🚀 go-pugleaf

Well, if you caution your young friend that the only "magic" at SCA events
is in the "dream", and there are no trolls or experience points, He'll
probably be OK.  :-)

Just tell him to be as polite and gentlemanly as he would imagine a knight
to be, and to remember that we are none of us peasants, and knighthood is
earned. He should call the gentlefolk "milord" and "milady" unless he has
learned they really have reaned a rank, in which case it is "my Lord" and 
"my Lady" (small difference, but it means something) and to make a slight
bow to anyone wearing any sort of crown or coronet.

Too bad you can't be there at the beginning, but if he is polite and asks
questions of those not actively rushing about with pots of steaming food, 
or lines of dancers in tow, most will be happy to answer to the best of
their ability. You've arranged for garb and feast ware, so he won't stick
out in the crowd, and that should be fine for a first event.

(And be sure to tell him that although some SCA folk are willing to give
strong drink to young people "because it's period" he must not allow them
to do so, as if he gets in trouble it will cause the incautiously friendly
one, and perhaps his/her branch a lot of grief...not to mention the 
possibility of injury to himself! )

Tell him to sit back, observe, relax, and ask about what he doesn't know...

Moreach 

(I am over 50, but I was a comparative newbie only 3 years ago.
I know how it is....  ;)


 
... You can't have everything. Where would you put it?