Yesterday, Chow and I packed up a few things and went to the library for a while. We were there for the library's Rennaisance Faire, which was half fantasy (there was one librarian in wizard robes complete with gold stars and moons) and half medievaloid SCA. I was the marshal and the herald for fighting - I wound up heralding for the fencers as ( Read more... )

Today, N. went over to syalda's place to play Mario Kart Wii and other games, and Chow and I went to Attilium for a demo. From my point of view as marshal, it went quite well - everyone was legal, everyone knew what they were doing and had been fighting for a while, and there were plenty of fighters to rotate through - 3 is an acceptable number for a ( Read more... )

Fun demo - Chow and I did the armour petting zoo along with a new-to-the-area knight named Chad (never did find out if that's his modern or SCA name) who likes purple a lot. Nice guy. We did a fighting demo after that for a while, and I heralded and marshaled it. Fun stuff, to tease the kids a bit and make 'em say 'ewww' (about the piece of ( Read more... )

Yesterday we all packed up and went down to Camp Durant (or as Chow keeps saying, Camp Dude-ranch) for James' demo. It was actually a very relaxing day for a demo. We're usually totally trashed after the average demo, because you're "on" all the time. But yesterday was different. It was a training day for the Boy Scout troop leaders ( ( Read more... )