PaxLair 14th Anniversary Speech by Governor Winfield

PaxOku, Tokuno, Shesapeake (PaxLair Times) – January 19, 2012 – by Winfield  – Below is the PaxLair 14th Anniversary Dinner Speech given by Governor Winfield.  He gave a speech on the final day of  PaxLair Anniversary week at the PaxLair dinner.  This speech was given in PaxOku at a new building next to Benito’s Ale House and Brewery, WNW of the Tea House and PaxOku Banner.  Venger of Nidaros also crafted and donated the official Anniversary gifts.

PaxLair Opening Speech

PREFACE SPEECH (spoken as people assembled for dinner)

Welcome everyone!

I’m Governor Winfield and your host this evening. Welcome to our PaxLair 14th Anniversary Dinner!!

I hope you will have fun during the next hour. There is plenty to do. This is not a sit-down, get-waited-on type of dinner this time.

You’ll have to get up and grab your own food and mingle around with others. But if you really want to be waited on, we can send you over to the Kaar Barashalu Orc Fort in Felucca. The orcs there will certainly wait on you! They have Horse Stew for dinner.

Yet here, we have much more to eat! I thank Queen Zen and Lady Winmere for preparing the food for tonight. The food is laid out on the serving tables in this house. So please come up and enjoy the food!

Also, please sign our Guest Messageboard in the center of this house.

*goes through some notes*

We have 6 things going on at this dinner tonight, so please pay attention.

First, for about 15 minutes, you have time to grab food and drink, chat a bit with everyone, and await any late-comers.

Adventurers and guards, I have a task for you though. During this time, look to the north for any threats. Bring a few Ronins, Ninjas, or local beasts into our festival area and then kill them off. These enemies are plaguing us here, and we need to show them we are strong to resist them. Just don’t get our guests killed. When I announce to stop combat with the enemies, please stop and don’t bring any more.

Second, at 30 past the hour, Lenora will announce the winners of the PaxLair Mage Tower Library’s Literary Contest! She will do this from here. Several books were submitted and deserve recognition. So please be here for this.

Third, Ashlynn will summarize her Quest and make any announcements about it. I know it was a difficult quest, and few may have finished it.

Fourth, we will gather in two lines for those who completed the PaxLair Mage Tower Quest. This was a quest started by “tipping” Commander Thaddeus atop the Mage Tower in PaxLair City. Those who succeeded should be ready to wear the appropriate garment as instructed by the quest.

Fifth, after these Quest presentations, I will give my Anniversary Speech right in the area here.

Finally, after you patiently suffered through my speech, everyone can line up to receive a commemorative box of items crafted by Venger for our 14th Anniversary.

Then we will conclude our week-long celebration and enter our 15th year of PaxLair, our cities, and our allies here on Chesapeake.

So welcome everyone! And enjoy the festivities tonight! Adventurers and guards, see if any enemies are lurking in the woods. And others enjoy the food and drink. We assemble again in about 15 minutes.

PaxLair Speech Continued

ANNIVERSARY SPEECH

Welcome everyone once again! I hope you are having fun tonight. Now you get to pay for all that fun, by listening to me for a moment or two.

As most know, PaxLair was founded 14 years ago today. It started in the Feluccan meadows west of the Compassion Shrine. Today, PaxLair City continues to stand as the capital city of a very active group of people. These people have cities and guilds that make up the PaxLair Statehood and Alliance.

Our Statehood has PaxLair City, Dragons Watch, PaxOku, and Nidaros. The PaxLair Alliance adds Gyldenfeld, Pitmuck, and Aryslan. We also ally with more guilds such as the Kingdom of RivenMyst and Crimson Fist of Mazrim.

Together, we adventure across the realm becoming involved in Quests and Adventures of all types. We faithfully gather every Tuesday for a one hour meeting to make sure we know what’s happening around us.

And through this comraderie and loyalty, we constantly help each other, our friends, and new people and veterans-returned to this realm.

Our future continues to look bright.  We’ve done a lot. We helped save the Empress of Zento a week ago. Perhaps she will look favorably upon us here in the future.

Nidaros ale and alcohol production is up to keep up with the high demand. Fishing and shipping activities are at an all time high with many voyages between our ports.

Dragons Watch’s weekly adventures keep us battle ready and our backpacks filled with loot. And we trade some of that loot through Aryslan’s silent auction.

We readily clear the oceans of deadly monsters and pirates using our powerful nets, ships, and boarding parties. We’ve proven our horses and ships are the fastest on the land and at sea.

We are an inguisitive people creating and following quests, like Ashlynn’s and the PaxLair City quests this week. We are pretty literate too, as proven by Lenora’s Library contest.

And we share our ideas and knowledge to others, especially through Ashlynn’s fantastic reporting in the PaxLair Times. Thank you Ashlynn.

Our craftsmen also help all they encounter. I personally thank Queen Zen for her cakes and cookies tonight. I also thank Venger of Nidaros  who crafted and engraved the honorary 14th Anniversary swords for each of you, which I will hand out to you in a moment. Please thank them both for their gifts.

So we have a lot to be thankful for. We have a lot to thank of others. And we have a lot of enthusiasm for the future.

Thank you all for coming this year to PaxLair’s 14th Anniversary. Dragonspeed to you all!

Now if you can all line up on the golden tiles leading to the balance scales, for a gift.

Reference: Speech given for the PaxLair 14th Anniversary by Governor Winfield of PaxLair, January 19, 2012 in PaxOku, Tokuno, Chesapeake

Governor Winfield thanking everyone for attending

PaxLair 14th Anniversary Boxes created by Venger of Nidaros - thanks!

Anniversary Sword crafted and donated by Venger of Nidaros for all guests