Summer Siege

(and other SCA events)

Murphy stands defied as lady luck takes the cup. Things may not have gone perfectly, but we did managed to get everyone out to the siege and even stayed mostly dry. Give the number of things that could've gone wrong I'm actually quite amazed. The event itself wasn't as populated as I had hoped, but I suspect that might be because of the looming threat of dire weather and tiny hurricane that struck Ottawa the very night before. Thunderstorms are capable of giving even the most crazy SCA fan pause when their festival takes place in the middle of a field and they're wearing metal.

Regrettably I completely forgot to bring the video camera, so we have absolutely nothing to show for our day. However, bringing a video camera to an event with virtually no shelter when it's due to rain might've been a bit stupid in the first place, so I'm not that upset. It helps to add that there's another SCA festival taking place a paltry two weeks from now, and we're all gearing up to go. This one is the Osgood Medieval Festival, and from what I can gather it looks to be quite a bit larger than the last one. If nothing else there's due to be jousting there, which was a bit beyond the group we saw in chesterville.

What's more there's going to be several armouring guilds present - and this time I'm certain; they're advertising on the events main page. Even if they don't have helmets for sale it might still get us in contact with some one who can be commissioned to make one. If we get lucky we could be on our way to making a working armor set. I'm already back in the mentality to budget it courtesy of the shields we managed to buy at the chesterville fair. I'd post a picture, but I bought mine blank. I want to put my family crest on there and it needs a good couple layers of varnish first. Once it's all prettied up I'll toss it in a post.

Also, should the weather not hate us next time I'll hopefully remember to bring the video camera along. What can I say, I'm not at my best early in the morning. If there's more of these events throughout the summer I might even make a quasi-series out of it. Well have to see how that goes.