[Ravensfort] Fw: [Ansteorra] Query...

Kezia (Barbara Gilbert) kezia at pbgilbert.net
Sat May 11 08:20:14 PDT 2002


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From: "Theron Bretz" <tbretz at io.com>
To: <ansteorra at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 8:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Query...


> > So...why did you join and why do you stay in the SCA?
>
> I first heard of the SCA when I was 14 or 15, reading L. Sprague de Camp's
> "The Blade of Conan", a collection of stories and articles from "Amra" (a
> Conan fanzine from the 60s).  One of the articles was by Poul Anderson and
> entitled "Richard the Lionhearted is Alive, Well, and Living in the
> Twentieth Century", which gave a snapshot of the SCA circa AS 5 or 6.  The
> notion of people putting on armour and playing knight was too cool to put
> away and colored much of my free time for the next few years as I
improvised
> highly dangerous weapons and somehow avoided killing my brothers with
them.
>
> I finally found the Society just before TYC, and my first event was the
> Crown Tourney in Emerald Keep that Inman won for Drusilla.  I got horribly
> ill from heat-prostration (the hole-in-the-ground toilets didn't help
> either - another thing I don't miss about the old days), got better,
watched
> the tournament (which was held on a Sunday) and resolved to keep doing it.
>
> Why do I stay is sometimes a tougher question.  With job, family,
mortgage,
> a nascent writing career (very nascent, barely there at all, really), and
> other interests, making time for the Society is something I have to do
> consciously.  My reasons for sticking around change depending on a number
of
> factors:  a sense of obligation and "giving back", a desire to teach, the
> joy of fighting in a tournament, sheer inertia.    Often times, Bia and I
> find that one or the other is more fired up about the Society than the
other
> and that helps to keep things going.
>
> But I'd be lying if I said I didn't think once in a while about how much
> easier things would be if I gave it up until the kid gets older.  But I
know
> that if I did, I probably would keep finding reasons not to play, so I
stick
> around.
>
> Luciano
>
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