The Armour Archive

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After fighting for about fifteen years I have two shots that I have taken that stand out in my mind. Both were freak happenings from honorable opponents. Radu (Moose, aka Bri's Beau) once hit me in the head so hard that my kidneys hurt for a week. I think it was something about my spine snapping lik...

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I wonder why I never see Uther and Luther Von Ziemer on the list for Meridies when this thread comes up. I love those guys. When they first started, it was a lot like the WWF comes to the SCA. Age and Marriage had mellowed them by the time I left Meridies in '99. I sometimes think it's a shame that ...

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Sir Lee was a relatively private man, at least with me. He was almost unique in the SCA in that he was from a "Mixed marriage". In other words, his wife didn't play SCA, and he did. She didn't go with him to events that I am aware of. He rightly put his family before his hobby, and thus he didn't at...

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OK, the Orphanage has lined up nicely. The primary recipiant is http://www.zirafin.cz The english version of the page is through the tiny English flag on the upper left. The secondary (backup) is lined up too. Jehan, Thank you for your excellent encouragement. I hesitate to demand money from the opp...

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Here's a status report. The donor's website is almost finished. It awaits only the address of the money recipiants. The local american radio station (AFN) wants to do a story, as does the local american paper (training times). I am just waiting on the name of SOMEBODY who can accept the money. I am ...

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This is where things stand as of five PM Bavaria time on Tuesday. I have my primary charity trying to get me the donation information, and my back up charity ready to go. If the primary doesn't get me the info by friday, I will go with the back up. After that, I will start lining up the sponsors. fr...

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Hiya Guys, I loved seeing all the photos from Crown. It almost made me feel like I was still there. I miss you all. Elazar And we miss you and yours, your excellency. Very much. Especially when it's time to sing. By the way, when somebody remembers you and sings the chorus of one of your two songs,...

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If I can be so bold as to toss in my 2 pence...having just done a similar fundraiser... Do you intend to do this as a one day event, or several hours each day of Pennsic? That can REALLY make a differnce in how you plan and approach this endeavor. Well, truth be told, I think that it might be best ...

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Jehan de Pelham wrote:
The fact that many people fly I am sure is a great bother.

Master Feral flew in from the East. It really, really means a lot when folks take the trouble to come all the way over here.

It's especially nice when they are particularly cool people, like Feral and Cassandra.

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Sir Vitus said No, it is a Passage of Arms because you are holding your ground against all comers. A formal Deed of Arms involves the formal arrangement to fight between two specific people or parties. Thank you, Sir Knight. It seemed different from the others. I was wondering exactly what it would ...

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Gentles, I am doing something that I think is really cool. I have had six meetings with lawyers to set the groundwork in place. There is a small, underfunded orphanage in the Chech Republic where one of the staff at my school volunteers. I intend to fight a marathon fighting session (at Pennsic) to ...

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Good Gentles, I just wanted to say a personal thank you to the ancient realm of the East Kingdom for sending the really cool Maestro Feral Von Halstern and the even cooler Cassandra to visit Drachenwald. The Maestro taught a great class (I could not attend as I was judging something at that time) an...

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I talked to my friend Coco yesterday, and it looks like the Rattan Baton tourney will feature both her and Valconnan, which may mean that the tourney (which is not affiliiated with any organization) will feature both the largest (Valconnan, at slightly more than 2 meters) and the smallest (Coco at a...

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Please come to my party. My buddies are throwing a combined birthday party for me and two other people. I didn't design the party, but if I had been asked to define my "perfect party" I don't think it would have been materially different than this. Well, there would have been more dancing girls, but...

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12-15 in Drachenwald. This should be viewed with the understanding that there are less active fighters in Drachenwald. It seems like about half the regular fighters (regularly attending) fighters are members of the chivalry. At the practice I attended yesterday, one third of the fighters were chiv,...

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My money is on John Bearkiller and the Grey Niche Team. Or whatever team is fielded by that Barony.

I am giving four to five. Services given preferences over cash.

Deliveries at Pennsic.

Any takers?

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Not my blooper but I was there when it happened. Pennsic 32 woods battle..myself with long glaive, Baroness Rixa with "Can Opener" her infamous short glaive, Lady Adrienne MacLeod with Scutum and sword, Marcus sword and shield and the new guy Ben with a center grip oval and sword. Now we told Ben; ...

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It is important to go back over the safety rules one extra time with soldiers that are within twenty four hours of their return from Iraq. Especially if they were working toward authorization (for the first time) when they left. The same is probably true for persons who have gotten out of prison in ...

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There was a tourney this past year (before the snows) in Livorno, Italy. They used SCA rules and fought with steel. there were apparantly no injuries, though is seems odd to me.

I just heard about it this past weekend.

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Multiple fields would not be a new thing for Drachenwald Crown. The list that had (then) Lord Gerhardt, Tren and Sir Alfred of Carslyle tied for the finals had three rings running at once.

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Don't get in no big ole hurry.

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If I wore that, I would look like a biker ferret was having carnal knowlege of my head.

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I have always wanted an SCA combat version of a guitar or a chello. We have an event called "feast of fools" that would be great.

A chello would have a thrusting tip.

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You armourers get all the great looking groupies. I should have been an armorer, but somebody told me that being a musician was the way to go. I can't tell you how many times I would walk up to a pretty girl as I was leaving the stage, and had her say something like "Don't even ask, my girlfriends a...

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So where's the castle? I have some relatives in that neck of the woods. Please PM me if you wish to keep it private. Nope, like I said, it is breaking my heart that I don't get to play for these folks. I have never had a problem with playing for folks who are in other organizations, but when you in...

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I have had a big, curved round for about ten years that used to be the "issue sheild" for my household. It is side strapped, and about forty inches across. Old (legally acquired) railroad crossing sign. I think it works great, but when grounded, it allows spears to be slipped under the (non-existant...

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Matt, Having a nice rig does give one more confidence. There can be a downside, however. I had only been fighting for a couple of years and I had a really nice rig at the time. At a war, I was mistaken for some Duke who's colors where the same as mine. I spent most of the day running away from enti...

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Guys, We are having an SCA in a castle that is less than ten miles from the Chech border. I would really like to make sure that folks who migh be in non SCA armour oriented groups (like "Larpies" as my german friends call them, or LH folks from Germany and the Chech republic) know that they don't ha...

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JUst talked to the client, she says that it needs more spikes.

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Guys, I have made a prop for a theatre show. The Show is "Guards! Guards!" by Terry Pratchet, and the prop is a humorous brayette (or codpiece). The instructions were "Make it big, make it embarrassing, make it shiny, make it battered." this is the result. [img]http://img155.exs.cx/img155/118/protec...

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you know, my first impulse is to say "Step on it", buit I imagine you already tried that.

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MY priorities were a little different. I started fighting when I was broke and in my early twenties. My first rig's primary priority was "Get me on the field!!" It took me two weeks between discovering fighting and having a full (well, legal) rig. After that the priority was "Better gear". I do thin...

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Thank you for the greetings Sean Powell. The type of armor i am looking for is completly leather except of course the helm....i really am not looking for a specific type of armor. Since my budget is really low i was wondering if you or anyone else knows were i can get some useable armor. Dont need ...

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This has circulated though the archive a couple of times. It appears to be pretty high quality stuff. Maybe not masterwork quality, but definitely nice stuff. It durned well should be for twenty grand. My question is " Who is making this stuff ?" I mean, between the bunch of us, we pretty much shoul...

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I would bet that that was an SCA armor thing. We have tons of leather stuff from the middle ages and even earlier. We don't have that much leather armor however.

There is some, but I don't recall seeing anything like that.

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Re: Drachenwald Crown

Will this count as a deed of arms?

A personal thank you to the entire Eastrealm

Please come to my party (Xpost)

Important safety tip

Inviting Non-SCA types to a tourney (CH, DE)

Theatrical prop. Cpl. Carrot's Protective