[Artemisia] Orson Scott Card and Monkey Island "documentation" ; -)

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Greetings! :-)
 
Just FWIW, and for fun...
 
My eldest daughter, Katharin, recently had the pleasure of  playing a 
pennywhistle tune she'd picked up from one of the "Monkey Island"  PC adventure 
games, during the wandering court at Uprising, which resulted in a  remark about 
the possibility of coming up with some "documentation" for it  later... ;-)
 
In view of this, for the benefit of anyone contemplating how such  
documentation might conceivably be pursued, it might be of interest to note  (especially 
given the current anniversary-related presentations of Kingdom  History, plus 
the recent Aerie reading discussions mentioning OSC's Alvin Maker  series), 
that the swordfighting insult exchanges in one of the  above-mentioned "Monkey 
Island" games were actually written by  Orson Scott Card [see 
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insult_swordfighting_ 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insult_swordfighting)  and  _http://www.worldofmi.com/gamehelp/insults_ 
(http://www.worldofmi.com/gamehelp/insults)  ],  who, by another similar name ("Friar Orison 
Caird "), was, as I understand from  my rookie-SCAdian research, at least briefly 
Seneschal of Loch Salaan,  and apparently was responsible for at least one 
relatively early  SCA event at our Castle here in Provo:
_http://www.sff.net/people/kitsune/sca/peasant78.htm_ 
(http://www.sff.net/people/kitsune/sca/peasant78.htm) 
 
Not only that, but, interestingly (to me, anyway ;-) ):
"After returning to Provo, Utah, from his LDS mission in Brazil, Card  
started the Utah Valley Repertory Theatre Company, which for two summers  produced 
plays at 'the Castle,' a Depression-era outdoor amphitheater behind the  
then-active state mental hospital in Provo; his company's were the first plays  ever 
produced there."
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card_ 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card) 
 
As it turns out, Katharin had also borrowed one of the "Monkey Island"  
swordfighting insults (though she chose a rhyming one from MI3, not  one of OSC's 
from MI1) during one of our local Arrows' Flight BRAT tourneys  for rapier last 
year, where she, as an Officially Offended Party recruited for  the occasion, 
was supposed to attempt to insult our most eloquent Bard,  Padruig, more or 
less on Lord John the Rat's behalf (or something to that  effect), and found 
herself suddenly in need of material and without much in  the way of original 
inspiration. (Naturally, however, the "Monkey  Island" insult paled in 
comparison to Lord Padruig's most excellent retort!  ;-D )
 
So... even if a pennywhistle tune from "Monkey Island" happened not to turn  
out to be documentable in the traditional sense, there are, in fact, some (OK, 
 maybe roundabout and tenuous... :-) ) historical connections to our Glorious 
 Kingdom! ;-)
 
A side note... it's occurred to me that it might actually be  fun for the 
rapier fighters (having witnessed some of their notably  creative competitions, 
at least in our neck of the woods :-) ) to try out  some form/adaptation of 
Insult Swordfighting at the Castle, someday, in a  tip of the hat to the above 
snippet of our Kingdom history -- just in  case anyone, other than Katharin and 
me, finds the idea at all appealing...  :-)  The version where the retorts 
have to rhyme could be especially  challenging...! ;-)  A thought, anyway...
 
And last, since Baron's War marks the anniversary of our  family's first 
event in the SCA, I have to add this: 
Many, many thanks to all of you, for all the unique qualities you  
contribute, and talents and inspiration you've been so willing  to share, that have made 
our first year in the SCA such an  amazing experience! :-)
 
CJ the Amnesiac
Shire of Arrows' Flight



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