InfestedKerrigan Posted July 3, 2019 Report Share Posted July 3, 2019 Anyone here from An Tir? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Rock Posted July 3, 2019 Report Share Posted July 3, 2019 Used to be, lived in Wyewood and played in Aquaterra for a while. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 3, 2019 Report Share Posted July 3, 2019 14 hours ago, InfestedKerrigan said: Anyone here from An Tir? I live there (as do most of us) An Tir’s borders include the US States of Oregon, Washington, Northern Idaho, most of the Canadian Province of British Columbia, as well as the Yukon and Northwest Territories. In June of 2015 (anno societatis 50), An Tir’s Principality Avacal became the SCA’s twentieth Kingdom – taking the Canadian lands of Eastern British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 3, 2019 Report Share Posted July 3, 2019 But I'm not active with SCA, I just live within An Tir's boarders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfestedKerrigan Posted July 3, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2019 Trolling trolls troll. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfestedKerrigan Posted July 3, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2019 Use your deductive reasoning skills to infer that I am well aware of the region that An Tir covers. Use your deductive reasoning skills to infer that I was asking who was actively involved with SCA. I don't follow baseball, so I don't give two shiitake about what conference I live in. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 3, 2019 Report Share Posted July 3, 2019 1 hour ago, InfestedKerrigan said: Use your deductive reasoning skills to infer that I am well aware of the region that An Tir covers. Use your deductive reasoning skills to infer that I was asking who was actively involved with SCA. I don't follow baseball, so I don't give two sheits about what conference I live in. Wouldn't know the baseball one. You sure are hostile towards someone who's trying to answer your written questions to the best of their ability. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burk Posted July 4, 2019 Report Share Posted July 4, 2019 keep it civil and avoid the curse words....even in they are purposely misspelled. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romans832 Posted July 4, 2019 Report Share Posted July 4, 2019 I've enjoyed participating when they're up here in Bremerton, but not a member 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PourSpelur Posted July 24, 2019 Report Share Posted July 24, 2019 I'd love to try it out. Anything in the Tacoma area? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romans832 Posted July 24, 2019 Report Share Posted July 24, 2019 Just now, PourSpelur said: I'd love to try it out. Anything in the Tacoma area? They're over on the peninsula... https://www.antir.org/our-lands/branches/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfestedKerrigan Posted July 24, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2019 A friend's exgf got her into it earlier this year. I used to boffer when I was 19ish, and loved Ren Fairs as a kid. So, when she asked me to start getting involved locally, I decided I would. The timing with my leg surgery sucks a bit much, but with any luck, the surgery should improve my on field performance... When I get the knack of it. Since I'm down and out, I've spent some time watching armor/sword making, combat videos, reading the Marshal's Handbook, etc. We've discussed our camp being a transcontinental caravan. This would greatly enable our ability to source armor, clothing, etc from multiple cultures, an Imperialist Soup, you might say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duckman Posted July 24, 2019 Report Share Posted July 24, 2019 I knew a guy in college who got a whole bunch of titanium wire and used it to create chainmail. He made the loops and "wove" the chainmail himself. I think he got the wire through a lab so he didn't even have to pay for the wire himself. Had a lot of respect for that guy. He fought Florentine and generally fought 3-4 guys at ren-fests (he'd go in with a bunch of scrubs in a 4v4 and be the only one to survive). Personally I never got into actual SCA as I found (back in 1990) a lot of their rules to be anachronistic and idiosyncratic. 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Posted July 24, 2019 Report Share Posted July 24, 2019 5 minutes ago, Duckman said: I found a lot of their rules to be anachronistic lol 😉 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duckman Posted July 24, 2019 Report Share Posted July 24, 2019 Would you prefer it if I said "they could not logic their way out of a paper bag"? They were not capable of being internally self-consistent which drove me nuts. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Posted July 24, 2019 Report Share Posted July 24, 2019 No. I just found the phrase amusing. The SCA is definitely convoluted. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfestedKerrigan Posted July 24, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2019 22 minutes ago, Jay said: The SCA is definitely convoluted. This is why I have never gotten involved prior. I have other friends from High School that are active in An Tir, but never pursued it. I'm hoping 20 years of internet will have improved the scene. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duckman Posted July 24, 2019 Report Share Posted July 24, 2019 I dunno that there is anything to do to improve it concerning the problems I had with it... Everyone must be historically accurate but 8 of you being the current reincarnation of Cleopatra is fine. Your references all have to be historically accurate but pronunciation doesn't count so feel free to butcher the high German with a Creole accent. Science must be accurate and timely but alchemy fine. Oh, and we're not going to limit time period so feel free to go with anything from 500 AD to 1600 AD. (Combat was more and less limited in similarly incongruous ways.) As long as you were down with the *Creative* in SCA it worked but if you wanted people to do *accurate* research, good luck. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfestedKerrigan Posted July 24, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2019 42 minutes ago, Duckman said: I dunno that there is anything to do to improve it concerning the problems I had with it... Everyone must be historically accurate but 8 of you being the current reincarnation of Cleopatra is fine. Your references all have to be historically accurate but pronunciation doesn't count so feel free to butcher the high German with a Creole accent. Science must be accurate and timely but alchemy fine. Oh, and we're not going to limit time period so feel free to go with anything from 500 AD to 1600 AD. (Combat was more and less limited in similarly incongruous ways.) As long as you were down with the *Creative* in SCA it worked but if you wanted people to do *accurate* research, good luck. Ah. Socially Crusty Assholes is more along the line of issues I had. I think society has changed a good bit, and I'm more aware of group dynamics than I was then. Local dynamics, I have a dozen or so friends involved currently or in the past with the local sca, so I've gotten the low down on the uh political realm of the Shire. As for activities, era, etc, I view it entirely as Low Fantasy Action LARPing. That's part of the reason I'm encouraging her on this traveling caravan route for diversity, and not being tied down regionally/era. When AR Goggles are reasonable, I'm super down for High Fanta-C-A 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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