Each member of the HOOLD (with the exception of Novitiates) can take in new members of a rank lower than the rank they currently possess. The coin of the Church in this endeavor is beer. The process is simple: you let the new member bribetithe their way in at whatever price you deem best, take down their name and address for the Mother Superior, and they're in. Part of the bribetithe must be passed on to a higher member of the Church; this can be any member of higher rank than yourself, the Mother Superior (who appreciates all the beer she can get to support her Tablero habit), or any Cardinal of the Holy Roman Catholic Apostolic Church of An Tir (Inc). This person who receives the bribe tithe will pass on some of what they get higher up the line. (This is how the Church worked in Period - now you know where pyramid schemes came from!)
Although beer is the coin of the Church, and therefore of the Order, the Mother Superior has been known to take other alcohol as a bribe tithe, and as long as some portion of alcohol passes on up the line, it's between the new member and the person taking the bribetithe. (For a glass of rum that got two new members in at one event, the Mother Superior will pass on two beers to Steffano.) Let's face it, we'll take almost anything; people have offered cola, chocolate chip cookies, candy, and backrubs. (We refused the backrubs; they're awful hard to quantify or to pass on.) We especially encourage non-alcoholic bribetithes from underage members of the Order, as well as anyone who has any objections to alcohol.

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