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.....o_O
it was a lot of fun, but some shitty things happened, too, so i don't know.
i reeeeeeaaaaaalllllly wish i had a cigarette right now. like whoa. - -'
so..we drove for two hours, arrived at the hall, and set up our 'beds' which were really just boards. i was kind of expecting pads or mattresses or something, but oh well. i didn't sleep too awful, all things considered. didn't do much except say hi to a bunch of people and then sit around talking/playing gameboy until i fell asleep.
saturday i got up, threw on a dress, and spent the day curled up in my cloak, because it rained/drizzled ALL day. the boys were still out and fighting, though, so Sidia and i sat up in the pavilion and talked. there was a guy who showed up wearing nate's cloak (he lost it a few weeks ago, and made it himself, so he knows it's his) but when sidia asked him about it he told her someone in his chapter made it, which was kinda cheesy, but nate shrugged it off and said he'd just make a newer, better one to replace it.
he was selected to play 'young oron' for the scenario battles! :D we ran out to the car and glued a fake mustache on him and he put on a red headband and everything--it was so funny! i wanted to take pictures, but my camera's batteries decided to die and i didn't have any extras...:( i'm hoping someone else with a camera will get a few pics somewhere where i can find them, and then i'll paste them in here. uhm..they fought for a while (in the rain). lots of people asked after my sister, who had to leave after getting to cleveland for a family emergency. :( lotta people asked after amras, who hasn't answered mine or nate's calls, or returned messages...so..i don't know what the hell we did to him, but i guess we aren't talking anymore? it's kind of disappointing.
i watched the beginning of the tournies and then wandered back into the hall so i could sit near the fire and stay warm, and was talking to aethen about some dreams i've had when nate comes running in with his weapons and grabs me, and tells me he needs me for something. so...i follow him outside and find out that in order to enter the tournament, he needed a female sponsor, lol. so i agreed to sponsor him and he filled out a card and got in line to fight...points were awarded for winning fights, for how honorable you fought (heralds noted blown off shots but didn't mention them; they just took points off for shitty fighting) and for how loudly sponsors cheered their men. :D i'm not much of a cheerleader, but i decided i'd better try *just* a little, so i kind of clapped and yelled a bit. nate won two out of his four fights, and then we went back inside to sit around before feasting started.
about twenty minutes before it did, however, i kind of panicked because i didn't have any feastware with me, and left for town with a couple of friends in order to pick up some disposable plates and forks, etc, and upon returning, we noticed that feasting had started, and haldour (nate) met me outside and told me i was in a WHOLE load of trouble, because they'd already done the crowning ceremony! X(!!! so...i knew i was in for it, but i went inside and faced my father's wrath (which is somehow ten times scarier when he's wearing his crown) and then faced his wife's wrath, which, against his, is a hundred times more frightening. ^^'' i fully expected to be disowned and barred from feasting, but after berating me for a spell, they told me to get some food, and after letting me stew in my misery a little longer, Oron came up behind me and slipped a white and black chainmail necklace over my head, marking me as a member of the royal family and a princess of the Kingdom of Pentwyvern. :D so i havn't been disowned, after all.
despite everything, the food was still delicious, and probably even more so since afterwards i cleaned the kitchen and washed the dishes as punishment (there's no running water, so i gathered myself a couple of servants to help me pump some out of the well and run it back to the hall. ;) just kidding, they love me so they helped me out). haldour had to present a necklace of leaf-shaped beads to me for sponsoring him in the His Blood, Her Pleasure tournament. there are two golden leaves, one for each of the battles he won, and six silver ones for his honor points and my cheering points. :) and a large silver leaf in the center. i'm going to find myself a good piece of rope or chain and make a better necklace, although i might make it an anklet, since i already have a couple different necklaces.
after the feast, we got a bonfire going and got out the mead +other assorted alcoholic beverages, and began the merrymaking part of the event. :) we were all kept entertained for a while by Big Ah and his wonderful singing (he knows so many songs! o.o;; it's daunting) i bummed a clove off of a lovely lady named Kat (i hope that's how she spells it) and met some other new faces, while catching back up with a few people from the mirkwood area that i havn't seen in a while. i had a lot of fun, with the only exception being that once i was nearly drunk, i said a few things to nate that kind of upset him; and he was already upset with me for smoking. however, he did make a comment at me about having to go through lung cancer with me in twenty years, which means he assumes we'll still be friends and tells me he'll stand by me anyway! i almost cried.
and then we went to bed, and woke up/packed/said our goodbyes, and left for home. :( nate and i rode back separately, and although i didn't tell him, i was kind of sad. i get too used to him being around and like having him near too much, i'm afraid. i found myself checking my phone a lot today, just in case he had tried calling, but he didn't. either he's still upset with me or he and lee were having a ball and he dismissed me for a while. *sad smile* i told him i might be headed his way tomorrow to hang out, but now it looks as though we'll be spending the day at my grandmother's house. *sigh* better charge up the gameboy and the phone and find a good book to read. there's never anything else to do over there and i'm always uncomfortable as it is, being a bit of a black sheep with them.
i'm always so sad leaving campouts like that! even though the beds weren't very comfortable and it was wet and cold, i'm kind of tempted to just wear my cloak and garb around for a few days. i almost want to dismantle my bed and sleep on the ground on my mattress with my cloak over me. that must be how larien would feel if the crusade ever left her behind. i wonder, gods willing we actually come out on top of this whole meagamarth thing, if she's going to miss it...makes me think athron's bear theory has a ring of truth to it, after all. ;)
night folks.
.....o_O
it was a lot of fun, but some shitty things happened, too, so i don't know.
i reeeeeeaaaaaalllllly wish i had a cigarette right now. like whoa. - -'
so..we drove for two hours, arrived at the hall, and set up our 'beds' which were really just boards. i was kind of expecting pads or mattresses or something, but oh well. i didn't sleep too awful, all things considered. didn't do much except say hi to a bunch of people and then sit around talking/playing gameboy until i fell asleep.
saturday i got up, threw on a dress, and spent the day curled up in my cloak, because it rained/drizzled ALL day. the boys were still out and fighting, though, so Sidia and i sat up in the pavilion and talked. there was a guy who showed up wearing nate's cloak (he lost it a few weeks ago, and made it himself, so he knows it's his) but when sidia asked him about it he told her someone in his chapter made it, which was kinda cheesy, but nate shrugged it off and said he'd just make a newer, better one to replace it.
he was selected to play 'young oron' for the scenario battles! :D we ran out to the car and glued a fake mustache on him and he put on a red headband and everything--it was so funny! i wanted to take pictures, but my camera's batteries decided to die and i didn't have any extras...:( i'm hoping someone else with a camera will get a few pics somewhere where i can find them, and then i'll paste them in here. uhm..they fought for a while (in the rain). lots of people asked after my sister, who had to leave after getting to cleveland for a family emergency. :( lotta people asked after amras, who hasn't answered mine or nate's calls, or returned messages...so..i don't know what the hell we did to him, but i guess we aren't talking anymore? it's kind of disappointing.
i watched the beginning of the tournies and then wandered back into the hall so i could sit near the fire and stay warm, and was talking to aethen about some dreams i've had when nate comes running in with his weapons and grabs me, and tells me he needs me for something. so...i follow him outside and find out that in order to enter the tournament, he needed a female sponsor, lol. so i agreed to sponsor him and he filled out a card and got in line to fight...points were awarded for winning fights, for how honorable you fought (heralds noted blown off shots but didn't mention them; they just took points off for shitty fighting) and for how loudly sponsors cheered their men. :D i'm not much of a cheerleader, but i decided i'd better try *just* a little, so i kind of clapped and yelled a bit. nate won two out of his four fights, and then we went back inside to sit around before feasting started.
about twenty minutes before it did, however, i kind of panicked because i didn't have any feastware with me, and left for town with a couple of friends in order to pick up some disposable plates and forks, etc, and upon returning, we noticed that feasting had started, and haldour (nate) met me outside and told me i was in a WHOLE load of trouble, because they'd already done the crowning ceremony! X(!!! so...i knew i was in for it, but i went inside and faced my father's wrath (which is somehow ten times scarier when he's wearing his crown) and then faced his wife's wrath, which, against his, is a hundred times more frightening. ^^'' i fully expected to be disowned and barred from feasting, but after berating me for a spell, they told me to get some food, and after letting me stew in my misery a little longer, Oron came up behind me and slipped a white and black chainmail necklace over my head, marking me as a member of the royal family and a princess of the Kingdom of Pentwyvern. :D so i havn't been disowned, after all.
despite everything, the food was still delicious, and probably even more so since afterwards i cleaned the kitchen and washed the dishes as punishment (there's no running water, so i gathered myself a couple of servants to help me pump some out of the well and run it back to the hall. ;) just kidding, they love me so they helped me out). haldour had to present a necklace of leaf-shaped beads to me for sponsoring him in the His Blood, Her Pleasure tournament. there are two golden leaves, one for each of the battles he won, and six silver ones for his honor points and my cheering points. :) and a large silver leaf in the center. i'm going to find myself a good piece of rope or chain and make a better necklace, although i might make it an anklet, since i already have a couple different necklaces.
after the feast, we got a bonfire going and got out the mead +other assorted alcoholic beverages, and began the merrymaking part of the event. :) we were all kept entertained for a while by Big Ah and his wonderful singing (he knows so many songs! o.o;; it's daunting) i bummed a clove off of a lovely lady named Kat (i hope that's how she spells it) and met some other new faces, while catching back up with a few people from the mirkwood area that i havn't seen in a while. i had a lot of fun, with the only exception being that once i was nearly drunk, i said a few things to nate that kind of upset him; and he was already upset with me for smoking. however, he did make a comment at me about having to go through lung cancer with me in twenty years, which means he assumes we'll still be friends and tells me he'll stand by me anyway! i almost cried.
and then we went to bed, and woke up/packed/said our goodbyes, and left for home. :( nate and i rode back separately, and although i didn't tell him, i was kind of sad. i get too used to him being around and like having him near too much, i'm afraid. i found myself checking my phone a lot today, just in case he had tried calling, but he didn't. either he's still upset with me or he and lee were having a ball and he dismissed me for a while. *sad smile* i told him i might be headed his way tomorrow to hang out, but now it looks as though we'll be spending the day at my grandmother's house. *sigh* better charge up the gameboy and the phone and find a good book to read. there's never anything else to do over there and i'm always uncomfortable as it is, being a bit of a black sheep with them.
i'm always so sad leaving campouts like that! even though the beds weren't very comfortable and it was wet and cold, i'm kind of tempted to just wear my cloak and garb around for a few days. i almost want to dismantle my bed and sleep on the ground on my mattress with my cloak over me. that must be how larien would feel if the crusade ever left her behind. i wonder, gods willing we actually come out on top of this whole meagamarth thing, if she's going to miss it...makes me think athron's bear theory has a ring of truth to it, after all. ;)
night folks.