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Founded: Spring 2011
Status: Active
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Introduction

Originally just a small collection of friends, House Three Sheets has evolved and grown into an active and dynamic SCA household. It fosters newcomers to the SCA, and encourages them to become involved and to serve.

History

The House Three Sheets was founded in the Spring of 2011, as a collection of historical food enthusiasts. As more members joined, it widened to include brewers, crafters, and fighters. The House has seen the publication of one cookbook, and hopes to encourage many more successful projects of all sizes and scopes.

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*Household blog site, with primers: [http://www.housethreesheets.wordpress.com

The First Crusade

It was Year Forty-Eight of the Society when Bregowine had a vision. After a particularly vigorous bout of single-stick, he laid himself down to have a quick nap, and then began to dream. And in this dream a dazzling white pony appeared before him, and presented him with a bottle of milk stout and a single silver key.

Although milk stout was not Brego's usual style of adult beverage, he nonetheless applied the silver key to the cap of the bottle, and much to his surprise out poured not a moderately sweet concoction of burnt and then fermented grain, but instead a multitude of brightly-coloured garden gnomes, who proceeded to run widdershins around his feet, yelling and dancing and shouting all manner of rubbish, as is the wont of gnomes. Round and round they went, until Bregowine grew dizzy and fell, and awoke once more in the comfort of his single-stick hall.

Puzzled by the profound and vivid nature of this fantasy, Brego summoned to the hall all the warriors of his House, and told them about his dream, and asked them what it might signify. Gerhardt (who was at that time the newest member of the House) was the first to Speake, and declared that he had just dreamed a similar dream, only it was a bright white cockatiel who had supplied the milk stout. Indeed! Soon it was discovered that Maccus, Brannoc, and Taliesin had also dreamed of bright white animals purveying questionable milk stout, and many words were exchanged.

As fate would have it, Aoife and Vivienne had recently acquired a garden gnome for the hall, and so the council swiftly delivered its verdict: first, that the garden gnome was the source of the troubling dream; and second, that the garden gnome was thoroughly cursed.

Rather than destroy the unfortunate gnome, Brego declared that the House would undertake a quest to cleanse the gnome of its iniquity: to Acre, whereat to wash the gnome in the water of the Babbling Brooke, which carries away the sins of the world. And so Bregowine sounded the Ancient Horn of Galloping Hill, and off they rode to Acre.

And so it was that House Three Sheets embarked on its First Crusade in A.S. 48, fought valiantly on behalf of the Byzantines, and then washed the gnome, and slept soundly thereafter.

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The Second Crusade

Three years passed, and the dream returned.

Since it was as vivid and terrifying as before, the warriors of the House knew right away that Acre once again by its enemies was threaten'd.

Now by this time, in recognition for his deeds of derring-do at Acre and elsewhere, Brego had been made a Lord; and so it was quite natural that Lord Brego should once again rally the warriors of the House to the Crusade. And so Lord Brego blew the Ancient Horn, and off they rode.

This time, the King of Acre was so pleased by the fighting prowess of the warriors (and by the delicious mead that Brannoc gifted to the crown) that His Grace gave each of them a token of his esteem, and declared that they would e'er be welcome in the Kingdom should they choose to return.

And then they washed the gnome, and slept soundly thereafter.

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