[SCA-AE] ANNOUNCE: 2 corrections to court reports and general thanks.

[Tessa]

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Greetings!

I have 2 corrections to the court reports:

Rosalinda was given for golden alce, for her combat archery skills and for
her years of fighting on the field (as a combat archer), she was not given
this for target archery.

"Their Majesties called before them Lady Rosalinda of Castile. Being well
informed of her skill at combat archery as well as target archery, she was
made a Companion of the Order of the Golden Alce. Scroll by Her Excellency,
Ekaterina Volkova."

Next.. We gave the Lost Boys a sigil for different reasons.. the primary one
was for the service they did for us and the kingdom.  One of the lost boys,
Terrance was in charge of scheduling the gate guards for the kingdom camp.
Something many people may not realize is that the lost boys as a whole, took
responsibility for covering the gate.  So if/when there was a time when no
one volunteered to work that shift or if someone wasn't able to make it..
someone from the lost boys covered that shift.. and every other open shift.

Several of them helped us with set up and tear down of the kingdom camp.
Several of them helped us at various events, carrying stuff, etc..  and when
we had no one available to help set up the kingdom sunshades (the spiffy one
and the one we rented), they cheerfully put both of them up, even though
none of us knew how the rental one went up.. and it was missing pieces.

The lost boys as whole welcomed me and always made certain that I had an
escort, usually several of them and that I was not thirsty.. which I
appreciated very much.. but they did much more then this, so I wanted to
make certain people understood what the sigil was given for.

There are times, that having extra hands to help is a wonderful thing.
Times where we and those core people that always helped us were tired and
just "done".. having other people step forward during those times made all
of the difference and made our pennsic (and other events) much more
enjoyable.

We are writing something to try and express our thanks and appreciation for
everyone who helped, we had many, many people help us, during both reigns..
which was greatly appreciated by both of us.  I did want to mention
something else, that happened at pennsic.  On Saturday when we were packing
up.. we had a handful of people that were helping.  Our Pennsic chamberlain
went to go get the flat bed and asked if we could try and round up some more
people to help, since most of us were tired(the camp was broken down, now a
matter of loading the flatbed (for multiple trips, then loading everything
in the trailer)... and we still had our own camps to tear down.. basically
more hands would make it go faster and better.

The group who came and "saved" the day.. was the Mountain confederation.  A
good size group of them, more then a dozen.. perhaps as many as 20 came and
helped.. I know how I felt when I saw them and I think several of our
exhausted people felt like cheering as well.  For them to come, when they
heard we needed help was awesome and something they didn't have to do.  I'm
certain all of us tend to be really tired just tearing down our own camps..
let alone going to help tear down the kingdom camp, then yours.  Even a
handful of people can make a huge difference and provide a huge help.

We appreciated everyone who helped with set up and tear down.. but since the
Mountain Confed came as a group.. I wanted to thank them as a group for
helping.  :)

I do not intend this to make anyone feel guilty, since I believe people help
when they are able.. and have the time and energy.  Pennsic is a very
draining event, so I understand that lots of people are too tired and/or
already have previous commitments (like tearing down their own and/or group
camp).. I just wanted to make certain to thanks those who were able to help.
:)

Duchess Tessa the Huntress