Chieftess Challenge ~ the score:

Lasses, ye did a braw job with our first challenge showing your chieftesses just what stuff you are made of. We had 31 out of a possible 56 participate, with 19 perfect scores. Ye've done yer chieftesses proud and I thank ye for playing!

Breakdown:

Beauchamp ~ 6 perfect scores were received from: *Muirne, *Nemetona, *Sineag, Morven, Isobel, and lspeth. Additional responses were received from Lady North Facing, Suisan, Carolin, Imogene, and Ealasaid.

Fraser ~ 4 perfect scores were received from *Vika, *Phaedra, Jocasta Walkley, and Nannag, and additional challenges were received from Jeannette and Bourgogne.

MacKenzie ~ 4 perfect scores were received from Ceanna, Ide, *Catrionia Duncan, and Catriona Mac, and additional challenges were returned from Eadgyth, Mrs. Fitz, Imogen, and Ronan

Murray ~ 5 perfect scores were submitted by: *Caireann, *Tammy, *Bea, *Zella, and Latharna, and an additional challenge was received by Arafel.

If ye sent in your wee challange and dinna see your name above, please let us know so we can adjust your clan's scores.

Kudos to the lasses with the speedy perfect scores. Their names (above) are marked with a star (*). Our Early Bird goes to Caireann of Clan Murray. Her quiz was received by 7:38 pm on June 12th. Verra nice, lass! And our sneaker award goes to: Bourgogne of Clan Fraser. Her answers were received at 11:28 pm on the 16th.

The scoring is as follows:

Beauchamp: 91 for challenge + 3 bonus = 94
Fraser: 52 for challenge + 2 bonus + 1 sneaker = 55
MacKenzie: 53 for challenge + 4 bonus + 57
Murray: 59 for challenge + 5 bonus + 1 early bird = 65

The individual winner will earn 5 points for her team. We have 19 names to put in the drawing for a random selection.

Thanks for playing along. We hope you enjoyed this round.

Respectfully submitted,

Mordag Elsbeth Murray

Drums of Autumn, Teaser #1 from your Chieftesses

Sharpen ye pencils & break out your books, lasses! Click through below to see the teaser our lady of the games has prepared for you! The answers are due at midnight EST on June 16th!

ETA: the correct email addy for the games is: highlandergames at ymail dot com sorry about that!!

additional eta: on the last puzzle there is a missing comma. So, in the column with "AEHINOSST" there is a period AND a comma. Sorry about the confusion!

-fiona
Drums of Autumn Challenge 1

The Final Voyager Challenge: Results

Good Sisters,

The Games have come to a close with this last challenge and the results are in. We had 17 of you participate, with three perfect scores. Braw job, lasses!  You have shown, by using your wit, skill and charm that you have what it takes to be a Highlander Lass in the 1700's.

The three perfect scores were from Brianna Beauchamp, Ceitidh Murray and Nemetona Beauchamp. You do your clans proud, lasses.

And the Winner is:  Ceitidh (Shaydy)

The lasses participating were:

• Lady NorthFacing, Nemetona, Ealasaid, Morven, Muirne, Siusan, Imogene and Brianna from the Beauchamps
• Nannag and Molly from from the Frasers
• Ide, Seonag and Ceili from the MacKenzies
• Ceitidh, Joan, Marsali and Zella from the Murrays.

If you sent something in and dinna see your name, please let us know so we can figure out what happened.

Special Awards and Accolades: 

• Early Bird goes to Ceitidh of Clan Murray

• Sneaker goes to Zella of Clan Murray (11:54 pm on 12/2)

• Nannag and Nemetona get special accolades for their cache of weaponry:  Nannag uses an Ink bottle and a List of words, while Nemetona used Cold, Lips, Anvil and Irons. I believe Nannag would be our school teacher. Nemetona could be our Special Task Force Interrogator?

Reading over the "Category" responses was the most entertaining of all of the challenges we have seen.

Clan Results:

Beauchamp: 42

Fraser: 7

MacKenzie: 8

Murray: 24 + 1 + 1 = 26 (Early Bird and Sneaker)

Clan Standings:

Beauchamp: 490

Fraser: 205

MacKenzie: 205

Murray: 338

We would like to thank all of the lasses who participated in the challenges. The challenges keep us coming back to the swap and We think they keep us more involved and help us know each other a bit better.

Respectfully submitted,

Mordag Murray, Kellan MacKenzie, Fiona Fraser, and Eilis Beauchamp

Final Voyager Challenge: Results are in!

Lasses,

The final Chieftess' challenge is done and the results are in. We had 17 lasses participate ~ Clan Beauchamp: Brianna, Ealasaid, Imogen, Lady North Facing, Moren, Muirne, Nemetona and Siusan. From Fraser we had Molly and Nannag. From MacKenzie: Annaed, Ceili and Seonag and from Murray we had: Ceitidh, Joan, Marsali and Zella.

From some of the answers given, I can tell that many of you had a wee bit of fun with the first part. But...Lasses, now it is time for Imogen, Lady North Facing, Siusan, Morven, Molly, Ceili, Seonag, Marsali to thunk yourself (gently) on the forehead and say "'Oh, Claire was in this book!" So, without further ado, here are the answers to Categories:

CATEGORIES  C ~ L ~ A ~ I ~ R ~ E

Boats

cask of spirits,  Longboat,  Artemis,  Rowboat, Queen Elizabeth

People

C:Claire, Cameron, Charles Stewart, Colum, General Cope, Yi Ten Cho 

L: Lawrence, Laoghaire, Laird, Lindsay brothers

A: Joe Abernathy, Alexander, Captain Allesandro

I: Ian, Duncan Innes, Midwife Innes

R: Roger, Frank Randall, (Brianna, Claire BJ), Rabbe

E: Ewan Cameran, Lord Ellesmere, Ellen, Excisemen, Edwin Murray

WEAPONS

C: Cutlass, Cannon

L: Long gun, lancet, lips

A: Arrows, anvil

I: Ink bottle, infection, irons

R: rifle

E: Edge

PLACES

C: Carryarrick, Culloden, Carfax Close, Carribean

L: Leanach Farmhouse, Lallybroch, Lake District

A: Ardsmuir, America, Abandawe, Aberdeen

I: Inverness, Windward Isles

R: Royal Mile, Rose Hall

E: Edinburgh, England, Eleuthera

BOTANY

C: Chamomile, Comfrey, citris, creeper

L: lemons, lily of the valley, lavender, lime

A: anise, aconite, angelica, milk thistle (didn't see an A...how about Asteraceae)

I: Ipecac, ivy

R: rosehips, rosemary, rose, raspberry vines

E: elecampane, elettaria cardamomum,

Sudukos:

First one (corrected one posted on Rav board)
S P T G M F D J C
C M F T J D S G P
G D J P S C T F M
D S C J T P F M G
T J M C F G P S D
F G P S D M C T J
M F G D P S J C T
P T S M C J G D F
J C D F G T M P S

Second One
T M F J G D C P S
D P J S T C G F M
G C S F P M T J D
S J G D F P M C T
M D C T S J F G P
F T P M C G D S J
J F M G D S P T C
P G D C J T S M F
C S T P M F J D G

Third one
G P D M C S J T F
C F M T J G P D S
S J T P D F G M C
J C G S M T F P D
M T S D F P C J G
F D P J G C M S T
D G J F S M T C P
T S F C P J D G M
P M C G T D S F J

QUOTEFALLS:

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  Ye know, I seldom wanted to go home to Laoghaire and yet at least when I did I'd find her where I'd left her.
  
  
  
  
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  By the smell of it, he's put at least a full bottle o'the sherry in it. A verra intemperate race the Irish.
  
  
  
  
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  Aye, ye can come! Only do me the one wee favor Sassenach, try verra hard not to be killed or cut to pieces, aye? It's hard on a man's sensibilities.
  
  
  
  

Lasses, I hope you had as much fun doing these challenges as I had putting them together. I would like everyone's input for the next swap, whether or not you have played games in the past or will in the future. I will start a post in "Voyager Games' thread and ask what type of games you would like to see in the future. I will try to create games that the majority of you want to play, if they can be created, but I do need your input.

Respectfully submitted,

Mordag Murray

Beauchamp Voyager Challenge Answers and Results

THE ANSWERS:

1. Uttered thrice, yet three times a charm
“I want him still.” At Marsali and Fergus wedding, Claire reflects that although she had not said said that to Jamie at their wedding, she had said it three times since: in two moments of choice at Craig na Dun, and once again at Lallybroch.

2. Although “given” to Claire, Jamie uses this moniker more than she does.

Sassenach, Jamie's pet nickname for Claire

3. This "bruise of a witch” caused such an “uproar” that proved much “ado” about something.

The "black and blue" ship Bruja (Spanish for witch), whose taking of Ian caused such a brouhaha (which means an uproar, an ado) that set off the hubbub that followed in this section of the book. Although we know Geilis as the white witch, it was not known in this part of the book that she was responsible the for the brouhaha that followed Ian's kidnapping.

4. Once lost never to be found, always reminds its been around
Innes' amputated arm, Murphy's leg, or Fergus' hand

5. Initially a timeless “hand-fast,” these misty two can be traced to the heart of the story

The letters J and C, first carved by Jamie and Claire into each other's hands before Claire crosses over time back to the 20th century, as a permanent reminder of their marriage contract. It is these initials that are traced by Claire on a misty window pane before they depart on the Artemis. Also accepted, Jamie and Claire as the pair represented by the intials who as we know, are the heart of this story.

6. Good intentions paved the way to this Hell for our dynamic duo

Celibacy! Jamie's good intentions to give Marsali a chance to think over her marrying Fergus lead to the "hell" of celibacy and longing for Jamie and Claire (and also Marsali and Fergus!)

7. This joy, much admired in its expression, was almost lost in its possession

Mr. Willoughby's love of Women, that "Second Wife saw and loved in my words. Yet in desiring to possess me--and my poems--she would have forever destroyed what she admired." Thanks to Nannag for the quote.

8. Remembered with much “porpoise,” and none too lightly to be foresworn

The Hippocratic Oath, recited by Claire from memory when trying to explain to Jamie why he had to let her go aboard the Porpoise to aid those stricken with typhoid fever. Also accepted: Clarence Marylebone, Duke of Sandringham was in possession of many 'porpoise' coins. Meyer was foresworn from revealing the owner, but because the original owner was dead for 20 years, no longer felt the obligation of keeping the secret (thanks to Mordag because I didn't even make this connection)

9. In for a penny, in for a “pound,” his future cut short when his time came 'round.

Young Elias Pound, who is one of the last victims of typhoid fever aboard the HMS Porpoise

10. Ask not for whom the bell tolls, for it tolls for these.

The bells of the drowned churches of Port Royal toll for the 'damned [sodomitic] pirates.' Also accepted, the tolling of the bells to signify when things must be done, as when Captain Leonard hears the "ting of the ship's bell" and it reminded him it was time to take the ship's position. .

11. Picture represents Claire's bribe to Murphy of various herbs: cardamom, nutmeg, extract of anise, ginger root, vanilla beans from Ceylon

12. Picture represents the parritch prescribed to Duncan Innes as a cure for blocked lower sigmoid colon. Also accepted, the parritch eaten by Jamie but missed by Jamie's Scottish men on the Artemis

13. Picture represents Claire's motherly advice to Bree, which was too "stand up straight and don't get fat." Also accepted, Mother Hildegarde, who, even at 83, still has beautiful posture.

THE RESULTS

We Beauchamps hope you enjoyed the challenge. There were 15 souls who answered the call, two of whom had perfect scores. The Lasses who answered the Beauchamp challenge were:

• Fraser: Nannag, Lileas, Molly, and Camille

• MacKenzie: Ide, Ceili,Catriona, Kinley, Aislinn, and Mrs Fitz

• Murray: Mordag, Mary, Morrigan, Mona, and Zella

If ye sent something in and dinna see yer name, please let me know.

Perfect scores were received from: Nannag Fraser and Mordag Murray. Ye do yer clans proud!

[Kellan's camera is absent without leave, thus no pictures, but the bairns did draw one lucky name out of the hand knit felted cloche.]

And the winner is: Mordag Murray

Special Awards go to:

• Mordag of Clan Murray is our Early Bird (1 point)
• Kinley of Clan Mackenzie is our Sneaker (11:59 pm with one minute to spare)(1 point)
• The One-for-One Award goes to Lilieas: She submitted only one answer and got it right.
• The "Can you hear me now" Award goes to Nannag and Zella. Both sent in four e-mails each, just to make sure we got their submissions.
• Foiler awards go to Mordag and Nannag who both kept the Beauchamps from getting 5 points this round by earning a perfect score for their clans!

The Scores:

Beauchamp ~ 0 [exempt from play]

Fraser ~ 16 points

MacKenzie ~ 27 points + 1 point (sneaker) = 28 points
Murray ~ 21 points + 1 point (early bird) + 5 points (Mordag winning) = 27 points

Current Standings:
Beauchamp: 448
Fraser: 198
Mackenzie: 197
Murray: 312