A long, meandering journey down memory lane

[ascelyn]

(Reposted here at Eadric's request.  Must obey....)

I first heard about the SCA as a junior or senior in high school.  That would be roughly around 2003, five years ago.  Because of that, this will be long and drawn-out, but mostly because I’ve been to enough events to make it long and not enough to fully compress them like those who have been

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[thatpotteryguy]

My first event, I wore a too-short monk's robe over street clothes, courtesy of the Gold Key box. At that event, I bought a copy of The Known World Handbook, and that night my girlfriend and I sewed my first garb, a black t-tunic that I still have somewhere

[ascelyn]

Luckily, I already knew a couple of SCA guys--Adam and Baron Llewellyn, specifically. If I hadn't, I probably never would have come back, and I'd be missing out on more than I care to think about.

I haven't seen the idiot since. Hopefully he's crawled back into his cave and rotted by now.

The real question is, where do all those plastic-bottomed tankards come from? Someone has to buy them outside the SCA, or one out of every two newbies wouldn't find them in Goodwill and bring them to their first event. Who else would want to use the things?

[thatpotteryguy]

They were all made in the fall of 1978, to commemorate something noone remembers. They eventually were all sent to Steak'n'Ale's, where primitive SCAdians swiped them and, eventiually, donated them to the Great Feast Gear Recycler (Goodwill, St. Vincent DePaul, or Salvation Army, depending).

[chargirlgenius]

I got one for a debate trophy my junior year in high school. So I had one BEFORE I started in the SCA. :-D

[ascelyn]

You people know everything. That's just not natural.