21.25 Introduction guild-letters and beckoning.

Gathering up prospective guildmembers from around the land can be a labour intensive process, particularly if one is forced to ORDER MARCH them location by location across vast distances and dangerous tracts of land. In order to try to help with this, the guild tutors have established a codified system of letter invitations. These letters, obtained from a guild tutor, are taken to the prospective guild member, be they in the farthest flung village in the land or around the corner in a nearby tavern. Holding the letter, bearing the guild seal, the wielder may introduce him or herself to the youngster, thereby handing over the letter and, with it, the confidence (and some safe passage) for the CCC guildsman to travel across the land. You remain the leader - and you can bring many enlistable folks via this method - but instead of marching individuals you can stand at key junctions (and, ultimately, in the guildhouse itself) and simply BECKON your letter-wielding young brethren towards you.

INTRO LETTER before your designated guild tutors to receive a guild-stamped letter. You can carry many at a time, thus enabling you to bring many enlistables into the guildhouse concurrently. Keep the letters openly in your inventory and DO NOT place them in backpacks or sacks. Stashing the letters away will cause the enchanter paper of the letter to crumble away - a security measure to protect the guild from unwanted hording.

INTRO MYSELF in the same location as the prospective guild member and, assuming you hold a free guild-sealed letter, the youngster will be given the letter and assume a readiness for your next move.

BECKON GUILDSMEN from any reasonable location in the land will then cause all those recently matured villagers and cityfolk holding your guild-letters of invitation to commence making their way, as gingerly as possible, to wheresoever you stand.

Moving around breaks the beckoning, as does typing CEASE. Experimenting with fastest techniques for mobilising disparate individuals, bringing them together on a central meeting point; these techniques can save huge chunks of time over the old marching one-by-one method.

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