Another day to Remind Me why I Used to Play

Yesterday, we went to another SCA event. By the time we got on the road and started driving back, it was dark. But that didn’t stop my wife and I, from chattering about new friends we had made, fun ,silly, plots that we were embroiling ourselves in, and the next event. That is what being a scadian is all about. It goes beyond the dressing up, it’s more than the actual words and deeds done during the event, it is the way it tickles your brain, making it smile and laugh and dream up more and different ways to make the next event enjoyable.

I attended an advanced chainmail making class. Do I remember exactly how to make the chain linkages I was shown – no. Do I have samples so I can fumble my way through to relearning – yes. Why? because some other scadian took his time to show myself, and others attending the event, how to do it. There was a fun ‘how to’ class on documentation for arts/science. Since that is what I do, knowing how to document it properly, and present that documentation is important and fun – not that you need to. You can make things without worrying about documenting, and no one will say- boo. Why…because you play they way you play.

We sat around the baronial encampment and it felt like being home. So we decided to do endeavour to actually make it so, which gave us another topic to bounce about between us as we drove home, and will lead to more actual event fun and frivolity. Belonging, and being part of something that is all for you and yet all about being a part of something so much larger than you. That’s being a scadian.

I should have taken a picture of how lovely ,and ‘portrait perfect’ my wife looked with her stunning garb and, if I do say so, spot on jewelry. She looked so ‘right’ that I told a new friend we made, who is planning on going 1500’s Venetian, that is she produced a proper dress, I’d supply some bling. The jewelry just made that much of a difference. It was partly a gesture of friendship, partly to make sure I had challenges ahead of me (yeah- that’s a worry), and partly so I don’t twitch when I see her wearing the right garb but no proper ‘bling’.

A week until crown tourney – so much to do!

 

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