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Posts Tagged ‘SCA’

What makes one Knightly

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

Found this on the Armour Archive:

Æiric Ørvender

In Arms:

- To fight at your utmost in every battle, to give your all to every opponent.
- To Offer no insult to someone who may be inferior in prowess by ‘toning down’ a fight, unless it is a ‘teaching fight’
- To teach and train ALL who seek skill in arms, to do so in a respectful and optimistic manner but never fail to speak the ‘hard truth’ where/when it is needed.
- To be honorable in every fight, to never ‘loose it’, to keen honor stainless even at the cost of losing a battle to an ‘overly armored’ opponent.
- To always strive to the next level in martial prowess, especially with the knowledge that the will always be a higher level to obtain.

In Court:

- To be a steadfast supporter of the Kingdom, Crown, and it’s People. One must not always like the person who wears the Crown but one must always respect the Position the Crown represents… and always do Honor to the Kingdom, it’s People and it’s Land.
- To strive in areas other than the singularly martial, to excel in all endeavors before the People and The Crown to bring Honor through actions to the Kingdom.
- To Serve

In Camp:

- To strive to a better representation of Persona, through research, application and action.
- To inspire by example, to create for others an goal in which to reach for, and to assist others in achieving that goal.

Fear of Failure

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

So I have always had one. I kept myself from trying a good many things in my life due to an insane fear of failure. I could sit here and blame my bastard of a stepfather who beat it into my head that I was not good enough, not smart enough, not attractive enough, but that would just be a cop out. See, I am a believer that you have the choice to change that view, sometimes we don’t do it out of fear of the unknown or the fear of change, but the choice to change it is always there.

I am supposed to Herald this weekend, I will be doing a Knighting and 11 awards. Raven told me last night that everything is written down and God bless her, she gave me an out, a way to punk out and no do court if I so choose to do it. I cannot with good conscience do that. I would feel terrible and I think it would actually end up making me feel worse then I do now.

I do think I will step down as Caltrop. I thought I could do the job, I thought I could do the job well, but I truly believe their Excellencies would be better served by someone else. I was not as emotionally and mentally prepared for this as I thought I was and I need to just enjoy being in the SCA again, as a good, learning a nifty skill and showing up to fight a bit. Things like cleanup and setup/teardown are more my forte. Making things for the Barony is probably more where my strongpoints lie.

After Ren Faire I will be stepping down, I will work to get them a better replacement and then I will just spend some time working on my hobby and playing my game, I hope they understand.

What to do?

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

I need to start making some things to sell so that I can support my armour upgrade. I am considering benches and chairs in different woods with the lowest price being in pine and the highest being oak. I can do some pretty spiffy benches with scrollwork using the scrollsaw and give it a bit of character afterward with chisels. I think this might be a neat way to create a savings account to fund an armoury and get started doing some metalworking.

I need to get a higher amperage run out to the garage and I need to start situationg the ceiling so I can hang more lights. I want to eventually get it to a point where I can work out there in the winter time and not be freezing my ass off all the time. I want to slowly start insulating and sealing that bitch up so the wind does not cut right through it. I think I can make do with my current garage for another 5-10 years if I stop the bleeding now so to speak. I can slowly do what needs to be done and replace what needs to be replaced without having to build a brand new garage.

The armoury plans look better and better. I think after Valor and stuff I am going to ask to step down as Caltrop and just concentrate on having fun and working on metalwork and woodworking. I no longer see a need to do this stuff, I can help out without being an officer and I don’t need to be wrapped up in the high school politics anymore. I just want to enjoy myself and learn to fight in period armour that I made.

This whole Ren Faire thing is getting on my damn nerves, I would not have a problem with it if people were not badgering me about shit that has little to no bearing on anything. I finally got fed up last night and told Melisende to send me a list of what she wants done and I would make sure it gets done.

Anyway, got a lot of plans for the next few years and I want to seperate more from the Barony and just do what I enjoy doing. I don’t have to be in the spotlight to have a good time.