The History of the Kingdom of The West
The Thirty-fifth Year

"The theme was "Through The Looking Glass", loosely based on the novel by Lewis Carroll.

"Madness was held on a bright sunny weekend at Bort Meadows, Lake Chabot Park, Castro Valley.

"Chad Bitor was Autocrat, Crystal of the Westermark was Pseudocrat, Micheila McCallum was Senecrat, Randel O'Gallchobhair was Chiurgicrat

"Fighting included
Buzkashi w/. baah resurrection
Immortals
The all-new Wonderland theme "off with their heads"
Tourney (hosted by the Queen of hearts herself!)
Troll melee
Baronial Thug Triathalon
Shastan Melee with odd weapons
Mass Weapons and Poetry round robin
Off Handed Grand Melee

"The result of the triathalon was a tie between Frederick and Colin (Colin won two, vs Flieg who one , but got a bonus point for fighting bravely with the Baronial Sheep in the Shastan Melee.) The tie was to be decided by the poetry contest, which this time was declared to be "lullaby for the na-Baron". At this point the fates intervened, and both Flieg and Colin turned out to have independently decided to use the same exact tune for their entry, and so, we now have a double thug.

"The previous thug provided Alex with a lovely lullaby based on "drunken sailor", and actually was presented with his regalia before he passed it on.....

"Games included:

• Tablero (for which Krysta provided a keg o' cider, but rumour has it she was dethroned as the current champion by Randel)
• Mah Jong (courtesy of the free folk of whopping on Thames, or some such name for the denizens of the BC)
  Challenge Croquet (for which the Baroness excelled herself in setting up an insanely difficult, confusing and fun game) Pok (played for hours and hours under the shade of the big tree)
• Also, Xton sponsored a "sit under the Crosston pavilion all day and drink and eat and listen to stuff" contest
• "Come see the new Baronette" was also very well attended

"The brick throwing and groveling contests were cancelled due to inertia and lack of time, and for some reason, we forgot to run the "Shoot the Baron" contest....

"Crown Princess Osa attended, gracing our court with her presence. Also King Jade showed up in time for the Markee.

"The final event was the Markee competition, which was very entertaining indeed.

"The theme was "If you don't have an entry planned, plan to be badgered by the Baron until you do something even if it's at his expense"

"The entries were:

• Mini-commedia from Crosston & Sir John
• The Troll Song and Dance
• Cool songs by Flieg, Colin and others
• Amusing stories by various nameless persons including
  • "The time I stepped on two annoying guys in Lochac"
  • "The time I turned out to have mugged a guy because I forgot to tell him the goblet was mine"
  • "The ballad of Slappy the Wonder Kelt"

In addition, we had a surprise visitation from an actual Evil Clown of Silveroak, who regaled us with a variety of Slanderous stories of the Baron's days in Caid, sightings of crazy drunk man, and a scientific report of a new species of Alcohol Golem.

The winners of the coveted Markee were David the mad fiddler, Kellyn Firesinger, and Hugh Piper who in various combinations performed quite a few excellent songs, particularly scoring points for "freaking the rednecks"." -- Evaine MacGregor

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