[Archers] Pennsic

Siegfried siegfried at crossbows.biz
Wed Oct 27 10:39:06 PDT 2010


Thank you for your efforts Rowan!

Siegfried


On 10/27/10 1:36 PM, Denise McMahon wrote:
> I have written to the Lord Mayor of Pennsic 40 and asked to be put in
> contact with whomever is in charge of Archery for Pennsic 40. It's Baron
> Devon, so only Lord knows when he'll get back to me. :) I didn't leave
> it at that since I have one or two friends who are Society level
> marshals (they are from the Midrealm), so I asked them to please go find
> out what they could so we could get a jump start on this. It was my
> intention to give the information to Lorelei or perform introductions
> and then stand back and let the Archery Community run with the project
> giving any other support that I could. 
> 
> I'm still waiting to hear back- but I only wrote to folks and placed
> phone calls on Monday and both of them travel a great deal. Those who
> know me, know that I am rather persistant, so I do think that I should
> have some good info for us shortly.  However, that shouldn't stop anyone
> else from writing emails to the Lord Mayor, phoning folks they know or
> otherwise utilizing their contacts to make this thing happen. The more
> the merrier might actually get this thing done- and that would be
> fabulous for everyone, Atlantia and everyone else.
> 
> As ever, sometimes the coronet can be useful for something other then an
> ornate paperweight. :) Just to trying to be helpful.
> 
> cheers!
> 
> -Rowan
> 
> On Oct 27, 2010, at 10:29 AM, Holly Gibbons wrote:
> 
>> Dear Archer-co-conspirators:
>>  
>> I am willing to work for this. I will bring targets, do the
>> advertizing at Pennsic and ahead of time, whatever needs doing now or
>> later. But honestly, the person heading this up (or persons) need to
>> be able to communicate at the highest level with Royalty and others.
>> Who can do that? DEM Lorelei? Yew-bow-people? Barons and Baronesses?
>> Countesses?
>>  
>> Who is running archery for the Mid this year? Do we go directly from
>> our Fearless Leader DEM Lorelei to the Mid-Pennsic-Panda DEM or does
>> our Royalty go to Mid-Royalty? I haven't got a clue about this stuff.
>>  
>> But truly, the first actual steps _are_ going to be political, once we
>> all decide exactly what it is we are proposing to do. So let us
>> continue this dialog to lay out precisely what we want to happen. Do
>> we have agreement that our goal is a "novelty" shoot at Pennsic,
>> sponsored by Atlantian Archers or sponsored by Atlantian Royalty (this
>> is probably better), to take place on a weekday during war week
>> (preferably tues or wed), in which we take over the entire range
>> (hopefully), set up targets early in the a.m., have a great shoot,
>> collect scores by individual and by kingdom, and award wonderful
>> prizes and bragging rights at the end? Is this shoot open to all, or
>> only to a certain level of archer, or to a certain number of archers
>> per kingdom (like mayvbe 25 archers)? Is there a theme or is it just
>> bring one target each from your stash? Who among us exactly is willing
>> to sacrifice some trailer space for exactly what targets? Can we make
>> this happen on the "back 40" land (and maybe in the woods) if we are
>> not allowed to use the war points range? Can we have this novelty
>> shoot and still have enough marshalls to run war points? (I would
>> rather see war points NOT shot that day.) Will this shoot draw archers
>> away from the champs team and the war points shooting? And how can we
>> get around this and assure the Easterners and Midders who care about
>> winning their war that this won't happen?
>>  
>> So many questions.
>> Let's draw up the vision and flesh it out, as archers, while the
>> political types figure out how to make this happen.
>> Nuala of Needwood
>>
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