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 Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 7:45 am
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Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 9:29 am
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Sounds like an interesting project! Let us know how it goes after all this!
1. SCA- Rosemary o Mordha RL- Gretchen
2. Northshield
3. nope...
4. In the real world, I'm a captionist for the hearing impaired, and trying to start a business with my dad. In the SCA, I'm an apprentice chirurgeon and a member of the Jararvellir Vocal Guild.
5. I've been in the SCA for 6 and a half years. Some friends at college found out that I had been in madrigal choir in high school and was interested in history and decided to bring me to an event. I've been hooked ever since!
6. Ever since my first event, I've felt so at home in the SCA. Nerds who socialize! It's awesome! Through the years I've gained another family, more knowledge, and more garb. It also keeps me active and motivated, especially since my barony has so many local weekly activities.
7. I've always been partial to the name Rosemary. It's the name I used to use when I was playing pretend with my friends in the back yard as a kid. I haven't really developed my persona much beyond my name, though. Maybe sometime in the next 7 years...
8. I don't switch into my persona's accent, but I do switch into her personality. As soon as I put on my garb, I instantly become more outgoing and bawdy. Maybe a psychological trigger, I don't know. It's like a switch flips inside my head and there I am.
9. Well, being so much more outgoing as my persona has opened a lot of doors for me. I've met so many people, and joined in so many activities. As rosemary, this often happens within a matter of hours or days. As myself, this usually takes months or even years.
well... hoped this helped, and good luck with your project! Oh, and I really don't need a prize of any sort. Thanks, though! mrgreen
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Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 11:38 am
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Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 12:58 pm
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1. Name (SCA name, real name, or both)
Tchipakkan- my SCA name is Arastorm the Golden (although I don't usually say that because in period things like "the Golden" were only used by other people about you)
2. Kingdom
East Kingdom
3. Have you ever traveled to another country to participate in an event? What was your experience?
When we were on the throne we traveled to Drachenvald, but it was still part of the East at the time. But I suppose England and Germany were other countries, and we did go to do a knighting, and support their Principality as King and Queen. Drachenwald has better sites, and also, they "play" better than the East does. (I wasn't allowed to run any of my own errands at events, a page did it.)
4. What is your job outside of the SCA? What do you do inside the SCA? If you do not have a job inside the SCA what do you wish you could do or accomplish and why?
I am an artist, writer and speaker- self employed. In the SCA I've held almost every position at one time or other- Seneschal, Herald, Chronicler, Marshal, Chatelaine- although at the time they called it Mistress of the Golden Key... I autocrated or cooked for over 60 events, have done probably more than 50 scrolls, co-founded a couple of guilds. If I want to do something, I do it.
5. How long have you been in the SCA and how were you introduced into it?
I joined in AS 8. I was at a Sciencefiction Club meeting at BU and overheard someone talking about the tourney he'd been to the previous weekend. Four years earlier I'd seen an article about the SCA and written to Berkely to ask about it but was told that there was no SCA in the Boston area. Now that there was, I joined- I think I went to a dance practice that week, and an event in NY in another week.
6. Why did you decide to join the SCA? What do you get out of it?
I like the SCA because it's the one place I've found where you can act honorably and don't have to justify it to everyone.
7. What is your persona?
I'm a 7th century Anglian woman living in Wessex. (when I joined I called myself a Saxon, but learned more about it, and my folks came from Kent, which was mostly Anglian. I decided in AS 8 that it was 574 CE, and the years advance so that now I'm in 609- except that they won't use the Christian year system for another century, so I say I'm in the 7th year of Raedwald's reign).
8. How did you decide who your persona would be?
At the time there was a "Norman vs. Saxon" thing going on, and I liked the Saxons better so I joined them. Then I moved my persona to an earlier period so I could reasonably be a heathen rather than Christian- that took it back to the sixth century.
9. What has your experience been like constructing your persona?Did you have any difficulties switching from you to your persona?
I've met lots of people who don't seem to have personae, but I find that Tchipakkan is different than Arastorm. I had another persona- Dashtina, who was SO different that sometimes her reactions surprised me- she liked people I didn't, and she could dance better than Arastorm, which I found annoying.
10. What has your experience been like as your persona and how is that different from your everyday life?
When I am "in persona" I enjoy the SCA much more. It's very difficult to be in persona at most events when others are requiring you to do things that relate to the modern world - like discuss documentation. I prefer looking at the world through 7th century attitudes. (even if they are made up, and we don't know what real 7th century people would think).
But I think there's something that is worth repeating. An NBC interviewer asked me once what the difference was between the SCA and the real world. I told him that since friendships made in the SCA are just as real as friendships made while playing bridge, or bowling, or any of the other things people do, and my friends were all in the SCA, the SCA was the real world for me. Of course, when they put the special on, they cut it to an extreme close-up of me saying "The SCA is the real world for me" and made me look like a real flake. Never give interviews. What I'd said was important and valid- but they didn't want valid, they wanted to show their audience a bunch of nuts. Bitter, me?
Feel free to contact me if you want anything else.
Tchipakkan Tchipakkan@tds.net
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Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 10:58 am
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1. Name (SCA name, real name, or both)
Ælfthryth the Cat. I'm not actually sure if "the Cat" is a kenning...
2. Kingdom
East Kingdom
3. Have you ever traveled to another country to participate in an event? What was your experience?
No, unfortunately. When I was in England, I was moving around too much to go to any events, and in any case I'd left my garb at home.
4. What is your job outside of the SCA? What do you do inside the SCA? If you do not have a job inside the SCA what do you wish you could do or accomplish and why?
Outside of the SCA I am a merchant at small fairs. Inside the SCA I'm a merchant at small fairs. Okay, in reality it is a little more complicated then that, but sometimes it doesn't feel that way. I try to get out for bardic circles, and I used to dance. I miss dancing.
I'd like to volunteer more at events, particularly in kitchens, because I feel that people ought to contribute, and I'm bad at giving directions and good at following them. I keep feeling I ought to be more involved, but then I get shy and then I get caught up in merchanting.
5. How long have you been in the SCA and how were you introduced into it?
Twenty-one years, but I don't think saying so is really fair as I attended my first events in a basket.
6. Why did you decide to join the SCA? What do you get out of it?
I didn't exactly choose to join, it just sort of happened to me. I decided to keep doing it because I can have a conversation with a SCAdian without both people thinking they're talking to an idiot, and... well, it never really occurred to me to leave. I sort of belong here.
7. What is your persona?
A very fluff-headed 7th century Anglian girl living in Wessex. My mother's personna is my personna's mother.
8. How did you decide who your persona would be?
Well, like I said, I was born into the SCA, so as far back as I can remember occasionally I'd put on this practical purple dress and be AElfthryth, Arastorm's daughter. When I was a teenager, I worked out who she would be as a person the same way teenagers work out who they are as people. It was like designing a roleplaying character, it was fun.
9. What has your experience been like constructing your persona? Did you have any difficulties switching from you to your persona?
Like I said, it was a bit like a teenager discovering themselves, and a bit like making a roleplaying character.
I do have a bit of difficulty switching from myself to Ælfthryth, as I get the feeling that if she were alive today, Æfthryth would hang out at the mall and collect hangbags, and I, well, don't. She also tends to whine, and is alot more friendly then I am. And she flirts. Which is really weird for me. She is... coy.
There's a particular kind of smile I never do, but she does. And this one time, I was taking pictures of myself in my garb, and I accidentally went into persona and did all the cliché myspace photo angles. gonk
But going into persona is fun, maybe because Æfthryth is so easy to please. Buy her something pretty and she'll be amused for hours.
10. What has your experience been like as your persona and how is that different from your everyday life?
The little cute goth girl who looks like she's afraid of people gets hit on by much creepier people then the little cute gothic (badumbum) girl who smiles and giggles alot.
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Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 6:59 pm
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Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 6:14 am
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1. Name (SCA name, real name, or both)
~ Medb of Cae Mor / Amanda Gueguen
2. Kingdom
~ An Tir
3. Have you ever traveled to another country to participate in an event? What was your experience?
~ Not as of yet. sad
4. What is your job outside of the SCA? What do you do inside the SCA? If you do not have a job inside the SCA what do you wish you could do or accomplish and why?
~ Currently unemployed - though I volunteer with my church and with the highschool TechCrew.
I do anything and everything I can; I'm currently my shire (Cae Mor)'s Webmistress, I'm autocratting our main event of the year - this coming April, and just general jobs that need to be done. 3nodding
5. How long have you been in the SCA and how were you introduced into it?
~ 4 years(?) now. My socials teacher, the theatre technition(and head of Tech Crew) and many of my friends were involved, and it caught my interest.
6. Why did you decide to join the SCA? What do you get out of it?
~ My Socials teacher, and theatre technition are big influences on my life, and I loved the idea of it.
I enjoy the learning expiriences, and making new friends - because you know that you have at least one thing in common with everyone you meet. I also really love the old-time chivalrous atmosphere - people tend to be more honest, more respectful, and of course the suave compliments and flirtations. xd heart
7. What is your persona?
~ An Irish wench (I'm afriad my persona still leaves a lot to be desired in the way of development) sweatdrop
8. How did you decide who your persona would be?
~ Well, I started the way I start any of my RolePlaying characters (from D&D and such) - a name. I got a bit of a tongue-lashing from my local herald (who happens to be the kingdom herald) on the way I went about finding one (an online baby-names site). But then she helped me research what the medieval equivillant would be - Medb - and that became my name. After that, Irish was where the name would fit best, and that's how I went about making the persona I have. biggrin (That, and I like irish/celtic things & history in gerenal).
9. What has your experience been like constructing your persona? Did you have any difficulties switching from you to your persona?
~ Generally entertaining. I have a good bunch of people in my shire to help me - though it's been frustrating from time to time, when snags are hit and when things are hard to find documentation from.
Nope, no troubles at all. Because I do a lot of roleplaying games in my off-time, I'm very good at differentiating between 'Me' - my modern self, and 'Medb' - my SCA persona. biggrin
10. What has your experience been like as your persona and how is that different from your everyday life?
~ Medb tends to be more respectful, and more attentive to who and what exactly is around where she is - and adjusts what she says & how she acts accordingly. She's also a lot more girly than I am mundanely. 3nodding
Hope this helps. sweatdrop
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Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 7:33 am
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Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 9:54 am
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Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 12:26 pm
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Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 2:13 pm
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Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 8:59 pm
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