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Re: Welcome Ceremony
Reply #1 - Feb 11th, 2006, 3:22am
K'Hare stepped up and looked at the crowd. So many were not Klingon, but at least they tried. He'd been one of the skeptical ones. He’d come to the first tournament as a fighter because no one from his ship, a ship he’d just learned no longer existed, would go. He’d been ready to resign then, to walk away from this duty that forced him to be around so many from the federation. It had not started well. He was forced to injure his first opponent to such an extreme that she was forced to withdrawn and he didn’t even try to fight the next one. Another young human just looking for the win. So he gave it too him and he still didn’t learn the lesson he needed.
So long ago it was. When it was done he attacked this Captain Duerkes and told him everything that was wrong with the tournament… and for his reward, the next year, Wade made him a judge and simply said, ‘put up or shut up’. This crowd, the last few years, showed that something good had come from it all after all. How had he become friend to a bolian and, he grinned, a not-bolian. And now this Duerkes was his brother and a member of the House he had looked outward for, and finally found in himself.
“If you cannot fail, you cannot succeed.” He paused about to drink until he realized he didn’t have a tankard near. “Those are my personal ‘words of wisdom’. Many are here to compete for the combat award but only one can take it home. It is not always the one who gains it who put up the best fight. In my first year I saw a small human female accept her first round defeat with honor. That was not what I remember though… I remember how she stayed conscious and walked proudly off the floor and out of view before she passed out from the compound fracture of both arms. She had done more than she thought possible through will alone.” He paused so that the crowd could consider that point.
“You will win matches, you will lose matches. But the test isn’t in that one match. It is against yourself and your own ability to hold to your honor. You may lose matches many times here, but only you can determine if you are defeated. To be Klingon you must know your limits. That is why we test ourselves. To be Klingon you must overcome your limits. That is why we test ourselves. If you cannot fail, if there is no chance to lose, then what can winning mean? We are here find our limits, to make each action improve ourselves, to be better now than we were a moment ago. This is what it means to BE Klingon.”
They stared back at him while they thought about what he said. It wasn’t the speech they expected. So he gave them what they wanted. “There is test enough here for everyone. Even those who are watching the matches can learn. This is not simply a game, it, like everything is a test if you can hear the questions. You are surrounded by the chance to learn new things. This event is a target rich environment. So watch and learn. Be better when you leave here than when you arrived and you will have been victorious! Qapla’!”
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