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Last Chance 2012: Barony of Dragon's Laire

A Barony in the Kingdom of An Tir which is
a Part of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA, Inc)

Last Chance was a GREAT EVENT!

As always, the event started, and ended with a marvelous cadre of volunteers. To begin we needed help at the storage unit, and help setting up the event site. Arcos Alaricus, Lord Diomedes, Lord Myrick, M’Lord Trent and M’Lady Chloe of the Myrmidons, M’Lord Stephen, and M’Lord Emil answered the call at the storage unit. At setup Baron Arontius noted Lord Myrick, THL Kassandra, Arcos Alaricus, M’Lord Stephen, M’Lady Allisaundra (sp?) and more whom he can't remember. (Getting old, our Baron?). At gate on Friday were Lady Ella, Lord Malcolm, Lady Anya and M’Lord Emil.

The Event Steward writes:

Greetings Dragon's Laire,

I am going to make this one short because my brain is fried and I need to get to bed here soon. I wanted to send a thank you out to the Barony as a whole for all the help and assistance and also allowing me the great honor of being the Event Steward for such a great event. I will send out a more detailed thank you in the morning when my brain is not so twisted. So for now I say thank you and good night.

IS
Lord Myrick the BearLast Chance Event Steward

Sent to the Dragon's Laire Email List on 09/30/2012

He Continues Later:

Greetings Dragon's Laire,

There are so many people that I have to thank for all of there help this past weekend and so much going on I would like to have few stand out that were with me from the start on thursday all they way up to the end on Sunday and they were; Archos Alaricus Simmonds, HL Kassandra, M'Lord Stephen of House Awry, and M'Lady Alasandra Donato . Thank you so much for everything you guys did and I did very much appreciate the company thursday night. I would also like to put out another special thank you to the very awesome gate crew lead by Lady Ela, and then her crew of Lady Anya, Lord Malcolm, and Lord Emil. You guys did an awesome job of working gate, at times I forgot we had a gate it was running so well! The list of people below took the time out of their busy days during the week or the time during the event to help with either setup to tear down, making storage unit runs both times, to helping with the cooking for the feast later in the event, to running list. So for the awesome job you all did I thank each and every one of you!

All of the above people that are mentioned is the reason why I love being in the best barony in the kingdom and in the words of Her Excellency "Dragon's Laire ROCKS!". I thank everyone that I may have forgotten, If I did forget you, do know that it was not on purpose and you are just as important as the next person in the Barony. I am just bad at remembering names at times. Thank you once again to all, this has been one of the most rewarding things that I have done since i joined this beloved group and I would do it again in a heart beat!

In Very Proud Service to the Barony,
Lord Myrick the BearLast Chance Event Steward and Proud Member of the Barony of Dragon's Laire

Sent to the Dragon's Laire Email List on 10/02/2012

Their Excellencies of Dragon's Laire write:

Greetings Everyone,

We wanted to thank everyone involved in making Last Chance the excellent event it was. After a very long Tournament season, it was nice to end it on such a high note.

Many thanks to Lord Myrick and his Team for stewarding the event. I'm sure Myrick has many thank-yous of his own to give out, but we wanted to make sure to give our gratitude to a number of people who provided assistance to the Barony or to us directly. If we overlook some, please feel free to post their names and what they did. We would be grateful.

Our retinue were wonderful as always. We would not survive for very long without their constant attention to us and the many details necessary to the taking care of us during the day and the running of a good Court in the evening. Many thanks to Dame Madrun, Dame Gwenllyn, Tsuruko Sensei, and THL Adleheidi.

We also worked hard at making sure we included more of the roving retinue for the day and everyone who volunteered worked hard and were very, very attentive to all of our needs. We sincerely thank you. This includes M'Lady Shalimariah Galistene, Lady Marion, Lady Inga, and THL Ataliana (Talia). During the evening Court, this group expanded to also include THL Gabrielle. We encourage others to take part in acting as retinue. It is an opportunity to see the Barony from a different and unique perspective. We try hard to ensure that no one is tasked with anything extraordinarily onerous and do what we can to make it fun.

THL Caius performed admirably as our Court Herald (as usual :-)). I know that Lord Ehrig took a turn at heralding at one point, as did Tsuruko Sensei.

Those given awards at Court include the following:

Snapdragons: Lord Diomedes (Soren the Rib-Breaker); M'Lday Andromache; THL Joest Ronco; Lord Ajax (Radmund of Midloe Grange); M'Lady Madeline of Blackberry Hollow; Arcos Alaricus Simmonds; THL Elisabeth Trostin; and Lord Kamar de Galistene.

Bumblebees: M'Lady Alasandra Donato and HE Brighid Ross.

Dragon's Company (Service To The Martiallate): THL Brian of Cardiff, who was also admitted into The Order of the Wyvern. :-)

Mano Minos (Service To The Arts and Sciences): Dame Madrun y Gwehyddes.

Dragon's Flames (Retiring Champions): Heavy Combat - THL Richard Dragun; Rapier Combat - THL Caius Foxcotte; Archery - Arcos Alaricus Simmonds; and Thrown Weapons - M'Lord Rodrek Eirikson.

There were many hands involved in making Last Chance a success, as said earlier, but there were several that we want to acknowledge specifically as we saw them working the entire weekend, from setting up to the final tear-down. This includes THL Kassandra, M'Lady Allisaundra Donato, Lady Anya and Lord Malcolm, M'Lord Stephen of House Awry, and Arcos Alaricus. Thank you all for all of your work. It was appreciated.

On Sunday, His Excellency apologizes for missing most of the tear-down and packing up of the event due to a migraine. He is remorseful and begs forgiveness. But Her Excellency reports a large number of people who provided many helpful hands in taking things down and putting them away. Especially the transport of equipment back to the storage unit. Many thanks to M'Lord Stephen of House Awry, M'Lord Avinger (sp?), THL Brian of Cardiff, Lord Diomedes, THL Theodoric the Scholar, Dame Gwenllyn Potter, Her Excellency Laurellen, and Arcos Alaricus.

As Baron and Baroness we were especially proud of the amount of service provided by our Serjeantry, Sargent Alaricus and Courtier Madrun.

Forgive us this unusually short letter of gratitude for Last Chance. We were a little under the weather and not at our most observant. We're hopeful that Lord Myrick will help fill in some of the names that we overlooked.

In closing though, we want to say how impressed we were with the competitions themselves. The Chivalry and Courtesy evident in the Heavy Tournament was already mentioned. But we saw that same level of Courtesy, Chivalry, Honour and Commitment in every competition on site. The calibre of the combat was intense and the skill level high everywhere we looked. Everyone involved wanted to ensure that only their best performance was brought to bear and it showed. We just can't speak highly enough of the pride we have in everyone who took part this last weekend.

We are incredibly grateful to live in the most wondrous Barony in the lands of An Tir. All who journey here want to become a member of our family. We certainly understand why. :-)

With Gratitude To All, Arontius and Laurellen
Baron and Baroness of Dragon's Laire.

Sent to the Dragon's Laire Email List on 10/01/2012

Last Chance's Herald Writes:

Thank you Ian for Heralding on the field and on the site.

Thank you Andromacha, Ehrig, Tsuruko and Althea for Heralding at court.

Thank you Tsuruko, Adleheide and Andromacha for all the work behind the thrones to help court run smoothly.

Thank you Tsuruko for teaching, running, and organizing court.

Gabrielle for all her work behind the thrones.

YIS,
Caius

Sent to the Dragon's Laire Email List on 10/02/2012

The Equestrian Marshall in Charge Writes:

Greetings all,

First of all I'd like to thank HL Ivan Leskov and Jófriðr Mánad?ttir for attending with their horses. During the competition HL Ivan explained each game to the audience and did a special demo after court on Sunday. He is a great ambassador for the equestrian community. On Friday night Jófriðr was a huge help to me setting up the games, a task that isn't particularly difficult but takes forever.

Thank you to Lord Myrick, HL Alaricus and Stephen of House Awry for dragging the straw bales into the equestrian arena on Saturday.

A special thank you to Adeliza a Donyng from Aquaterra who came over just to help us out. She helped me with arena set up/tear down and worked with me as ground crew for the entire weekend. She also helped both riders if needed and also helped cook the chicken for the feast!

Thank you again for all your help. If I left anyone out it was not intentional.

YIS,
Murakami Tsuruko
EqMIC Last Chance 2012

Sent to the Dragon's Laire Email List on 10/02/2012

Date: 28 - 30 September
Location: Silver Spurs Saddle Club, 8000 Nels Nelson Rd Bremerton WA 98311!

Last Chance 2012 Event Steward

Lord Myrick the Bear (Caleb Dodge)