[Ravensfort] Event Report: Pennsic Day 2 (Monday)

[Corbisier, Barbara L]

Monday I had to get up way too early, especially after staying up the night before, and getting only a 
few hours sleep on the drive up, and not being able to sleep very well while we were packing 
(nothing like waking up multiple times during the night panicked about what we were forgetting...). 
Why so early? Registration for the A&S Exhibition started at 7:00 a.m.!  I didn't get there that early, 
but I did get there and registered before the thing opened at 9:00 a.m.

The East and Midrealm had their own long line of display tables in the Barn.  So did Aethelmearc.  
Understandable--it's the East's and Mid's war, and Aethelmearc's hosting.  Then there was what I like 
to refer to as the "little kingdom's table" which was every other Kingdom, which was a line of tables 
in the back of the barn in the dark.  And a lot of them were already taken up.  This actually turned 
out to be not so bad, because I ended up being right on the corner by the back door to the barn, so I 
had pretty good traffic past my display.

And what did I display, you may ask?  (Go ahead.  I'll wait.)  Oh, I'm so glad you asked.  His 
Excellency Sir Godwin was good enough to loan me the Court Barony scroll I did for him, so I 
displayed that in a big gold frame on a big silver easel.  I also had my scribal portfolio there if 
anybody wanted to take a look.  I had many conversations with scribes from the Known World, both 
more and less experienced than myself, which was great.  I was honored with no less than 12 tokens, 
four of which were from the Queens of Northshield, The East, The Midrealm, and Artemisia.  Her 
Majesty Fina of Northshield gave out runic stones as tokens.  When she saw something she liked, she 
turned to her lady in waiting and said, "Rock me, baby!"

Mistress Catriona of the East organized the display.  She is a late-period clothing laurel, so I took 
advantage of the fact that she was sitting at the check-in table with nothing to do, and discussed my 
"puff pin" theory with her (ask me about it at the next event if you don't know what this is).  At the 
end of our conversation, she was intrigued and suggested I write up something for TI, as well as 
keeping her up to date on anything I find out.

There are some really talented people in the Known World.  Standouts in my mind: the jeweled 
salamander, the body of which was a huge baroque pearl (several inches long); the horn of Chivalry 
of the Midrealm, a carved horn with bas relief knights around the top, a jeweled edge and a fisted 
metal gauntlet on the end; a stained glass laurel "scroll"; a hand-dyed one-color quilt with images of 
monsters and such around the edge (I'm biased on this last one because my friend Sarah Davies did 
it, but it's way cool and documentable period quilting!). The one disappointing thing about the 
Exhibition was that I was the only Ansteorran displaying anything!  So I challenge all of you: Get to 
Pennsic and display your artistic works!

The exhibition ended mid-afternoon, and we gathered up our things and headed to Ansteorra Royal 
because we hadn't had a chance to check-in yet.  Unfortunately, nobody was there.  So we continued 
back to our encampment to drop things off.  It was about time to eat, so we did.  Gregor and I 
stopped back at Ansteorra Royal, and Mistress Genevera was there.  She assured us that TRM were 
set for help, but gave us a rundown on their schedule for the week so we could check back later. 

We went back to our camp, and my good friend Mistress Pagan Graeme wanted to go shopping.  Who 
am I to argue with a Peer?  We walked around the various shops that were still open, and decided to 
get some cobbler.  While in line, who came up behind us but TRM Jason and Saereid!  I introduced 
Pagan to Their Majesties so that they could assure Mistress Lorraine that Pagan does actually exist 
(not that I think there's any doubt, but it's always good to have backup).

After enjoying our cobbler, Pagan and I headed back to the encampment. After sitting around the fire 
for a bit, we turned in.

And thus ends the report for Day 2.

In service,
-Lady Catherine Barbary

-- 
Orationem pulchram non habens, scribo ista linea in lingua Latina.