Great Western War, Taft, CA 10/3-10/8/12

[Saionji Shonagon]

Who's going?

I'll be there, there will be taiko class and one on relations between Japan and Europe in the 16th century. (I'll probably also be out dying on the rapier field as well.)

[Sō Haruko]

Would like to, but the house-moving is still being complicated. And it's a four-hour drive, so it's definitely weekend-not-daytrip material for us. Might still go, but I really don't know; it's all kind of up in the air.

We are planning on attending Talon-Crescent next year, though, for sure. A chance to get in on the first year of a War sounds pretty awesome. (:

[Saionji Shonagon]

Understood: it's 4 hours for me too. But it's also a chance to spend time with friends from your kingdom who I don't get to see very often.

If you can make it, it's a nice little war - site is just a few minutes from I-5 in a park with irrigated grass and a lake.

[Saionji Shonagon]

House of Cheerful Monkeys will be serving sake and treats on Friday night of the War. Look for privy posts for location!

[Saionji Shonagon]

It was an excellent war: I had students for all my classes, died in some rapier melees, poured sake for guests, had dinner with the Crown Prince and Princess of the East and spent an unsavory amount of time among mercenaries - my thanks to the kind and hospitable folks over at Dragon Watch as I used them as a hide-out.

I should mention, congratulate and duly rat out Minamoto Shintarou Masashige-dono (better known to all and sundry as Lash), who recently received his AoA and both the Artemisian Gryphon's Talon and Outlands Stag's Blood (fighting honors) and his Lady Sholeh (AoA). I am also unashamed to say that they're currently living in MY kingdom so I may actually get to see them more often. ;D