Kitsune

Da

2005-10-20T14:58:31Z

Prep for the play has reached an all-time low point but I'm much happier for it. I'm tired of it all, I just want this thing over so I can start doing other stuff again. Apathy has set in. The play will suck but we will survive it and next year will be better. The people who frequent this event expect AMATURE dinner theater and by Azathoth that's what we'll give them! It's a fatalist/optimist veiw point but it works for me.

Had a good weekend though, worked with my dad on those bloody windows and had fun doing it. I keep forgetting I have fun when I get to make stuff. Dad and I are a good team once we're on the same page. Dad is very visual concrete where I am conceptual abstract so in the beginning we were butting heads. Solutions I think are obvious aren't always so it seems. Afterwards I went to the "Darkest of the Hillside Thickets" concert at the vault and enjoyed some alas not great but pretty good music. Bought two cds and as a result have "digging up the world" and "colour me green" perpetually stuck in my head... Simultaniously.

Things are looking up.

Good times

2005-10-04T13:33:34Z

You Are Valefor! Honorable, Brave, and Loyal until
the very end. You're a very social person, and
aren't often seen without friends. You are a
great friend and love to help out when needed,
you're a real softie at times, but when the
going get's tough, you toughen up as well, and
when you're feeling bad, your enemies better
watch out!

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Enemies beware! Lol, nah I'm too hard to piss off enough to be dangerous.. Erm, provided I'm not laughed at immediately after being pissed off. That's always had some interesting results. Practice last night was cool. Guido came to teach us shtuff. I missed his instruction. More so I missed having a solid direction to head in. I've lacked any sort of consistant guidence or gone to any Thursday practices for about the past three months. People keep saying I fight like Pierce, which would be a good thing if it was helping me to win fights in a clean and efficient manner but I haven't practiced with him in what seems like an age. He was there in the spring but then all sorts of commitments cropped up for him. Last I chatted to him about his sched he was saying he had three training classes booked back to back meaning I've been forseeing him gone for months at a time. No big deal, but why haven't I started fighting more like the people I'm training with or developing my own way of doing things? I just feel like I've got Pierces fighting style if he suddenly gained female hips and got shrapnel lodged in the fine muscle control center of the brain. Not a good feeling. I'm going to work on learning Guidos approch to rapier see if I might be able to emulate a bit of that bigcat-like grace of his one day. He makes things look so easy... The application is going to be a challenge but it'll be worth it. The more people I learn from the bigger pool I can pull my tricks from and the less I'll keep fighting like somebody else. That's the game plan anyway. It might work too if I have the guts to carry through. Considering how nasty it feels fighting like slop I guarantee that's not going to be a problem.

Minter Demo 4

2005-09-27T17:57:42Z

Minter demo was great as usual. Saterday I got to hang out with my Don, fight a bunch, play around, veiw flowers have a good time you know the works. Edana and I got to finally execute operation Yak. Much merriment ensued but now Pierce has taken to demanding the "Yak dance" while stabbing me in the feet. I shall have to reward such efforts with a carefully executed prank possibly involving womens langerie and personal hiegeine products. Bobby has already signed on to help. Oh such evahl we weave. About six O'clock I was asked by her Excellency Bantanist Amanda to join her rapier guard. Words cannot express how honoured I am to comply. I knew I'd be making investiture come hell or high water but now it is doubly imperitive.

The evening ran down with a walk through the gardens and a chat with Sleet about varrious topics of interest. Mind Sleet needed it, he was feeling pretty lousy about the crack on the head he gave my sister. I was worried about Rika, she stopped talking sense there for a little while and chirped her chips but she's made of tough stuff. We kept her awake and she made it through the night without falling into a concussion-coma. S'all good as they say.

Sunday was a bit dull in comparison but pretty fun.

I feel an awfully strong urge to practice footwork and tip drills. I think I'll go do that as soon as I get off work...

Freaky

2005-09-23T17:58:03Z

It's been a weird week. Not because of any specific envent or events but rather because of the bizarre mental state I've been in for the past month just swamping me. I think my whole dissassociative personallity thing is beginning to finally get to me. For one it's almost as though I'm being sealed off from a portion of my brain. It's kind of a touchy and emotional portion of my brain too. I feel the physical effects of it dwelling on something nasty and depressing but I'm just not privy to why I would be feeling that way. I mean yeah life hasn't exactly been exceptional this last little while but nothing that should be causing that sort of angst. I'm getting annoyed with it which just makes me feel even more isolated from that emotion. Maybe I'm going crazy or I could just be tired or something. I'm not really all that concerned about it. I haven't exactly been getting as much sleep as I should have for the past five months and that's bound to have some odd psychological kickbacks

Return of the Kaze

2005-09-20T19:21:59Z

I've been a bit disillusioned towards the whole blogging thing this last little while. I've kept one, in fact a rather detailed one but in the tradition of journals it's been pretty much for my eyes only rather than the public forum which most livejournals emulate. No public grandstanding, just my thoughts, kind of nice really and a good outlet for my frustrations. However this journals day has not yet come as this also has it's purpose. I'm not really going anywhere with this btw, just explaining why I haven't been writing.

As for life it's been interesting, not exactly good nor bad just interesting. I moved out, I moved back (though not without some pains). I continue to fight rapier and play SCA. I'm playing Maria in a play Brandoch wrote and intends to perform. I am not without certain apprehensions about this play from a literary standpoint and lack a slight amount of faith in our director. I bought a beer fridge. I have been rather disgusted with some of the information filtered down the neighbourhood grapevine about my new neighbour and my not so new neighbour. I have discovered that they are going to plow my thinking spot so they can build a housing development. I continue to work at Stream and the early mornings still suck.

Same old, same old.

You scored as Spike. You are the strait up you knew what I was type what did you expect. There maybey some surprise personality quirks you have. You try to control your emotions and sometimes fight so hard to deny them but when you do give into them you go all the way for what you want.

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Lestat

67%

Akasha

67%

Spike

67%

Dracula

67%

Armand

42%

Blade

42%

Deacon Frost

42%

Angel

33%

Marius

33%

Louis

33%

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kaze_okama @ 2005-03-09T15:49:00

2005-03-10T00:25:22Z

I've been really very blog crazy this past month writing everything all over the place except for here. Life has been busy non-stop for the past three months filled by the SCA or demi-SCA related events. Last weekend I went and saw Gwen's play Firebugz. Not too bad a play except I didn't quite agree with the writer's overall interpretation on compassion as a horrible failing point. Gwen rocked though, she was a very convincing evil villian. Quick update on life, I've learned how to juggle, I am now a cadet to Pierce and work has slowed down to an absolute crawl.

I miss the old crew. I know I haven't exactly gone out of my way to get in touch as I've been so preoccupied with my pet projects. I tend to get so wrapped up in things. My latest project is learning how to create wax seals in time for Monica's period feast. I've been designing all last week between rapier practices and commitments, today I get to try some carving. I'm planning on doing the seals in wood until I can learn how to work it in metal.. Gads I'm totally excited about woodcarving... Life is odd.

I am enjoying being able to drink. I have yet to find a better beverage on this earth than a good ten year old scotch.

kaze_okama @ 2004-10-18T17:45:00

2004-10-19T00:54:36Z

Hey journal,
Life has been going rather well now that B&B is over. The play turned out alright this year. Tamer Tamed was a big success, despite some minor issues such as a lack of "synergy" and line meorization. This year I stepped up my role backstage to stage manager in edition to a mid-sized role onstage and as the company props dept. and as a result I learned that I never ever want to step up my role backstage to stage manager in edition to my mid-sized role onstage and as the company props dept... It was far too much for one person to be an entire backstage crew. I'd do it again, but if I did they would have to include me in their list of thank yous on the forum for working myself into the grave. I'll get that thank-you one of these years, just you wait and see and it will be the best thank you ever in the history of Human kind, fear the mightiness of my thanks!!! (sorry, Zim moment. I just recently bought dvd's 1-2 of the series). But you know I'd settle for just getting people to pick up the stuff I borrowed so I can clean out the garage.

Work's been going well. I switched over to a corprate contract so now I have all my weekends off again and life is definately looking up.

kaze_okama @ 2004-09-02T10:46:00

2004-09-02T18:04:02Z

Today I pledge to give up entirely on the phone. I talk to people all day on the phone at work, the last thing I really want to do when I get home is phone somebody. Thus I will answer a ringing phone ("For a ringing phone must be answered"-the caller (phonebooth)) but not pick up the phone and dail a number unless ABSOLUTELY NESSISARY TO VALIDATE OR REQUEST A PLANNED ACTIVITY. For all personal chat I will resort to e-mail from now on. My e-mail is now

BlazeBane@hotmail.com

As I will be now checking this on a daily basis it will become the surest way to contact me regarding.... anything.

The Rosemont Pheonix tourney is tonight. I made plans with Elora to do some practice prior and then head out. She has been very apt at cancelling her plans in the past but this time I have her word that we are going. Hopefully that will change matters. I need some serious drilling to refresh my mindset. I've been getting cocky and thus started on a road in rapier I didn't want to travel. It sucks but at least I caught myself on it before I got majorly frustrated. For the next little while though I'm commiting myself heart and soul to just having fun with what I do and work hard towards speeding my progress. Pierce's driveby teaching sessions have been keeping me on the right track so far. Lately he said I should spend this month getting my disengages tight, so disengages it is. I know I need work on them, I have this nasty habit of bringing my arm back when I disengage instead of keeping the blade fully extended and using the wrist, that's got to go. Elora however is going to help me with my aggression, I've kind of let it slide opting to change it to solve another problem. The problem was solved but now I require the aggression back since several of my older hurdles have returned.

Insomnia still has me up at night... I won't be able to sleep in till Sunday since I'm planning to go to September Crown on Saturday. It just occured to me that I am nearing my second year of playing in the SCA... It's amazing how the time has flown...

Bloody hell!

2004-08-30T17:53:50Z

Missed Warren war this weekend setting up to do a wedding gig and then the bloody people never CONTACT ME or show up. Went to Wonderland trying to find Chelsea's party and evidently missed them. Hung out with Rika instead, did some minigolf, spent some tokens on games ( most of which were out of order) did some go-kart racing but was still pissed about the whole wedding and lack of Chelsea thing so I didn't really enjoy it very much.... mind that may not have been totally due to that one factor. The appeal of Wonderland has diminished greatly with my age. Sunday I kind of moped. Ate some sunomono and bummed around downtown. Bought Bulletproof Monk and Phonebooth from a used dvd place, that kind of cheered me up.

Kind of a rotten weekend. It's been a rotten week, for the past week or two I've suffered massive insomnia and nightmares. Nothing really new, this happens every now and again but when it does it makes me very frustrated not to mention exausted. I JUST WANT TO SLEEP!!!

I'm getting a little bit irked at my Don, though it's not really his fault. I just am frustrated that I haven't been seeing him much outside of work and I can't really arrange to get together with him to practice because the memorization for the play has been keeping him busy. I can function perfectly well without but sometimes I just want to fight him or I dunno... play videogames, talk, get to know him better... Oh well, I have plenty of oppertunity to do so. Once the play is over perhaps life will calm down for him. I hope so.

Well lunch is just about over for me. Work's been going fine, the customers are great but today I just want to go home, shoot some targets in my backyard, watch some movies and go have fun at practice. Work is a pain but it's a passing pain.

Clinton 2 (Revenge of the Cavalier)

2004-08-04T02:32:10Z

Clinton never fails to refresh my commitment by dousing me liberaly in the fun and charm that got me hooked on the SCA. Everyone seemed to let loose and focus on having a good time. The rapier war, roving rapier, tavern battles and Drakkar sanarios kept me in armour and fighting hard for most of the day. Armour is hot to wear around all day but really it was worth it with all the fun I had dueling, avoiding the watch, murdering the watch and destroying English and French men in single combat. I especially enjoyed the Drakkar sanarios. Now those boys know how to have fun. They set up a Zulu res battle and a Zombie battle (Liverrrrr Liverrrrr... Waiiiittt.... Braaaiiinzzz, yeessss brainnnnzzzz!)The Rapier war was a bit different this year, instead of Tir Righ vs. Lionsgate ( I was camped with both commanders)the mecenaries, deciding that the pay from both sides was insufficent for their services turned on Tir Righ and Lionsgate. Lionsgate and Tir Righ forces joined to take care of the uprising but failed due to the sheer force of mercenary numbers. I think we scared those mercenaries. Considering we were outnumbered almost 2 to 1 we slaughtered them down to six men. In the end the war point was given to Lionsgate as a gift from the mercenaies. The roving rapier rocked. Pierce was sneaky and underhanded as the undercover member of the watch and caught me for killing James Lockwood after marshalling our duel. I was given a bounty of two coins dead or alive for murdering the watch "Running an unlicenced brothel and profiting from illicit lemming wrestling". I was surprised how many people challenged me for my bounty. I managed to kill five before the number of coins I had meritied a change to the single sword style against William of the Red Flame's cane-rapier combo. In the roving rapier auction Argan gave me his 13 coins to add to my 11 allowing me to get my first RBG. I gave him a flying tackle Kateryn hug for that one. My nights were spent roving around Clinton with my house singing at bardic fires and having a good time. Saturday Night Pierce and Luther insisted I bathe and dress in something clean. Having packed no spare garb Zelda lent me some clothes... at Pierce's request a dress. I nearly died from embarassment. I was about to clock the next guy who said "wow you really clean up nice". But that next guy turned out to be my Grand-Don Albert which kinda took the wind from my sails. I found the song that people request from me at Bardic fires. Seems my version of "Seven Drunken Nights" is well done for I sang it thrice in the space of an hour on request. Got to visit the Silver Fox and end my mercenary contract. T'was a shame but their absence from major SCA events and their close association with a banished member of the SCA would come back to haunt me in the end. Especially with my fealty to the Prince and Princess of Tir Righ to consider. In a few years time I'll fight along side them again in heavy armour I'm sure. I look forward to it.

kaze_okama @ 2004-07-30T14:52:00

2004-07-30T21:57:47Z

looks like I was right about those people on my contract. One of the loudmouths that sat next to me got fired yesterday. Training continues on schedual. Got my first quiz back with 26.5 out of 30. I guess I need to brush up on my warranty stuff, other than that the test was easy as pie. The fellow with the sunny side up grey matter in the back is hillarious in a kind of sad way. The guy seems to have some personal space issues and more than one instructor has broken down laughing because he was hovering behind them.

I can't wait to get on the road to Clinton! I'll write lots about it when I get back.

Been awhile

2004-07-29T00:59:00Z

It has been a long time. I know it's quite frequent for people to take breaks and come back for a short time pledging to write every day and post more and blah blah blah... So I'm going to pretend I never left.

A lot has changed since January. My involvement in the SCA becomeing greater, my situation at high school having conveniantly righted itself by my brutally stamping out all thought of attendance of that stagnant hell from my life. Weak willed and goaded into a foolish action I may very well have been but I have no regrets on that decision and ergo believe I made a wise choice. My skill in my favored martial disipline has developed considerably as is only natural.

Since the beginning of the year as far as rapier combat goes my student career has been frought with change. Pierce ( Now HL Don Pierce O'Briain ) is now my teacher, at Crown I was drafted into the Princesses guard, I participated in the May Crown White Scarf invitational gained a total of recorded 38 wins and was selected by accolade to participate in the finals, fought in my first war at Sealion, Participated and won the Sealion Baronesses honour tournement with 12/14 wins, participated in Lionsdale Champs and scored 11/21 bouts, bet a box of donuts and then went double or nothing on Pierce's victory over Don Ian in the LD champions finals. Won both bets, Danika hasn't yet paid up. Attended two Ramsguard super Practices and had a blast twice. Got trampled at Investiture sunday tourney by Guito and loved every minute. Started attending Cloverdale practice and am finally starting to get the hang of draw cuts.

This year I'm back in bard and a banquet as Props Master/Pedro the servant ( not a lead role but this year I've gots lots of lines to memorize baby!)in our production of Beaumont and Fletcher's "Taming of the Tamed". It's basically the role I played last year. Type casting? You Better believe it! This time around though my character is a lot bawdier, drunker and more vocal and gets to yell "Hang her" at least twice. I love it already.

Week before last I was inducted into the Stream outsourcing cult and am in training until the end of next week. I'm loving it there, already I'm "the kid who knows everybody" because I chat with all the SCA bunch and members of the old gang. Gotta watch it though, Pierce is the quality guy on my contract and he's not going to go easy on me. Mind I see him 45 minutes every day in class and have to suffer listening to the girls giggle over him. I have some serious doubts that some of those guys are going to pass the test. The fellow at the back who's from Toronto talks like he's fried his brains and the fellows who sit on my left have been warned several times about their conduct and already their attendance has become a concern. Aw well, it's sink or swim Boyos, shape up or ship out. I think I got a good shot at passing.

Got a new e-mail. I'm not BlazeBane@hotmail.com
Well G2g see ya around.

kaze_okama @ 2004-01-19T21:04:00

2004-01-20T05:12:44Z

Been pretty busy lately, what with my fighting, filk writing and midterms coming up on wednesday and I have yet to study chapter 7. Oooohh yeah say it with me : it's panic time! Panic is good though, it keeps me sharp and on top of my game.If I don't succeed this is going to hurt. Still loving life though. It might be a little less people oriented anymore but there is joy in solitude as well as company.

kaze_okama @ 2003-12-30T13:29:00

2003-12-30T21:36:07Z

Honor: You are an honorable person who is firm with
his/her beliefs and treats others as you are
treated. People would consider you humble at
times and very respectful, and someone to
definitely respect back.

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I really should get back in the habit of researching Samuri ethics...

Green, Red and Blue

2003-12-22T22:54:42Z

It's been too long between posts for me considering the stuff I wanted to record but I was delayed.

First off my Birthday was great. I can't exactly escape having B-day parties quite yet. I tried, but it didn't quite happen, not that I'm complaining now mind you. After school the sushi feast went over well, had one uninvited guest whom I wasn't too blown down to see and another who I was glad to see but didn't quite expect. Got some presents and more pickled herring than I expected, ate some favored foods of mine and got ready for the Christmas Party.

Party number two was a major success. Turnout was WAY above expectations and the gift exchange saw some larger than life action with a few treasured items ( Mainly small wooden boxes, an 100 year old book, a Leather belt and a mirror. ). I became a part of an evil conspiracy to get Luther one of the Boxes as part of his gift to his girlfriend, we succeeded. Didn't end up Go-kart racing but I did get some unexpected gifts. Amalthea gave me a birthday gift of a Celtic pendant , which, next to my dog collar, is my favorite ornament right now. Raine gave me some garb, sadly that is not in my taste, it's not exactly in a blue I would want to wear... Raine kinda has a nasty tendancy to draw my guilt. Bluntly, I find him extremely boring to hold a conversation with and I really want nothing to do with him but he commits himself to making me this stuff. I am now by family law of courtacy obligated to wear it... Puting that aside my next present totally blew me out of the water. I am to recieve a Hanwie rapier blade courtacy of my friends from the SCA come January! Looking at the list of contributors is enough to inspire my shellshock. I need to learn how to start accepting these things with grace instead of becoming absolutely paralysed with disbelief and happiness. Daemeon also made a cake putting a final stop to my plan for no cake. Jeez, that guy can bake!

Day after that I fell ill with the flu, which by rights was severely unplesant. I spent all of yesterday confined to the couch where I watched the DVD commentaries of Pirates of the Carribbean. All three of them in a row. Still loving that movie. You get a much deeper veiw and see all the little connections when you watch those commentaries. It's interesting seeing how the writters view their characters. The only other thing I really did yesterday was contemplate the scads of holiday homework I've been assigned. Work starts tomorrow. Aw well , life can't be fair weather all the time...

kaze_okama @ 2003-12-19T14:31:00

2003-12-19T22:28:44Z

Congratulations! You're Merry!

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Huh.... that's actually pretty acurate...

kaze_okama @ 2003-12-18T11:45:00

2003-12-18T19:20:55Z

Why is it that my principle of civillity always gets me into annoying, not to mention awkward situations? My other guiding principles aren't half so much trouble! Paitence, dedication, honor, chivalric codes of more than one culture, empathy, maintaining an ever present thirst for learning /self improvement and trying to obtain as close to an objective veiw as possible is in relation easy guidelines to follow. Civility is simply tied to empathy, moulded by chivalry and waited on by paitence, all the while trying to capture sanity which it cannot at all times afford.

Boilt unto it's element my trouble stems from my dislike of serving my conscience in the matter of dealing with Jessica. The dictation of my phillosophy bids me show her no ill but in her infinate wisdom she mistakes this purpose for that of friendship. I would bare this modestly but she oft seeks me out seeking leave to chat for all quarter of an hour no matter how I try to express my unwillingness to continue the string of meaningless topics without decending into impoliteness. Since the beginning of this custom I have ceaselessly dodged her invitations but to what avail? Civility? I owe all fellow human beings thus. Since I have refused to go with the Art room crew to Decades ( which would entail my lateness to more than an acceptable degree) these meeting have become too frequent, my hopes that she will be capable of reading my action withered. Now I must contemplate my course of action.

Circumstance allow me leave~

kaze_okama @ 2003-12-16T16:29:00

2003-12-17T00:41:59Z

On this day, Tuesday December 16th, 2003 A.D. (A.S. 38 ) our societies beloved Baron Gerhard Kendal journeyed forth into his last great rest. A man of honor, chivalry, learning and generosity, always willing to teach and teaching until the very end. I have been honored greatly with the task of carrying on his tourney and his blade and will try my hardest to do so with the uttmost care. Baron Gerhard,we salute you. Peace be with you and your loved ones...

Sick day

2003-12-15T22:21:21Z

Today was a very quiet day spent at home to recover my health. Fairly uneventful except for one nightmare, the first in a couple of months and the worst of the past year. Nightmares are becoming a rare occurance these days for me. Perhaps it is a result of the changes I have faced.

I've picked up a really good book from Haldorr as an addition to the Lionsdale Library. It's called "By the Sword : A history of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samuri, Swashbucklers and Olympic champions". As one of two unofficial librarians I have first pick of the list for things to read! Seeming as this is our only book so far it's been slim pickings. Come the new year I wish to get on top of my duties as Librarian and set up a booklist of research materials available through the participants of our Shire or through the main collection to be accumulated at our house. Tang is supposed to be holding the current library books ( a very small collection )and Pierce has mentioned something about donating a few prized books on Heraldry from his collection.

Most of my New Years Resolutions have to do with the SCA ... Perhaps I should list them so that I will be more likely to keep the effort up.

1) Come the New Year get the Library Project in Motion.
2) Make it out to more Rapier practices & practice to more effect disipline in learning this noble arte.
3) Research UK medieval History to
4) Finallize Personna.
5) Get my own garb so I stop dressing and acting like a beggar.

With luck these will be taken care of in time.

Baroness's Tourney 2003

2003-12-08T06:03:35Z

I'm still in a state of shock and it shows no sign of lifting quite yet but I suppose the reason why can wait. If I start my post with it my brain will slip a gear and I won't be able to write about all the other cool things that happened at the event will be written in unintelligeble gibberish. Print just might make it sink in for good.

Woke up yesterday at 5am, rode out to the tourney with Pierce (driving), Caeliean, Astride and Madeline gear barely contained in the back due to the sheer amount of stuff. We stopped by Tim Hortons for breakfast, Astrid , not being specific about what she wanted and what she had to pay Pierce back for lead to her eating Pierces breakfast. It became a running joke throughout the trip ^_^. By the end of it those three apple fritters got her the nickname "Astrid the Devourer". I'm still loving that.

We arrived at the tourney on time (Wow!) unloaded our stuff into the basement, got the list stuff straightened up and attended opening court. And what a court we had, nothing less than the princes and princesses of both Tir Righ and An Tir plus the Baron and Baroness of Lionsgate! The Lionsgate defenders tourney began and I saw my marshalling education expand dramatically under the eye of Maestro Don Guito, getting tips on weapon checking for tournements while helping him do armour inspections and helping marshal in the Erics. Pierce, on top of his game yet again took that tourney down with a near perfect record winning the very first Defenders Champion position. The last grand match was between him and his fellow Press-Gang director making it a doubly awesome fight for the present members of our small Theater company.

On the line of theater companies and other bardic activities I was invited to participate in another theater company sometime in the future to perform at Clinton. Piper, who won most promising new Heavy fighter, who asked me attended B&B and found my performance promising. How could I say no, it would be loads of fun! I was also invited to open and invite only jam sessions with a Celtic Folk troupe (that I later learned were professionals after we did a jam session on stage) out in Vancouver. Though chances of me making it out every second friday of the month is slim I was quite flattered.

Anyhow , I'm getting ahead of myself. Next came Baron Gerhardt's fibreglass tourney. Though not well attended the tourney was my first real tourney and I got to play first with people around my own skill level and then with the Dons in Melee and single situations which ROCKED. I didn't win against any of the Dons but I did win half of the matches against those owning nothing but fibreglass blades including the current champion of Appledore. Afterwards I got to Fight Lacerena in pickups, who officially recieved the office of Lionsgate master of blades at Court and whom taught me a fair bit at Clinton, Lady Josephine Blackthorn who likewise did a fair bit of fighting/teaching with me at Clinton and recieved her redscarf ( finally! She's been due to wear a scarf for awhile now) and Callen who a year and a bit ago gave me my first lesson in rapier. That was just plain cool. I fought my best in the pickups afterwards being so jazzed from the tourney. Danika also became a cadet to Don Ian. A heartfelt Congradulations to her, she's improved a lot since Ian has started teaching her.

Court began a little bit later than expected after supper and Pierce, already getting congradulations got his Goutte, Baron Gerhardt and Amanda Kendal were recognized before the court to much applause for it was the last event Baron Gerhardt intends on coming to before cancer passes this incredible man into An Tirian legend... My happiness is however tinged with regret that I do not know him very well beyond a few scarce meetings at Clinton, Ithra's where he teaches and a few other select events from my one year in the SCA. I do however have the Extreme honor of winning his rapier tournement and running the tournement next year in his place, passing on his sword and armor for use of one year to the next winner, a newer fighter, picked on the basis of honorable and chivalric conduct on the field, skill and promise. This was my first time called before the court and will probably be the most memorable. I do quite believe I broke my jaw having had it stretch four some-odd feet to hit the floor in a cartoon like expression of absolute shock. I was in a daze the rest of the night coming around occasionally to make my way through the crowd surrounding the beloved court Baron to stumble over myself in thanks and to give him hug and promise to try my best to live up to the honor he has bestowed upon me.

The prize that comes with this honor is beyond my current comprehesion for it is not only the possesion of a stunning steel work of art for a year but the gained attention of a varitety of teachers willing to help me improve and warn me of the dangers of overworking my wrist muscles with steel. Such steel! A double wide Deltin blade resting in a specially made Rory hilt. If I have ever fallen in love with a work of metal this sweet rapier is it. Exellent balance, 43 inch long blade and the promise of much imporvement in my technique through working with the extra weight.

I could yatter all night long but my brain still can't fully wrap around this remarkable experiance...

Upcoming Tourney

2003-12-06T01:21:19Z

I'm getting fairly about Baronesses tourney coming up this weekend , it looks like it's going to be a blast. Baron Gerhart is initiating a "no steel" tournement for younger fighters with the prize being the possesion of his steel rapier for a year. When I mentioned this tournement to Laecerena, the instuctor at Lionsgate thursday rapier practice, she hinted that Gerhardt has an alterior motive for running the tourney for a reason not assosiated with a prize. As normal I'm clueless, being young, unexperianced, not wanting to make any assumptions and being not the quickest one on the uptake. More than likely I'll figure it out. None-the-less my enthusiasm doubles by the minute, this will be my first real tourney. With that and a bit of bardic it'll be beyond fun!

In other SCA Baroness tourney news Danika will be scarved this weekend as a Cadet to Don Ian. Way to go Demonika!

kaze_okama @ 2003-12-03T07:40:00

2003-12-03T16:05:30Z

If you starred in your own videogame... :

1) What Genre would it be? - Action/Fantasy RPG
2) Your Setting? - Medievalish fantasy world
3) Graphics vs Story? - Story , graphics are just the icing on the cake , gotta have the cake first
4) What audience would you cater to? - RPG nutcases
5) Art stylings ? - Anime
6) Would your character go solo or have a team?- Small team
7) Magic, Guns or Swords?- Magic AND Swords
8) Summerize your story in five words or less. - Spirits vs. Mortals war.
9) What platform? - PS2 (my baby)
10) Orchestral or Synth music? - Nothing beats live recorded sound.

Your Character would be...

11) Gender? - You never really figure it out until 1/3 through the game then behold the confusion of the supporting characters!
12) Weapon of choice? - Rapier
13) Clothes? - Neat medieval-meets modern day type ones.
14) For good or for evil? - It's all about the shades of grey.
15) Main character trait? - Optimistic outlook
16) Age? - 19-23 range
17) Alternative form/mode? - Some sort of cool Anthropromorphic spirit-y thing
18) Cute animal/kid Sidekick - No
19) Arch Nemisis? - Not really
20) Superpower? - Bunch of different customizable ones ^_^

kaze_okama @ 2003-12-02T17:52:00

2003-12-03T02:21:42Z

Discussed the details of my birthday celebrations for this year with my parents, decided on something a little more low key than the normal celebratory proceedures. I figure no presents and no cake this year, just sushi, spring rolls and that bit with a bunch of my buddies in the afternoon. Seven O'clock is the SCA Christmas party so I'll be able to collect my b-day wishes from my medieval buddies and wish them happy Christmas in return.

It's funny , mom doesn't like the idea of no birthday cake but I assured her, I'm not that big of a fan of sweets and the Christmas season is stuffed with sweets anyway. Hopefully I can avoid interfearance in this arrangement.

kaze_okama @ 2003-11-19T17:47:00

2003-11-20T02:06:20Z

Mixed news to record over the past couple of days. Good news : The play went over well, we all survived with only a few minor glitches. Prop wise we managed to get by with one forgotten minor effect prop and Amalthea broke the book cart for act 3 scene 2. Not too shabby, Amalthea compensated for the broken wheel after we tried to wire/glue/duct tape the wheel back in place and the forgotten prop was just a throw in by Elora that hadn't been brought to my attention enough to put on the list. Person wise we had no disasters like those from the horror stories of last year where Dogberry from "Much Ado About Nothing" slipped on lettuce and dislocated his knee a minute into the performance. I'm not quite sure how well I would have handled something like that. There were a few minor messups in the lines where people were struggling but Dirmid's dream of no scripts on stage this year were realized. We had 95% memorization! Appearantly my success as a stage manager/ props mistress was so satisfactory that I have, by word of the director, Co-director and cast, secured that spot for next year. For now I am content to take it a little more easy , catch up on some homework, catch up with my friends and polish off the rust on my rapier combat skills.

On a sadder note, yesterday Astrid's (Rika's) second rat died. I will miss that little fur ball quite a bit though I didn't think she would outlive Miso, her favored companion for very long. Still it was very unexpected. I worry about Astrid, I believe she loved that rat far more than I. It's cute though how Caeliean wished so much to cheer her up last night at rapier practice. He's always there to look out for his page, it's interesting to see how many friends we have accumulated through our beloved medieval society.

Curtain Call

2003-11-15T16:20:05Z

It's been a long haul over the past three months of arranging props, learning lines, mapping out staging, blocking and learning more insane quirks of the theater but tonight it all pays off. Am I nervous? Of course I am. I'm shaking like a leaf and the performance isn't for a few hours. Short term stress however is a good thing for me, it makes me cautious and sharpens my attention to important details. Here's hoping it doesn't touch my performance on the stage.

O'muse, thy inspiration lies dear wherein. Rest faith in every froward jest, tear and unhappy word alike with power abound to loose no curse upon our small stage of dreams. Watch over our players and keep us safe from ill fortune until we are released by your spell and until puppets to the words we no longer are.