SC - pewter casting & multiple feasts

[Mordonna22 at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/18/2000 1:25:50 AM US Mountain Standard Time, 
Gwynydd_of_Culloden at freemail.com.au writes:

<<  In Ynys Fawr one pays one's site fee and (with perhaps a lunch or tea 
excluded)that covers all one's meals. >>

I cannot imagine that.  But, of course, things are a bit more populous here 
in the Heart of The Knowne World.  A fighter practice at Encanto park 
involves over a hundred fighters on a bad day........a "small" SunDragon 
Baronial event involves scores of tents........Estrella War, well, let's just 
say that encamping with six or eight thousand of your closest friends does 
have it's drawbacks, among them being the fact that you can't cook for them 
all individually (although I try, it's kinda like trying to drink the ocean 
through a straw.)
Seriously, I was shocked and delighted to find out that anyone could purchase 
a ticket to attend a coronation feast, not just Royals and Peers.
Along these lines, it is probably apocryphal, but one of the Horror stories 
that goes around every year at Estrella is the tale of the mundane person who 
walked into the Royal Encampment, placed his bermuda shorts on the King of 
Atenveldt's throne, and demanded that his picture be taken.  Renn Faires 
leave a bad taste in the mouths of some of us, because outsiders often assume 
we are there to make money by entertaining them, too.  One of the reasons I 
was initially so against the new site for Estrella is that it is on the same 
side of Phoenix as the Ren Faire that opens the first week in February every 
year.  I expected too many confused tourists to find us instead of them.  

Mordonna the Cook,
SunDragon's Western Reaches
Atenveldt
(m.k.a. Buckeye, AZ)