![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Which Peter Beagle Discovers the SCA, and Thinks it is Pretty Nifty. The sad tone at the end resembles the tone of Robert Asprin's "The Khakhan's Lament".Īs a veteran SCA member myself, I can recognize the atmosphere, though not the maigc, but like the hero's Master-El-like friend, I have remained in the SCA. Ultimately, the plot climaxes in an attempt to use dark magic to win what the SCA would call a crown tourney, which is, if I recall rightly, narrowly defeated, but leaves the hero so disillusioned that he drops out of the LAP. The critical point is that some members of the LAP can work real magic, and some of the magic is very dark. Some members strongly resemble genuine early members of the SCA in particular a very large, very nice African-American bears a strong resemblance to Master El of the Two Knives (Elliot Shorter) one-time seneschal of the East KIngdom. I read this about te time t came out 30 years ago and have not reread it, so my memory of the plot is vague, but basically the hero is involved with friends in the League for Archaic Pleasures, a very obvious version of an extremely early form of the Society for Creative Anachronism, with people with very clumsy weapons and armor (out of date by 1986 in the real SCA) having medieval-style battles and tournaments. ![]()
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