[MR] Advice to newcomers

[David Chessler]

Well, there was the Borgia family in Italy. Probably the Medici also, but
they're less associated with the practice. Almost any "man at arms" or "guard"
or "palace servant" to upper nobility COULD have been used as an assassin,
perhaps repeatedly. ("Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?")

In the 16th C you could be a "street tough" or criminal or something. They
could carry arms in many places (the old laws were no longer enforced).  This
could work out if you covered your armor with something resembling street
clothing, and used a round steel buckler instead of the more common heater
shield

I don't see much opportunity for this in rapier (it is possible to fight
rapier armed with just a dagger, but you have to be very fast AND very good,
so it's certainly not for a beginner) Someone with an interest in herbalism,
alchemy, etc, could work up an interesting persona, and occasional A&S
projects.

--

YIS

Davitt il Bigollo da Pisa
Erudit de l'Academie de Espee de Atlantia
Storvik (rapier)
Roxbury Mill (other things) 

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Received: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:20:19 PM EDT
From: melissa haney <brenna14_02 at yahoo.com>
To: "Atlantia at atlantia.sca.org" <Atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>
Subject: [MR] Advice to newcomers

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> Can  someone give me some advice to pass on to a newcomer. He wants to be an
assassin as his persona. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Brenna
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