[Sca-cooks] Japanese (was: What did they..)

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Also sprach XvLoverCrimvX at aol.com:
>But what if the other side was presented. What if I suddently became King of
>Atlantia (fat chance anyways but hey, I can dream. Vivat to the Dream! :D)?
>Then it would be a lot of Europeans visiting a Japanese court in Japan.

Or, alternately, it could be a bunch of people seeing someone
bringing a baseball bat to a hockey game, and deciding whether they
want to take part or, say, go bowling.

Sorry, you just hit a massive hot button for me. The thing is, I live
in a kingdom (your kingdom's parent, BTW) which has, for years, been
jokingly called "The People's Republic of the East". In recent years
we've had a bit of a change, largely due to reigns from Crowns who
had previously ruled in places like Caid and Atenveldt, essentially
"Western Rite" kingdoms, and we now no longer hear the joke about the
People's Republic. Now we hear serious references to The Divine Right
of Kings (apparently this Baroque concept is somehow considered more
medieval than the Althing, the Charter of Henry I, and the Magna
Carta).

Well, suffice it to say that the populace may or may not buy the
concept of a Japanese (or whatever they may consider out of their
preferred sphere) court, and they might even have interesting ways of
showing it. I suppose there's nothing in Corpora that prevents the
Crown of a Kingdom from trying to define the nature of the game we
all play, but there's also nothing that says we have to play it.

Hey, it's been done, but it's also been tried and failed on occasion.
Hard to tell.

Adamantius