[MR] A story

[Eric Campbell]

I had a great chat with that guy about blacksmithing and Marion told
him to go say hi at the baronial pavilion. I am glad to know he had a
nice visit after he left the forge.

-Solvarr

On Sunday, June 5, 2011, Terri Morgan <online2much at cox.net> wrote:
> I was reading the latest thread (as I should, since I was involved) and the
> discussion reminded me of something I experienced at Sapphire Joust last
> weekend.
>
> I was sitting under our baronial pavilion by the list field when a young man
> came up to the front of it. He was wearing cargo pants and a white tee
> shirt. I vaguely recognised him as the same young man I'd earlier seen
> wearing a full set of chainmail over the same clothes. He wanted to know if
> we were the group from around Portsmouth, VA. I said we were, and how could
> we help him?
>
> It turns out that he had heard about / read about the SCA online and had
> driven up to Sapphire Joust to see what we did. It was his first event. "Oh
> wow! Really?! How cool!" was the gist of the responses from the folks in the
> pavilion, after which we told him about where and when we meet when not at
> events. Amid the general discussion, he mentioned that he liked to make
> chainmail so when Syr Otto came back to the pavilion, I hastened to
> introduce the young man to him so they could talk about that (Otto has
> taught mail-making at a few of our A&S nights). The young man left us to run
> to his car for his maille (how DO you spell that?). He was from the same
> Command (he was active-duty) base as Baron Mungoe, so one of our members
> hastened down to camp to tell Mungoe, who was cooking dinner for the camp,
> about the guy and to see if Mungoe could come up to meet him. An invitation
> to come visit camp and meet Mungoe was quickly returned and the young man
> set off. He stopped by later on, as he was heading for home, to say "hi"
> again and to let us know that we might not see much of him, as his wife
> wasn't interested in the SCA, but he would certainly try to come out again.
>
> Had he met the rude "you're doing it wrong" kind of people at Sapphire, we
> certainly would have never been able to meet him. *Someone* talked to him
> and directed him to our pavilion.
>
> I propose that we see many more "good experience" entries, at least, in the
> SCA, than we do bad ones.
>
> Hrothny
>
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