[Ravensfort] A Pennsic Story (FYI)

[RJ Allen]

I would like this story posted on every SCA list you guys can possibly find. If that's not something you're comfortable doing, that's fine, but this needs to be known. 
[David Biggs] 
 
 So here's a Pennsic story:
 
Master Iolo Fitzowen, the newest Lion of Ansteorra, who has sold crossbows at the Pennsic war for 17 years, sets up a canvas backstop so that his customers can test fire his bows with SCA-legal boffer arrows. He has done this every year that he has been at that or any other war. Every day all day boffer arrows hit the canvas and drop harmlessly to the ground.
 
This year, on Thurday, Cindy Cooper walked up with a Marshal in tow and told him that what he was doing is against the rules.
 
Iolo replied "Oh. Well I've been doing it for 17 years."
 
Cindy said "Yes, well I've suspected that you've been doing it, but I've never actually caught you at it." 
 
Well it was pretty incredible that not only did she happen to "catch" him doing it, this time, after somehow missing it for 17 years, but she already had the paperwork filled out (with the marshal's approval) to throw Iolo off the site.
 
Iolo said "I had no idea this was a problem. We can just stop doing it, all you had to do is ask." 
 
Cindy said "No, you're out of here. Clear out tonight."
 

In case anyone doesn't know Iolo, making and selling these crossbows is how he makes a living. He gets fully 1/4 of his business at and because of Pennsic.
 
So Iolo is driving the 24 hours home to Texas rigtht now, without even so much as a partial refund. He's bringing home several finished crossbows, if any would like to buy one. If you were thinking of odering a crossbow from him soon-ish, now would be a good time. 
 

Epilogue:
 
Don't look for Iolo at Pennsic war again. He won't be going back. Come to think of it, you probably won't be seeing me there, either. If you want to see New World Arbalest, consider going to Lillies War or Gulf War. That's probably where you'll find him. 
 
Don Aeron Harper




~peace~love~empathy~



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