Passing Through The Threshold

[Tim-Tim]

For a long time I've felt that we have been far too easy on our initiates. They serve six months, they're good people, they're in. It's just how it is, and it was like that for most of us.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it hasn't worked out. I know each and every one of you. I love the person each one of you is. I just feel like we need some solid criteria to be moving our boys up from initiate to member other than we can see them sticking around and displaying our four founding qualities.

I am firmly in my belief that every full members of the dragons should be of the ability to tutor one pupil minimum in at least one of the major four categories of our game. Therefore I propose this be adopted as an additional critia for moving past the stage of initiation into the stage of membership and request my proposal be including on our docket for Rosewood.

There should be no shame in being a dragon-in-training, even if it takes longer than six months to be fully prepared.

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Also, someone mentioned secret votes on initiates and members. Now I'm not sure that's what we needed, but perhaps this suggestion was close to the right direction. I really feel that initiates should not be present for their own voting. Their sponsor should be, and if we decide we need to hear from the initiate, they should be around to speak on their own behalf, but voting on initiates should be closed and only for members and officers. Now, since we've just discussed this at the NLCC I'm not sure we should add it to any docket any time soon. Pac War should be far enough away, though, to discuss officially at more length and hold a vote on it.

Sharing my thoughts and hoping it brings a bit more order to things.

[Grizzly]

I also have been thinking on this subject at hand and would also like to propose that instead of 6 month it be a year till their time is picked and also they must go to two major campouts now i know not everyone can make campouts and that its unfair that we should make it required but honestly how can i call a person who wants to join our family and call him brother/sister if i have never fought, ate,or drank with the man/woman . also i want to ask that we enforce the idea that if you are part of the fighting company of the dragons that if we are at campouts you fight and participate .(of course if you have administrative stuffs like holding down gate or helping with events or you're injured thats different.)i think that if our initiates or members want to be apart of our brotherhood that we should do more then just party with each other we must also fight with one another and learn each and one another strengths and weakness's .

[Chunk]

did I hae somethin to do with this?

[Tim-Tim]

I don't think so...

I just felt like I wasn't REALLY ready when I moved up to member status to be taking an initiate. Theron told me I really wasn't later, and Lunchbox isn't entirely prepared in that aspect, either. We're working on it. I want to be sure he is ready soon and that Daciana is prepared when the time comes. I feel as if they are my personal responsibilty because they were initiated under my sponsorship. I just was looking for a way to ensure our new members were entirely prepared before moving forward in our company.

Aside from that, we are over forty strong now. I don't want what happened to the Saracens to happen to us (Forty different orks, a bunch of mini fighting companies split between location and philosophy) We need to remain one body. One mind. One soul. Well, two souls if we count Trisha. She hangs around a lot. Too rampant of growth could give us some pretty unforeseeable results.