[Ansteorra-archery] Pomp and Ceremony

[Rumil Fletcher]

>Rumil,
>
>Well said.
>
>To answer two of your points.
>  2A) I guess I could spiff up my outfit a bit. :)

Well, I suppose I could too.  Heh heh!

>  2E) Count me as registered (arms and name).

Well done.

OK, I just did a quick analysis of the King's Archers.  Of the 33 
people listed in the OP, only 13 have registered both name and 
device.  So it would make it kind of hard to have honor shields or 
banners if almost two thirds of the participants do not have a 
registered coat of arms.  And that is just the "King's Archers."  I 
am afraid that the typical archery tournament has many fairly new 
people for whom getting a registered name and arms has not even 
occurred.

So, scratch that idea.



>Now that you mention it... I believe it was the 20th Year tournament that I
>was remembering. Ah, too many events, too few brain cells.

Well, a Royalty Shoot may not be such a bad idea.  There may be more 
Royalty in this Kingdom than archers.  We had some real competition 
too amongst the nobles to see who could sponsor the archers first. 
And I for one am tired of hearing about how we are about to have a 
"Nobles Shoot" every time I go down range to get my arrows.  Ha ha!



>Elric

Speaking of that competition, I recall that Baron Lucais approached 
Morgan and Braden about sponsoring them for that tourney, unaware 
that I had already snatched them up.  When he asked them if they 
would be interested, Braden replied, "Well, His Excellency Rumil is 
already sponsoring us, but we could sure use a herald!"  Oh, you 
should have seen the look of Lucais' face.  He went from Sponsoring 
Noble to Herald for a couple of archers.  But he did fine work at 
that, offering a bet against all comers to pay for the next site fee 
for anyone who could beat our boys.  Fortunately, they won and Lucais 
got to keep his money.

Hey, that tourney _was_ fun!

Rumil