April 2008

From AmtWiki

April 23rd-30th

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After years of oppression, ridicule, and harassment from 'The Man' it is time to strike back. It is time for the Ninja to rise up against the establishment. And to help encourage that sort of thing I will provide a free flight to Clan (up to $400) for the person to capture Emperor Zumaticus PuppikickerusToDeathus in the most embarassing and/or compromising position while they are dressed as a Ninja.

All captures must be photographed and posted on the web in all their glory to be considered eligible. All captures must happen at Rakis BEFORE Zumat steps down as emperor of the Iron Mountains. Furthermore, Zumat is not eligible for the prize, and staged pictures with a tame Zumat are likewise ineligible.

Extra scoring points will be awarded for Ninjas tea-bagging Zumat, administering a wedgie, or capturing him during extremely public situations.

Finally, Zumat is an endangered species, so please don't kill the Zumat. He is one of the few remaining on earth, and the chances of him succesfully reproducing are almost nil.

The contest will end one week after Rakis is over, at which point I will choose from amongst the entrants and distribute the prize to them. -Glorious

Blackspire

Burning Lands

Celestial Kingdom

  • Kingdom Quest will be held at Nocturnis in Cedar Park, TX. The theme is 'The Princess Bride'; expect to see lots of costumes and side quests. Alara will be playing Buttercup, and Arthon will fill the shoes of Wesley.

Crystal Groves

  • Over the weekend From the 25 to the 27 Feast of Fools will be held in Huyette, Md. Pancake breakfast will be provided by the Amazons. Website

Dragonspine

Emerald Hills

  • Don't forget the next Althing will be held May 16th and May 17th. The location has changed for Saturday's portion. It now will be held at Midnight Sun. I've spoken with the Sheriff of MWG and he has told me that they had a scheduling conflict with that day and he asked me to change it. The Sunday portion will be held at King's Point. Submissions for the Althing will be taken up to May 3rd.

Golden Plains

Goldenvale

Iron Mountains

  • Rosea To'mas has declared for the office of Baroness of Ivory Tower.
  • Olympus is discussing holding a demo at Iowa Irish Fest in Waterloo, IA. Contact '
  • Phoenix Silverclaw Steps into the office of GMR of Desert Rose after an althing was held to allow it. The Duchy has also voted to use 500 in funds to purchase a Dragon ming Sunshade when the funds are available.
  • River's End is accepting Prime Minister declarations. This election my be come heated with the possibility of kingdom status hanging in the future. The declarations will be due Friday, April 25th by 5:00 pm. Either email the Yahoo group, or let Duke Westerric or Lireal know by private email/in person.

Neverwinter

Rising Winds

  • Your ever loving Fuhrer and his militant arm have decided that Weapon Master shall be held on the 24th of May (Saturday).Sign ins will begin at 9am and run until 12pm (noon). You may preregister for any/all by sending me an email to squire_mercury (at) yahoo (dot) com. IF you are not there by noon and you preregistered with me, your name will be removed at that point as brackets will be made starting at noon.-Mercury
  • Roslyn, Regent of the Five Oaks will be moving to San Angelo, Texas, to join the Celestial Kingdom.
  • Discord Presents: "Tortuga". Sherwood Forest Paintball, LaPorte, IN will be held the 25th to 27th. Fight in a 3 story castle! Walk the streets of a pirate city! The date for this event was changed due to a conflict with the site.
  • Rising Winders continue to discuss how to make their knights on the RW List. Current options under consideration include passing an althing vote, or a popular vote of the populace.

Wetlands

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  • As a result of the recent election, Kane has preposed a Corpora amendment to determine what action should be taken if a all the candidates for an office fail to qualify.
  • At Ironwood in Conroe, Texas on the 27th there will be a Monster garb tourney. The winner will recieve... a quest written for that monster. (I encourage people to make garb even if they don't want to play a monster in a quest, we can find someone to play it.) We'll also be having a normal A&S tourney.

Freeholds


It's Rules Revision time again!

Monarchs,

It's that time once again. Please be sure your RulesReps visit the forum and set up an account if they don't already have one. Contact me to set up posting rights for new Reps.

This year is rule changes. The deadline for kingdom lists is June 30, 2008. All lists must be posted by this time.

Thanks.
Kurse

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Sword Knight Boot Camp 2008; On the Shoulders of Giants SKBC kicks off this Thursday the 17th at Fireman's Park in Giddings, Texas. Classes begin bright and early Friday morning, with premier instructors from all over the Amtgard World. Look for Videos and Photos following the event. website.

Now that SKBC 2008 is done we want to start thinking about where to take SKBC 2009. The instructors are mostly re-energized and ready to travel somewhere cool in the nation. Click the link and find out what we need in the way of a bid to bring SKBC to your part of the world.

Bids due by June 1 or thereabouts. Decision of venue will be made at Rakis 2008. -Michael

Blackspire

Burning Lands

Celestial Kingdom

Crystal Groves

  • This weekend Crystal Groves will be holding elections for a single BoD slot. This sudden ballot is being held because Kemoc Tregarth, a sitting member of the BoD, has been elected to the office of Kingdom Prime Minister, which holds an automatic seat.

Dragonspine

  • Dragonspine will be holding their coronation feast on Saturday, April 26th at 7pm at Peace Lutheran Church. It will be the stepping down of Randall V and the stepping up of Emer I and her regent Annabellee.
  • High Oasis talks about holding their own fighter practice.

Emerald Hills

Golden Plains

Goldenvale

  • Bitter Coast has moved it's Fighter Practice day from Thursday at 6:00PM at CCBC to Wednesday at 6:30PM at Catonsville High School. directions

Iron Mountains

  • Ballots are in Steel Valley has been accepted as a principality, with only one nay vote. Mists of the Dawn has been removed from the IM with 23 for, 2 against, and 2 abstentions.
  • The Iron Mountians will hold a Demo at Starfest, a convention held in Denver, Colorado from the 17 to the 20th. The staff are looking for Volunteers for the demo.
  • Moss and Kord have declared for the office of emperor of the IM. Medryn is in for regent and Casca for GMR.
  • Desert Winds will hold the Principality Game day at Enchanted Falls in Twin Falls, Idaho. There may be some workshops, fun time, let’s get folks out/up there and support our newest sibling and the principalities numbers in April!
  • Desert Rose in Elko, Nevada will hold an Althing. The big issue on the table is whether to allow Phoenix Silverclaw to hold the office of ducal GMR since in the recent vote he received more abstentions than 'yes' votes.
  • Gehenna Plains will be moving to the field between the bridge and the Interperative Center starting next week so long as the weather continues to improve.

Neverwinter

Rising Winds

  • Following discussion about sexism with regard to Amtgard, Tugen has asked the Rising Winds list how they think that the kingdom should, in the future, choose its knights.
  1. Do you believe that the King should have the power to Knight who he wants with the "suggestion" of the Knights circle?
  2. Do you believe the power to Knight someone should sit with the Knights circle 100%?
  3. Do you believe the power to Knight someone should be with the Knights circle but the Monarch can veto it during their reign?

Several other suggestions have been submitted, such as allowing a popular vote of the populace. See the Rising Winds mailing list for details.

Wetlands

Freeholds

  • Centerpoint in Kansas City, KS will be playing another game of Super Smashgard, an allusion to a popular console game, "Super Smash Brothers".


April 9th-16th

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The following is the emergency Althing ballot called for by His Majestic Imperial Mightiness, Emperor Lao Z and certified by the Emperor, the Imperial GMR and the Imperial PM. Ballots are due back to me ([email protected]) by April 20th at midnight (Saturday night at midnight). Provincial PMs, please distribute the ballots to your populace and get me voter eligible lists as soon as possible. Thank you all for your cooperation and patience.

Tal

Proposal 1: Should the Iron Mountains accept a new principality formed by Olympus, Starmount and Dark Shores?

Proposal 2: Remove Mists of the Dawn from the Empire of the Iron Mountains.

Full text of the proposal here

Foundings

April 2nd-9th

Good evening all,

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This is kind of a tough subject to bring up, but after careful deliberation I think its time.

No fanfare, no big lead in speech. Here it is:

In compliance with State and Federal Laws and our legal Contract with Amtgard Inc., as of the end of this current reign, the Rising Winds will become a static crown Kingdom.

The legal Kingdom Seat of the Rising Winds has been and ever shall be Gryphons Perch. After September's Coronation, only residents and attending members of the Kingdom Seat(GP) will be allowed to hold Kingdom Office, participate in Kingdom level votes, and be active in the Kingdom CoK.

All the necessary corpora changes will be posted in time to be voted on at the June Midreign.

I know this is going to cause a huge influx of questions, comments, outrage and anger, but please be calm and let the officers and BOD members work through this. Hell, some of the current BOD members outside of GP weren't fully aware this was coming. This level of legal compliance comes as a result of how our NFP status was structured and submitted to the IRS. Amtgard Inc only recognizes the Kingdom Seat in any Kingdom, and all legal decisions of the group can only voted and acted upon by members of that 'park'.

Thank you all for your patience and attentiveness in reading this. Its not easy for me to be the message bearer, but I've been here since this Kingdom was 5 guys in bedsheets swinging carpet covered PVC at each other, and the burden of seniority falls upon me to break this Kingdom back down into its basic components once again.

If any parks wish to leave sponsorship of the Kingdom since your members will no longer have voting rights here, I personally will recommend you highly to whatever Kingdom you wish to transfer sponsorship to.

In Sadness,
Sir Brock Argenta

Rules Releases

Blackspire

Burning Lands

  • The Kingdom of the Burning Lands in El Paso, Texas will hold their Crown Quals and Warmaster Tourney this Saturday the 5th at noon.

Celestial Kingdom

Crystal Groves

  • College Park, MD chapter, Solstice will hold their Midreign on Saturday, enjoy; a picnic, questing, battle gaming, and What else?: A charity event - Our own Sir Angrist will run a White Elephant table. Proceeds benefit Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society.
  • Crystal Groves Board of Directors will hold a meeting on the 6th.

Dragonspine

Emerald Hills

Golden Plains

Goldenvale

Iron Mountains

  • Enchanted Falls in Twin Falls, Idaho held their defender tourney this sunday, the overall winner was Likkwid.
  • The new Principality of Rivermoor talks about the pluses and minuses of accepting the petition of Centerpoint to join them.
  • Sable al'Mantene is organizing the first Desert Winds crystal/jewel camp out collecting trip to Topaz mountain in Utah, originally to occur on April 4-6 but it has been rescheduled, to better allow all the interested parties to attend.
  • Iron Mountains spring Midreign, a one day event, to be held at IMD Brighton, Colorado. Feast and court festivities to be held in the Brighton Rec Center.
  • Talisin Silverwolf stepped into office as Kingdon Prime Minister at Midreign. Declarations for kingdom monarch/regent, GMR and other positions will be opened this week and due to her by midnight, May 4th.
  • The Duchy of Olympus has posted several job openings on their Forums.
  • Rosea To'mas Has declared for the office of Baroness of the chapter of Ivory Tower.

Neverwinter

  • Anyone that is interested that they need to send in their intent to run for Prime Minister of Winter's Edge, the deadline is midnight on 4/13. So far, the only candidate for the office is Flow.
  • There is a planning meeting scheduled at Five Oaks in Elizabethtown, KY on April 6th at 1:30pm to discuss holding Winter War in 2009 as a joint project will all of Kentucky Amtgard.
  • Emerald Winds will be visited by their Principality Monarchy on April 5th for A&S and hopefully something else, although that's all they've expressed interest in thus far. Bring a few yards of fabric if you want to go home with something meaningful.
  • Sir Nocturne is running unopposed for the position of Neverwinter Kingdom Prime Minister. Park Chancellors please make sure that you have your parks vote by next Sunday, April 6, 2008. The votes need to be sent to Stinkfoot by Tuesday, April 8th by midnight.

Rising Winds

  • Due to a conflict with a paintball group Discord has moved. The event will now be held April 25th-27th and the gate fee will only be $10.
  • Knoblands will hold their Crown Quals at their park in Springfield, Missouri. Sunday April 6th at Phelps Grove park and another Picnic at the End of the Universe.
  • Thundering Rivers will hold their Coronation at Woodlawn Nature center in Elkhart, IN. on Sunday the 6th.
  • Cursed Prairie in East Peoria, IL. will hold their Coronation on the 6th. It will be their last Gypsy themed event for the reign.
  • Steel River was granted barony status.
  • The newest petitioning chapter of the Rising Winds North Haven formerly under Iron Mountains, will hold a Quest at their park in Glen Ellyn, IL.
  • Thalyn of Thee Nights Legacy Tiffin, Ohio release his listing of 'who will level soon'. An absent report in most places, this seems to be very encouraging to new players and old in the chapter. From the wiki editorial staff; good on ya Thalyn.
  • Ashen hills in Haslett, MI is thinking about jugging on Sunday.

Wetlands

Freeholds

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