Amtgard in San Luis Obispo:
The Barony of the Seven Sleeping Dragons
Welcome to the official site of the Barony of the Seven Sleeping Dragons, a boffer combat group based in San Luis Obispo, California. On this site you will find news about our group, notification of the time and place of our regular meetings and special events, links to helpful online resources, and sundry other bits of helpful information scattered across the web. Come in, enjoy, and join us on the field one day for a bit of fighting, or discussion of crafts of all sorts, from armoring to writing, from sewing to metalwork, and everything in between.
If you're new to Amtgard, check the 'about us' and 'getting started' sections. If you're new to boffer combat entirely, or want more information, feel free to contact us.
A Message from the Baron
This audit package marks the second reign after Seven Sleeping Dragon's promotion to Barony status. I have had the honor and pleasure of being Monarch during this time. This reign would have been much more difficult if not for the assistance and contributions of the rest of SSD's monarchy (Regent Page Leah, Prime Minister Man-at-Arms Griffin, and Champion Woman-at-Arms Braith).
SSD managed to raise 251 cans/packages of food weighing in at 222lbs during our Thanksgiving and Christmas food drives. This was an impressive amount considering the state of the economy, and the fact a majority of our group is college students. This topped our last year's total of 220 cans/packages. All food was donated to the Food Bank Coalition of SLO.
We again held demonstrations at Cal Poly and at San Luis Obispo High School in a recruitment attempt. We are elbow deep in the process of paperwork to hold a booth at Cal Poly's Open House. Regent Leah once again jumped through many hoops with Cal Poly to obtain our annualized funding. The funds are unused as of yet, as we are throwing around ideas and budgeting its use. We have run 2 Arts & Science nights (with two more planned this reign), using the materials purchased with last year's endowment to make tunics and swords. Our group ran into smaller numbers over December break, which is typical for the group (mostly college and high school students). Inclement weather also hampered meeting times. With sunnier times and students back from break, our numbers are stabilizing once again. Baron Deimos
Monarch of Seven Sleeping Dragons
A Message from the Prime Minister
As per our contract with Dragonspine, we are required to submit several items to provide proof of our existence, and justification for our exalted Baronial status. As always, the list is copied and pasted below, with the actual required details posted beneath each item. o Copies of bank statements and financial records for the past six monthsOur statement from ASI - our equivilent of banking through Cal Poly - resides here, and a copy of our ledger accompanies it here.
Baron Deimos included the following letter along with the file:
The bank statement provided with Seven Sleeping Dragons audit package is a printout of the bank statement provided by the Cal Poly Associated Students Inc. Seven Sleeping Dragons is also a Cal Poly San Luis Obispo university club, going by the name of The Amtgard Society of Poly (Cal Poly Group #73440), and as such, are provided a club bank account through the Cal Poly ASI. Funds in the account are accessed through written submission for reimbursement of funds through the ASI.
Item 12/5/08 was a deposit by the Cal Poly ASI. Cal Poly ASI provides $500 per fiscal year to any club who makes a request for the funds. This is the second year our group has taken advantage of this policy. This is the only activity in the account from 7/1/08 to present. Cal Poly has control of the account, and this is the only statement available.
The monarchy is currently soliciting ideas and budgeting for use of this year's disbursement.
o Copies of sign in sheets for the past six monthsDue to the eccentricities of my scanner, some of these are a little crooked, but they are all present and accounted for, and have been combined in to this attractive and compact file.
Thanks to income during period when the ledger was elsewhere, the current available cash balance of the Barony of the Seven Sleeping Dragons is $124.24.
o List of current officersMonarch: Baron Squire Deimos
Regent: Page Leah
Prime Minister: Man-at-Arms Griffin
Champion: Woman-at-Arms Braith
o List of current dues-paid membersCurrently our dues-paid (though not necessarily voting-qualified) members is as follows:
Dave I. (Deimos)
Griffin M. (Griffin)
Jessica F. (Leah)
Mary G. (Braith)
Megan F. (Faye)
Mike P. (Cronin)
Nate L. (Ysea)
Nate W. (Nate)
Robbie S. (Laoric)
Seth B. (Qazyr)
o Results of most recent crown qualsAfter a brief panic, the results of the most recent Crown Quals have been located. They are located here.
The results of the Warmaster are in this file.
o Results of most recent crown electionsBaron Deimos, Regent Leah, and Champion Braith each received 10 out of 10 votes cast during the last elections.
While we are no longer formally required to submit proof of advertising, it nevertheless seems advisable to do so. This flier is one of several designed along similar lines (but with different pictures exhibiting different fighting styles) that we currently hand out and post. Man-at-Arms Griffin
Prime Minister of Seven Sleeping Dragons
There will be an althing this upcoming weekend (Saturday, October 4th), during which two Westmarch issues will be discussed.
First,
Siar Geata's promotion to Barony will be discussed and voted on,
followed by a vote on whether to extend the reign of the Westmarch and
local monarchy by three (3) months to facilitate coronation being held
at Darkshore, as it once was.
Questions, comments, just about anything else can be addressed by email, on the Westmarch forums, or in person during the Althing itself.
The ballot can be viewed here.
Update: Siar Geata's barony promotion has gone through without a single naysayer in Westmarch, and the reign has been extended! Minutes will be posted eventually.
The time has come for audits once again, and this year it's online in public fashion. In addition to my own small introduction, our monarch, Baron MaA Deimos, has provided a cover letter for this audit package. As a Barony, albeit a fairly new one, we need to submit several different pieces of information. These items follow in the form of a bulleted list with details beneath.
- Copies of bank statements and financial records for the past six months
We begin with our General Ledger. We currently have $74.24 in cash and mixed coinage to our names, and more should arrive in the next month as more dues are paid.
At one point (6/28/08), there is a major error with the current value of the ledger. This was a rather odd day - our latest quest day, in fact - during which the intake of the cash box was not monitored, and it has become apparent that not everybody who ate food at the event paid. After our Regent had been reimbursed, the value could not be determined on site in a timely fashion.
The following text comes from Baron MaA Deimos to explain our current bank statement:
The bank statement provided with Seven Sleeping Dragons audit package is a printout of the bank statement provided by the Cal Poly Associated Students Inc. Seven Sleeping Dragons is also a Cal Poly San Luis Obispo university club, going by the name of The Amtgard Society of Poly (Cal Poly Group #73440), and as such, are provided a club bank account through the Cal Poly ASI. Funds in the account are accessed through written submission for reimbursement of funds through the ASI.
Item 5/8/08 was a deposit by the Cal Poly ASI. Cal Poly ASI provides $500 per fiscal year to any club who makes a request for the funds. This was the first year our group took advantage of this policy.
Item 6/30/08 was a reimbursement for funds used to procure materials for a garb making day, and for materials procured for use during our June quest.
Item 6/6/08 was a reimbursement for funds used to procure materials for a weapon making day, and for feast supplies for lunch provided by SSD at Darkshore.
Item 3/18/08 and 6/23/08 were in error. Funds were credited to our club account intended for a different club. We notified ASI of the error and they made the appropriate correction.
- Copies of sign in sheets for the past six months
Anybody wishing to download these sheets should be warned: They total more than 8 megabytes, and I have been unable to reduce the file size without reducing the quality to the point of being illegible. The sign-in sheets for 1-5-08 through 1-26-08 are online here. The sign-in sheets for 2-2-08 through 7-19-08 are available here. The sheet for 7-26-08 has the dubious distinction of having its own file, which resides here.
Monarch: Baron Man-at-Arms Deimos
Regent: Page Leah
Prime Minister: Griffin Köford
Champion: Man-at-Arms Ailliath
GMR: Lady Faye
- List of current dues-paid members
Dave I. (Deimos)
Griffin M. (Griffin)
Jeff M. (Amadeo)
Jessica F. (Leah)
Luke S. (Archtos)
Mary G. (Braith)
Megan F. (Faye)
Nate L. (Ysea)
Nate W.
Patrick S. (Ailliath)
Robert B. (Raab)
Skyler L.
Tina S.
Viet M. (Pai)
Zach H. (Krom)
Zane H. (Thorik)
- Results of most recent crown quals
The results from SSD's Crown Quals are as follows; shown with entrant's name, name of entry, and average score from judges:
Leah
Rose Cross-stitch: 4.0
Black Necklace, Bracelet, and Earrings: 4.2
A Fable: 3.83
Blue Tunic with Yellow Trim: 3.36
Deimos
Leather Satchel: 4.06
Black Tankard Strap: 3.33
The Serpent's Fang: 4.16
Black Flatblade Shortsword: 3.83
Griffin
Pair of Bracers: 3.8
Alliath
Green Cloak: 3.73
Red Belt: 3.9
Braith
Blue Short Sword: 3.16
Krom
Pair of Black Short Swords: 3.23
Black w/Red Applique (shield): 3.16
Black Polearm: 3.3
Thorik
Javalin: 3.13
Black Shield: 3.1
Polearm: 3.23
Seth
Daisy Dagger: 3.03
The
top scores were, Leah, with an average of 3.8475, followed ridiculously
closely by Deimos, with an average of 3.845. Third place was Krom, with
an average of 3.23.
- Results of most recent crown elections
In our last election, all candidates ran uncontested, as there as only a single no-confidence vote cast for our champion, Ailliath and or regent, Leah.
We're doing a quest day here in SSD!
Where: At Meadow park in San Luis Obispo (it's off of south street)
Why: Well, we sorta sat down and thought, you know what would be neat? It would be neat to have a quest. And invite all our friends. Yeah. Or something like that.
How: Um, with foam swords, maybe some armor, a bit of garb...you know, the usual.
I'll
fill in more details as I get them, such as the title of the quest and
such. Just wanted to let peoples know the date in advance.
--Regent Leah
As most of our long-term members (and many of our short-term members) will be aware, our old website, hosted by Cal Poly, is, and long has been, essentially useless. Finally, in an act of desperation, our long-running Prime Minister, Griffin, sat down and designed a site. Then, he designed it again, using Blosxom to fuel the news on the main page. While that was neat for a cheap-and-easy solution (Blosxom will probably see use elsewhere on the site - stay tuned), it wasn't nearly good enough. Instead, he (he being the person writing this entry in the third person, namely Griffin, also known as "me") decided to upgrade to Movable Type, to allow the rest of the monarchy to make news posts easily. So, here we are, on the third major revision of the website since April 1st, and, as a result, the third version of this news post. Enjoy!
There will be an Althing held this weekend to determine, among other things, whether we should be promoted to Barony. I know how I'm voting - hopefully we'll be upgraded on Monday!
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