East Kingdom 12th Night is postponed

[liamstliam]

The school at which tomorrow's East Kingdom 12th Night event was to be held has informed the site coordinator the school will be closed down because of a forecast of a serious snow storm.

EK 12th Night will be held next Saturday, Jan. 17. There were no other viable options, and Their Majesties apologize in advance to al-Hafla and the Kingdom of Acre.

I would ask you not contact the event steward with any issues until next week. Things are very hectic right now.

We will have a week to make sure everything comes off as well as it can.

If you have any questions/comments/concerns, please contact me at liamstliam@gmail.com

I do not have posting access to the household list or the Ladies In Waiting list. Could someone pass it on, please?

Thank you,

Master Liam St. Liam
Major Domo to Their Majesties East

Comments

[jenwrites.livejournal.com]

I never used to travel that far for events when I was in the SCA, and I don't recall a lot of people doing so either, but that was over 10 years ago, so things may have changed.

[liamstliam.livejournal.com]

This is a major kingdom event with four peerages.

A lot of folks were going to come.

[jenwrites.livejournal.com]

Ah. I guess I can see that. I was never a royalty follower, so I tended to only go to events that were local. Carolingia certainly had enough going on that I rarely felt the lack of events in my life.

[fuzzface00.livejournal.com]

At one point, there were more than a few members of Arisia staff as far south as Washington DC. I made the trek to Boston to do Lighting Design in the main hall for several years. There was a lot of SCA crossover.

Frankly, I wish the various groups (S/F Conventions, Gaming Conventions, SCA) paid a bit more attention to each others schedules. It seems like all the cool things I want to do double book on the same weekend, and then I have the other three weekends of the month free.

[rufinia.livejournal.com]

This year they tried. It's not the SCA group's fault that the site for our event got pulled at the last minute, causing the reschedule. Otherwise 12th Night would have been tomorrow, leaving Arisia weekend alone.

This will be my sixth 12th Night in the East, and I can think of one in that time that conflicted with Arisia (and was down in New Jersey, so....).

As for me, I'm a tiny bit releived, because this means I know what I'll be doing while all of my friends are off at Arisia.

[jenwrites.livejournal.com]

Hell, there's no way to avoid it. Now that I'm getting back into bellydancing, I'm finding all new fun and exciting conflicts in my life. The only cure is to drop all hobbies and become boring.

[liamstliam.livejournal.com]

At least Fetish Flea does not conflict with Birka this year.

(Not that I checked or anything)

[jenwrites.livejournal.com]

Of course not. Why would you? 0:)

[tashabear.livejournal.com]

It's Twelfth Night, though, which people are often more willing to travel for.

You're also discounting people coming into town from away, though I don't know if they'd come from as far away as NY State.

I go to one con a year, and drive ten hours for it, so the idea of driving, what, four hours? for Twelfth Night isn't that foreign to me.

[jenwrites.livejournal.com]

Whereas when I was in the SCA, I lived somewhere that had events nearly every month, so there was no need to drive four hours for anything. I guess it's all in what you're accustomed to.

Amusingly, when I finally got my AoA, I had to leave Arisia for a couple of hours to go pick it up, because someone had decided it was a good idea to have a kingdom-level event and a major convention in the same metro area on the same weekend.

[tashabear.livejournal.com]

You're preaching to the choir. I "grew up" in Quintavia and now live in Towers. I'll still go out to NYS for Hrim Schola when I can.

Maybe it's that I've never lived in the metro area where public transportation was an option. I've always had to get in the car to get where I wanted to go, so what's a few more hours?

[jenwrites.livejournal.com]

Yeah, in Carolingia, I rarely had to drive more than half an hour for an event. It had to be something pretty special to get me to drive an hour or more.

[silme.livejournal.com]

I live in Drachenwald. Talk about driving/flying distances! :) (I previously lived in Atenveldt/Outlands, so I'm used to it. The difference here is that a passport is needed. :)

[jducoeur]

Keep in mind that, even when Carolingia was running events monthly (which it really doesn't any more), there were a lot of us travelling pretty substantial distances to out-Barony events on a regular basis. (Actually, I travelled a lot *more* on average back then, I think.)

It's all a matter of how deep you are: you can do SCA monthly (or so) just on a local basis, but more than that requires you to get out and about. And it's actually more fun that way -- you get to see how other people play the game, which gets more variety into it...