Excellent quibble. At first my response was going to be whole-hearted agreement. However, as I started typing I recalled comments made in the past by fighters I respect regarding who should be entitled to shade on the eric and regarding the role of arts in the Kingdom. It's not the Victory Centric attitude on the field (in this case) that's the problem, it's the insulation of the fighters from art; the lack of empathy from those striving on the field for those striving in craft rooms. I'm not sure there are many fighters who are strictly through and through fighters (who don't do arts) that would really get why dumbing down the Golden Poppy is an issue that triggers rage in me. And maybe that's part of the problem, too. Back when I met you, you and Andrew and Raul and Oelf and Douglas, et al, were still squires and you openly talked about the importance of being able to dance and that doing arts was part of the prerequisites to being a knight. I think that's been lost; knights are no longer expected to be well-rounded gentlemen, they are combatants.

Collegiums, etc, heh... I have no intentions of doing any event alone. Many hands make work light.