[MR] What excited you at Pennsic?

[Adriana la Bretonne]

I fought for the first time on the Pennsic battlefield in the Tuesday rapier
field battle with Windmasters' Hill!!
Volunteered at Troll for 2 shifts.
Ate ice cream for lunch one day because I am adult and can choose to do so.
MoLed both the Mooselodge and the Atlantian Rose Tourney.  The finals of the
Lodge Tourney were so much fun to watch as Sir Aradd pulled what looked like
a Matrix-type move to miss being hit.
Got to play a part in and witness the elevation of Master Christopher
MacConing to the Order of the Laurel.
One evening I spent some time with Dame Hrothny coloring heraldic
submissions and later in the war I got to visit her as she worked at the
Watch.  For some reason I thought she wouldn't be "working" this war. ;)
I think my favorite moments, as always, are the times sitting and chatting
with friends over a meal at the Beast and Boar or as we laugh and share
stories over drinks in the common tent of camp.

-Adriana
Hrothny's protege emeritus

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Terri Morgan <online2much at cox.net> wrote:

> Classes?
> Battles?
> Doing service?
> Registering a name/badge/device?
> The Arts & Sciences daily exhibit? (I didn't get to take part in any of
> that, nor even see it, and would love to hear about it.)
> The hang-gliders above the camp?
> The unusually cool weather on the second week?
>
> I worked at the Watch, where I got to meet new co-workers, some of whom I
> now consider friends, if only friends that I will see once a year. But it
> was fun to be a part of the service-cog, and to watch our Mobility
> Assistance drivers scurry around trying to do two things at once (follow
> the
> bus route and yet still go to pick up a call off of the route, thanks to a
> last-minute change in policy they were *really* busy folks!) I saw what
> could have been emotionally draining incidents get handled with respect and
> understanding, and people able to reconcile their differences with dignity.
> That brought me joy.
>
> I got to see the sun rise above the morning fog and a whole town wake up.
> And hear it, too, if one counts the soft banging of porta-potty doors. :)
>
> I only spent a short while at Herald's Point - my Gawd, are they busy
> there.
> Busy. I mean like, "crazy, the Stock Market is about to fall" busy. Wow. I
> think I heard that the final total of submissions worked on was something
> like 570-ish. Can you imagine? All that research, cross-checking, and
> artistry? I cannot imagine how they got it all done. And everyone's
> badge/device submission was coloured in for them, too, by volunteers. There
> were a lot of dead soldi-um-crayolas in that tent.
>
> So. We just had the largest SCA event of the year - did you have fun? What
> did you do that you'd like to get other folks enthusiastic about?
>
>
> Hrothny



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Dame Adriana la Bretonne, OP (Drea Ewing Callicutt)
Barony of Windmasters' Hill / Kingdom of Atlantia
Dum Spiro, Spero
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