[Ravensfort] Judgment of Paris a Report

Sun Oct 17 11:06:49 PDT 2010

Thank you for that wonderful report. I am sure we will be able to attend their next event, you make it sound so wonderful. G

On Oct 17, 2010, at 10:58 AM, Lemoine Beers <loco.cerveza at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Judgment of Paris
>  in the
> Barony of Bjornsborg
> October 15-17 A. S. XLV
>
>     On October 15, A. S. XLV, Mistress Shanahan, my lovely wife Rosalia and myself ventured to the lands of Bjornsborg for there event "The Judgment of Paris". Our journey from Raven's Fort to Bjornsborg was a pleasurable one. We traveled up and down many roads that we do not get to travel on during ones normal routine. The trees of Ansteorra had put on their fall colors and it was a sight to see.
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>     Once in the lands of Bjornsborg we made our way to the site of this event. We arrived at about 1800 hours. The people manning the gate did a wonderful job of checking us into the event. It took us longer to get out of our car and walk over to the gate than it did to get checked in. The people on the gate during this shift did a very wonderful job. This made for the start of a very wonderful weekend. When one has the honor of being checked in at gate by people that are that much on their job and making sure that you are happy from the word go it is hard not feel great about how the event is going to play out.
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>     Once at the camping grounds, we saw that this was a very large and welcoming area. We found a nice spot that was both flat and close to the list field. Once the three of us had unloaded the cars and set up the tents we lit the lamps and Mistress Shanahan cooked a very excellent stoup. A stoup is our word a cross between a stew and a soup. It warmed the body and brought joy to the soul. Watching the sunset in company of good friends while eating good food, is something we all should endeavor to do more of. After the sun had slipped under the horizon. Mistress Shanahan, Rosalia and myself went out on a walkabout of the site. All of the trail, and paths were lit with tiki torches making traveling around this site very easy. We had the chance to steal a few minutes from Lady Elisava Illiesca, always a wonderful person to visit with. Lady Elisava informed us that if we needed anything that her self and her dear Lord William Harper would be more then happy to tend to our needs, she also informed us that his hair had turned from a most wonderful argent to a deep sable, so it may be hard to find him. We were graced with a few minutes of the time from H. E. Mistress Suzanne Beraud who had to have had eight arms to have been doing everything she was doing. She along with all the good and gentle peoples of Bjornsborg were doing a lot of last minute work to make sure that the a grand time at this event. Finding that it was getting late and that we were for a long day Saturday we returned to camp and went to bed.
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>     Waking up early in the morning Rosalia and myself found that Mistress Shanahan had made a wonderful breakfast. After taking this nourishment we found that H. E. Brian du Val and His Lordship Centurion Michael of Gravesend had arrived to the event. I would be remiss if I did not point out that I your humble teller of this tale, Lemoine de Gascoigne as an artisan was more then honored when Centurion Michael asked me to be his sponsor in the list that day. Along with H. E. Brain du Val asking if he could herald us in to court. Yes true believers I had the honor of not only getting to be the sponsor a great man of honor on the field be having our Baron wanting to be our field herald. It was a great thing.
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>     With H. E. Brian announcing our process into the court of good Baron and Baroness of Bjornsborg. I presented a to the court of Bjornsborg a piece of vine charcoal made from the finest grape vine in Raven's Fort along with two oyster shells for paint. H. E. Mistress Suzanne Beraud plucked it from my hands and with a smile saying "Cool, pigment stuff" After court was over Centurion Michael made ready for the list.
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>     I gathered up all of my painting supplies and made my way down to the artisan building. It was on my way to that point I had decided to paint a painting in honor of the Greek Goddess Athena. I chose to paint a field of vert with Athena's shield of or, with two spiders in chief of sable. While I was painting I had the honor of having many of the good and noble members of the Order of the Laurel as well as many others come up and talk with me about my painting and what I am doing along with my goals as an artisan. I thank all of you that took the time out of your busy day to come and talk to me. I received a lot of very good feedback as well as very good instruction.
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>     It was while I was working on my painting that Mistress Amata Amati d'Arezzo came to me and we talked of painting with period pigments on terra cotta. This was something I had not even thought of nor tried before. Mistress Amata then gifted me with some terra cotta to practice on and also to do research along with experimentation on. It looks like something that I will enjoy.
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>     Spending most of my day painting I had to rely on reports from my loving wife Rosalia on the Centurion Micheal's progress in the list. After I had painted so long that my eyes would no longer focus on the canvas. I made my way back to list field to find that Centurion Micheal had won the honor of the Goddess Aphrodite, for his efforts on the field of honor.
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>     Now we move on to the feast. I have to start out with saying that the feast fee, I tell you what I would have been more then willing to pay twice of what I did for that feast. We received so much food that we were wondering how we were going to get up and make our way tonight. For what the three of us paid for site and feast you could not go out and eat like that at any mundane restaurant. In fact this feast was so good and so plentiful I would have to say that we got site free when buying feast.
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>      Night court was nice and short. The Baron and Baroness of Bjornsborg kept everything running smooth. I have to say the guardsmen of Bjornsborg looked great, they had on uniformed tunics along with there helms made one think twice about doing anything that would anger them. After court we returned back to camp.
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>     Due to the monster of mundane life Rosalia and I were forced to return back to Raven's Fort that night. I once again have to say that I will come hell or high water do my best as well as try to get as many others to attend events in the Barony of Bjornsborg. I say vivat to our kinsmen in the west and thank you for having us at our event.
>  
> Later
> Lemoine de Gascoigne MKA "L.D. Beers" loco.cerveza at gmail.com
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