[MR] Assassins

[Smith CTR Jeffrey C]

I remember those days all too well -- my first "job" in the SCA (in the days when there were just four kingdoms) was using my persona as a Germanic priest to prevent poisonings by carving protective runes in peoples' styrofoam cups (things were simpler then).

I am happy those days of looking for a marble in my drink are behind me, and do not look forward to their return.  While this person may want to be an assassin, I doubt anyone else wants to be assassinated and it takes two to tango.  Does he expect that the constables of the Society will arrest him whenever the Crown in nearby?  If he pursues assassinations as they were formerly done in the SCA, he will more likely find himself on the receiving end of some blunt conversation that he will not enjoy and may find himself unwelcome from events and, I daresay as a multiple time former seneschal, he may find himself asked to leave events -- I don't think that's what he wants.

This new member should be advised to seek out another persona.

Barcsi Janos

-----Original Message-----
From: atlantia-bounces at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org [mailto:atlantia-bounces at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org] On Behalf Of Gina Shelley
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 21:38
To: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
Subject: [MR] Assassins


You're friend could have some fun with this...alas, so many people have forgotten the old games we used to play. 

Anyone remember the game where you could "poison" someone?  You slipped a rock into their drink and if they drank before noticing the rock, they'd been poisoned. 

Usually a dose of Irish Mist was enough to bring them back from the brink. 

I was pretty good at it. Ask Liam.  

Dulcy