Re: cloved fruit and chivalry

["Boroghul Khara" <boroghul@bellatlantic.net>]

Poster: "Boroghul Khara" <boroghul@bellatlantic.net>

Julien uge-ber:

>> worse than unwanted kisses via cloved fruit.  In fact, when I first
>>heard
>> about the SCA (long before I joined) I thought from the tales that it
>>was
>> some sort of drunken orgy club!  I'm happy to have had these images
>
> No argument there.  I have yet to attend a Pennsic, and for some time,
> that was predominantly because the stories I heard about it centered
> around one of three things:
>
> Heavy Combat,
> Massive Drinking Parties, and
> Casual Sex.
>
> Now, I don't fight heavy, I don't drink, and have never put much stock
> in the idea of casual sex.  Doesn't leave a lot there left to interest
> me enough to make the long trip and layout the cash necessary for
> Pennsic... ;-)
>
> I realize now that Pennsic is a lot more than just those three (I hear
> an occasional nifty thing can be picked up at the handful of merchnats
> that are there ;->), but first impressions die hard...

Aside from the shopping, (marathon-gang-shopping if you're hanging around
some of the right people) there are those wonderful classes that are held.
The SCA is full of people willing to pass on skills and knowledge, and
Pennsic is a great time to gain a little bit more information (and different
perspectives) from folks outside of one's own Kingdom.


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Boroghul Khara (Grey Randall)
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qui ultimam poculum potus capit neque novam ollam fabricatur!"

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