aroloshal

It has come to the attention of the BoD over the last few years that Pern fandom is increasingly becoming a large amount of games drawing on a dwindling number of members. This causes the obvious difficulties of any group of organisations competing for a limited resource -- unless things become properly organised no-one wins. Everybody runs a Hatching in the same month period -- no-one gets as many Candidates as they would like. Everyone runs the same plot, the members become bored.

As the clear leader in the field, Arolos and Dark Fort have decided that it is we who must resolve this issue once and for all.

As of today, we will be inviting all other Weyrs in fandom to join us in the Eighth Pass. Discussion has created a plot-line which will achieve this -- more on that shortly -- and we believe that games will do better under our leadership and guidance than they ever did alone.

Of course, we do not want our established members to suffer due to this change. We trust them to have gone through Arolos training already, and to have come out stronger and better for it. Undoubtably, these new Weyrs will need people to show them the best way to play and, as of now, we are opening applications for goldriders to take charge in the new games, governors to ensure that the existing BoD run them in a way we can approve of.

Shortly, we will begin to welcome the new Weyrs into the fold. As some of their members are likely to be less used than we to Arolos manners, we have decided not to bring them onto OOC just yet but to create for them a separate forum -- http://arolosweyr.co.uk/phpBB3/ -- until they have had a chance to learn acceptable behaviour.

I will be sending plot details out in the next email. For now, let us celebrate our new friends, and a fandom renewed.

Laura
Arolos and DF BoD