EK Pelican-Laurel Challenge . . .

I hope you are all aware of this -- http://www.laurelsvspelicans.com/

There are now several additional cool offers.

1. Master Toki says:

So here's my next offer:

In a couple of sagas, characters are killed by having their intestines
pulled out. (I know. Ewww.) One of those characters recites poetry while
this is happening. So...

If total donations in the name of "Bloodbeard the Beowulf Battler" reach
$200, I will disembowel myself (using boffer intestines...don't get your
hopes up) and recite poetry, while trying to thwack people with
Grendel's arm.

If total donations in the name of "Bloodbeard the Beowulf Battler" reach
$300, I will disemboffer-bowel myself and NOT recite poetry, while
trying to thwack people with Grendel's arm. That's right, I'll keep my
mouth shut!

2. Mistress Aofe says:

I am not to be outdone! ;D

More importantly, I am having way too much fun with this.  And I would like to continue to give people incentives to contribute to the cause.  I think Toki's incentives are fantastic, and they can continue to be contributed to after the deadline for new weapons.  Therefore, I've come up with a few of my own.

So... at $200, I get a "braining mace."  A mace with a huge brain to hit people with.

At $225, I will compose my "last words" in verse to recite dramatically as I die on the field.  Probably in three variations.

At $300, I will compose a satire against my enemies to cripple their ability to stand against us.  (For those of you who aren't familiar with Irish culture, a satire was a poetic curse that could do anything from leaving someone with an unpleasant moniker that would follow them to the end of their days... to actually disfiguring or killing a man.)  I have never written such a thing before, because I feared someone would take it seriously.  If there was ever a time when people *wouldn't* take it seriously?  I think it's the boffer tourny.

I have a lot of writing to do, if I'm going to be able to do this. ;)  Please give me a reason to use it.

3. Master Liam says:

For each donation of $10 or more to Mistress Nataliia, I will go to the camp of your choice and sing loudly.

For each donation of $10 or more to Mistress Nataliia, I will issue "insurance," so that if someone sends me to work camp, I will bounce off to the camp of your choice.

More, I am sure, to come  . . .