The
way I found out about the SCA was when a friend of mine who played D&D
heard about some folks gaming that evening. When he came home , he told
me that the next week I would just have to go. WELL D&D is not my thing
and I told him so, he said it wasn't the wargaming that he wanted me
to see. He then told me that these people also belonged to a reinactment
group on medieval history. My ears perked up a little then, and so the
next week I went to check it out. SURPRISE --I was hooked! At that time
we didn't even know the rules for the SCA. The people who were doing
this had a friend who had come back from another kingdom and kinda told
them some things, so they just made the rules up as they went. All of
this was really close to what the SCA rules were. We finally found out
about a war, Border Raids, so I loaded up the van with as many people
that could fit, I think 10 or so and off to Border Raids we went. There
I met John the Bearkiller in a red tunic, tennis shoes and, the rebel
flag was flying-- Wow! I thought that this was ok, but when I got home
I decided to try something different on the garb thing for me--not that
we didn't allready have some folks that were trying to come up with
that same idea--but I did find ways to do it and to help others with
the same problem. That first event was a real learning experience for
all of us. The feast thing was something else that I wanted to do something
with, so with some research and trial and error cooking, I got some
of it down enough to form a cooking guild called the grand chefs--I
didn't want this to be a kingdom thing, because we had enough kingdom
ideas going allready. I just wanted whoever was going to attempt a feast
to do a little research in advance, and it seemed to have caught on,
and whether it was because of what I was attempting or not we now have
some great feastcrats in Meridies. With all of this and the pagentry
is what got me interested and why I am still here today. My persona
is Norman/Saxon 11th century
