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The Zoom Where It Happens

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The Concert that Started a War (originally known as the Journeymen's Concert) was hosted on Zoom by the Middle Kingdom on 1/23/21, in the middle of the Covid pandemic. A conversation happened in the text chat, which spawned The First Bardic War.

At the center of that conversation were Hilla Stormbringer of the Midrealm, who was one of hosts of the concert, and Laila al-Sanna' al-Andalusiyya, former Queen’s Bard of the East, who had been performing. TLDR: There were a lot of Atlantian bards invited to a Midrealm event. The word “invasion” was used, followed by a discussion of holding the Atlantian bards for “ransom”, and the boast that if the bards of the East and Atlantia banded together, they could take over the known world... Within the hour, Hilla had posted in the SCA Bardic Arts group that she had instigated an “interkingdom incident”, and people were discussing a full-scale War event.

Drake Oranwood, who was Consort's Bard at the time, posted to the East Kingdom Facebook discussion group. He hastily explained to Tindal and Alberic that there might have been an interkingdom incident at that evening’s concert, and that while he was in attendance, it was not his fault.

Ultimately, to set the record straight, Drake wrote a filk about it to the tune of "The Room Where It Happened" from Hamilton, and produced, directed, and edited the video below. Many bards, and a few Royals, conspired to commit this daring act of true history to the collective memory of the Society.

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More details about the song are available at Drake's website.