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12th Night Social Tomorrow, Jan 16th

15 Friday Jan 2021

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The Barony-Marche of the Debatable Lands invites the Kingdom to an afternoon virtual 12th Night Social on Saturday, January 16th, starting at 1pm. Join us for socializing, games, entertainment, fighting classes, and more! Help us spread joy and cheer!

The full schedule with details and links to all the activities is here: http://bit.ly/12thNight21 . Use this document to navigate the event! Check out our plans:

A Main Room for socializing, and chatelaining. Drop in and see which of your friends are chatting. New folks are welcome to come in for intros and questions. You can do tech troubleshooting here, too!

Fighting Classes!
— 1pm – Count Seto Gesshuko teaches “How to Stay Deadly with At Home Fighting Exercises” (1 hr)
— 2pm – Viscount Sagan teaches “An Approach to Successful Training, Practice and Combat” (2 hrs)
— 4pm – Jarl Steinarr Aggarson teaches “Reading Unknown Opponents in a Safe Way” (1hr)

A Game Room, hosted by Lord Angus MacDougall of the Debatable Lands:
–Games include Carcassonne, 7 Wonders, and jackbox.tv offerings such as Quiplash, Talking Points, and Champ’d Up.
–Exact games to be determined by the players. Come at 1pm to hop in early, but players are welcome anytime!
[Note: some minor requirements outside of Zoom are needed for online gaming, see schedule for details]

Our Entertainment Room has many fun activities!
–A merry Sing-A-Long with Lady Alysoun
— I Genesii presents: “Arlecchino’s Adventure” & “Love Canals” (ages 16 and up only, pls)
–Gift Exchange Unwrapping Party! Not part of an exchange? Bring your favorite holiday gift to show off!
–A Bardic Circle, led by THL Silence de Cherbourg

We have an entire Movie Room just for Shakespeare’s 12th Night – every version! Presented by Master Alaric MacConnall. This activity starts at 11am and runs through midnight. See the event schedule (“Movie Schedule” tab) for the full movie titles and times.

We honored to host a Memorial Gathering in Honor of Master Remus Fletcher from 3pm to 4pm.
Details here.

At 5pm, all are invited to the Debatable Lands Baronial Court. Come on over to the Main Room to see your friends and chosen family be recognized.

The afternoon will conclude with a community chat after Court, same Zoom channel. See and chat and be of good cheer together. [Still want more? Shakespeare’s 12th Night Movies continue to midnight!]

See you there!

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Call for Letters: Kingdom Chronicler

14 Tuesday Jul 2020

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Unto all of Æthelmearc does Dame Aine O’Muirghesan send greetings:

My Friends,

It’s hard to believe but my second term as Kingdom Chronicler is coming to an end this November.

I have asked for and been granted a one-year extension because of the logistical issues surrounding the pandemic, but must also do my due diligence and put out a call for letters. They may be sent to resume.chronicler@aethelmearc.org by September 1st.

If you have any questions about the Chronicler’s Office please reach out to me at ae.chronicler@aethelmearc.org.

In Service,

Aine

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Bringing Games to Events

18 Thursday Dec 2014

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Fun, Games, Gaming, ThatGuyPhil

Greetings most awesome Kingdom in the Known World,

It is I, your happy go lucky, get down tonight, Æthelmearc Gazette Maestro of Fun, That Guy Phil, checking in with a suggestion and a report. This is just a brief overview hoping to spark some interest in new people and rekindle interest from our past game masters.

Should you bring games to events? Yes! I am glad we have cleared this up. Have a great day.

So you want a wee bit more on the game front? No problem. Lets address a few ideas and opportunities for success and fun.

Does it matter if the game is “period” or at least “look kind of period”? Yes, period games really fit into our whole SCA theme. Since we take great pride in researching and recreating Medieval activities, it is exceptional when people take the time to research and play period games.

I will not be opening up this entry to the playing of “Magic” or “Cards against Humanity” at events. This entry reflects no opinion in obviously non-period games. I will tell you that I have been told that rum is not period and I have been known to enjoy rum at an event from time to time.

What if a game looks like it might have been played in period? I say go for it, and I have. I recently brought a Crokinole game to Masked Ball in the Rhydderich Hael. It’s a large round board with circular scoring areas, a central divot for scoring and some pegs to defend said circular divot. The game is played by pushing wooden disks towards the central scoring areas after first rebounding off an opponents disc already on the scoring areas. My board has some nifty Celtic knot work around it. Is Crokinole a SCA “period” game? No, it was invented in the Americas in the 1800s. Does it look SCA “period”? No, but that did not stop people at the event from playing it and having a good time. The beauty of this game is that it is both easy to explain and easy to play.

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Above: Photos from Masked Ball of Lord Robert, Lord Wolfgang and Mike playing Crokinole. Photos by Casa de Martino

There are a great number of period games available, especially ones that involve gambling. It has been a while since I have seen people playing period card or dice games for personal coins\tokens. I hope that others will post rules to such games on the Gazette, as many would appreciate that. I hate to cut and paste rules from other places on the web when I know that awesome people from Æthelmearc have already researched such things and should post their instructions or class notes.

In the meantime I will provide a few links for some great games I have played at events and hope to see return to popularity.

One and Thirty, an early version of Black Jack
http://jducoeur.org/game-hist/game-recon-boneace.html

Primero: “Primero, Prime, Primus, Primiera, Primavista, often referred to as “Poker’s mother”, as it is the first confirmed version of a game directly related to modern day poker, is a 16th-century gambling card game of which the earliest reference dates back to 1526.” – Wikpedia
http://jducoeur.org/game-hist/game-recon-primero.html

Gluckhaus: House of Fortune Dice Game
http://www.medieval-fightclub.com/pages/Gluckhaus-%252d-House-of-fortune-dice-game..html
http://www.gerryadamsconstruction.com/germans/gluckhaus.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gl%C3%BCckshaus
http://www.coht.org/resources/Gluckhaus.pdf

Tablero: This game is played with coins moving up and down a board based on a players dice rolls. There is a version played at parties not using coins. Just remember: Play Responsibly or camp security might try to shut you down.
Non Period (see Master Dagonnel’s article link below)
http://www-cs.canisius.edu/~salley/SCA/Games/tablero.html
http://www.drinkiwiki.com/Tablero

We don’t even have to stop at indoor games. Croquet and Bocce are well-documented and fun at events. I have set up Bocce courts at events and people enjoyed playing. There are a great deal of people at each event who are not doing one of the mainstay activities like heavy weapons, fencing, archery, thrown weapons and the like. They might like something to do. And even after those fore-mentioned activities are done, those people may want to play a few games before court or after feast.

Might I suggest that you bring easy to teach games? Not as many people have played games as they used to. Keep them simple so that people can start playing immediately as in the Crokinole experience. As time progresses the games can become a little more difficult as there are experienced players to help the new people out.

Over all, its about having fun!

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