Game Auction

[Game Master]

Christian,
The person who put those games up for auction is actually a good friend of mine. I will bring this issue up with him and see if we can get it settled.

Dan

[diehard4life]

There's no hurry. It is my fault as much as his.

I'm usually meticulous about these sorts of things. It would have been helpful to have noticed this up there at the con... but I was rushing between events, and had to run the games out to my trunk before one of the sessions started.

Thanks for your reply. I mean not to impune the reputation of the trader or the convention in any way. It was certainly an honest mistake, and I am thoroughly happy with my experience up in Manitowoc.

Peace,
Christian

[Skittlebrau]

Are you SURE you are a Viking?

Well spoken, excellent manners, postings signed with "peace".

Either those stories about your people must be VERY mistaken..... or you are just putting us off our guard while your kinsmen sneak around the back to start the pillage and rape....


BTW: Very deserved FIRST place for your wonderful attire! I hope you CAN and WILL top it next year.

[diehard4life]

Thank you. Well, it was the day of my birth today and I received:

Fire & Axe (the last copy which was available online at one of five locations),

Vikings: Jouney To New Worlds--the IMAX movie which does well to hilight the diversity of the viking culture and their impetus for the voyages (one reason for the Norwegian/Swedish was... only 5% of land in Norway is arable farmland) Another is more coastline than Africa...

Erik The Viking, the movie with Tim Robbins and the Monty Python gang doing a nordic schtick.

Boru: Irish Vodka (Brian Boru was the only high King of Ireland who enlisted help of vikings in his ousting of the anglo-saxons) Hell, if that too broad of a separation--just think of it as a pillaged good.

and 75$ in Taco John's gift cards... rofl

Anyway, theres a strong history of literacy and wordplay from Scandinavia. My peeps in the hornless helms (they never wore horns) had skalds at the front of any battle, protected as surely as any cheiftan by shield rows, because their job was to produce poetry which would immortalize the battle exploits of the chieftans.

One of the poets, whose work is featured below, actually saved his life by writing epic poetry honoring his captor overnight before his execution...

Thus counselled my mother
For me should they purchase
A galley and good oars
To go forth a-roving.
So may I high-standing,
A noble barque steering,
Hold course for the haven,
Hew down many foemen.

--Egill Skallagrímsson

But I digress. I can say that my friend Espen from Oslo and I have pun-offs where we keep a chain of wordplay going longer than a Kevin Bacon relationships diagram.

Enough said.

-Christian

[diehard4life]

events@fireandiceconvention.com sends the email to axereaver@hotmail.com--which gives a delivery status failure. Anyway, I have posted my email reply below:

Dan:

Wow. That's a bit of bright news.

I've been very sick for 48 hours with the flu--and only now reply from my sick bed. (Cue violins)

Seriously, I am so pleased that you all are such great people. But then again, why should I be astonished? Born and raised 'up north' in WI I know that the ratio of good people to not-so-good people is really high.

My address is:

(EDITED OUT)

I hope to do further business with you all again next year. This year I was unemployed and broke, but next year I hope to be gainfully employed and broke.

Peace,
Christian