Thoughts: SCA Minions and Low Company

[learnteach]

I haven't taken a formal student in a while, but still have the urge to cause trouble in a fun way, of course. While the Trouble Patrol is amusing, it's not my style. So, while talking with someone yesterday, I offered them the post of Minion: I would pay them 50 coins or one garment a year, and they would provide me with 5 examples of agreed upon minionhood.

But what would a minion do? Well, camp chores really require a bondservant, a minion should be more for BAD things. Like sneaking up with me and grabbing that cute new fighter's butt in the name of the Queen (his name was Gunther, btw, and it's a cute butt, in case you wanted to know.) Or delivering semi-anonymous roses. Holding the ladder while I sing bad poetry at windows. Shilling the dance (Dull Sir John, anyone?) Looking decorative while we go offer rosewater to out of kingdom peers... In other words, fun stuff. Even, perhaps, helping with a Clan Cambion style bathhouse, or a Low Company event.

Ah, yes, idea number two: the Low Company. A company dedicated to low pursuits: gambling, drinking, bawdy songs, etc. I propose that we meet in the Saucy Wench once a year for a feast composed of those delights; that each member pay some sum, and be issued a bag of coins for the purposes of gambling at that time, and the sum be used to fund the feast; and that each member have at all times coin to gamble with and some implement thereof, whereas if they cannot produce the same in an idle moment when questioned by 2 other members, they pay a fine of either a bawdy song performance in public as appropriate or into the general fund.


Comments? Good idea, bad idea?

Comments

[noressa.livejournal.com]

Minions are good things. That is all. ~.^

[rustmon.livejournal.com]

I think its a great idea! :)

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

Good idea. But if you get a minion with much youngness or low wisdom, be sure s/he vets projects with you first!

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

I'm one of Esther Friesner's official minions.

[roswtr.livejournal.com]

I'm taking my first two official students -- I'm a little nervous. But there should be some aspects of "minionhood" in the deal, 'cause it's supposed to be fun, right?

The Low Company sounds fabulous. Can I play?

Wonderful!

[learnteach.livejournal.com]

Yes! I wonder if firebreathing is considered low...no, but it is a low amusement (unrefined, waiting for beards to catch.) Wow! I'll have the basics pulled together at A&S.