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DRESSIN IN ARMOR, HITTIN DUDES WITH STICKS

Metzger MeisterMetzger Meister It Gets Worsebefore it gets any better.Registered User regular
edited July 2010 in Social Entropy++
Into nerdery I will journey, with naught but staunch companions and courage to guide me.

I WILL ATTEND A MEETING OF THE SOCIETY FOR CREATIVE ANACHRONISM.

We have a kingdom or duchy or whatever the fuck here in Cheyenne and I'm going to be attending their fighter practice in the park next wednesday, check out the scene, see if fighting dudes with foam swords and being ye olde timey is something that I wanna do.

DOES ANYONE HERE HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH THIS SHIT, SPECIFICALLY THE SCA?

PONY I KNOW YOU LARPED FOR A FUCKIN GRIP OF DAYS. Is it as hilariously fun as it looks to be?

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  • The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2010
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  • RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    wait what are you doing?


    I've always wanted to fight dudes with a bigass stick, you can keep the Yea and the nay and all that I'll just whack some dude with a club

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  • SquallSquall hap cloud Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oWAb5NVALw

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  • Metzger MeisterMetzger Meister It Gets Worse before it gets any better.Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Raneados wrote: »
    wait what are you doing?


    I've always wanted to fight dudes with a bigass stick, you can keep the Yea and the nay and all that I'll just whack some dude with a club

    basically it's just a bunch of dudes in armor wailing on each other with big foam swords and shit and then feasting and whatnot.

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  • RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    see i am down with everything going on right there, metzger

    i am good with battles and feasting

    man i would have made a great viking :/

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  • Metzger MeisterMetzger Meister It Gets Worse before it gets any better.Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Raneados wrote: »
    see i am down with everything going on right there, metzger

    i am good with battles and feasting

    man i would have made a great viking :/

    my friends and i were joking about showing up as vikings and then conquering everyone and taking their shit and then our gods and superstitions show up in their architecture and pop culture for millenia thereafter.

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  • RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    if it's the same time period i don't see why not

    itt raneados realizes he doesn't exactly know WHEN vikings were around

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  • Metzger MeisterMetzger Meister It Gets Worse before it gets any better.Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    well i mean the vikings raped and pillaged the shit out of britain like thirty fucking times so really every time period is the time period of norse conquest.

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  • RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    sounds good

    rock and roll

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  • Metzger MeisterMetzger Meister It Gets Worse before it gets any better.Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN-no1Ka7yU

    let's do this

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  • FAQFAQ Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    is this larping or something

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  • Metzger MeisterMetzger Meister It Gets Worse before it gets any better.Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    FAQ wrote: »
    is this larping or something

    kind of?

    i mean it's dudes dressed in ye olde garb and cavorting about in armor but mostly it's just feasting and period-appropriate shit like tourneys and grand melees and buxom wenches in tightly laced bodices and really ugly sweaty people walking around with no electricity.

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  • TheLawinatorTheLawinator Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Metzger, I should be going today to my local group if my friend is still down for it. I will give you impressions later. Should be baller though. I've met up with a few of the dudes that do it in NYC while I was at school and there seems to be two very different schools of thought. There are the arts & sciences guys, who actually live and breathe the middle ages, and then the combat guys that like to beat the crap out of each other. There's a little overlap, but it shouldn't freak you out or anything. I'm definitely part of the latter.

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  • Metzger MeisterMetzger Meister It Gets Worse before it gets any better.Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Plus learning how to use medieval weapons effectively will allow me to function properly when i get sucked back in time via either traumatic head-wound or freak whirlpool.

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  • FAQFAQ Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    well I hope you enjoy it

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  • SquallSquall hap cloud Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    so it's basically a ren faire without the vendors and peacebonds

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  • Metzger MeisterMetzger Meister It Gets Worse before it gets any better.Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    i can't see how i wouldn't. it's fucking pretend-fighting with rules and awesome armor and shit. that's basically what i wanted all growing up!

    plus i've met a lot of the people that do it because they'll set up their pavillions and shit during big social things like this event we have here called Super Day, which is a free event in a park here that has bouncy castles and local merchant booths and crafts and carnival games and free concerts and shit.

    my little cousin was like "DUDE WE CAN TRY ON ARMOR THIS IS THE GREATEST DAY OF MY LIFE" and i secretly agreed.

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  • thorgotthorgot there is special providence in the fall of a sparrowRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBxFMLZ2188

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  • AirAir Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    im gonna go to one of these things soon
    but as a guy from the future who just wants to play with his iphone all day
    all
    damn this place hath none of ye olde signal

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Air wrote: »
    im gonna go to one of these things soon
    but as a guy from the future who just wants to play with his iphone all day
    all
    damn this place hath none of ye olde signal

    To complete the effect you'll really have to predict an eclipse and pretend to be a wizard.

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  • lostwordslostwords Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Are there gonna be ladies with rude boobies there? Fair maidens and saucy wenches in tight corsets?

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  • AirAir Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
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  • FAQFAQ Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    the middle ages were lame

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  • FizFiz Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Put a bunch of alka seltzer in your mouth and start foaming up in the middle of the battle. Tell them it's the black death and make everybody just fall wherever because it has laid waste to another countryside

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  • TossrockTossrock too weird to live too rare to dieRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    First it's D&D

    then it's the SCA

    then it's lightning bolt, lightning bolt, lightning bolt

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  • SegSeg Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    I was also wondering if it would be like Role Models where the King was some dude who ate his pre-battle breakfast at a local Pancake House.

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  • Charles KinboteCharles Kinbote Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
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  • ScribemiteScribemite Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Rattan and hard foam. This isn't Nerf shit. I've known people who have received broken fingers, broken ribs, bloody faces and concussions from doing SCA fighting. The big battles can be pretty intense, guys and girls in armor just full on wailing and shoving and shouting at each other. When you fall down, you can be trampled.

    It is awesome. Good luck.

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  • HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Get a nerf gun and tell them you've just created the first gun powder based weapons, and their melee arms and chainmail are now obsolete.

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  • Dead LegendDead Legend Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    metz

    get some artillery shells from a fireworks stand and lob them at people

    congratulations, you just cast fireball.

    this idea is thanks to hunter

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  • HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    If that doesn't work, get a bow and shoot rubber tipped arrows at them from 50 yards away. Fuckers need to respect ranged weapons.

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  • Charles KinboteCharles Kinbote Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    first the absolutely absurd Norse fetishism born out of a love of terrible music

    and now this

    metzger is headed in an interesting direction

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  • The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2010
    Get a dummy or mannequin and make it up to look all diseased and scabby and stuff and catapult it into the middle of the field.

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  • Dead LegendDead Legend Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    to be fair, norse mythology is bad ass.

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  • TossrockTossrock too weird to live too rare to dieRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Hunter wrote: »
    If that doesn't work, get a bow and shoot rubber tipped arrows at them from 50 yards away. Fuckers need to respect ranged weapons.

    Steel tipped would work better I think

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  • HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    The Geek wrote: »
    Get a dummy or mannequin and make it up to look all diseased and scabby and stuff and catapult it into the middle of the field.

    Just go buy some E.Coli tainted ground beef and throw it at them.

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  • Charles KinboteCharles Kinbote Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Dead Legend wrote: »
    to be fair, norse mythology is bad ass.

    this is true

    Norse mythology made me flip my shit 100% of the time as a kid, and I still love it

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  • FAQFAQ Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Irish mythology seems badass, but finding translations that aren't shit or textbooks is a problem

    well I haven't looked very hard

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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    The middle ages were awesome for literature faq gosh darnit

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