<html><div style='background-color:'><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Come one come all, Good Lord and Ladies to Elfsea Defender XXVII;</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Their Excellencies, Armand Dragonetti and Ameline du Bois, the Baron and Baroness of Elfsea, do hereby invite one and all to this momentous event. </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></P><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN class=text><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">There promises to be many different exciting activities including the lists for Chivalric, Rapier and Archery to vie for the Defender championships. The Chivalric list will be a Swiss Five. The Rapier list will be a Swiss Five. One round of each list will be Their Excellencies choice. The Archery tournament will be a 2.5-hour bear pit type of shoot. There will be varying distances and different targets to shoot at. All SCA legal types of bows will be allowed. Crossbows may not support the bow arm or crossbow in any way such as elbow to knee or elbow to ground etc. There will be no combat archery in the Defender shoot. There will be other shoots for
fun during the day ad we will try to run a Royal Round for those that would like to post away scores.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN class=text><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN class=text><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Their Excellencies have asked that letters of intent be sent to them.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></PRE>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></P><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN class=text><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Other competitions to be held are the championships for Bardic, and Arts and Sciences. The A & S Competition will consist of “</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">The Frugal Anachronist”, which means your best body of work for thirty dollars or less.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">The Bardic competition begins as soon as you arrive. There will be special bags handed out to competing bards and tokens to all who enter. The populace will be the ones to judge who will be the next Fire Walker. The Bards will be handing out little flags for those merchants and camps that would prefer we not perform in their designated areas; they must be hung in a visible area. <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">The populace will be granting their tokens to the bard that has given them the best time so be sure to keep moving and gathering as many as you can to get that first Fire Walker's Lantern. We will be gathering the competitors' bags at 10 pm on Sat Night. As soon as we have counted them all up we will announce the winners at the Hafla.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">The Ansteorran Middle Eastern Dance Championship will be held Saturday night and promises to be most exhilarating.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Site will open at 4:00 PM on Friday, September 23<SUP>rd</SUP> and close at noon on Sunday September 25<SUP>th</SUP>. There will be no feast.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">We look forward to seeing one and all.</FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Lady Aislyn of Glynwyrd Fen</FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">and Arcus Fearghus MacKenna</FONT></FONT></P>
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