I'm very glad to hear that the situation has improved since we left!
We hung out often with many of the Mists scribes, when we were there, and it was generally held to be like my former description, at that time. (My lord was, for a time, the head of the Mists scribes; I forget the position name.)
Even "raised" in the East, I agree that scrolls are gifts.
At the time, things were different. Juana made some inroads in fixing the backlog, but Aja really hit it hard, and then Eliska, the current Chancellor has followed Aja's lead, and has been quite innovative in handling some of the issues.
Yeah, so did I, with the Mists backlog. I did scrolls more quickly than was the average at the time (plus I could assign to myself, which cut down on turnaround time :-), and I got some help from friends in Atlantia and the East. After about 6 months as Seawolf Scribe, I found that I had run out of the subcategory "backlog scrolls for which we actually have contact info", and had to post asking people to come ask for their scrolls.
That (I presume) was why I got my GoA, and wound up on the backlog myself. ;-)
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Date: 2007-05-08 03:46 pm (UTC)We hung out often with many of the Mists scribes, when we were there, and it was generally held to be like my former description, at that time. (My lord was, for a time, the head of the Mists scribes; I forget the position name.)
Even "raised" in the East, I agree that scrolls are gifts.
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Date: 2007-05-08 04:37 pm (UTC)At the time, things were different. Juana made some inroads in fixing the backlog, but Aja really hit it hard, and then Eliska, the current Chancellor has followed Aja's lead, and has been quite innovative in handling some of the issues.
Reducing the backlog
Date: 2007-05-08 06:43 pm (UTC)Yeah, so did I, with the Mists backlog. I did scrolls more quickly than was the average at the time (plus I could assign to myself, which cut down on turnaround time :-), and I got some help from friends in Atlantia and the East. After about 6 months as Seawolf Scribe, I found that I had run out of the subcategory "backlog scrolls for which we actually have contact info", and had to post asking people to come ask for their scrolls.
That (I presume) was why I got my GoA, and wound up on the backlog myself. ;-)