While I am enjoying the story so far, I am left wondering roughly how large the con is. I've been all over
DragonCon 9 out of 10 years now (and the 1 miss due to bad timing on a job interview in CA), and even the most diehard SCAish types there haven't used all that silly pseudo-medieval speak. CG's been around, judging by the "23" on the con staff shirt, almost as long as D*C, so I'm pretty sure it's not an issue of newness.
On an unrelated note, the Peanuts reference in today's (showing on Nov 5, image filename says 1101) strip is a nice touch, I think.