[Ansteorra] Getting people confortable with the SCA

[Richard Morgan]

My Dear Duchess Willow,

    As we discussed many, many, many, years ago when you were so kindly 
explaining to me that my persona stops where your persona begins, and that I 
should not put someone in a position where their persona could not play 
because of my persona's actions. By the way I am still working on that and 
thanks for postponing my execution. You wisely told me that as we become 
more experienced in the SCA it takes a ever increasing amount of 
authenticity to take us to that place where it all seems real and you get 
that chill of being there. It is easy at our first events we don't notice 
the ice chests and the cars as much, but as we become more experienced, 
those incongruities disturb us more and more. This is what drives the SCA in 
many ways, it is why as the years go by we have become more and more 
historically accurate. As I  look back over the years that we have played, 
what we once thought was so period we now find laughable. I think that we 
need to explain this to newcomers when we explain the SCA to them. Us 
old-timers need to also keep in mind that we were not always as authentic as 
we think we are today, nor as we will hopefully be tomorrow.


In humble service,

Sir Richard ap Morgan




----- Original Message ----- 
From: <willowdewisp at juno.com>
To: <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 3:18 PM
Subject: [Ansteorra] Getting people confortable with the SCA


> ..I think our first goal is to help people be
> comfortable with what we do...then worry about how "period" (or accurate 
> as
> possible with modern materials to be more precise) they become.
>
> This is certainly a pearl of wisdom. We need to help newcomer get use to 
> the courtesies and customs of our kingdom. It is very important that we as 
> a group become user friendly. Some people approach this by dropping the 
> things that make the magic but this is mistake. Playing the game and 
> living the dream and the studying history are the things that make us 
> different form other groups. I was raised in the Old South so our way of 
> doing things didn't seem strange. Also I was here from A.S. 3 so I 
> influenced many of our customs, but today that kind of formality is very 
> strange, We need to show people it isn't that hard and all right to make 
> mistakes. Also please help people get over their peer fear. It is lonely 
> when everyone stands 10 feet away.
> Willow de Wisp
>
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