Crying in your beer/mead/drink....

[Eldred@concentric.net]

Poster: Eldred@concentric.net

<A rather tall and dark-haired gentle in blue, white and gray looms in
the doorway.  Pausing with ink-stained hands on the frame he looks
around the common room and notices many patrons of the 'Rose sniffling and
sobbing into their collective drinking vessels>

My Lords and Ladies!  What shameful display is this?  In all my many years
of activity in the Society, I have yet to go to *any* War, much less
Pennsic.  I even joined the Society a few scant miles from the very site
of Pennsic (OK, more than a few scant, maybe a double handful).   I have
not noticed any lack of enjoyment on my part because of it.

Why is it that the rest of the world must grind to a halt for the sake of
Pennsic?  I know about 10 people from my entire Barony (and this is a
huge...tract of land) who are going to Pennsic.  Must we who stay behind
simply do *nothing* but weep at our 'misfortune' at being 'left behind'?
Why can we not collect our wits and talents and enjoy ourselves and one
another's company in the absence of our other friends?

Are the only people competent to stage and run fine events gone to the
War? I seriously doubt it....Why are we then reduced to potlucks and pity
parties?  Does our friends' enthusiasm and enjoyment of Pennsic drain us
of our own enthusiasm because we can't go?

<Sighs in frustration.  Finds an empty bench near the other scribes and
calls the tavern-keep to bring a glass and a bottle of mead to share.>

Pennsic certainly has not dampened local activity here in Falcon Cree.
This past weekend, we enjoyed a lively bardic circle, and a class in
making cordials.  Not a single person present at the bardic circle was
going to Pennsic....(I can't vouch for the cordials class, as I was
working and could not attend).  Admittedly, we, too, shall be having a
Pennsic Paupers' Potluck towards the end of the month < thus undermining
any hope of being an example to the other stay-at-homes....8^) >

In service,
Eldred AElfwald
Canton of Falcon Cree
Barony of Nottinghill Coill

(titles left at home--I'm here to *relax*)
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