[official chant for walking the tables; modified fromMasterharper of Pern: chapter 8, page 161 Del Rey mass market paperback, copyright © Anne McCaffrey 1998]

Reading that and getting to know your feelings in the subsequent months of mailing back and forth I made my plan of which this document is the result. My experience and my "Pern horizons" widened when I became more and more heavily involved with Pern (on the Internet) in general and some of the really dedicated persons that form that exclusive inner circle consisting of those individuals that are really MAP (Mad About Pern).

Initiated by: Elrhan the Archivist
                        aka Hans van der Boom

Goal:         The promotion of journeywoman
                        harper Sariel to Master Archivist

Dear …

Coming October it will be a year ago that Sariel the Archivist (aka Cheryl Beth Miller) started her web site Sariel's Guide to Pern (in both framed and non-framed versions). In my honest opinion as an archivist this is just one of the best (if not the best) and most extensive web site's in relation to the the Dragonriders of Pern^© and their world, the world we all love. However, it is not only the website I want to honor by putting Sariel up for promotion to master status.

During the time Sariel has set up and maintained her excellent website she also demonstrated her capabilities as an archivist, not only through material put on the website for us all to enjoy, but she also contributed extensively to the enlargement of insights in Pernese matters through postings on the alt.fan.pern newsgroup and through many personal email messages. She has been a staunch promotor of Pern and the Pernese since she became a journeywoman.

To put it in the words of good old Master Robinton:

"Now, the point is that all but one of the formalities have been observed. Admittedly, there's not been much time spent in the Hall [read: Sariel has spent only a year on the Internet], but an apprenticeship served elsewhere under a competent journeyman has always been admissible [read: Sariel was "brought to Pern" by her own father who lovingly introduced her to the books of Anne McCaffrey]".
[Anne McCaffrey, Dragonsinger, page 217 of the Bantam mass market paperback, 6th printing 1979]

After this formality Robinton asks the assembled peers if anyone wishes to register any reservations about the competence of the journeywoman in question.

Likewise I ask of you if you have any objections to the promotion of Sariel the Archivist to Master Archivist by virtue of an agreement to that fact by her peers.

If you do agree I propose to bestow on Sariel the earlier mentioned rank of Master Archivist and the right to put the logo, depicted on the top of this letter, on her site. The traditional gift of a Master Harper's pin (complete with gemstone) unfortunately disagrees with the contents of my purse and will be hard to put on a website anyway.

For a promotion to Master Harper I also propose a minimum of five agreeing peers. So besides myself at least four of you have to email me with an answer to this proposal.

Yours truly

Elrhan/Hans van der Boom