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size=3>Holiday Faire is coming soon (November 18 in Stierbach). We would like to
invite you to join us in some of the OTHER Activities besides shopping. Yes,
there are other things to do at this event besides shop.</FONT></P>
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align=center><B><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Hosted by the
Champions of Stierbach.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></B></P>
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title=http://www.stierbach.org/events/holiday_faire/holiday2006.php
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size=3>Arts and Science - Lady Blitha is hosting two categories. </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>The first is a competition for the best shopping bag or other
contrivances to carry your loot (i.e. boxes, bags, baskets, wagons…) Please
limit your documentation to a single page.</FONT></P>
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size=3>Second, is a “I am still looking for …” display of unfinished projects
with descriptions of what you are looking for to complete it. Is it garb missing
just the right buttons, or something that just needs a special touch and you are
not sure what it is. Come get feedback and a little help.</FONT></P>
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size=3>Archery - Come one, come all. Have your archery skills tested by the
games of chance at “The Carnival of Hope and Death”.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Carnival games abound! Teams of two will
be needed for the games so take a fellow archer to the carnival. Inspections
will begin at 11:00am and the Carnival begins at noon. Lady Esperanza and Lord
Mors have made moving targets to test your skill and eyesight. Lady Esperanza
will be your contact person.</FONT></P>
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size=3>For Rapiers, a "Tournament of Style!" First part will be a tourney "by
force of arms" to determine the Holiday Faire Rapier Tournament Champion.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>However to make it more fun, let’s see
what their "Style" score will be. For each bout, they will be scoring
fighters on their "fashion sense", conduct during bouts, crowd reactions and the
overall fighter's "flair". This person will be recognized as Holiday
Faire's Most Stylish Fighter. </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>Lord Alexandre de Tourouvre will be your contact for this one.</FONT></P>
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size=3>Armored heavy Combat will be a tourney will consisting of four
simultaneous bear pits.</FONT></P>
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size=3>First pit will be Sword and Board.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Second pit will be Great Weapon.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Third pit will be Pole Arms.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Fourth pit will be Dual Weapons. After tallying scores a final round of
combat between the winners of the bear pits to determine the day’s winner. Lord
Allen of Wolfhou is your point of contact for heavy.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>More explanation on the
website.</FONT></P>
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size=3>Throwing weapons will be a ”Bubba” modified survivor tourney hosted by
Lord Bubba.</FONT></P>
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size=3>It will be a standard survivor in that all participants will throw one
weapon in each round with the participant making the worst throw in each round
being eliminated.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The “bubba”
modification consists of the requirement that one third of throws must be thrown
with each weapon, knives, axes, spears in order to be declared the winner. So
that to win the tourney one must use all three weapons forms. Please see the
website for full details.</FONT></P>
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