Conclave Story

[Susan]

Just a thought for one of the opening stories.

The Weyrleaders and Craftmasters & Lord Holders of Pern have a Conclave towards the end of Turn 32 to discuss the final arrangements of re-opening StarRise and the moving all the people back to that Weyr. There are tons of issues to discuss and perhaps, like Sable's Weyrleaders, there are those who don't want to give up riders who have settled into their wings. And then there are others who can't get those rowdy StarRisers out of their Weyr fast enough.

We could also use the story to establish the Weyrleaders and Lord Holders and Master Crafters of Pern. Or we could use it for Just StarRise's Weyrleaders and Lord Holders and CraftMasters.

Think of all the details that have to be settled:

All the people who have no dragon will need to be transported along with tons of supplies (food, cleaning supplies, linens, craft supplies, etc). Where is all that coming from? Who's paying?

Ships would need to be readied (again, who's paying?) and those people and supplies coming in by dragonback would need to be scheduled.

Combatants and Guardsmen would need to be assigned to guard returning supplies coming by boat (bad Pirates! Bad! No biscuit!)

Tithes will need to be re-established by the Holds when will the Hold start to have to tithe again? Since there's been no Weyr, have they had eight Turns of not having to send tithes to a Weyr?

And what other details need to be attended to? Ideas? Anyone interested in getting this story plotted?

[Kris]

I am! This is a great catch-up story.

[Anna]

I think this is a great idea!

[Anna]

I've posted a current-to-date list of Weyrwomen and Weyrleaders here: starrise10.proboards104.com/index.cgi?board=writepern&action=display&thread=279&page=1

[Hope]

Count me in, as well. If I just didn't need to sleep, I could get so much writing done!

Susan, contact me when you get a chance...I have a couple of questions about Melina.

[Chantal]

I am also interested in this, if it hasn't yet been finished.

[katah]

What dates for stories are going to be in the next deadline? Is it going to overlap some? That is probably good for newbies like me playing in this world timeline.

[Chantal]

I have hopes that the zines will overlap--simply because there are still stories which could be written for the early part of the Weyr starting back up.. FWIW, I don't think we're going to be too terribly rigid about stories having to be set within a certain date range. We want people to write, not feel restricted.

[Anna]

We aim for most of the stories to be dated between, say, 34.02.01 through 34.08.15 or something like that. However, if the story is before that date or after that date, we'll still take it. We're not anal on the dates - unless we're forced to be. For what will force us to be, see below...

We just really do NOT want high-ranking or high-profile characters having important stories written a turn or more in the past, since the events in their story could have an impact on the Weyr, or other members' characters. Kinda stupid for, say, the Weyrwoman to get pregnant and have a kid in turn 33, but the story isn't written/published until most of us are already writing for turn 35. That's pretty much two years worth of writing (aka, 4 issues) where most of the writers who'd have referred to, mentioned, or reacted to that pregnancy/child having no clue at all, then suddenly a two-turn old child of the Weyrwoman starts appearing - at the same time the Weyrwoman starts writing about her newborn.

Can we say confusing? And yeah - we had that situation. Don't recall if there was actually a pregnancy and child, but the Weyrwoman character was being written several turns behind everyone else.

[katah]

Hehe. I promise to not write about the weyrwoman two turns behind the current date. Okay. It wasn't THAT funny. But, I get it. Thanks!

[Thom]

With Anna's words in mind, perhaps a Turn 32 Conclave might not be best for the next 'zine, but who's to say that we can't have one in Turn 34 for some reason? It could be a regional Conclave or a full Pern-wide one... or we could push this idea back to OOTB 28/3, and make it one of that issue's themes.

By that point, I hope to have a plotline involving Lord Saxon and another "Lord" in play....

[Chantal]

We could certainly have a Weyrleaders' Conclave in turn 34 or even annually, if warranted. Has McCaffrey ever said specifically how often they take place?

[Anna]

I think they just took place 'as needed'....

[Chantal]

Good ol' Pernese--eminently sensible folk.

[JustPlainKitty]

In MHoP, the Weyrleader(s) are said to attend the Lords annual Conclave though things got sorta screwy and mushed up when R'gul was leader and it is likely that was no longer followed. (Though it was clear that there was an Annual Conclave as well as the ones needed at random for things such as confirmations and massive emergencies).