Re: UBAG - was Re: MR-Banter: Fran

[Karen Elisa Green <kgreen2@osf1.gmu.edu>]

Poster: Karen Elisa Green <kgreen2@osf1.gmu.edu>

In a previous message, I had inquired:

> > 4. Would the UBAG be interested in researching period assassins (methods, 
> > reasons, targets, personas, etc.)?  I'm sure I would find such research 
> > quite interesting ... after all, it's not the typical TOURNAMENTS 
> > ILLUMINATED "build a nifty chair" article ;)

To which Ciaran MacGhobhainn replied:

> Research is being done even as we speak, and UBAG contains only a 
> scant few members from Black Diamond. This is not a group that has 
> taken ANY money for the game, it has been done ONCE as a test only. 
> No money was paid to anyone.

Might I suggest that UBAG look into the assassins ca. the Third Crusade, 
who were led by a man who was known only as the Old Man of the Mountain 
(or some such) ... as I recall, this was the same band of assassins who 
pulled the "kamikaze Scotsmen" routine for a visiting Westerner.  There 
are several references to these assassins in accounts of the Third 
Crusade, especially around 1190.

Btw, Lord Beornheard, an organization of assassins would be a neat 
addition to the Acre event, what say you?

Yours in Service to the Dream,

Karen Larsdatter med det Usigelige Efternavn fra Skyggedal
  trying to decide between Fatima al-Afranjah and Christina d'Este ...
  or perhaps BOTH ;)
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