[MR] Ransom letter

[Sigrid Briansdotter]

Most Felicitous Greetings unto Their Excellencies Lochmere does send this your most humble servant, Magistra Sigrid Briansdotter.

Oh great and powerful Lochmere, whose generosity and magnificence is known throughout the land, nay, the Known World.

I beseech you. Most piteously, I beseech you. You cannot allow this knave, who doesn't even have the courage to name himself, to harm this world's most glorious treasure, the players of Gli Zelanti.

Our most Illustrious Majesties will be joining us at this Mid-Winter's 
Feast on January 19th in the year of 2013. You cannot allow them to not have the opportunity to experience 
the wonder and amazement that is Gli Zelanti. Think of your oaths of 
Fealty. It would be inconceivable to not provide fullest measure of 
hospitality.

I shall dig through my coffers, though they be most barren, to find any last groat to assist you in their glorious rescue. I humbly suggest that you petition the most glorious King of France to assist you. I hear that he is most fond of this Italian Commedie. Send word also to those Italian States that they may assist in bringing home their countrymen. Gli Zelanti is one of their most famous troupes. I am sure they cannot bear to have them ripped from their grasp.

While we will gather and bask in the joy of each other's company, seeing the glorious bounty of your artisans and amaze at their competitions, tasting the delights of the palate presented by Sir Christian  Darmody and Lady Lisette La Roux, how are we to laugh? To learn through the foibles of others while gaining some small amusement?

Surely your beneficence can but demand of you their safety. Your humble and magnanimous rule would allow no other possibility. (The stench would be atrocious.)

Written in service, by this your most humble and unworthy servant, Magistra Sigrid Briansdotter, on this third day of December in the year of 2012 from our remote estates of Bjorkvik.

To see more on Lochmere's Mid-Winter's event visit the Kingdom Calendar website.

http://acorn.atlantia.sca.org/event_flyer.php?event_id=c32566e6

It's going to be a great time.

> Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2012 21:05:25 -0800
> Subject: [MR] Ransom letter
> 
> Baron Galmr and Baroness Edys,
> 
> If you wish to see more than the heads of your beloved actors again, you must pay 10,000 gold and 50,000 silver and release all the Huguenot prisoners.
> 
> The coins must be untraceable! You must follow our instructions very carefully.It should be only you and the Baroness who shall drop off the money. 
> 
> Leave a leather bag with the money by the golden stone double arches then you must rub your tummies and pat your heads as you back away from
> the goods. We'll be watching near by and if you do not comply then we shall pike the heads of Gli Zelanti. It could be very very very messy and we know
> you do not wish to clean up such a mess! Once we have our money will let your actors go. 
> 
> 
> Signed by...Guess who