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Zubeydah: /* 2004: Gulf Wars XIII */

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 ==2004: Gulf Wars XIII==
 ===Death By A Song===
 By '''[[Ermagerd]]''': <BR>'Once upon a time I slew the Trimarin army with a lament... Verily, bereft of excrement went I... at my first Gulf Wars I was Stargate's bard, and I dressed up in my snappiest duds to go do my bit for the war effort. I read in the schedule that the "Arts Melee" was the thing I was able to do, so I carried my several binders over to Bede Hall to do battle against all the other artisans. That year the Powers that Were decided that the static arts and the performing arts would be lumped in together for a populace vote, over a period of 5 hours. I was new, so when Willow Ann Lanphier Taylor suggested that we should take turns so that all the populace could judge us against the static displays, I didn't know any better and agreed. There was also a fellow from what would later become Glenn Abhann there, so it was 3 of us taking turns for 5 hours... with no water. I sang every song I knew and a few I didn't. <BR><BR>

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 '''[[Tessa of the Gardens]]:''' There was the year I initially began firing a ballista; I was never positive whether any-one inside the fort was hit by any of my attacking ballista bolts, but I knew without a doubt that I hit the western "wall" several times! That wall was dead, dead, dead! (When asked for more details, Tessa was able to provide:  King Alaric Quintas Drake I, crowned in January, asked for each group to build a ballista for his spring GW; thus, Bordermarchers Simonn, Zain, and Ricciardo built a shooting machine manned by three, that would launch 5 bolts on target into a 5' -to- 7' circle, 300 ft away. We named the ballista "FireDrake," and hauled it to GW for several years.  The machine I shot from at war, however, was a single bolt release belonging to someone else. You could hear the whooom, thud, of each bolt when it hit the wall and then see the bolt bounce back down to the ground on the outside of the wall... I don't think I ever hit anyone on the other side of the wall...
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 ==2003==
 Regarding the Mooneschadwe building of the doors of the Ansteorran Gate, '''[[Ollj Perala]]''' writes:  "I think this is how it went:'''<BR>

Zubeydah: /* 2016: Gulf Wars XXV - "GulfNado" */

2020-03-06T20:18:48Z

2016: Gulf Wars XXV - "GulfNado"

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	To see the little blue potty that won the war!<BR>		To see the little blue potty that won the war!<BR>
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			'''[[Yzabeau Brossier]]'''<BR>
			I have yet another Gulfnado story for you. One of chivalry and honor. (And just happens to be about my favorite Squire, [[Alexandre Crane]].) Lady [[Marita Boë]] and I just started a transportation shift when the storm started to blow in. They called us off our noble golf carts and into the guard house, where we spent the vast majority of the storm huddled in the back, listening to radio panic. While the storm still raged, Alexandre appeared in the doorway, soaked to the skin and cold, having been searching for me. (While I was warm and dry in the guard house.) I asked what he had been doing, and he replied he had spent the storm holding down the Whitacre Family Pavilion, doing his duty as a squire. I told him I would go back with him to help, but he told me to stay where I was and to find him after the storm blew over. (I am not typically one to change my course of action just because someone tells me to, but the warmth and overall dryness convinced me to stay.) When I tried to get him to stay with us, he refused. So I handed him the poncho I had put on before my transportation shift, and he went back down the road. Once the storm had cleared, I slogged my way through the mud to our encampment, only to find him running around, helping every place he could. In Northkeep's camp, he had helped pull the group pavilion out of the muck, at Whitacre, he had spent the entire storm cold rain running down his arms and back, physically holding down the pavilion (along with many others) to keep the newly painted and absolutely beautiful pavilion from flying away. Hours later, I finally had the chance to pin him down and force him to change out of his sopping wet clothes, because he just wanted to keep helping. He has made proud on both the chivalric and rapier field many times, but I have never been prouder than I was after Gulfnado, hearing how long and hard he worked, and how many he helped.<BR><BR>

	==2017: Gulf Wars XXVI==		==2017: Gulf Wars XXVI==

Zubeydah: /* 2003 */

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	''Ox: "Of course!"''<BR>		''Ox: "Of course!"''<BR>
	''(history happens)''<BR>		''(history happens)''<BR>
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Zubeydah: /* 2000 */

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 '''[[Tessa of the Gardens]]:''' There was the year I initially began firing a ballista; I was never positive whether any-one inside the fort was hit by any of my attacking ballista bolts, but I knew without a doubt that I hit the western "wall" several times! That wall was dead, dead, dead! (When asked for more details, Tessa was able to provide:  King Alaric Quintas Drake I, crowned in January, asked for each group to build a ballista for his spring GW; thus, Bordermarchers Simonn, Zain, and Ricciardo built a shooting machine manned by three, that would launch 5 bolts on target into a 5' -to- 7' circle, 300 ft away. We named the ballista "FireDrake," and hauled it to GW for several years.  The machine I shot from at war, however, was a single bolt release belonging to someone else. You could hear the whooom, thud, of each bolt when it hit the wall and then see the bolt bounce back down to the ground on the outside of the wall... I don't think I ever hit anyone on the other side of the wall...
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Zubeydah at 01:39, 21 May 2019

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Zubeydah at 02:47, 15 April 2019

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Zubeydah at 16:28, 12 March 2019

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Zubeydah: /* 2016: Gulf Wars XXV - "GulfNado" */

2019-03-07T21:04:19Z

2016: Gulf Wars XXV - "GulfNado"

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	'''[[Katalina Ana de Salamanca]]''': You have to admit it, we stuck the landing!<BR>		'''[[Katalina Ana de Salamanca]]''': You have to admit it, we stuck the landing!<BR>
	[Moira clarifies, "The BFT is the huge tent that goes up behind the Ansteorran gate at gulf wars. It started raining right after dinner, and then the winds went nuts. Some of us who sought refuge in the BFT ended up literally piloting the thing because it tried to take off. I don't know how many people were all there, but I was on a pole holding it down with Her Majesty Conal and Baroness Genevieve. Some guys from up north were singing war songs.... [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DchtHpJaio8&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2iLpgdbuwkvvz5SVe173FxJFrZVGbsTnu61vtY3W3MPnlyx-8S_ovz65k I think there's video.]"<BR>		[Moira clarifies, "The BFT is the huge tent that goes up behind the Ansteorran gate at gulf wars. It started raining right after dinner, and then the winds went nuts. Some of us who sought refuge in the BFT ended up literally piloting the thing because it tried to take off. I don't know how many people were all there, but I was on a pole holding it down with Her Majesty Conal and Baroness Genevieve. Some guys from up north were singing war songs.... [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DchtHpJaio8&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2iLpgdbuwkvvz5SVe173FxJFrZVGbsTnu61vtY3W3MPnlyx-8S_ovz65k I think there's video.]"<BR>
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	~~________ (need SCA name): There I was at Gulf wars having a pick up in camp, and a Tornado blew away all the tents. But did we stop (fighting) and risk further insulting Thor? Hell no!<BR>~~
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	'''[[Alexander MacThomas]]:''' (During the microburst) I was taking shelter in one of the hard standing latrines with [[Cataldo Querini]], [[Tobias Geluecke]], and [[Cecily Grace MacBean]], and the (then) King of Calontir (Matsunaga Kagetora) gave us all a class on hiding your body's movements behind a buckler, and also how a righty would get around a lefty's war-door.<BR><BR>		'''[[Alexander MacThomas]]:''' (During the microburst) I was taking shelter in one of the hard standing latrines with [[Cataldo Querini]], [[Tobias Geluecke]], and [[Cecily Grace MacBean]], and the (then) King of Calontir (Matsunaga Kagetora) gave us all a class on hiding your body's movements behind a buckler, and also how a righty would get around a lefty's war-door.<BR><BR>

Zubeydah: /* "Go And Do What You’re Told!" */

2019-01-23T03:06:44Z

"Go And Do What You’re Told!"

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	==="Go And Do What You’re Told!"===		==="Go And Do What You’re Told!"===
	By Lord [[Julius De Orso]], then known as Berengar von Kummerland <BR>		By Lord [[Julius De Orso]], then known as Berengar von Kummerland <BR><BR>
	A little background: I was authorized to fight less than month before this war. I didn't have gauntlets. My kit could be called serviceable at best. What the LDG (Liondragon Guard) has become from these humble beginnings is such an amazing thing for these much older eyes and to this day warms my heart.		A little background: I was authorized to fight less than month before this war. I didn't have gauntlets. My kit could be called serviceable at best. What the LDG (Liondragon Guard) has become from these humble beginnings is such an amazing thing for these much older eyes and to this day warms my heart.
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	My favorite memory was defending the main gate. I was a shield man on the far left. [[Gunthar Jonsson\|Gunthar]] was to my right and [[Oxlade Lachlan MacKinnon\|Oxlade]] was behind us. For this battle, this was My Lance. For those who know, it is enough said. For those that don't: we stood to the last, having faced waves of charges Column, pulse wave, and full frontal assaults. We endured what seemed continuous spear barrages. I remember one time being pulled forward and bent almost in half and Guthar tabling his shield 90 degrees and keeping me alive. The only respite we received was when we stacked our dead foes before us in a grim wall and we still dared more to come.		My favorite memory was defending the main gate. I was a shield man on the far left. [[Gunthar Jonsson\|Gunthar]] was to my right and [[Oxlade Lachlan MacKinnon\|Oxlade]] was behind us. For this battle, this was My Lance. For those who know, it is enough said. For those that don't: we stood to the last, having faced waves of charges Column, pulse wave, and full frontal assaults. We endured what seemed continuous spear barrages. I remember one time being pulled forward and bent almost in half and Guthar tabling his shield 90 degrees and keeping me alive. The only respite we received was when we stacked our dead foes before us in a grim wall and we still dared more to come.
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	There were times when I was facing up to three hooks on my shield. I remember believing this is my time to only be saved once again by Gunthar knocking a hook off or Oxlade fouling shots and them working the enemies before us. We were finally felled by enemies who had breached the sally port. I remember asking Oxlade, “How did the Sally port fall?”. He replied "It was not being held by us." A Trimarian nearby responded, “True Story. Don't worry kid, you may have lost the battle, but you kids just won the war." This was my favorite battle of the war and I don't think I threw an offensive shot for its entire duration. It was my job to stay alive and keep my lance alive. I could not stand the thought of having one them die because I reached for glory.		There were times when I was facing up to three hooks on my shield. I remember believing this is my time to only be saved once again by Gunthar knocking a hook off or Oxlade fouling shots and them working the enemies before us. We were finally felled by enemies who had breached the sally port. I remember asking Oxlade, “How did the Sally port fall?”. He replied "It was not being held by us." A Trimarian nearby responded, “True Story. Don't worry kid, you may have lost the battle, but you kids just won the war." This was my favorite battle of the war and I don't think I threw an offensive shot for its entire duration. It was my job to stay alive and keep my lance alive. I could not stand the thought of having one them die because I reached for glory.
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	For reference, Duke Inman - whom I had never meet before - was fighting spear and grabbed me during the res battle. He told me I was going to be his personal shield men. My young self, not knowing any better, responded. “There are my other two lance members! We can wait and go together.” One of our commanders told me, “That is Duke Inman. You go and do what you are told.” I felt exposed without my lance members. It turns out, that Inman dude was very good with a spear and had a lot of knowledge to share. I learned a great deal and have fond memories of the rez battle, including my first kill of the war. It comes in a distance second to defending the main gate with the Liondragon Guard. Hail MOG!.		For reference, Duke Inman - whom I had never meet before - was fighting spear and grabbed me during the res battle. He told me I was going to be his personal shield men. My young self, not knowing any better, responded. “There are my other two lance members! We can wait and go together.” One of our commanders told me, “That is Duke Inman. You go and do what you are told.” I felt exposed without my lance members. It turns out, that Inman dude was very good with a spear and had a lot of knowledge to share. I learned a great deal and have fond memories of the rez battle, including my first kill of the war. It comes in a distance second to defending the main gate with the Liondragon Guard. Hail MOG!.
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