Gameblog reader and all around cool guy Jeremy Deram sent this to me. I showed this to my sister-in-law the feminist theologian and she immediately said "Hey! It's two out of every three guys at Pennsic!" For those of you not in the know, the Pennsic War is an annual conflict between two kingdoms of the Society for Creative Anachronism. The loser of the war is stuck with the realm of the Pittsburgh until the next annual get-together.
Yeah, my best friend's step-father was the Seneschal for the SCA our area. I used to play Bard's Tale on the computer and my friend and I would fight in his basement using his step-dad's SCA weapons - good times.
ReplyDeletebtw, that photo looks like it's from the Great Lakes Medieval Faire in Geneva, OH.
-Gabe
Erie, PA
Pennsic nothing. There's a 65% chance of running into that guy at any given neopagan gathering...
ReplyDeleteWe used to joke about people running around with pentacles the size of Flava Flav's clocks hanging on their chests. We thought we were kidding.
ReplyDeleteVerification word: Sainaug. Smaug's second cousin?
@Joseph Bloch - and a 40% chance of running into him at a NYC subway station.
ReplyDeleteWell, now I'm dying to know who your sister-in-law is, in case I know her.
ReplyDeleteShe's the Dean of the Chapel up at Garrett.
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