[Ansteorra-archery] Pomp and Ceremony
Rumil Fletcher
rumil at sbcglobal.net
Tue Feb 17 17:21:27 PST 2004
>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
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