[MR] Your suggestions please => Newcomers thread

[Megan Shogren]

I agree, we should be.  At a local meeting level, I feel like the Chatelaine 
might be the one who introduces the newcomer, but it's the Marshal/Knight/White 
Scarf/MOAS/Laurel/etc. who gets them to come back.


At an event, I know a lot of people can pick out newbies because they recognize 
the loaner garb- but could there be a better way of alerting people that someone 
is new and might not (a) know what's going on or (b) have a lot of friends there 
already?  An acquaintance of mine went to her first event- a Twelfth Night- in 
the well-fitted, meticulously detailed, and spectacularly bejeweled 1570s 
Elizabethan gown she made and wears as a member of the royal court at a 
Renaissance Faire.  She did not look like a "newbie", and could easily be 
mistaken for someone who hadn't played in a while or was from another kingdom.  


Perhaps a favor of some sort could be given at Troll that would alert people 
that this person is new; look after them?  A belt favor or arm sash, in a solid 
color, would be inexpensive, easy, and readily visible.

Lady Kat Ferneley


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From: Jack Black of Flint <qm_blackjack_flint at yahoo.com>
To: Atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
Sent: Fri, October 15, 2010 10:38:49 AM
Subject: Re: [MR] Your suggestions please => Newcomers thread


since in my opinion everyone who pays site 
fee and is in garb is a Chatelaine to one degree or another, but that's a 
different story

Lord Jack Black of Flint
((AKA: BlackJack))
Captain and Master of "The Raptor" 
Chirurgeon, Canton of St. Georges
Chatelaine, Barony of Nottinghill Coill 
Brute for Hire
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