Tag: pennsic

Geez, is Pennsic cursed this year?

The weather sucks, the site is a pool of mud, my wife may have to go rescue a friend of ours tomorrow, there’s apparently plague in the land, and somebody apparently snuck around at night and stole things from merchants. …Yeah, that’s actually rare there. And I’m not even mentioning the temperature. August in Slippery Rock is always miserable, although the constant hail seems to have helped there this year.

Not the best War.

Pennsic XLIX ‘postponed.’

Personally, I would have just retired the number and declared 2021’s Pennsic to be Pennsic L*. But the word has come down: this year’s War is getting delayed until next year. This will come as depressing, yet expected news to the SCA community, but what can you do? A two-week, ten thousand people camping trip would be like catnip to the coronavirus.

I’m not entirely sure that I’m going to get to go to another SCA event this year. Heck, I’m not sure when I’ll get to go an offline baronial meeting. It’s been that sort of situation.

Moe Lane

*Or perhaps not. I suspect that they’re listing it as ‘postponed’ instead of ‘canceled’ because of all of the pre-registrations: if the event is canceled, the money has to be returned. But if it’s delayed, most of the people who paid will simply shrug and say Just let the money roll over because they’d be going next year anyway. which is something I hadn’t considered.