NR - RE: Mead Bee Wars

[Lori Campbell]

How sad that anyone chose to be offended by Aldric's post. It is true 
that those who missed Mead Bee War missed a fun event.  I'm sure 
anyone who knows Aldric realizes his intent was not to insult or 
accuse.  It is equally sad that, after all that our King had to 
say at NRT about unity and pulling together, people still feel 
the need to jump at shadows.  It is almost as if they prefer to see 
only the worst in others.

Its understandable that there might have been some confusion 
surrounding the Mead Bee War.  It is also true that some wanted to 
mire the event in politics (I spoke to several people about this very 
thing).  What a useless waste of time and energy!  Let me assure 
everyone that politics had *nothing* to do with Wiesenfeuer's 
sponsorship of this event.  

In the interest of rumor control (if you are already bored with this 
discussion, delete now) let me clarify.  Wiesenfeuer has had Camp 
Cimmaron reserved by contract & non-refundable deposit for the third 
weekend in February since early 1999 (the same date - give or take a 
week - that Wiesenfeuer has had an event on for the last 14 years.).  
When we decided we were not going to host Northern Regional Tribute, 
we elected to sponsor House WolfStar's Mead Bee War on our weekend 
rather than cancel our site contract and lose our site deposit and 
calendar date. It had nothing to do with politics and everything to 
do with economics and good plain fun.  

We are, in fact, grateful to both Ld. Johann and Centurion Tor (as
heads of House Wolfstar) for helping us find something to do on this
weekend.  It saved us the hassle and negative press that breaking a
site contract would have generated.  We actually recovered our site 
deposit and had an incredibly good time.  Its been quite a while 
since Barn and I have been to an event where we felt so free to be 
ourselves and have fun.

We were truly sorry that the date could not have been more convenient 
to Vatavian fighters.  As Ceridwen pointed out, our site obligation 
was set in stone this year.  If, indeed, there is to be a Mead Bee 
War II, then we will certainly work with House Wolfstar and the 
Barony of Vatavia to ensure a more mutually acceptable date.  

If this falls under the heading of "too much information" then perhaps
people will forgive me for keeping them over-informed.  I feel that 
people can handle the facts, and I definitely feel far too much 
damage has already been done to this region over politics, secrecy 
and folks overreacting to imagined insults.  The plain truth is there 
has been far too much "politicking" (yes, I looked that word up in 
Webster's because I couldn't believe it was real) and not near 
enough having fun.  I hadn't had fun at an event in so long that I 
had almost lost sight of the fact that fun is why we're all here.

I apologize in advance if my words offend anyone, but I felt the 
rumor mill has had sole control of this issue for far too long.

If anyone has a problem with Ld. Aldric's words, please address 
them to him as he requested.  If you would prefer, you may bring 
your concerns to his knight, Earl Barn, or myself.  I'm sure with a 
little more communication and a little less supposition that we can 
clear up any misunderstandings.  

In Service,
Katrionna MacLochlainn, OP
Baroness of Wiesenfeuer
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