That's a great idea, Straf.
You may want to rethink the size and spacing of the text a bit. Maybe swap the font for one that is a bit tidier, and has more space around it?
August/September 2017 Challenge: Dawson's Treat
So this is a select 2 from the top shelf and any 1 from the lower shelves affair is it? One of the ones from the top shelf that got me was "An Invitation to Remember". Anyone who has paid any attention whatsoever to a couple of my previous challenge entries (regular and lite) will notice that there seems to be a theme developing. So on to the narrative...
Dawson of Shepford Hall was a lordling from the midlands. His family seat, Shepford Hall, was a rather modest house within close proximity of a major sheep drove that included a river crossing. The Daws family, or Shepfords as they are more commonly known, have maintained this crossing for centuries and extract a shepherding toll from the drovers. Traditionally paid in coin, Lord Crosier Thomas Daws of Shepford appointed his son, Dawson Surtees Daws, as administrator. Young Dawson negotiated with some of the larger droves that instead of paying in coin a dividend per head of sheep could be paid instead. This action infuriated Crosier as the family income dropped considerably - the larger droves brought the biggest income - but when the dividends started to appear he saw the actions of his son as somewhat genius as the income took longer to arrive but it was greatly increased. Other negotiations had the family paid in wool, which Dawson sold overseas by negotiating directly with trading ships rather than going through the exchange halls. This is how he met Captain Cogarth and the two men built up a strong working relationship although never, ever publicly.
As you may recall, Cogarth and his ship left for the continent with highly valuable cargo to trade for only the highest value luxury goods available. Only they didn't return when expected and this made the shareholders very nervous. So nervous that they cut their losses by taking whatever they could. Dawson had mortgaged Shepford Hall estate to the hilt in order to buy up the Angel's dividend chits from merchants and nobles alike and when the vessel finally did return laden with the most spectacular goods, Dawson became one of the richest men in the land overnight. To celebrate this he held a lavish banquet and ball and among his invitees were the very people who he had bought their stricken stock only to profit. Nobody could prove any collusion and Cogarth's story held up. The truth is from someone who started to climb the ladder with fleeces, he made an almighty leap by fleecing...
I've got the written invitation done so far...
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That's a great idea, Straf.
You may want to rethink the size and spacing of the text a bit. Maybe swap the font for one that is a bit tidier, and has more space around it?
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Font? That was all hand written!
Gulp!
LOL! Well that was an indirect compliment... sort of
I thought it was a font!
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Arrrrggghhh! I've made a mistake!
Cant work out if your so good with the pen that its considered a font or so bad that it needs tidying up !
Also, cant work out if you have made a mistake in using a pen for the job or a mistake with spelling or somethng !
Either way this is some funny thread posts...
I made a speeling mistak. I left it out. And r.
Last edited by Straf; 09-01-2017 at 06:36 PM.
That's pretty good calligraphyI couldn't do it
If you're going to write it all over again because of the spelling issues, think about making that margin around the text about the same as a lower case letter space? Also the overlapping corners look a bit strange. Maybe keep the two paragraphs completely separate?
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I was going to draw a wee margin line on either side and a proper scribe would do that then rub it out, but Dawson... well he's a bit of a funny one and he insisted on writing the invitations for some of the more respected nobles himself. He's just propelled himself onto the higher tables of society and he's trying to show he's worthy of his place. Social mobility is a tricky affair. He's not quite there, although his over elaborate use of language does make him appear eccentric rather than desperate. Lord Holmsworth lost a large amount of his fortune on the Angel and feels that the ball is rubbing his nose in it a bit, but other nobles will be in attendance and as it is a reception and his daughter is of age, he's hoping to announce her there. She's also a great fan of Shed Earan, although he isn't all that keen on the ginger halfling, the younger generation seem to love him and that is a masterstroke of Dawson's getting him there to draw the youth together. This is the sort of reception that could make or break many families.
tl;dr I'll see what I can do but I think I'm only going to redo one page. The overlap isn't how it's going to look in the final version, I'm just putting the elements together first
I'm a bit late in getting this started. I'm struggling to find a way to fit in the required elements but I do have something simmering away in the background...
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