SC - Compost with mead

[Christine A Seelye-King]

> If the Xena Wannabe walks out into the lyst, invokes Aries, and procedes
to
> Kick, Yipyipyipyip!, flip, and Hyah! I think you would not expect
> tolerance of this behaviour, right?

    Well, after the guys get their tongues out of the dirt, I dunno, there .
. . Sounds to me like it could be an awesomely effective diversionary
tactic - by the time the other side gets their codpieces adjusted, they
could be flat overrun!

> If the Tolkein Fan Dons Elf ears, and tries to insist his sword is
magically
> augmented, and should count for double blows in the lists, I think that
there > would be little toleration, don't you?

    No prob! You smack me, I'll smack you, we'll see who's got magically
augmented what, ya hairy toed li'l twerp!

> The point is if they come to the SCA events, they tacitly agree to play
the _SCA's_
> "game". How much toleration they might expect will depend on the level
> of departure from that game that they evidence in the SCA context.
> This also goes for Non-period and "Non-European-Contact" personas.
> An Amerindian persona will not be as "tolerated" in the native dress, as
> much as they would if wore european garb.

    You should have seen the Aztec who showed up at one of our feasts about
15 years ago in a full circle, floor length feathered cloak, (god only knows
how many naked parrots were out there as a result) jade & leather
breastplate & headdress, and obsidian dagger. He got NO arguments!

> There are isolated exceptions in the SCA, of course, such as  Sir Ix of
the Mid,
> for example, but these are usually so well researched and well documented,
> that no argument can be made. in effect they are aggressively
counterdocumented.
> (That is extremely rare)
> Oddly enough, the period examples of Amerindian Peoples at European courts
> did indeed wear local european dress, and not native dress, except for
specific
> presentations. From the accounts I have read, the Amerindians were
> fascinated with European clothes and often traded for them, even those who
> did not go to Europe.

    Sort of like the Japanese who are into the 1950's greaser look, and
[snicker] cowboys . . . (hello, pilgrim, I'm Deadeye Yamaguchi . . .)

> So that is a perfectly period practice.

    Aie! Bloody tourists!