Hello, this is your scribe speaking, of course. I wanted to remind all of you that I am hosting a free breakfast at the park this Saturday the 17th, from 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM.

The menu will consist of:

1. Cinnamon Rolls
2. Hot and Cold Beverages (Tea, Coffee, Hot Cocoa, Orange Juice, and Milk)
3. Hard boiled eggs
4. Trail mix
5. Fruit (Fresh fruit slices)
6. Pumpkin Parfait

Everyone who shows up for this event gets an EXTRA CREDIT per Cassandrah, Duchess of PV (Even outlanders, your credits will be mailed to your Prime Minister). Also, we are pushing to run a Quest if we can get enough people(See Tiwaz, Champion of PV for details). And even more fun will arrive shortly there after with a Battlegame of some sort and DITCHING! Hurray!

Thanks and I hope to see you there at 11:00am on Saturday, the 17th,
Lord Marcil F. Woodsman, Scribe of PV

Crown Qualfications Schedule

8/2/2008 : Cultural entries must have been finished since this date.
1/23 : Intent for vintners entries are due.
1/23 10pm: Sign-ups for Chess event close.
1/24 : Match seeding for Chess is announced.
1/30 10pm : Sign-ups for Mancala event close.
1/31 : Declarations for office are due.
1/31 : Corpora and Reeves Tests available for qualification.
1/31 : Match seeding for Mancala is announced.
1/31 : Literature entries are due.
2/7 : Day of Crown Qualifications.
2/7 noon : Sign-ins for cultural and war events open.
2/7 1pm : Sign-ins for cultural events close.
2/7 1pm : Sign-ins for war events begin to close as each list is seeded.
2/7 end of day : Chess and Mancala events are over, no further matches may be played.
2/21 : Testing ends when election starts.
2/21 : Elections and Champion's Tournament.

Crown Qualifications Requirements Attached

More of an annoyance than a real threat, gnomes are bad things to have around the house prior to crown qualifications and Gnomes that collect things are doubly bad to have around. In particular, Gnome Collectors enjoy grabbing shiny objects, magic balls, dull objects, underwear, and pretty much anything else that is lying around and vanishing along with their new found treasure. They collect these things in a pile in their secret lair for part of a secret three step plan.

Roses are red
Violets are blue
The ninjas are coming
What will you do?

We'll chase you
And catch you

And fill you with fright
The ninjas are coming
In the dead of night

So bring yourself a sword
Or at least a sharpened stick
The ninjas are coming
So you better fight quick.

I'm running out of prose here
So I'll make this as blunt as I can
You can't catch me
Because I'm the big bad ninja man!

(makes two small loaves in 30 minutes)
Ingredients

• 3 cups flour
• 12 oz of warm soda (1 can worth, no diet sodas)
• 1 tablespoon yeast

Instructions

• Mix the ingredients together.
• Separate the dough into two halves and place in small bread pans.
• Bake at 375 degrees for 20-25 minutes.

Notes

• Nearly any type of soda works in this recipe as long as it has sugar or high fructose corn syrup in it.
• Artificial fruit flavors usually turn out well while subtle flavors can be hard to detect in the bread.
• The Mountain Dew family of sodas and energy drinks also give an interesting alternative form of caffeine intake.
• Berry, grape, and apple juices can be substituted for soda but you will have to wait for the bread to raise a bit after you put it in the bread pans.

Fear me, I am Anti-Tiwaz! I have taken our champion and placed him in a cold and dark place where he can not write submissions to the newsletter! Bwahahaha!
Tiwaz has a number of plans for you guys, so listen up! It seems that there have been a number of attacks on our duchy over the past 3 months or so. First, you guys lost a bunch of gold to some pesky goblins. It was an epic failure. In the upcoming battle after that, those same goblins had given all of their gold away somehow, presumably by buying liquor or something that is really expensive and easily waste-able. So, some other bad monsters ended with lots of gold!