[MR] Fw: [SCATarvin] No shit there I was... Ymir

[Dan & Hilda Mackison]

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From: Dan & Hilda Mackison <dan.mackison at pobox.com>
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Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 6:09 AM
Subject: [SCATarvin] No shit there I was... Ymir


> Well, Vincetta and I have returned from Ymir and the entire event was
> magical to the point of being surreal.  Friday night we arrived and found
a
> cabin with heat waiting for us instead of setting up tents in the dark.
> Fighting was supposed to start at 9 am with a Norse style challenge match,
> but the king said that fighting would not start until 1 p.m. and the
marshal
> in charge changed it, with the time crunch, to a standard double
elimination
> tourney (lose twice and you are out).
>
> During the fighting, I pulled King Anton's name for the first round. He
> stepped up to me and stated that he would prefer to fight sword & shield
and
> I replied that I would prefer great swords. He agreed and when we got
ready
> to fight I said something to thank him and hopefully sounded eloquent. The
> bout was a single blow for each of us. His blow was blocked and mine
landed
> cleanly. My blow was not all that hard and I would have understood if he
had
> not taken it but instead he fell. I killed the king!
>
> Afterward, he pulled me aside and congratulated me and also directed me to
> another knight who could advise me on thrusting tip construction. My
current
> thrusting tip is a bit pillowy and he was not the first to comment that it
> occasionally detracts from the force of my slashes.
>
> My second round I lost with a sword & shield in my hands against an
opponent
> who's name I do not know but who wore a silver scale on blue. My third
round
> I won using my shorter great sword against a man who's name I also do not
> know, who did not wear heraldry and who wielded two swords. My fourth
round
> was against Sir Gunther (who is living in Rocky Mount again, by the way).
> Sir Gunther tilted up his shield when he rushed me and found my great
sword
> against his ribs. My fifth round (yes, I'm still fighting in the 5th
round.
> I'm amazed too) was against the prince.
>
> I brought my great sword against the prince's sword and shield and, in a
> quick flurry of blows, my great sword found his helm and his sword found
my
> ribs, above the armor. We both fell. In our second bout against each
other,
> we repeated the same blows with the exception that my blow didn't land and
> his hit my unarmored ribs even harder. I didn't breathe for a time.  I
> started to withdraw from the tourney and only realized after I started to
> say something that (with my second loss) I was already out.
>
> Before I give somebody the wrong impression, I know for a fact the prince
> was not aiming for my unarmored body parts. He is a much taller man and if
I
> had not squatted while throwing my own blow, his blow would have landed
> solidly in the center of my body armor.
>
> Hilda was worried but tried to make light of my injury and invited the
> prince to see the wonderful, colorful bruise blossoming on my ribs. He
> declined stating that, as the man who caused the bruise, he didn't feel
> there was anything to admire. This was a very poor time to admit to my
lady
> that I had allowed my health insurance to lapse. I spent a good part of
the
> day worried that my ribs were cracked. Now on Monday morning, I'm pretty
> sure that they are not.
>
> After fighting, I had a warm shower (yes, our cabin had showers too!),
> filled up the car with gas and arrived a bit late for court.  I arrived
> before the end of baronial court and the beginning of royal court.  I knew
> the king would call me up in court after killing him but merely expected a
> public pat on the back.
>
> Let me back up a bit and explain kingdom awards for those on the list who
> aren't familiar with the SCA. An award of arms is generally the first
> kingdom level award a person receives in the society. It is what allows a
> person to call himself "Lord". The second award is the grant of arms. In
the
> 12 years I have been in the SCA I have not received any awards of any
type.
> Saturday night, I received a _grant_ of arms.
>
> Evidently, after I killed the king he asked "who is that man" and quite a
> few people were able to tell him. During the ceremony, I kept glancing
over
> to the queen to see her opinion on awarding a relative unknown like me and
> did not see anything in her face to show that she did not approve.
Vincetta
> was pouring tears in the front row.
>
> Feast that evening was sumptuous with a huge list of delicious food
brought
> out to us one after the other. At one point we asked our server (after the
> fifth or sixth course) how much more there still was and she sighed loudly
> and said she had no idea.  Our table just happened to be positioned in the
> center of the hall on the side away from the kitchen doors which also
> happened to be right next to the place where the musicians quietly played.
> During dinner, the queen visited our table and said that Vincetta's
reaction
> at my award was the greatest reason why she likes being queen.  Vincetta
got
> teary eyed again.
>
> After feast, I was exhausted and slept even though it was only 7 p.m. or
so.
> In the morning, Vincetta attended Curia (the king's business meeting with
> the people) while I packed our stuff. Both the kingdom seneschal and the
> king told Vincetta to go ahead and submit our paperwork for official
status.
> I will be bringing that paperwork to our March 1st meeting to get
> everybody's signature. Please be there.
>
> Sunday night, after we got home and got LOTS of attention from a lonely
dog,
> I again went to bed at 7 p.m..  This morning, I awoke at 5 am, refreshed
if
> bruised, and still amazed at the weekend that I just had.
>
> Sorry if you missed it.
> Lord Thomas MacFinn
>
> Harmony through service and
> service is very hard work
> V. Vincentta
>
> hilda.mackison at pobox.com
>
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