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<DIV>Both Fearghus and I found ourselves with our transport arrangement </DIV>
<DIV>backing out with less than ten days remaining before the event </DIV>
<DIV>over the sudden rise in fuel price. While attempting to secure </DIV>
<DIV>another ride I had a family crises, ending my trip to Gothic. </DIV>
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<DIV>I think I can speak for honorable lord Fearghus as well when I say </DIV>
<DIV>even could we had been at Gothic we wouldn't just authorize </DIV>
<DIV>someone unknown to us in combat archery. </DIV>
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<DIV>Unless you are well known to me as a previously authorized </DIV>
<DIV>combat archer and can prove to me your knowledge of combat </DIV>
<DIV>archery rules are current and up to date, don't expect to come </DIV>
<DIV>and just get signed off as authorized in combat archery. The </DIV>
<DIV>authorization process is going to take many sessions of learning </DIV>
<DIV>combat & combat archery rules, the making of combat archery </DIV>
<DIV>equipment and active observations during local fighter practices </DIV>
<DIV>to complete. When you have exhibited the proficiently & skill to </DIV>
<DIV>safely participate as a combat archer, then and only then will </DIV>
<DIV>I consider signing you off as authorized in combat archery.</DIV>
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<DIV>Should you desire to become a combat archer you need to </DIV>
<DIV>contact your regional archery marshal to find out whom the </DIV>
<DIV>authorizing combat archery marshals within your region are. </DIV>
<DIV>Then contact them to learn what you need to know and make </DIV>
<DIV>arrangements to spend some time to become authorized.</DIV>
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<DIV>If you show up expecting to get authorized in combat archery </DIV>
<DIV>just before a battle you're very likely to be disappointed!</DIV>
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<DIV>Regards,</DIV>
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<DIV>HL William Blackdragon (called "Ironwyrm")</DIV>
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<DIV><BR><BR><B><I>Wes Duke <fearghus@elfsea.net></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Pug Bainter wrote:<BR><BR>>Robin Allen (robinbjornsborg@yahoo.com) said something that sounded like:<BR>> <BR>><BR>>> At Gothic last weekend we had 4 heavy fighters who were interested<BR>>>in getting authorized as combat archers. Trouble is we had no archers<BR>>>who were warranted to authorize. Patrick Michael and Ulsted were both<BR>>>there and said they could take care of it but I need to follow up on<BR>>>that. This needs to be looked into as it is difficult to for some fighters<BR>>>(especially out in the Western Region) to get to some events and they<BR>>>may be waiting a long time for an event where they can get authorized.<BR>>> <BR>>><BR>><BR>>This is major problem. There are very few authorizing marshals and<BR>>even fewer CA authorizing marshals. This is roughly proportional to the<BR>>number of
fighers to CA combatants. The process of how to get authorized<BR>>is quite clearly laid out for many months now and folks that do not have<BR>>someone local to them (or who knows their abilities well enough) they<BR>>should contact the authorizing marshals to make arrangements. If they<BR>>don't know who they are, they should contact the Regional or Kingdom<BR>>Archery Marshal.<BR>><BR>>Now that being said, I've only had one person from the *Northern* region<BR>>contact me about combat archers getting authorized in the Western<BR>>region. This was at the last minute even.<BR>><BR>>I've only had one or two people contact me about marshals out there which<BR>>I told them we could work on but it wasn't something that they would be<BR>>able to do without field training. You don't just learn all the rules<BR>>and safety measures in an hour.<BR>><BR>>The Western region has problems with archery in general and CA in<BR>>specific. There is
not any driving forces out there with the experience<BR>>to resolve this problem. When there is no activity in the region there<BR>>is not likely to be anyone who *can* authorize due to a lack of experience.<BR>>It's a bad catch-22, but not one that I can easily solve and I<BR>>absolutely not do it by authorizing people I have never seen do the job.<BR>><BR>>Btw, I had full intention of being there but I was unable to make it<BR>>due to my health. I had also thought Arcus Fearghus and Arcus Ironwyrm<BR>>were going to be there.<BR>><BR>>Ciao,<BR>><BR>> <BR>><BR>Due to mundane issues namely, gas prices and the fact I have been sick <BR>for over a week, I could not attend.<BR><BR>Arcus Fearghus MacKenna<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Ansteorra-missile mailing
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