[Steppes] playing persona

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Honorable Lady Ekatarina Iadorovna Kharlampieva

This is indeed a most honorable quest.  For those such as I that have been playing for only a limited time it is particularly interesting since I have wondered why I should develop a personae since I rarely see anyone acting out a personae.  I joined for the archery and have become interested in the rest of it only in the last year or so and have sometimes wondered where the reenactment and the much touted honorable and noble behaviour was.  Perhaps this will allow me to see more of it.

In the spirit of that which you are requesting, although I mayn't be able to attend this gathering of the populace of our good barony, I shall start wearing of at least the minimal garb of a tabard to the weekly Steppes archery practices and I invite others to do so as well.    For those that do not actively send the steel tipped piecses of wood down range at high rates of speed, please come out and allow our archers to enjoy your company and show what we are about to the newcomers we often have at archery practice.  And yes, we do have shade trees and often a pavilion to sit under.

Yours in Service to the Dream

Lord Jacques the Spink
Steppes Archery Marshall
Glaslyn Archery Defender
Emerald Keep Archery Champion

-------Original Message-------
From: Karen Calhoun <kmcalhou at garlandisd.net>
Sent: 04/21/03 11:14 AM
To: steppes at ansteorra.org
Subject: [Steppes] playing persona

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> To my neighbors and friends of the Steppes does Ekatarina Iadorovna
Kharlampieva send greetings.

I humbly request the help of my friends.

I am trying to get back into playing persona.  I haven't exactly defined
my persona precisely, but I do know that I should be exhibiting some
semblance of courtly graces that I feel that I've lost over the years due to lack
of practice.

(I don't know about you, but I have found that I've become very
comfortable with you folks.  Not that this is a bad thing, but I've gotten away from
what the SCA was and have turned it into social hour for myself.)

So here's my request:  I would like to make populace my place to practice.
 I am planning to attend in garb and use whatever grace I may have and do
it up right.  Your help would be greatly appreciated.  Please help me to
know what honors you've earned so that I may use your correct title.  You've
worked hard for those honors and deserve to named correctly.  Please join
me in wearing garb.  It gives the event a more authentic feel.  (It also
keeps me from feeling embarrassed because I'm the only one dressed funny.)  I
would be very happy to see others join me in practicing.  Again, I would
feel out of place if I was the only one "talking funny and acting weird".

Thanks for helping me recreate my dream.  I may have lost it, but it can't
be that far away.

In service to the Dream, Our Kingdom, and Barony,

Sincerely,

Honorable Lady Ekatarina Iadorovna Kharlampieva
known as Katya



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