11.15 Reviewing membership of a guild.

Establishing and maintaining guild membership and a sense of guild togetherness is the most important duty of the Guildmaster. You may type MEMBERS at any time to review a list of active membership within your guild and MEMBERS DORMANT to view guild members who have not played Avalon for over a month. You may gain information on an individual guild member by typing MEMBERS STATUS followed by their name, e.g. MEMBER STATUS MUNGWALL. Guildmasters have the power to give a prefix (Squire or Sir, for instance) or a suffix (the apprentice Mage, for instance) to a member. This is done by typing MEMBERS PREFIX or MEMBERS SUFFIX followed by the guildmember's name, followed by the next text. MEMBERS PREFIX BELLOCK SQUIRE and MEMBERS SUFFIX CASPAR THE APPRENTICE ENCHANTER are examples of these commands.

Initiating new members into the guild is usually an honour reserved for the Guildmaster or, sometimes, the guild patron. However, since all guilds have Computer Controlled Characters associated with them, the Guildmaster may decide to allow them to initiate new members. Type RECRUITMENT ON if you wish to allow the guild CCCs to initiate new members, or RECRUITMENT OFF if you wish to reserve the right to bring in members yourself. Bear in mind that generally the open recruitment can only be switched on by those guilds satisfying the bottom-line population and daily presence-in-the-land requirements (typically at least six members, and twelve active hours combined guildmember activity, visible in the land).

Guildmasters may also review the skill progress of their members (only in skills directly associated with the guild) by typing MEMBERS SKILLS followed by a guild member. This can be a fair gauge for ending apprenticeship, or setting tasks for guild members.

Guilds tend to have an number of basic items, keys and artifacts associated with them. Guildmasters may review a list of items and their whereabouts at any given time by typing MEMBERS ITEMS ACTIVE/DORMANT. This cycles through known information about guild possessions, be it active or dormant (you can leave this out to see all items). You may give an item to an individual guild member by typing MEMBERS GIVE followed by the item name (optionally including the item number) followed by the member's name. This is particularly useful when allocating keys and clothing to new members. You may retrieve items from dormant members if you wish by a single command; MEMBERS RETRIEVE followed by the item, followed by the name of the dormant member. MEMBERS GIVE KEY128 MELCHIOR and MEMBERS RETRIEVE SWORD1866 CONAN are examples of the give and retrieve commands, the retrieved items are laid on the ground before you.

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