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The Armored Easter Egg Hunt
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was a blast, from the start even before we got there. Madeleine picked
My lord and I up around 7:45 from our home and took us back to hers, I
just adore her house its just great, anyways, we get everything loaded
up, armor, garb, people, everything and head out. It's to be a long drive,
about 3 hours to the place where the event is at, for the first half we
talk and gab. then sleepiness settles in and naps get taken, I wake up
to the strains of "heaven on our mind" weee they has the soundtrack to
Jesus Christ Superstar hehe look out my window and spot a water tower that
declares"you are now entering normal" HAHAH a town called Normal, we make
a bit of fun on that, then we notice we passed Philippe's car the red SCA
sticker on the back window helped clue us in at first then we pass him
and HEY LOOK there he is.
We
eventually get to the place around 11:30 or so. pile out, unload then go
to Troll to sign in then head to get dressed, the event is ALL outside
and it's a we tad nippy, now my Cloak has gone AWOL, most likely in a closet
that needs to be cleaned out. We've got the armored Vorpal bunny with us,
and throughout the entire event he's a hit with everyone, we get a lot
of people quoting Monty Python at us.
Everything
is already in full swing, Heavy fighters are suited up and fighting
as are a number of fencers, there is this really kinda neat fort looking
building that some people have set up camp under. Lots of people, more
kids then where at Crystal ball, they look just so cute all done up in
garb. That combined with the outdoor ness of the event makes on really
feel in a different time. Adar and I wander about some after eating a lunch
of Stew and bread. we look over the merchants there then go to find friends,
first at the heavy combat field. We spot Avery and crack up hes got on
an over tunic with carrots on it and has these HUGE stuffed carrots on
either side of his Helmut., more amusement happened when we showed him
the bunny, "you two are geeks" this was said as he put on the be carroted
Helmut.
Wander
about more, talking to people, I've go tAdar's "Indiana Jones" jacket on
over my shoulders so I look just OOHH so period, but had nothing else to
put on and I was cold. The Armored egg hunts are finely announced
rules proclaimed and the fencer of to suit up. Adar gets into the
loner gear..I so need to make him his own fencing doublet.
It
takes the fencers a bit longer to get ready then the Heavy fighters, they
start there egg hunt first then the fencers. The rules for BOTH are, first
find as many eggs as you can, then once that's done challenge someone to
fight if you win you get an egg if you loose you give up an egg, but you
can not take a persons last egg. and one egg *these are those plastic eggs*
has a piece of paper inside it that says you get a prize, your not allowed
to open up your eggs till it's over. The winner of the rapier egg
hunt is declared regional rapier champion. no idea about heavy fighters.
During
the rapier bouts we meet up with a nice girl from the local Shire
and she lends me a wrap to wear instead of his jacket, three yards
black wool, MUCH warmer, I need to get myself one of those, its just
cloth with the edges sewn so they don't unravel, easy enough to make. Adar
found ten eggs and by the end of it he had four, he won some and lost some,
won some that the other person only had one egg so didn't; get a new one.
I'm not sure on the exact number of bouts he fought I wandered about more
on my own, with the rabbit.
Once
the winner is declared he gets back into his normal garb and we poke among
the merchants some more. We find a very nice hand made blank book that
we got for use as our Guest book and found me a very nice Dagger for ten
dollars that has a tiger on the sheath and some neat blue highlighted,
purely ornamental but it looks neat and will go with my day garb once I
get that made.
things
start winding down then to get ready for Feast, which we are not going
to because we couldn't; get tickets to, we made plans to go to Benagins
with a large group from Shattered Crystal but when we get there the place
is PACKED and its a 45 minute wait to get in, our group of Six decided
to go elsewhere, we ended up at Bob Evans and had a nice meal, much joking.
we're not returning to the event for the Dancing and bardic circle afterwards
because they have to go home to feed the horses so we pile into he car
and head back. much quieter then the ride up, everyones asleep.
We
get home around 11:30 and just crash. and that was that.
I
have a roll and a half of Photos made and when I get those developed
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