TFS Application

You are now applying for addmitance into The First Seal

New Membership

"The Journey"

Once a person decides to join The First Seal (TFS) and obtains a sponsor, they must spend time with enough members in TFS to be sure they will get the majority vote. A majority vote is 2/3 of the 'active' membership. This may seem high, but we want to be sure they are true TFS material. The Recruit must spend an evening with at least 2/3 of our membership or more if they believe they need more members to cast a favorable vote. During that time they will go wherever the member wishes to go, fight with them, talk with them and learn our ways. The Journey need not always be in battle or actually go somewhere.. it is a metaphor.

It is the Recruit's and the Sponsor's responsibility to contact the members and arrange a time to journey together. It is the member's responsibility to accept within reasonable time.

Recruit Rules:

Read and understand the Charter and Vision
Live by the Charter and Vision
Be active and...
Complete the Journey as soon as possible.

The members should instruct their Recruits in the conduct we expect of them. Let recruits know when they do wrong and how to better themselves. The Recruits should be able to defend themselves reasonably. This is at the discretion of the member. The Recruit must stay with the member until the member is satisfied with their progress and has decided on their vote. The member may inform the Recruit of their decision if they choose to. If the member is not satisfied, they may insist on additional time to test and judge the candidate. The minimum time the Recruit must spend is 2 hours. A Recruit may journey with more than one member at a time and count the additional members if the additional member agrees. This journey is a time for the member to evaluate the Recruit's character and basic fighting ability.

Once the Recruit feels they have journeyed with enough of the members to pass the vote, they must ask their sponsor to call the vote. This may be done immediately by any means the sponsor chooses. The vote remains open until at least 2/3 of the active membership has voted.

Only two votes are available…Yea or Nay. If you choose to vote Nay, you must provide your reason so that the Recruits may be informed on how to better themselves. If a member has not journeyed with the Recruit their vote is considered Nay, not journeyed.

Members are to cast their vote in the "Ballot Office", private message board, once it is called.

Once the vote is closed, the sponsor tallies the votes. The Recruit is informed of the outcome and any reasons for any Nay votes, regardless of the outcome.

The Sponsor then informs the membership of the outcome and posts to all everyone's vote to be seen. He also then arranges for the ceremony to take place no sooner than two days time to allow time for all to know.

The sponsor sets up the ceremony and sees that everyone is informed of the date and time. The sponsor prepares and conducts the ceremony and presents the colors. The balance of the membership is expected to attend the ceremony and be on time.

The sponsor must inform the rest of the members of the new Recruit so that we may meet them and Journey with them.

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