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Unto the Barony, greetings from Kameshima! This is your reminder that tomorrow night is the monthly Scribes Guild meeting, from 7pm until 9pm at our house in the North Hills. If you need our address and/or directions, please contact me via email and I will get them to you, or check in the Dark Pages.

This month we will be hosting an Open Project and Small Group Workshop night, where you can bring your current projects, and/or work with others present to improve or learn those skills you’ve been meaning to focus on. If you have specific requests, it’s not too late to make them! Send me an email with what you’re looking for, and we will try to arrange for someone to be there to work with you. (At this point, however, we can’t make promises.)

We look forward to seeing you there!

Knight Marshal Isenwulf:

There will be heavy practice this Sunday, weather permitting, at the Washington Boulevard site, beginning at 2 PM.  I will be unavailable so Robert will be running the practice.

Captain of Archers Katheryn:

Due to the events of this weekend, there will not be Archery Practice this Sunday. Enjoy your events. And for those Archers going to the Hornwood Inn, I want to see a lot of iron tassels at our next practice.

Thrown Weapons Marshal Kuma:

There will be thrown weapons practice Sunday, and we may have the whole fields to ourselves. There will be 2 challenge targets, Simon says and the hanging man. Come on out and throw.

Deputy Youth Marshal Arianna:

While Mistress Fredeburg is unavailable, I will be running Youth Fighting from 2-5 pm this Sunday at the Washington Blvd. site. Map here: https://goo.gl/maps/K5K28wB4gRU2 There will be loaner gear and freezer pops!

As of June 1, Master Meszaros Janos is looking for an individual interested in taking on the position of Baronial A&S minister. This individual is best served by having the following qualifications:

1. Paid member of the Society.
2. Independently mobile, so as to be able to attend scheduled local, regional and Kingdom wide A&S functions.
3. Highly self motivated to pull together a very large group of disparate peoples into a cohesive program of classes and activities.
4. Capable of taking on a two year commitment to the Barony and the people therein.

Your responsibilities will include setting up a local class schedule, working with the Baronial Guilds to get them active again, setting up periodic A&S displays at local and regional events, working with other local and regional A&S ministers to promote the arts and sciences throughout the Barony and the region.

Interested parties should declare their interest, with supporting information on why they think they would be good in this position, to the A&S Minister (ansminister AT debatablelands.org) with a copy to the Baronial Seneschal (seneschal AT debatablelands.org) by 8 July 2016.

Greetings,

Fencing practice tomorrow will begin at 1 PM. There will be a brief intermission for the Barony Meeting at 1:30. Immediately after the Barony Meeting will be the Baronial Fencing Championship, which is open to all authorized fencers in the Barony Marche of the Debatable Lands, the Canton of Steltonwald and the College of Cour d’Or. We will resume our regular practice after that is concluded.

There will be no practice next weekend during War Practice, we will resume our regular schedule the following Sunday May 29.

In Service,
Jorundr

Reminder! This Wednesday, May 18th, starting at 6:30pm in the Pake Room of the Carnegie Mellon University Center, Mistress Antoinette de la Croix will be teaching this month’s Scriptorium, “Gilded Note Cards.”

Have you ever wanted to try your hand at gilding with real gold leaf but have been intimidated by the prospect? Then come to this Gilding workshop, where you will learn to use a variety of binding mediums and how to apply gold leaf. All participants will gild a notecard that they may keep for themselves or donate to Their Majesties.. There is a $3.00 fee for materials.

Questions may be sent to mistressantoinettedelacroix at gmail dot com

Our proud Barony is one member larger as of this weekend. Master Kameshima Zentarou Umakai and Her Ladyship, Isabel Fleuritan welcomed a healthy baby girl in the wee hours of 30 April 2016. Everyone is home and doing fine.

From Takamatsu Gentarou Yoshitaka —

Archers of the BMDL!

We need to select a representative from our fine Barony to compete in the Scarlet Guard challenge at Hornwood! While normally my competitive ego would demand of me that I do this , I’m ineligible this year! So string your mighty longbow, deadly recurve, speedy horsebow or pinpoint crossbow, I fully expect my comrades in arms to bring a second victory to our Debatable Lands , let’s start a dynasty, shall we?

Here is the original challenge from The Order of the Scarlet Guard:

Greetings

Unto all the groups of AEthelmearc does The Order of the Scarlet Guard wish to issue a challenge. This year on Saturday June 11th in the Shire of Hornwood at the Scarlet Guard Inn IV we are inviting every Barony, Shire, Canton, and College to send an individual to compete in an archery competition.

To enter each group can pick one representative, that is a member of that group, and send along a signed letter from the seneschal of the group as proof of entry. Only persons with a signed letter from the group’s seneschal will be allowed to compete. We would also ask that each group send a small item or token from their group that would then be put in the prize basket for the winner. There is also a banner for the winner to keep during the year. It is our plan to have the name of the winner and group he/she is from added to this banner each year.

Members of the Scarlet Guard are not eligible to shoot in this competition. Also the archer who won the previous year is also not eligible, that group may send another archer instead.

The winner of last year was The Barony-Marche of the Debatable Lands who sent Takamatsu Gentarou Yoshitaka as their representative.

It is our hope to continue this challenge every year.

The Order of the Scarlet Guard

If you have any questions please contact us at scarletguard_clerk@aethelmearc.org

Jorundr