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    From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jul 24 19:18:58 2019
    True. Actually, Duke Deaton warmed airport security in advance his briefcase would trigger their new metal detectors. He explained the chain mail in the briefcase & SCA, they laughed, and we boarded. Good thing no one checked. There was a Kirby short
    sword buried in the mail. Care Cheri of the Fallen Stars, Deaton’s duchess.

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  • From Dorothy J Heydt@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Jul 25 04:07:44 2019
    In article <[email protected]>,
    <[email protected]> wrote:
    True. Actually, Duke Deaton warmed airport security in advance his
    briefcase would trigger their new metal detectors. He explained the
    chain mail in the briefcase & SCA, they laughed, and we boarded. Good
    thing no one checked. There was a Kirby short sword buried in the mail.
    Care Cheri of the Fallen Stars, Deaton's duchess.

    Once long ago, my husband had to go to the airport to pick up a
    friend who was arriving from I forget where.

    This was in the days when we were all young and fit, and my
    husband was still fighting, and he had a short-sleeved hauberk
    that he habitually wore under his mundane shirt (and over a
    T-shirt, not next to his skin), to get better used to its weight.
    He got within speaking distance of the airport guard and said,
    "I'd better not get any closer to your metal detectors, I'm wearing
    a mailshirt and I'd set them off."

    "Really?" said the guard, and asked to see it. So Hal unbuttoned
    his shirt a bit and showed it off, and the guard said, "Hey, I
    can disable the alarm, and you can go through the scanner and it
    won't make any sound, but the screen will light up."

    So they did that, and the guy reported that his entire screen
    turned bright white.

    Many years later, when Lochac became a Kingdom, Hal went to their
    final Principality court, first Crown Lists, and first Coronation
    (because he was a Kingdom Officer). He was asked to carry along
    various SCA-legal items -- no metal swords, but lengths of rattan
    and plywood shield blanks. He wasn't the only SCAdian on the
    plane, and the Australian airport people were getting
    increasingly bemused as they looked over the armour, rattan,
    shield blanks, Court finery, et cetera. One of them finally
    asked Hal, "Is this a hobby or something?"

    "That's right."

    --
    Dorothea of Caer-Myrddin Dorothy J. Heydt Vinhold/Mists/West Vallejo, California
    PRO DEO ET REGE djheydt at gmail dot com www.kithrup.com/~djheydt/

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  • From Cameron Kabinoff@21:1/5 to Steve Mesnick on Mon Nov 22 20:16:22 2021
    On Tuesday, 23 November 2004 at 12:07:26 UTC-5, Steve Mesnick wrote:
    How about the muggers attacking the female fighter or other armed SCAdians? I've heard several variants, all of them happened to "someone
    in another kingdom a while ago."
    Ooh, ooh, Mister Kot-tair, I know that one! %^)
    That was Sir Koppel fun Baurieux, once of the East, now
    inactive (so I understand) in Trimaris. The story is that
    a group of Scadians including several ladies, all fully garbed,
    were coming home on the NYC subway after an event when they were
    accosted by muggers, that Koppel defended them with sword and shield,
    and that he was knighted for it (on March 18, 1970).
    I once asked Koppel about it and he confirmed that the incident *did* happen, but that he was already a knight at the time.
    Steffan ap Kennydd

    Baron Sir Koppel used to be local to me in trimaris. The incident did happen, and it was said that it was the reason why he was bearded for as long as he was. I went inactive for some time and when I got reinvolved, I lost contact with Koppel. Rumour
    is he met a lady and fell off the planet. Unfortunately, I forgot his mundane surname, so it's difficult for me to look him up. I hope he found happiness! He's not on the Trimaris Lost Page, so I know he's still among the living.

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