Held at Sycamore Campsite #1, Trimmer Lake Campground, East of Fresno. Iain of Cawdor was the autocrat. Lists were held for Champion of the Shire. There was a Libelous and Satirical Poetry Contest, an on-the-spot, freehand drawing contest on a martial theme, an Orc shoot, a team situation attack and defense competition, a fighting quest featuring Boggies, an Ogre, a two-headed monster, a couple of used maidens and a couple of dark knights, and the Rieslingshire version of Who Do You Trust.
Annotations:
“I seem to have mixed the spring and fall events at Trimmer Lake together
in my muddled memories. In my earlier message about the event with the
fighting quest I recalled ...
“Then on Sunday there was a cross between
an obstacle course and a time and distance road rally, with a
sort of D&D meets Monty Python flavor to the human-played obstacles.
Ones that I remember included a troll (Craig of the Chambers), a
two-headed monster/warrior (I forget who played him/them), a boulder
throwing ogre (Olaf of course) and the Black Knight ("None Shall Pass" quoth
Douglas). Unless I'm deluding myself I had the combined lowest course time
and penalty score, primarily because I wasn't carrying a sword and shield
and didn't feel compelled to fight when the rules allowed avoidance.
(That's how I got past Olaf, you can't block a boulder with a spear
so I just dodged and ran, ditto the two headed monster - I stuck the
glaive shaft between their legs, ran widdershins and dumped them on their
keisters then scooted out of Dodge). The other amusing aspect of the
course was that many combatants were followed along it by their gallery
of friends and groupies, just like Arnie's Army.
“I also remember playing roving referee
after I had run the course and witnessing Olaf scoring a perfect free-throw
on Terrence of Halliday's very pointy bascinet "Swish! Nothing but point!"
“The Orc shoot was a very challenging cross-country
broken-terrain archery contest. I recall that the Golden Rivers contingent
performed quite well and vaguely recall having the top score for the
day myself (doubtless just my swollen ego).” – Kevin Peregrynne
“For Kevin’s information, the two-headed monster was played by myself and Detrich von Vinebergen (a lefty).” – Rand of Dunbar
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