weavers> Opa nods at Cyllan. Yep, that too. 

Damian mutters to Fiona, "... a... tell us 'prentices to go..." 
Morayne peeks over. "Awesome color, and style too, Jorai." 
Fiona grins, She mutters to Damian, "... can..." 
Kalera looks at it intently, not sure where the split occurs in the skirt. 
  "Is it split down the front or open on the sides?" 
Jorai clears her throat again, "Um, the Miner, he said we could display the 
  jewelry with it, as long as we're sure the commission goes to him. If 
  it's ever sold, of course." 
Opa nods. "That sounds quite reasonable. And of course I'm sure it'll 
  sell." 
Fiona stands again to peer at the jewelry. She nods, "that really completes 
  the outfit. You'll prolly get more for it that way. Good idea." 
Cyllan smiles at Jorai. "Its lovely. I like it a lot." 
Damian says "It is very pretty. Both dresses are." 

Weavers> Opa says, "Does anyone have any objections if we drop into the OOC 
  portion now? :)" 
Weavers> Damian says, "Nope." 

Jorai's blush deepens, as she whispers thank yous for the compliments. 

Weavers> Morayne says, "Bombs away..." 
Weavers> Jorai says, "Oh please, let's :)" 
Weavers> Cyllan says, "Go for it :)" 
Weavers> Opa grins sheepishly. I always try to make these meetings shorter, 
  but darnit, it never happens. 

Opa drops OOC. :) 
Jorai carefully gathers the package. 
Fiona suggests a gag on the lot of us to shorten things. :) 
Opa says "Okay! In the interest of not making everyone totally bored, I'm 
  going to zoom right through. :)" 
Opa says "Stop me if you need to. :)" 
Broccal great! give her gags to go with the whip??? 

Weavers> Morayne mutters, smiling. "Must be all these comments." 

Fiona grins at broccal and hushes... 
Varina hands Opa her broomstick? 
Kalera ducks. 
Opa says "First OOC agenda topic: TPs. First of all, I think our tithe 
  train TP has gotten off to a very nice start...thanks to everyone who 
  came out for it, and I encourage people to continue to participate until 
  tomorrow evening. This is a great chance for us to get to know a 
  whole mess of new people (including tall bronzeriders? :) and expand 
  the scope of our RP. End of that spiel. :)" 
Broccal is hushed 
Jorai snickers. Would settle for short bronzeriders. 
Morayne chuckles... /very/ tall bronzerider. 
Duvetyne likes all riders... 
Broccal dreams of gold riders. Nyah. 
Fiona hands broccal a greenrider, they're more fun. 
Farilan laughs and grins at Fiona and might agree with that. 
Wesley . o O ( Woo. ) 
Opa says "Second, we have the Smith/goop TP coming up starting this Sunday 
  sometime in the afternoon (don't have the exact time memorized, but it's 
  all on the +bboard). That's running until Tuesday, and I hope everyone 
  will come out and make our Smith's welcome. We've got a planned lesson 
  arranged for the Monday night, and the farewell-to-the-Smiths for 
  Tuesday afternoon. Do RP, RP, RP with the Smiths outside of those 
  arranged events, though. :) And if anyone has any other ideas for 
  things to do while the Smiths are here, yell. :)" 
Opa acks, I can't believed I just pluralised 'Smith' as 'Smith's'. Deep 
  apologizes. :/ 
Varina shakes her head. "Opa's losing it." 
Morayne loves that terminology. Goop. 
Kalera looks at Varina "You mean you just figured that out?" 
Opa says "Next...RPed classes! I've sent out +mail to all the 
  journeyrankers (except Fiona, of course :) and masters to ask them if 
  they'd like to start organizing those. I have to admit that this is 
  something that cannot be done by one person if the classes are going 
  to happen on a regular basis...I need the help of other people. :) 
  Classes can be about any weaver-related thing you're keen on - 
  Cleona has already mentioned that she may be able to do a few things. I 
  should also mention that apprentices can arrange classes if they want 
  to, too. :)" 
Opa grins. That's right. My losing it is a long and painful process that 
  started ages ago. :) 
Fiona offers to do spinning clases. :) 
Kalera rubs her shoulder. "I suppose I could teach.. As long as I didn't 
  have to do anything with my right arm.." 
Cyllan offers her help, if its any use :) 
Opa hugs Fiona. Wonderful. Anyone who would like help in organizing RPed 
  classes - ask others, or come to me. :) 
Broccal is ignorant of weaverly things. :( but, there's always Opa's pages 
  for learing. :/ 
Morayne adds, "And the +lhelp." 
Broccal hi5's his sis 
Morayne chuckles and hi5's back. 
Opa says "And the last TP subtopic - organizing TPs is something that is in 
  no way something that only masters or journeyrankers, or even Weavers, 
  can do. Everyone is more than welcome to come up with ideas - Tuvia, for 
  example, is working on one for us as we speak. :) All I ask is that if 
  it's going to have an effect on the crafthall generally (as opposed to 
  a personal TP like 'I'm getting married' or whatever) that you run it 
  by me." 
Damian says "There is the matter of the spinner infestation in the Storage 
  Building." 
Kalera says "Spinners?" 
Jorai cringes 
Opa ughs...there's a spinner infestation in the storage building? :) 
Damian says "Spiders." 
Fiona eeps, "That's getting drawn out of proportions from a personal TP." 
Cyllan says "Spiders don't exist or do they?" 
Morayne ewwws. 
Opa says "Pern has spiders, yeah...but we call 'em gossamer spinners." 
Broccal what eats them? tunnelsnakes? 
Opa nods. That sounds like a terrific TP idea, but it's also the sort of 
  thing that I would like to know about first. 

Weavers> Tuvia grins. "I like that idea. A spinner infestation. Can you 
  image the spinners still in the Fort tithe if you implement that TP?" 

Kalera rubs her shoulder again. "Just so you all know, I'm getting surgery 
  on my shoulder on Monday..typing could get really interesting. 

Weavers> Jorai LOL 

Wesley grins. 
Damian says "Ick. Sounds like fun." 
Jorai icks! :( 

Weavers> Opa ughs, don't give me nightmares. :) 

Morayne yucky. 

Weavers> Wesley . o O ( Wouldn't spinners be friends of weavers? ) 
Weavers> Broccal says, "nah. they'd be competition" 

Damian says "Well, the person who got bit wasn't a Weaver. I think." 
Fiona offers to explain the whole thing? 
Morayne grins. "Pray tell, Fi." 
Kalera says "I'll cope, but I want to play it out on Pern too. and since 
  you would all know...now you do know!" 

Weavers> Tuvia says, "Not all spinners are good on Earth. What if some are 
  venomous on Pern? What if the ones in the storage building are venomous?" 

Fiona says "Tissaren got bit by /one/ spinner in the storage building and 
  had a bad reaction. I used this as an excuse with Joseana earlier not to 
  go out there...(more)" 
Opa gets explained the whole thing by Fiona. :) Okay, that spinner thing is 
  more of people taking spontaneous RP and running with it (which is great) 
  rather than 'okay, there are going to be all these spinners in the 
  storage building, and it's going to mess up our supplies and tons of 
  other things' etc. 

Weavers> Opa grins. Okay. Venomous spinners I'd want to hear about. :) 

Fiona says "She tried to force Fi out there and Damian sorta added to it by 
  having there be more of them in there. --What Opa said... :)" 
Morayne laughs. "Joseana is inspiring quite a bit." 
Damian says "Hey, I've been in dry dark places. Spiders love those places." 
Opa grins. Anyway, I think everyone gets the general idea. 
Opa ummms...next. New posting areas! Now that we have six, count 'em, six 
  postable journeyrankers, (*gasp!* :) we can spread out the posting areas 
  a bit more. As I'm sure you're all aware, our journeyrankers get posted 
  to general areas with several locations in them rather than one 
  specific location like Benden Weyr or Keroon Hold. So, we now have 
  five areas. You can see what they are in '+info weaver postings3'. 
Morayne blinks, testing. 
Broccal reads 
Opa says "And that's a great link to telling you that, as I'm sure everyone 
  who reads the +bboard knows, :) we've got some new +lhelp. I've added a 
  bit to the display tent lhelp talking about how to get your stuff on 
  display, as well as a '+lhelp parent objects', and a little bit in the 
  dinners section about how I'm now going to be making the logs of these 
  meetings available via ftp." 
Opa snorts. This lag is really nasty. 
Damian lags 

Weavers> Damian says, "Arachnophobia on Pern! I got dibs on John Goodman's 
  character. :)" 

Opa uses this as yet another opportunity to plug the importance of knowing 
  what's in +lhelp, and reading the +bboard regularly. :) <nagnagnag> 
Opa says "Next...just wanted to let you all know, for anyone who's 
  interested, that the apprentice hallway is now full of +views of people's 
  apprentice audition pieces. :) Anyone who has a copy of their audition 
  piece and is willing to have me put it up there, give me a yell." 

Weavers> Wesley gasps as the lag finally catches up. 
Weavers> Wesley sighs. And still it doesn't END! 

Jorai oh dears, that ratty old thing? 
Opa says "And lastly, <phew!> what the heck we're going to do with the 
  mentoring system. Guys...the discussion about this on the mailing list 
  has consisted of one post from me and one from Morayne. :) Anyone who's 
  interested in contributing ideas should definitely contribute ideas. 
  :) Anyone who's not on the mailing list and wants to be can find out 
  how by looking at '+lhelp mailing list'. And anyone who didn't catch 
  my original email on the topic can give a yell and I'll send a copy." 
Damian forsees a crash coming. 
Opa says "And That Is It. :) Time to open the floor. Anyone who'd like to 
  bring up a topic or question or whatever, page me to get on the queue. 
  :)" 

Weavers> Cyllan acks at the lag 
Weavers> Farilan grins at Damian 

Broccal chuckles at Varina's timely arrival 
Opa will be waiting for a while so that lagged pages can have a chance of 
  getting through. :} 

Weavers> Fiona chokes on her dry cough, trying not to wake the baby. 
  Ackgag... 

Opa says "Okay, Fiona?" 
Fiona says "I've mentioned once before to Opa that I'd like to see us RPing 
  Threadfall. :)" 

Weavers> Duvetyne says, "I am gonna go everyone, court early in the 
  morning..." 
Weavers> Opa wavies! Thanks for coming! :) 

Kalera has to run..damn homework anywhat... 
Varina says "timely?" 
Kalera waves and poofs away. 
Opa nods. Yeahyeah. I've +mailed Vivian about that, to get Threadfall 
  schedules from her and so that we could arrange any post-Fall RP with 
  Fort riders. I'm waiting on that. 

Weavers> Kalera says, "sorry everyone..I can't put it off anymore." 

Morayne shakes her head. "Stupid prob... " 

Weavers> Opa waves. Bye, Kalera! 

Fiona nods, "Ok, then. That's my two cents worth. that and I'm open for 
  spinning classes." 

Weavers> Morayne sighs. "What'd I miss?" 
Weavers> Farilan comforts Morayne. 

Opa grins. Terrific. I'll definitely be letting people know once I get hold 
  of a Fort Weyr Threadfall schedule and/or arranging any Fall-related RP 
  with the Weyr. As for spinning classes, go for it, Fiona. :) 
Farilan sips his klah. 

Weavers> Fiona says, "Um, lotsalag? Not much." 

Morayne smiles. "Spinning classes, neat." 
Opa says "Anyone else? Wesley paged me, but it seems he's disconnected." 

Weavers> Tuvia says, "I've lag on my end. Not a whole lot but substantial." 

Jorai wants lots of classes! Spinning! Dyeing! Carding! 
Farilan grins at Jorai. 
Broccal nods. Spinning and dyeing would be interesting. 
Fiona will do decortication, too, as soon as she figures out how to do it 
  herself. :) 

Weavers> Tuvia says, "I want some classes, but not all at once! I'll get 
  weaver-overload! I'm no weaver in RL. I barely know how to sew up a hem." 

Jorai knows knitting and ribbon embroidery, tho whether she could give 
  anyone a clue in a text-format is beyond her :} 
Morayne chuckles and could do that little needle dance thing with Mrl 
  (almost mavved) again. 
Opa thinks carding was one of the things that Cleona said she could do. 
Opa will wait a bit longer for Wesley to come back on, but after that, 
  unless there are any more pages to me, we'll be done. :) 
Farilan smiles :) 
Jorai oh cools. Still want to raise sheep. Carding would come in handy :) 
Morayne thinks carding goes for cotton too, right? 
Cyllan wanna do embroidery :) 
Fiona cools at Jorai. I've got a border collie to come herd your sheep. :) 
Damian says "I'm not up on my weaving-type skills, but if anybody needs a 
  grammar/syntax critic, I'm pretty good at fixing word flow and the like 
  in descs." 
Jorai neatos! R'till is gonna go with me, I think you missed that convo 
  earlier ;) 
Farilan grins at Jorai 
Jorai says "I'm pretty sure you have to card any fiber, but I wouldn't 
  swear to it..prolly not silk, actually.." 
Opa okays, I guess Wesley's having a really tough time getting back. 
  Meeting is officially over. :)