So many awards!

Yesterday was the Coronation of Ozurr and Fortune. The event was jointly hosted by both An Dubhaigeainn and Ostgardr.

I had signed up to be a "trollnik", meaning go along the check in lines and make sure people had their blue cards out and ready, give them the stamp so they didn't have to attempt to write out "An Dubhaigeainn" on their check, etc. My shift was 11:30-2:30. I got on site at 11, trolled in myself (the area was mostly empty), went in to watch Wilhelm and Vienna's last court. Around 11:30 I went over to the still empty troll tent and said "I'm here for my shift to help keep the line in line. Orrrrr, if you don't need me I could go back to watching court?" Oswyn laughed at me and said to go back. Yay!

At 2:30 my friend Vetra was getting protegeed to Misstress Suzanne. There was a contract written up by Vetra's husband Maestro Vettorio. He was handed the cut sheet and asked to read it out. He passed the paper over to me. Ok, sight unseen, here we go. Sneaky me, I had asked Vettorio a few days prior on how exactly Vetra's name is supposed to be pronounced for another thing later in the day. Nailed it.

Around 3:30 I went looking for Sir Zhigmun to sort out scroll reading. I told him about the style of reading Ervald's scroll that would make him most happy, he wrote me in as the reader. I had also contacted him a month ago asking to read Vetra and Ellen's scrolls, as well as my son's AoA scroll as soon as I found out he was getting it at this event. He said "There's a problem with Ellen's scroll" and I got worried it hadn't arrived in time. No, he had it, but it was a musical scroll meant to be sung. I said nobody wants to hear me sing, let the bard do it.

During the awarding of count/ess to Wilhelm and Vienna, I suddenly realized I wasn't give the cut sheets to look over while I was talking to Sir Zhigmun . Oh well, I'm a decent sight reader, it will be fine. And then Hi! I got called in for a Silver Tyger award! (The scroll!!! The scribe read my EK wiki page and actually used their cat to make real paw prints across the scroll! I freaking LOVE this scroll!!!)

But after that I stayed close by the stage so I could pop forward when it was a scroll I had offered to read. I forgot/didn't know that a few other friends were also getting awards and was disappointed that I didn't get to read for them. But the way my throat was by the end of the night I'm glad I limited myself to what I did.
When Severus got called up, Sir Zhigmun said "I have a stunt herald for this one." Ozurr says "Oh, really? Hey, do you recognize this herald?" I grinned at Severus. He rolled his eyes and said "My mom." But I saw that he was secretly pleased.

I had so much fun reading Ervald's scroll. It was described by one person as "wrestlemania style", and another as "Full Chaucer". So much fun, and the laughter and applause I got says the audience really appreciated it. More importantly Ervald really appreciated it. "Just how I would have done it!" he said.

After feast I was on schedule to run the shuttle from the church to parking. I packed up my things and put them in the car knowing I'd be driving during cleanup, let Vetra know my tablecloth was still being used by the table so she could claim it for me. She decided that two cars would be good for the mass exodus, so Jordan and I were doing the circuit. A little after 9:30 she and I were both waiting at the church for passengers for ten minutes, so I said I was going to park and head back inside to help finish cleaning.

At 10:15 we were declared done and went home.

It was a really good day. Lots of friends got great recognition, everything from an attendee's point of view went very well, and now we collapse and have an Irish Wake for this event.

Little service here, little service there.

Before the An Dub schola event, which is also our A&S and bardic champions event, I was asked to do the calligraphy on 2 scrolls. Fiona did the illumination on one, Lily on the other. They just did borders and let me choose which one was for which. Since I'm terrible at and honestly find no joy in word smithing I went to Slaine for those. I was quite happy with how they turned out. And I've been saving up empty copy paper boxes at work, so I cut out the tops/bottoms to make some quick and dirty (not nice and fabric finished) scroll sleeves. I even remembered to print out cut sheets.

I got to the event, which was held on a Suffolk County Community College campus. There's no site fee, no dayboard. In previous years a few people have brought food to share, so I made up a big batch of honey butter and bought a loaf of sliced crusty bread. Because no SCA event is complete if it doesn't have honey butter and bread! I asked permission to use and printed out 2 copies of a charge group lesson that Yehuda had made up years before while he was Elmut. Because I knew I had at least 2 (and probably only 2) people that were interested in learning more than my usual "absolute basic heraldry for the beginner". I also brought along my laptop in case anybody wanted help with their EK Wiki pages, but nobody asked about that.

The honeybutter turned out to be widely liked, I taught Slaine and Lily how to determine charge groups. I took a class on how to write award recommendations. Then the bardic performances happened, and the 2 A&S entries were discussed. I was told who each winner was so I could put their names on the scrolls, and I suddenly realized that Fiona won the A&S champion spot. And I had done the A&S wording on the scroll she illuminated. Everybody was so very amused at this.

Put away my things, helped straighten up, then home.

So much servicing!

Yesterday was Dragonship Haven Investiture and Kings and Queens Bardic Champions.

I was asked by Onora last month to do calligraphy on a Court Barony scroll, as the one hand I know would suit it perfectly. And I've been asking my scribe friends if I could help with scrolls. I thought the best way, but involved, for us to do with with my lack of experience is if she sketched out the art so I would know what size the calligraphy area needed to be. I would be able to do the words without worrying about messing up art with my mistakes. And I can do it in 2 days. So she could take her time with the art, and if something happened that required the scroll be done completely over I could do my part quick. As it happend I dripped some ink on the page and had a minor freak-out while trying to blot it up. I texted Onora and she said it was fixable. So I finished my part and made the pass off back to her to finish in time for the event.

Due to a long search for parking I got to the event just in time to see my friend Lada be called up to be put on vigil for laurel. After dayboard was eaten I had my chance to visit her ("Are you doing ok? Do you need to go to the bathroom? I can sit here for a minute while you take a break.") I was chatting with Ryan just outside her vigil room. Suuder was guarding and being in charge of the list, but he had to go do a Runnymead thing. So he asked Ryan to take over. After a few rounds Ryan needed to go do a thing as well, so he asked me to take over. I ended up doing it for over an hour until the end. It turned out to be a lot more interesting than I had thought it would be. Person goes in to visit, they get 5 minutes. After 3 minutes open the door so the noise from outside is their warning to wrap it up. Take down names. The most fun part of it is I got to meet new people and put names to faces. I chatted with them for a minute as they got put on the list and then again as they were waiting to go in. So that was cool! Also, it was good to help out multiple friends by doing this. The only down side is my wrist was really hurting from holding the book, my phone for timing, and the heavy spare charger because my phone's battery was getting low.

The end of the visitors was about 4:00, just as it was planned to finish up anyway. I had been told previously to go to the Royal Room at 4:15 to be given a scroll to read in court, so I found Audrye and was given a written sheet. I was very happy because it was a nice simple name and not Gaelic or Norse or anything! I saw the edge of Onora's scroll a few pages down and asked if I could see it. She said "Of course you can, you made it!" I said but I hadn't seen the art part, I did the calligraphy first. It turned out freaking gorgeous.

I had been instructed during court to go up to the stage during the MoD elevation. So I watched to see how others were getting up and down, there's a side door that leads to the backstage area. Cool. I snuck up during the ceremony, and after they call vivats I walked behind the Rose banner to stand next to Treannah. Welcome gifts were given to newcomers, and then Audrye nudged me up front and cued what I should say. "Their Majesties call forth Patrick Michael". I thought for a second and then whispered to Audrye "I did say Majesties, and not excellencies, right?" After 4 years of being baronial herald it kind of became autopilot. I called up the order when I was cued, then read out the words (Scroll forthcoming. Sorry dude.). Since he was being given a silver wheel I then after reading the scroll and leaving the stage went down and welcomed him into the order as I went back to my seat. Later on as we were saying our goodbyes Onora said to me her husband was surprised because I'm usually so quiet. He was stunned that I could be so loud! I said "Awww, thank you! What a nice compliment!"

Court continued on, and I saw the scroll I helped with being given out. As it was read and shown off I started flailing in my seat with glee. Vetra looked at me with a quizzical look. I flailed some more. She asked "Why are you so excited?" I gestured to the stage just as it was said "Calligraphy by Violet Hughes" She said "Oh!" and flailed with me. Yay, my first scroll given out in Royal Court! King Wilhelm then said "You all have to see this scroll. It is amazing!" Hell yeah it is, Onora does beautiful work and I'm so excited she asked me to contribute.

So: 1) worked on scroll. 2) read a scroll in court. 3) Brute squadded for a vigil. 4) made new friends. A very good day!

Giftmas all year long

Around Christmas somebody came up with the idea of Giftmas. People post their Amazon wishlists and prowl through the lists and pick something off a person's wish and send it to them. I played too, sent out a few gifts, and received a few gifts.

After the holidays Her Excellency Honig decided it needed to continue on past the holidays and she set up a facebook group. Annie (I can never remember her SCA name) set up a spreadsheet on her google drive, and I said I love playing with spreadsheets and offered to help. So we alphabetically listed everybody and their wishlists, and any extra comments of things not on the wishlist they like. Such as dog photos, somebody to take walks with, coffee and naps, Pokemon Go friends, etc.

After a few days the number in the group and subsequently the spreadsheet has exploded. As of typing this entry there are 167 people on the spreadsheet and 301 people in the group. I didn't want to let the entire spreadsheet be opened up for editing, but I figured out how people can leave a comment and then Annie and I can transfer those comments onto the sheet. People haven't really caught onto that, and every 4th post to the group is "Why don't you pin the spreadsheet to the top?" (It is pinned, you have to look under "announcements"). But slowly it's coming along and everybody is having fun posting photos of the gifts they've been receiving. There's even been a couple of posts of people asking who hasn't gotten anything yet, because they want everybody to feel the love. It's amazing! This is My Society. *heart emoji*

I also had an idea this afternoon and started another tab on the sheet so people can list their shop if they make and sell stuff. Because I know that we as a group love to support small businesses as well, especially if our friends are putting their heart and soul into the craft.

I know this isn't specifically SCA / protege related, but it's a project and I haven't written in this blog for a bit. So that's a thing I've been working on.

Heraldry! Heraldry! Heraldry! And a little bit of calligraphy.

I sat in on two sessions taught by Mathghamian (Argh! Spelling? Damned Gaelic!!) on commenting in Oscar. Which I've been really neglecting. Every time I try to go through it, enough people have already commented "docs check out, no conflicts found", which is all I am confident in doing. But I'm going to try doing it more. I do still find it worthwhile sitting in on first level classes because there's always at least one new thing I learn every time.

A friend of mine asked about getting a device done up. Slaine asked if she could help with it to learn. So I drew up the device, checked with my friend to make sure she's good with the design, conflict checked it, and then broke it down so I can show Slaine how I went about it so she can see how I do it. Made arrangements to get together with her this past Thursday evening to do that. I think she understood my process of how I do it, but I'm not a terribly good teacher.

I also helped a friend come up with a device for his lady, and emailed that off to him.

Thirdly I'm trying to help another friend design a badge for his household, what they've been using is not registerable. I think I've come up with a possible alternative they might find acceptable. He also asked about a device for himself, but I'm having more trouble with coming up with something acceptable for that.

A post was made in FB Heraldry chat about Birka, so I plan on sitting in on at least one 2-hour shift at Heralds point. I also offered to do some voice heralding in court. She said she'd post a sign up sheet, but I haven't seen that yet. I've never been to Birka, but I'm assuming it will be much like  KWHSS was that I went to this past year. Also this works well with my previous thought of I want to do more to volunteer during big events and get to know more people, rather than hanging out solely with my best friends. I mean, I will still hang out with them. But there's plenty of time to flit here and there and back and forth like I an wont to do.

Fiona and I have a backlog scroll to do! It's a silver wheel and neither of us know the recipient. But we have friends who do know him, and I was able to stalk enough to find out more info about him and why he got the award. I came up with some words (with some assistance by my scriby friends) and started practicing the calligraphy. I haven't done any since early November for the St. Andrews baronial scrolls. Yes, I definitely need to get back into practice. But I'm very excited to be doing a kingdom scroll, and I hope the recipient likes it. I was also asked to do the calligraphy for the upcoming baronial bardic and a&s champion scrolls. Yay!!

When we last left our heroine...

Updates from last posting:

For the barony:

I'm still trying to get things done for changing the herald title from Seastar to Drake. The current herald has starting using Drake anyway, because what's the worst that happens? She's told it doesn't pass and we figure out another duck-related title.

Also no news on getting the ballista made, but it's cold out I don't expect any progress until spring.

For my household:

I finished the tablecloth and it came out really well! I found out on the first of three skulls that holding the fusible webbing-backed cloth in place with pins, then ironing them down makes black marks where the pins were. Oops. But other than that it looks great and I got a lot of compliments on it at the event I brought it to! At some point I'll make 2 more.

                          

For the Kingdom:
I harassed Ozurr enough that he made a decision on what name he wants submitted. Then after printing out the paperwork for him I found out that he doesn't have checks and was too busy to get a money order, so I said I was going to do it for him. So the paperwork and a check went out in the mail yesterday. Hopefully it'll pass on the LOAR before he finishes his reign.

I can now add onto my EK Wiki entry that I get heraldry done for "people in charge" before their time is up twice! First my baron, now my prince! Ha!

Barony, Kingdom, Household

I've been working on stuff!

For the Barony:
I am still working on getting the herald title changed from Seastar to drake. Tiny nibbles getting closer to being done.

For the Kingdom:
Touching base with Mathghamhain on a regular basis so the two of us can prod Ozurr into getting a name and device registered. Ozurr said he'd think about his options and let me know by this weekend. I'll poke him again tomorrow, I think he's at an event today.

For my household:
I bought 4 tablecloths and plan on cutting them up and reassembling them into our household badge. It should work well as long as I can get the skulls bonded on correctly. I have been having trouble with the fusible webbing on the past 2 projects, but I got it to work on one. So, fingers crossed! But it should look nice, like a table runner. If I do it right I should be able to get 3 tablecloths out of the batch.

Oh! I almost forgot. Also for the barony:

I finally managed to coordinate getting leaf springs from Titus to Torfi, so now he can start working on making a ballista. Once that's done in the spring, I would imagine, I can kidnap bribe discuss with a siege weapon marshal to come out to Long Island to authorize whoever wants.

A little bit of everything.

For event promotion, I do pretty much all of it on facebook, since that's where the majority of people are. I used to also cross-post to G+, but I wasn't getting any impression that it helped. Plus G+ will be going away around August, so there's that. A week before St. Andrews something on facebook changed and I wasn't able to share specific posts from within the event page to other groups. That made it a little more difficult, but I tried in the last few days to post something to the East Kingdom, Ostgardr and An Dubhaigeainn pages.

A month or so ago I had asked Vetra if she wanted me to organize feast servers. She asked what I wanted. I said when doing that I don't actually get to eat the feast, and I really would like to. So we defaulted to the usual "one person from each table comes and gets a course".

However, then a few days before the event the Heavy List Champion went and made himself Prince, so Vicrene Lada was organizing retainers. She was having slight difficulty getting people to sign up and asked for ideas. My barony has 2 large households. My own (House Three Skulls) and another, Surtr's Brood. I know the spreadsheet had already been shared to my own household's facebook group, so I also shared it to the other one. A bunch of people immediately signed up and got at least one person, often two, covering the whole day. I had already signed up as well, thinking it was perfect. My first time retaining and it was for a friend. His first event getting retained for and it was all friends and people he knew. Lada had told me Ozurr's snack of choice was Cheeze-its, so I picked up a box of 12 snack bags, and made a quick pouch out of some scrap fabric I had that was the right size to hold one of the bags. So he could have his snack and not have it look obtrusively modern. He was delighted about that, I saw he hung the pouch on his belt for the remainder of the day. And he said he polished off the box before feast.

For the actual retaining, I signed up for 2 hours, while the martial competitions were going on. Caterine had the "retaining bag" and a bottle of gin, and I was given the "Drinking boot" (Go ahead and ask his Highness about it) to carry. We stopped at his car and he was getting some weapons and gauntlets for people to use if they wanted. He said he was given a bottle of elderberry mead and it was ok, but not to his taste. He offered me a taste and I said I loved it, so he said "It's yours". As he picked up the weapons and started carrying them to the fighting area I said "But I'm not supposed to let you carry things!" he called back "Try and stop me!!" Since my hands were already full I didn't fight too much. But later on when I had put down the bottle of mead, and Caterine put down Ozurr's extra alcohol, anytime he looked like he was about to carry something I snatched it out of his hands and said "Continue..." I've had practice already on that kind of thing from being a mom. While we were out watching the fighting I made sure he was drinking water, and he had already eaten so he was good on that. After the first hour Caterine switched with Raud, and with a half hour to go we went back inside. I had promised to participate in a quick activity at some point, but warned Raud I would have to step away for 5 minutes. As it happened, I was called to the activity while Raud was off getting a drink, so I apologized, and handed the bag and boot to Ozurr and ran outside. I saw Lada on my way and let her know, I think Raud had gotten back to Ozurr by that point and took the stuff from him.
I went back inside after and Ozurr was chatting with people before court. I was asked for help with one quick task that was right there where they were all standing, adding a decoration to court setup. Check back at Ozurr, he's still talking. I was asked to put the names of the winners on the scrolls since I had done the calligraphy. Run over to the table, do that. Check back on Ozurr between scrolls, he's fine. Finish second scroll, the kids are taking their turn at retaining, he's waiting for court to start.

I don't think I did a spectacular job at retaining, but maybe an acceptable level. I can try again at other events, and I can also practice retaining with my own Baron/ess at events in our own barony and out of area.

I also talked with Ozurr about the name he'd like to register for few minutes, I had brought my Old Norse name book along. I offered to let him take the book to look through in his own time, but he said he'd rather not take the chance of losing it. so I said I would continue to research the name and let him know what I could find.

I didn't get to stay to help clean after feast because my husband and son really wanted to get home. But I know there's always plenty of people who chip in and get everything done. My barony is awesome like that.

Getting to know you!

Did you know that the SCA is full of awesome people? It really is, and I feel like I only know a small portion of them, and only in passing at that.

When I went to Wilhelm and Vienna's coronation I spent most of the time with the friends I drove in with. I do love them, they're my closest friends. I spent a small amount of time also with other friends that I see less often, but I still  know them fairly well.

It occurred to me a week or so later that I want to meet more people. And I want to get to know them. Because if I meet somebody once, it's likely that I won't remember them, my memory for people is so horrible. But if I have actual conversations with them then I'll remember them and be happy to see them at future events.

I decided the best way to do this is volunteer. I can read scrolls in court, but that doesn't get me to actually know people. And I don't get to many events outside my own barony. The frustrations of living on Long Island! So when I do go to other events I'm going to find something to volunteer at. Kitchen. Troll. Maybe even retaining. Who knows? I want to find something and meet people and see what new friends I can make. And hey, if that gets me seen by more people in doing more things, than that's just bonus.

It's all about meme

A lot of my life and communicating with friends is over Facebook, so all of the information is relative to that social media.

In 2015 I was asked to do event promotion for a friend's event, Bear's Tavern. Neither of the autocrats were very active on Facebook, and both are definitely not techno-savvy. I had seen Sir Gui making lots of SCA related memes and they were received quite well, judging by the number of "likes" they got. So I made up a few related to the event theme, created a facebook event, and started posting. I would space them out once a week, or every other week. Memes, photos of working on garb, information updates about the event like food menu or prereg dates and information. Silly jokes. Anything spaced out enough to keep people's interest and keep the event in their current mind.

I'm told it worked quite well, the attendee numbers were steady if not improved. 

The following year something horrible happened. Lord John the Bear, who the event is named after, had a bad stroke. Long story short, he was in the hospital for quite a while, but we were determined to keep the event going on. I upped my meme game, and promoted the heck out of the event. Since the theme was "Robin Hood" My sister and I came up with the idea to do pool-noodle archery contest. We had fake fruit that one person would hold and a child's toy bow and pool noodle arrows. It worked amazingly well for what it was, and people seemed to have a good time playing. Afterwards I was told again that my promoting and planning was a big help.

That year I was also asked to do event promotion for Goat's Tavern run by Oliver de Bainbridge and Arrows Axes and Ales run by Monkey Makgee. I didn't go as all-out on the memes for those, but I did do a similar style and run-up for those events. Oliver is a really good brewer and gifted me some delicious mead and cyser as thanks.

In 2017, I was once again requested to do promotion for Bear's Tavern. The theme this time was pirates. More memes and info over FB, but this time Jenna and I emphasized the silly games. And we did come up with a number of them! 

That year the autocrat of Barleycorn realized they hadn't done any event promotion, so two weeks before the event I was asked to help. I made 2 memes, and again put them out and information about the event over facebook over the period of time until the event.

This year, 2018, the popularity of memes seems to be dieing down. So once again asked to promote Bear's Tavern, I didn't do as many memes, but still put out lots of information at a steady pace. The bad snowstorm in the days preceding the event I think had an impact on the attendance, but it was still well enough attended.

Last week I was asked by the autocrat and feastocrat of this upcoming St. Andrews to once again do event promotion, so I started that facebook event. This is a much more "serious" event, so I won't do so many memes. But there's going to be a lot of activities going on and plenty of information I'll need to get out there, so I'm not worried about not having anything fresh to keep this in people's minds and make them look forward to the event.

Art as service

This post is long, and it mostly has to do with art. But I'll get to the service part at the end, I promise.

I first learned how to do calligraphy in high school and thought it was interesting. I guess I was good enough at it that my mom asked me to write out "If wishes were trees I'd have a forest", and she framed it and hung it up in our home. I hadn't done calligraphy since then.

A few times in the past year plus I'd mentioned to Vettorio that I would be interested in learning how to do it SCA style. He made pleased noises but didn't think I was serious about it.
This past June I took a road trip to KWHSS with him, Lada, and Onora. On the way I asked them a bunch of questions about starting off in calligraphy. They still didn't think I was serious. They said write out lyrics to my favorite song. I don't really have a favorite song, so Onora suggested writing out the names of everybody that played The Doctor (big Doctor Who nerd here). A week or so before I went on family vacation in July I asked Vettorio which hand (I made the error of calling it a font) I sound try. I wrote out "this is what my handwriting looks like" on a post-it and he suggested 2 hands. One of them looked fairly modern, the other was gothic. I already had a felt tip calligraphy marker, and got lose leaf paper and I wrote out the names.

Then I wrote out the lyrics to the Firefly theme song. At this point I asked Vettorio if there were capital letters to go with the alphabets he sent me. Then I found a list of pangrams and wrote those out. Those are sentences that use all the letters of the alphabet. Like "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is one.

At this point I was on vacation and there was a Michael's nearby so I went and found the brand pen and ink that was suggested to me. It was too difficult to use the ink pen at the house we were staying in, there was no flat surface I could use to write on. so I kept practicing with the marker, which would work fine on the padded table cloth of the dining room table.

Once back home, I kept practicing, now with the ink pen.  I wrote out lyrics to a few other songs. Beatles' "I will", and Tom Lehrer's "Poisoning Pidgeons in the park". Before Pennsic Lada asked me to write what I would describe as not-a-scroll. A silly fun scroll-like thing for a pirate at Pennsic. I found that I even had computer paper that was made to look like a pirate map parchment. I passed that off to the people who requested it, and Lada said they were very happy with the result.

I've been setting small goals for myself. Learn how to write the letters. Get good enough to use the fountain pen. Get confident enough to use bristol paper. Get good enough to do baronial scrolls.

This past week I dug out a portable desk I've had since high school. It worked amazingly well.

I taped a piece of bristol paper down, drew lines on it, and found suggested wording for champion scrolls. Since the next event is the archery and thrown weapon challenges I made up scrolls for those. I even left enough room if I can get anybody to do some simple illumination on top, maybe down the sides as well.

I wrote the archery champion scroll and realized halfway through the barony name realized I made a typo and messed up the spelling. Argh, I hate Gaelic! Lada said "Leave it. Typos are period". So I finished the scroll and showed it to my sister. It took her 3 times looking at the scroll before she even realized it was misspelled, so I laughed and didn't worry about it too much.

I moved onto the thrown weapon scroll and that went much better. I still wanted to do more, so I started the archery one over. This time I wrote it all out in pencil first. Only one line at the very bottom didn't space out right in pencil vs. ink, but it looked so much better. I showed it to my sister and she said she could see improvement with every scroll I did.

So now I'll offer them up to my baron/ess if they haven't already arranged for scrolls. If they want them, great. Onora said she'd pretty them up with some illumination. If not, I'll call it practice and put them to the side and keep making scrolls until my scribe friends tell me I'm ready to do simple scrolls for the kingdom.

I think I'll wait until these are either declined or awarded to show them off here.

It is art, but I'm certain I will enjoy having helped in scrolls to give out to the populace. Also helping out illuminating friends if they want to pass them off to somebody else to do the calligraphy. That's how this ties into service.


Edited to add:
My scrolls will not be used, but I was asked if I wanted to do the Heavy Weapons and Rapier champion scrolls. So I will find an illuminator friend (most likely Fiona) to coordinate with and make some scrolls for the barony.