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Jul. 1st, 2009
Friday morning I got up bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and drove out to the second annual Tir Righ/Avacal war. It was a more-or-less uneventful drive from Calgary to the site. I stopped off in Banff for breakfast and joined the Fimlandians (Finlandians? Fine Lames? Luxury-yachtians? The group that includes ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
minyata, cat_cetera and falashad) for lunch in Revelstoke. Being a somewhat more aggresive driver then the rest of them, I made it up to the site about an hour before them and proceeded to set up my own camp. I'm about done with my present small tent. Too many creeky old-man mornings spent crawling in and out of the tent and getting dressed on my knees. I need a small, easy to set up/take down tent that's also tall with a large enterance.
Anyway, thigns went quickly when the others arrived. Many hands and all that. We had supper at the local restaurant, which featured a decent $10 chicken caesar that they charged $16 for.
Saturday was the war. I still don't have proper armour so I wasn't participating. Instead I went to help out with and compete at archery. I was the only Montengarde archer there. This makes this the first and so far only archery competition I've been in that didn't have at least one other person from Montengarde in it. That includes Estrella (which also featuredthekillerb69 and conejita_diabla) and the non-SCA ATAA championships (featuring garething). Instead I was the outsider of an archery clique made up of the (I guess) the Lion's Gate archers. Jeebus, I hope we're not as intimidating as they are.
The competition had three parts. First was an arrow-elimination shoot which I (and Deicyn) was the last Avacalian archers to be eliminated. Three Tir Righ archers remained. 1/3 point to Tir Righ.
The next part was the "seige archery" competition. You had to construct arrows from junk and shoot them at the target. My first arrow hit the black, the second missed the target (it misfired because of the homemade nocks) and I didn't get the third one finished before the contest ended. Note that I was the only Avacalian who competed in this part.
The guy who did win both competitions? Probably the best shot in An Tir. Also the only royal round score of 140 I've ever heard of. For you Avacalians out there, that's about 15 points higher then Ellias Silver's best score. Damn. 1/3 point to Tir Righ.
The third part was a combat shoot and I didn't have my combat arrows so I didn't take part. The whole exercise would have been humbling and depression-inducing except I think I shot pretty good, just not as good as the machine.
Avacal also lost the rapier competition, owing to us being outnumbered two-to-one. That's even with the evening factor of all the Kingdom-Core-rapier-fighters-with-Avacalian-girlfriends helping out.
Bardic went to Avacal (in a squeaker) due to our own Bjar the Blue. A&S went to Tir Righ, though we were robbed andminyata and cat_cetera's hat should have won in my humble non-A&S opinion.
And yet Avacal won the war. That can only mean that we kicked some serious ass in the actual heavy armoured war! We bitch about those Borealan Vikings when they're beating Montengarde like a harp seal, but they sure are handy to have around when you're fighting someone else.
Court was kind of fun. Lots of people I didn't know got awards, but there was some fun court schtick from Hjalti, who's gaining stage presense by leaps and bounds. We took Tir Righ's stuff!
Afterward was the party. The theme was luau, which is always fun if you want to get leid as much as I do - and by that I, of course, mean visit Hawaii.
I drank lots, had some weird conversations (including one with VP, which was kind of surreal since we don't like each other. Oh well, here's to being civil), and generally had a good time.
Sunday morning we broke camp, I sent a bunch of my junk home withminyata's van and drove out to the Soggy City By the Sea.
It was a good time, and my stupid brain behaved. Thanks go out to the 20 or so Montengardians that attended. I was going to list everyone, but it would take too long to figure out what all their LJ handles were.
minyata, cat_cetera and falashad) for lunch in Revelstoke. Being a somewhat more aggresive driver then the rest of them, I made it up to the site about an hour before them and proceeded to set up my own camp. I'm about done with my present small tent. Too many creeky old-man mornings spent crawling in and out of the tent and getting dressed on my knees. I need a small, easy to set up/take down tent that's also tall with a large enterance.Anyway, thigns went quickly when the others arrived. Many hands and all that. We had supper at the local restaurant, which featured a decent $10 chicken caesar that they charged $16 for.
Saturday was the war. I still don't have proper armour so I wasn't participating. Instead I went to help out with and compete at archery. I was the only Montengarde archer there. This makes this the first and so far only archery competition I've been in that didn't have at least one other person from Montengarde in it. That includes Estrella (which also featured
thekillerb69 and conejita_diabla) and the non-SCA ATAA championships (featuring garething). Instead I was the outsider of an archery clique made up of the (I guess) the Lion's Gate archers. Jeebus, I hope we're not as intimidating as they are.The competition had three parts. First was an arrow-elimination shoot which I (and Deicyn) was the last Avacalian archers to be eliminated. Three Tir Righ archers remained. 1/3 point to Tir Righ.
The next part was the "seige archery" competition. You had to construct arrows from junk and shoot them at the target. My first arrow hit the black, the second missed the target (it misfired because of the homemade nocks) and I didn't get the third one finished before the contest ended. Note that I was the only Avacalian who competed in this part.
The guy who did win both competitions? Probably the best shot in An Tir. Also the only royal round score of 140 I've ever heard of. For you Avacalians out there, that's about 15 points higher then Ellias Silver's best score. Damn. 1/3 point to Tir Righ.
The third part was a combat shoot and I didn't have my combat arrows so I didn't take part. The whole exercise would have been humbling and depression-inducing except I think I shot pretty good, just not as good as the machine.
Avacal also lost the rapier competition, owing to us being outnumbered two-to-one. That's even with the evening factor of all the Kingdom-Core-rapier-fighters-with-Avacalian-girlfriends helping out.
Bardic went to Avacal (in a squeaker) due to our own Bjar the Blue. A&S went to Tir Righ, though we were robbed and
minyata and cat_cetera's hat should have won in my humble non-A&S opinion.And yet Avacal won the war. That can only mean that we kicked some serious ass in the actual heavy armoured war! We bitch about those Borealan Vikings when they're beating Montengarde like a harp seal, but they sure are handy to have around when you're fighting someone else.
Court was kind of fun. Lots of people I didn't know got awards, but there was some fun court schtick from Hjalti, who's gaining stage presense by leaps and bounds. We took Tir Righ's stuff!
Afterward was the party. The theme was luau, which is always fun if you want to get leid as much as I do - and by that I, of course, mean visit Hawaii.
I drank lots, had some weird conversations (including one with VP, which was kind of surreal since we don't like each other. Oh well, here's to being civil), and generally had a good time.
Sunday morning we broke camp, I sent a bunch of my junk home with
minyata's van and drove out to the Soggy City By the Sea.It was a good time, and my stupid brain behaved. Thanks go out to the 20 or so Montengardians that attended. I was going to list everyone, but it would take too long to figure out what all their LJ handles were.
Unexpected Flirting.
Jul. 1st, 2009 02:04 pmThe less said about the drive from Kamloops to Vancouver the better. I do have one thing to say though. To the cop who pulled the guy over for speeding on highway 1 just outside Langley: Ticketing one guy for doing 150kph is all well and good, but did you have to block half the lanes so that 1000+ other vehicles had to drop their speed down to 30 while backing up traffic over 50 km back? That strikes me as penny-wise and pound-foolish.
Got into UBC and got my tiny little room with the shitty mattress. I may have to hit a thrift store and grab a quilt to lay on. Hmm - there's one about two blocks from the comic shop.
I was pretty wasted on Sunday night so I didn't really do anything other then wander and grab some supper. Monday I went window shopping, which lead me to a wonderful encounter at the Love Nest
( Possibly TMI, but fun nonetheless )
After that little adventure, I met up withbognaustroglum, hadriel and K. We wandered around Metrotown Mall for awhile, then went to see movies. They saw Up. I saw Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. I think that watching Up a second time would have been more entertaining. Transformers 2 did have lots of pretty explosions and Megan Fox being all cheesecakey, so it's not like my time was wasted.
Got into UBC and got my tiny little room with the shitty mattress. I may have to hit a thrift store and grab a quilt to lay on. Hmm - there's one about two blocks from the comic shop.
I was pretty wasted on Sunday night so I didn't really do anything other then wander and grab some supper. Monday I went window shopping, which lead me to a wonderful encounter at the Love Nest
( Possibly TMI, but fun nonetheless )
After that little adventure, I met up with
bognaustroglum, hadriel and K. We wandered around Metrotown Mall for awhile, then went to see movies. They saw Up. I saw Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. I think that watching Up a second time would have been more entertaining. Transformers 2 did have lots of pretty explosions and Megan Fox being all cheesecakey, so it's not like my time was wasted.