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PUBLIC NOTICE

The New Year - the Lunar Festival - this is the time of year for celebrations no matter what calendar you use.

The AAMS, in its grand tradition of multicuturalism, has simply split the difference. We are scheduling our public end-of-year party between the different calendars' new years.

JOIN US THURSDAY, JAN. 19th FOR A CELEBRATION OF THE OLD AND THE NEW!

Horde and Alliance are both invited to join us at the Caer Darrow Renewal Project, located beneath the ruin of the Scholomance on the Isle of Caer Darrow, beginning at 7:00 PM on Thursday the 19th.

Refreshments!

All the finest food that can be put on a stick, freshly imported by our Same-Day Freight Service.

Entertainment!

Hear the Shortest Speech Ever delivered by the AAMS CEO. See the awards for the year -- who had the Nicest Smile? The Most Dangerous Delivery? The coveted Worst Customer Award?

Better yet, return the attached form (see below) with your very own award categories and nominees. We'll hand out all the awards on the night of the party!

Big Prizes!

Ever fancy yourself a new motorbike? How about an exotic pet? Enter our Year-End Sweepstakes to WIN! (( http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/3870807110 )) Drawing will be held on the night of the party.

...and Much, Much More!

Will the AAMS unveil their latest in message-delivering technology? Will the entire staff be forced by administrative decree to wear a silly hat? Will it just devolve into a Horde vs. Alliance bloodbath at last? There's only one way to find out.

Join the Anytime & Anywhere Messaging Service in welcoming the new year -- and bidding a fond farewell to the old one -- at Caer Darrow on Thursday, January 19th, starting at 7 PM!

Peace, by any means!

ATTACHED FORM: AWARDS NOMINATION

Fancy a hand in the AAMS Annual Award Ceremony? Fill out the form below to nominate YOUR candidate for our awards, or to suggest a category of your own. Nominees need not be members of the AAMS -- we have a few in-house awards already established for them. As always, members of both the Horde and the Alliance may be nominated, and may even nominate one another cross-faction!

Award Categories

Nicest Smile: _________________
Most Likely to Become Warchief/Monarch: _________________
Fanciest Hat: _________________
AAMS Most Valued Customer: _________________
AAMS Worst Customer Ever: _________________

SUBMIT ADDITIONAL CATEGORIES BELOW!

We will update our list and keep taking nominations up to the night of the party!

Hmmm...

Nicest Smile: Dreejin!

Most Likely to Become Warchief/Monarch: N/A, surely. I was already Warchieftess for a day.

Fanciest Hat: Difficult to say...surely I've seen Raoul in some fancy ones? Or Selima, of course, if she's still around. Definitely Selima.

AAMS Most Valued Customer: Has to be Gentyl, surely?

AAMS Worst Customer Ever: Who was it that mailed all those cursed artifacts to several different guilds? Terrible customer!

Nicest smile: Oskor, particularly when it's drunk.
Most Likely to Become Warchief/Monarch: Novaclaw, because she would be terrifying.
Fanciest Hat: Raoul does seem to talk about clothes a lot.
AAMS Most Valued Customer: Gentyl, for sending Dree a rabbit dinner once upon a time.
AAMS Worst Customer Ever: -------

How do you enter the sweepstakes? Also, are you taking donations of prizes? (I have a 525 JC with every Vanilla pattern and most of the rest.)

((Sweepstakes has its own thread:

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/3870807110

We've got the big prizes handled, but we are offering five "consolation prizes" that'll just be smaller, handy or fun items -- if you had gems you wanted to donate, we'd love to have them! And to add your character/guild as a "raffle sponsor," of course... :D

I'll add the link to the first post as well to help folks find it; thanks for asking!))

AAMS Most Valued Customer: Gentyl, for sending Dree a rabbit dinner once upon a time.

...it wasn't a Squashed Rabbit Carcass, was it?

Hmmm... *sticks out tongue and scribbles with a tibia-bone quill*

Nicest Smile: Suni! Definitely Suni.

Most Likely to Become Warchief/Monarch: Hmm... can I nominate Anduin? I mean, he's already pretty likely to become King. So it's a safe bet. But if it weren't him, then... hmmm...

No, I know! CUP! She'd be the BEST Queen ever! Fancy food for everyone!

Fanciest Hat: This is a hard one too, there are a lot of fancy hats out there. I would nominate Zaranae for "best threads" but that's not a hat!

Wait a minute, Rhumple is always wearing that diving helmet! It's like a signature! So I nominate him!

AAMS Most Valued Customer: Spricket. I mean, she gave Gentyl the idea to send all those sheep and limades in the first place!

AAMS Worst Customer Ever: Everyone who didn't send anything via AAMS last year! I mean, REALLY, guys. Come on!

AAMS Most Valued Customer: Spricket. I mean, she gave Gentyl the idea to send all those sheep and limades in the first place!

Andelia gritted her teeth slightly as she glanced over the latest nominations. She had a few names for the people who'd filled her vaults with exploding sheep herself, and none of them were "Most Valued Customer."

But, of course, she was too polite to say so...

((Bump for silly awards! Anyone can contribute; you don't have to be an AAMS member or customer...))

This will be this week, at Caer Darrow. Please continue to submit your award nominations!

Nicest Smile: Dreejin
Most Likely to Become Warchief/Monarch:Bralox.
Fanciest Hat: Raoul
AAMS Most Valued Customer: Gentyl
AAMS Worst Customer Ever: Bralox. He sent a piece of light leather to every man woman and child of the horde.

Nicest Smile: Poni
Most Likely to Become Warchief/Monarch: Taelanas
Fanciest Hat: Willoweir
AAMS Most Valued Customer: Gentyl
AAMS Worst Customer Ever: Gentyl (No, don't ask me how that works)

Nicest Smile: No one still here to claim the prize.
Most Likely to Become Warchief/Monarch: Is that Korica fellow still around?
Fanciest Hat: Ah, what was the name of Abominus' diplomat maggot... Rodriguez, was it?
AAMS Most Valued Customer: Souleater
AAMS Worst Customer Ever: Also Souleater

Hmm, let usss sssee, yesss...



Nicest Smile: Asss a Horde Combat barber and Dentissst, we cannot choossse, there have been ssso many, yesss. *looks at his collection of teeth* Thisss molar of Tyrande isss ssshapely, yesss.

Most Likely to Become Warchief/Monarch: We received many votesss for warchief at the lassst horde Warchief Sssummit, but lossst to an axe to the head, yesss.

Fanciest Hat: Doctor Vincent Wolfe made Rodriguez a sssmall top hat with a Modasss Insssignia, to go with hisss monocle and diamond tipped toothpick, yesss. Very fancy, yesss.

AAMS Most Valued Customer: Gentyl, yesss

AAMS Worst Customer Ever: Souleater, yesss. He wasss resssponsssible for more courier deathsss than any cussstomer, yesss. We, though, are proud to have an entire AAMSss Policy devoted to usss, yesss. Alssso, once, they took out a bounty on usss, yesss.

Tomorrow evening's the party! Get your submissions in -- we'll have drinks on the house for all our lovely prizewinners, as well as the big raffle drawing (tickets available all evening long, of course).

This is happening now!

Gather 'round mons an' mista's an' missus's! We be announcin' who be winn'...stuff! For...other stuff!

Fo' da Nicest Smile award, it be goin' to...DREEJIN!
Da Fanciest Hat award be goin' to none udda dan Mista Raoul!
Da Most Likely ta Become a Warchief or a King goes ta no one, because no one could agree.
Da Most Valued AAMS Customer be Gentyl. Da AAMS Worst Customer also be Gentyl! Ya, Gentyl!

Raffle results will soon be up as well. Jest wait fo' us ta be countin' our tickets. I mean, your tickets. Ya.

An' da prizes fo' da raffle are as follows! Ya should be gettin' your prize delivered to ya within two weeks. If we forget, beat us black 'n' blue! (Except da draenei or trolls, mon, you'll have ta just beat 'em black.)

Consolation Prizes:
Genevra - Alliance
Gentyl - Alliance
Imperon - Alliance
Cleoh - Horde
Dustwing - Alliance

(Choice of) Argent Tournament Pet:
Narnicka - Alliance
Gentyl - Alliance

Motorbikethingamajigger:
Abominus - Horde

That was a lot of fun. Abominus is always a riot. Too bad most of Grim Maw are in the stars. The smushed tick, might have created some nice fights.

Many thanks to AAMS for all they do. *salute to Plainswander for his vision when he created this guild and the pillar of roleplay it is on this server. Many thanks to all the couriers who always do such a good job of carrying out my odd requests with humor and professionalism.