RE: in character

[Alana Cleary <lulumialu@yahoo.com>]

Poster: Alana Cleary <lulumialu@yahoo.com>


Okay, call me crazy..*pauses to allow everyone to call her crazy*

Wouldn't it be possible to hold completely in-character events? You
couldn't hold *everyone* to it, of course, but perhaps the people who
want to really get into their character would, and have that snowball
effect, only in reverse!

That is, assuming that there are enough people interested in this type
of thing..but I think that there would be..

Alana  



---Juliet Carnell <juliet.carnell@andusa.com> wrote:
>
> 
> Poster: "Juliet Carnell" <juliet.carnell@andusa.com>
> 
> > Poster: "scarlett goode" <elfgoode@netunlimited.net>
> >
> > 	I think this is a snow ball effect.  The more people who "forget"
about
> > staying in character along the way, the less likely the new people
are to
> > stay in character and choose a name.
> 
> On this point I tend to agree. I am a newcomer to both my Barony and
the SCA
> in general. I come from a role playing game background and rather
expected
> more participation "in character" than I have seen so far. My own
attempts
> at courtly manner were met with lukewarm responses at a recent (my
first)
> event.
> 
> On choosing a name, I have received little support in this and even
out
> right discouragement from the very officers I believed charged with
> encouraging it. Rather than allowing me to exercise creativity in
creating a
> name and persona, so far all my efforts have been disparaged on the
grounds
> that "that will never be approved". I did my homework and what I
came up
> with is well within the SCA guidelines for constructed names, so I'm
> planning to submit it anyway. It's the discouraging attitude and
down right
> rudeness from the local and national Heralds that both surprises and
> disheartens me.
> 
> I'm much too fond of the people I've met so far to consider
quitting, but
> I'm hoping that somewhere along the line I'll find the pockets of
> creativity, chivalry, and fun that I came to the SCA looking for.
> 
> Juliet
> someday, hopeful, Glainfach ferch y Saethydd, but probably not :-(
> 
> 
==
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