Duties and Responsibilities

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                              DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
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Your first assignment as an Apprentice Scribe will be to role play within the city as a Scribe.  If a person comes to Library for a Scribe, you will be expected to attend to it to the best of your abilities.   If someone comes into the Library needing help with forms, I normally sit down with them at a table and work with them there - it is more friendly I think and it is very important that the Blue Caste of Telnus be viewed by people of our city as being helpful and friendly.  It is important to remember that you are a member of the  Blue Caste - this is a High Caste, and as such you are expected to comport yourself with dignity.   Inappropriate behavior will be dealt with by the Head of Caste.

As I said before, a large part of being a Scribe is being able to think on your feet.   Keep in mind that you will no doubt run into things that will require you to "work around" the normal procedures.
A typical example would be if a new citizen came in for slave papers on a slave and had no documentation.  If it was a submission, they could put a notecard of the submission on the Certificate of Ownership.  Often times, they will not have it and you will have to interview the slave, confirm her submission, and notecard it with your signature and seal and date.  Label the notecard "Verification  of Submission ((Slaves Name))" and put it in the Certificate of Ownership.  From there you would finish the form as usual. 

The same would be true if he said he bought her from some city and was given no paperwork on her.   Other cities are not as diligent about paperwork, and in the North there is no paperwork at all, so we do have to work around situations like that.  Take the owner's statement, then ask the girl if that is the truth of it, notecard it, signing and putting your seal on it with the date and naming it "Verification of purchase ((Slaves Name)) and put it in the slave papers and proceed as usual with the rest of the form.

These are just examples, and you will most likely run into other situations that steer off the normal course and will require you to work around it to get the job done.  If you are ever confused or unsure, do not hesitate to contact another member of the Blue Caste for help if I am not available.   And you can always take the information and tell them you will get back to them later in the day.
Sometimes you may be called to the Gate because an Ambassador or Magistrate is not available.  You can take a message and assure them that the person will contact them as soon as possible.  You would then give the message to the person ICly or notecard it and put it in their mailbox (I usually do the latter in case they are not on when I am - I don't want to take a chance of forgetting lol)
 While you are completing the Course of Study to become a full fledged Scribe, you will most likely not have assigned duties other than assisting in the library (which tends to be feast or famine).  The priority, however, will be to get you certified as a full scribe as quickly as possible.
In your role of apprentice, you will fill out forms, sign and seal them, but you will then turn them in to ________ either ICly or by putting them in the "For Review" mailbox near her desk for her to review before it is filed away.

~~ Jillian Serevi, (Jillian Daniels) High Scribe of Telnus