ID July 2010 - Ice Dragon

From the Chronicals of Brother Thadius of the Sacred
Order of the Impending Doom
I know you have seen him before. I am willing to wager
that you have seen him numerous times, even shared
his company on various occasions and never realized
that he was the same fellow each time. This had been
my experience. Luckily my training within the Order of
The Impending Doom has made me more sensitive to
my surrounding and dare I say more astute to those
happenings and people around me. For as we say in the
Brotherhood, “Always be watching for the other foot to
fall.”
This fore mentioned phenomenon does in fact have a
name. If there was a name for someone who has the uncanny
ability to blend in and go unnoticed and other
times to shine so brightly as to light up every chamber
or camp hey enter, that name would be the same as his.
I have seen him in various styles of garb from the sophisticated
to the garish. I have seen him as a shabby
wallflower invisible to all around and hours later at another
party dressed as a harlequin wooing the ladies
and leading the conga line. At one gathering he was
mistaken for three separate individuals by merely
changing his expression. Smirking he offended a
woman; scowling he defended her honor and smiling he
took her home to see his charcoal etchings.
From the Scribal Guild:
A reminder to all Scribes - There will be no
August meeting due to Pennsic. If you happen
to be going, please remember to check out
the many calligraphy and Illumination classes
offered. The class listing is posted. AEthelmearc
is also hosting a Scribal Tea held in the
Scribal Pavilions in AE Royal, the second
Monday, August 9, 2-4. I hope to see you
there!
For September, our Scribal meeting is after
Summer's End. If you have an assignment
completed for Summer's End, we'll work on
an alternate place to turn them in ahead of
time. I am Autocrating this event.
We can still use blanks - specifically for the
NULL, VOID and Bee. Also, general tournament
scrolls are welcome. These are great
to work on during our down time.
In one battle he may have stood next you in the shield
wall. Standing shoulder to shoulder with you and your
comrades you would have swore you all fought in the
same unit for years. His moves joining with that of
your units as if your had drilled for year, In the next
battle he might be with another unit fighting with spear
as if he has been part of that same unit for years. And
then again, maybe you didn’t make the connection at
all. In pick-ups he might have seemed average and in
bouts with Dukes he may have opened up a bit and
matched them with equal martial brilliance. Some
would say he was holding back, Well some might say
that if they even realized it was the same fighter who
came out in a beautiful German Gothic rig one day
who also came out in barrel plastic and a beat up tabard
the next. Others might testify to his equal performances
in archery, thrown weapons and fencing. That being
if they even knew it was the same gentle. I have
seen peers discuss the performances of seven different
people competing in five different events and not even
realize they were discussing the same man. (cont p )
Pani Zofia Kowalewska
Scribal Guild Minister
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