Held at the Negro Bar Area, below Folsom Lake, CA. There was a communal banquet on Saturday. There was team terrain fighting, a medieval sciences competition, a medieval swimming-costume contest, a cooling summer drink contest, and a Ninja Infiltration Course. Baron Sir Kevin Peregrynne was the autocrat.
Annotations:
“Negro Bar provided challenging terrain - it's on the American River
floodplain and shows considerable evidence of old flooding and extensive
gold dredging in the 1800's. Since it isn't conducive to regular
tournament fighting we planned the event to take advantage of the
rugged landscape. The camping area consists of a dumbbell shaped
level area formed by two small plateaus linked by a narrow ridge.
“For the ninja course we simply declared
the tops of the plateaus off-limits and all the rest of the park fair game.
Maythen of Elfhaven was the only contestant to get within view of the
Daimyo (me) and fought a spirited boffer duel with his bodyguard,
Aarond the Grey, before being slain. Duke Henrik arrived at the
site after the contest was over (unbeknownst to him), got into his
ninja gear and slipped into the brush. After a period of skulking
around seeking prey, he culminated his infiltration with a water-balloon
assault on the bardic circle.
“The swimming costume contest on Sunday
became an exercise in gooseflesh when the operators of the nearby
dam sent a massive bolus of icy lake-bottom snow melt down the river
(starting Saturday night) to flush a sewage spill downstream from
Negro Bar out of the river.” – Kevin Peregrynne
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