[MR] Atlantia Digest, Vol 91, Issue 8

Tue Aug 10 12:16:20 PDT 2010

I've listed a 35" schlager with mask and gorget on ebay if anyone is looking for a deal....  Item #250680358616. Selling trim and some books on eBay later this week too. 

Kate M'Kethirryke

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On Aug 10, 2010, at 3:00 PM, atlantia-request at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org wrote:

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> Today's Topics:
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>   1. Howl IV Update (Adeliza of Bristol)
>   2. Romance Through the Ages (Bertran)
>   3. OT Seeking roommate Manassas VA (sigrune at aol.com)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 17:46:28 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Adeliza of Bristol <adeliza at bellsouth.net>
> To: atlantia at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
> Subject: [MR] Howl IV Update
> Message-ID: <48209.63834.qm at web180208.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
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> Please feel free to share this far and wide so everyone will know all the fun we 
> plan to have!
> 
> Ourtraditional Zombie Tourney will be offered for the fiendish delight of the 
> armored, duelists and spectators alike. Additional fighting formats will be 
> included for the survivors and undead alike as time allows. A terrifying target 
> archery shoot is planned for those who wish to practice their vampire 
> vanquishing skills.
> 
> If you missed it last year, think of it as a reverse warlord tourney of a sort, 
> with a castle. The participants are divided into two teams. One team is the 
> Zombies (attackers); the other is the Townsfolk (defenders). The rules are as 
> follows:
> 1. Zombies cannot be killed except by three telling blows to the head. However, 
> all other incapacitating blows (legs, arms) are retained.
> 2. Zombies can only fight with one arm with a one-handed weapon
> 3. Zombies must mutter "BRAINSSSSSS" at random intervals
> 4. Townsfolk may use weapons of choice
> 5. Immediately upon ?death,? all Townsfolk must resurrect as a Zombie, using the 
> aforementioned Zombie conventions of combat.
> Last man standing is the winner!
> 
> There will be multiple A&S competitions for all to enjoy and enter. Categories 
> will include Subtleties (documentation required); Best Story of Sweet Revenge; a 
> scroll blank competition with all entries being donated to the Barony; and Best 
> Use of Fall Foliage in Period Fashion. An open display area will also be 
> available for those who would like to share their talent but not compete. 
> 
> 
> Seasonal games, parties and treats will abound for all ages to take part in and 
> enjoy! Bring a modern Halloween costume on Friday night and join in the fun of a 
> modern supernatural soiree! Their Majesties? nautical guild, The Corsairium, 
> will provide freaky fun and ghoulish games to challenge those seeking treats on 
> Saturday. That evening, gather for a period party to fool the Darkness itself. 
> How would your persona have died in period? Drowning, hanging, disease and war, 
> just to name a few, provided so many wicked ways to die, so get creative with 
> your persona?s end as we gather for a period post-mortem party. Additional 
> competitions for phantasmal fun and devilish delight will be had throughout the 
> weekend as well.
> 
> Reserve now!
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 01:15:24 +0000
> From: Bertran <bertran.de.st.jean at gmail.com>
> To: Merry Rose <atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>
> Subject: [MR] Romance Through the Ages
> Message-ID: <0016367d67401f01cd048d6dde9a at google.com>
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>  Sent to you by Bertran via Google Reader: Romance Through the Ages via
> Got Medieval by noreply at blogger.com (Got Medieval) on 8/9/10
> This week's marginal medieval image is found in the lower margin of a
> page in Bodleian Library MS Bodl. 264, the mid-fourteenth-century
> edition of the Romance of Alexander that I've featured here quite a
> bit:*
> 
> To each side of a pair of birds the illuminator has given us a pair of
> lovers meant to demonstrate that old proverb, "Life ain't nothing
> but..."--er, I mean "The more you love someone, the more..."--er, that
> is, the old truism, "Women! Can't live with'em, can't... something
> something." OK, I admit it, I've got no clue what's going on. You tell
> me.
> 
> The couple on the left consists of a homely and/or older lady giving
> her heart (represented as the actual organ, though without any blood)
> to a young man who looks like he just smelled something funky:
> 
> The couple on the right is composed instead of an eager older man
> offering a full money purse and a young woman who rejects him:
> 
> Will nothing satisfy you young people? You reject an old man's money
> AND an older woman's offer of a heart she ripped still-beating from the
> chest of her husband whose sleeves were no where near as fashionable as
> yours? Really, there's just no pleasing some people.
> 
> A nice thing about this particular MS 264 artist (several worked on the
> manuscript) is the attention he gives to faces. Here, he gives both the
> unrequiting youngsters the same disinterested nostril flare and pursed
> lips of disapproval that seem to say, "Ah, yes, your little gift,
> how... nice.":
> 
> 
> --
> 
> *How many times can I dip into the same well? Well, there's over 500
> pages in that particular manuscript, and nearly every one has
> something** on it.
> **Though most of those somethings are birds, and once you've seen five
> or six marginal birds you've seen them all. Still, there's about 100
> fully-illuminated pages with multiple marginal elements per page, so if
> I wanted I could just open a MS Bodl. 264 blog and I'd have posts for
> years.***
> ***Though as I said, they'd mostly be bird posts. People like birds,
> right?
> 
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> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 08:16:24 -0400
> From: sigrune at aol.com
> To: moo at lists.stierbach.org, moo at stierbach.org,
>    ponte-alto at atlantia.sca.org,    atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
> Subject: [MR] OT Seeking roommate Manassas VA
> Message-ID: <8CD069CFBF20815-144C-C502 at webmail-d051.sysops.aol.com>
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> I am looking to find a roommate for a 2 bedroom apartment in Manassas 
> VA.
> 
> It is an older style apartment, just off rt 28 just north of Manassas 
> Park, just south of the county line from Centreville.
> It is convenient for travel, and the Manassas stops for VRE are nearby. 
> (Would even be willing to assist getting a person there, since it is on 
> my way to work.)
> I am asking $300 per month for the room + half utilities.  There is 
> free wireless internet
> 
> If anyone is interested to find out more, email me privately or call me 
> at 703-623-4722
> 
> Thank you for the bandwidth.
> -Takeda
> 
> 
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