ANST - Gulf Wars
Keith Hood
keith_dell at hotmail.com
Thu Jan 21 13:07:34 PST 1999
I wasn't sure until now if I would make the war this year. Now I know -
I will, if only because I want to see what happens.
Lady Isobel's post reminded me of what happened at Gulf War last year.
After making our reservations and sitting in line Tuesday morning for
hours in order to get in like law-abiding people, we found that the land
we had reserved was filled with squatters. Apparently people had
entered the camp with regular non-SCA campers the weekend before, then
on Monday had spread out and grabbed the best land. And the GW
organizers refused to evict them, so we wound up on freshly-cleared land
out in the netherworld, where the totally grassless ground was so dusty
you could raise a whirlwind just putting up the tent. I thought I would
never get all the grit out of my bedding.
I am going this year. I'll camp out in the back forty and take a little
red wagon to carry things and prove to the world that it's a lot easier
to infuriate Ansteorrans than to cheat them out of a chance to kick
Trimaran butt.
I have a tent that is big enough to sleep four who don't mind a little
snoring. If anyone who lost a cabin needs a roof to keep off the rain,
you're welcome to the space. I know a tent out yonder is not what you
had in mind - sorry, it's the best I can do.
I don't know exactly what to do about this situation. I don't know if
legal action is worth a darn and I'm sure that offering to break heads
would just cause other legal problems, but I do know that something
needs to be done. If the event organizers can't do their jobs and
handle the land situation honestly and honorably, then why are we
dealing with them?
Out of genuine curiosity and with no sarcasm, I'd like to ask if
anything has been done at higher Ansteorran levels. Has the king
complained to the king of Meridies or the dignitaries who took the bed
spaces? Has the kingdom seneschal bludgeoned his opposite number with
letters and phone calls? Maybe those are naive questions but I would
like to know.
Tomonaga
--
A long bow and a strong bow,
And let the sky grow dark.
The nock to the cord, the shaft to the ear,
And a foreign king for a mark!
-- Stolen from "The Song of the Bosonian Archers" --
By Robert E. Howard, who should be
the patron saint of Ansteorra
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