Archery Mea Culpa

[jamesq]

Chatting with some of the other archers yesterday at practice I mentioned the siege archery tournament held at T&A War. It was pointed out to me that one of the basic rules of archery is that no arrow gets fired on the range without being inspected and this simply wasn't possible under the circumstances of the contest. In fact, building arrows out of junk parts and firing them under timed conditions is flat out dangerous.

It would be like dumping a pile of plastic buckets, duct tape, rope and random chunks of re-bar onto the ground and telling the two unarmoured heavy fighters that the first one who could armour up using the pile and swat the other would win.

As a senior archery marshal I should have known that. Damn. Next time I'll call them on it. I was too focused on the novelty of it, because it was a cool idea. So are roman candle codpieces, but that doesn't make it a smart idea.

Comments

[ishansonofbrand.livejournal.com]

hhhmmmmm roman candle codpiece... I think I might have to explore that further

[evilscientist.livejournal.com]

>It would be like dumping a pile of plastic buckets, duct tape, rope and random
>chunks of rebar onto the ground and telling the two unarmoured heavy fighters
>that the first one who could armour up using the pile and swat the other would win.

Though who among us wouldn't pay money to see that....

[oblivions.livejournal.com]

seconded

[ya-inga.livejournal.com]

THIRDED!

[jamesq]

Note to self: If you ever find yourself in this contest, make the helmet first.

[ya-inga.livejournal.com]

WORD

[ya-inga.livejournal.com]

Roman Candle Codpiece? BEST idea ever : )

[jamesq]

There's still time for you to make this happen! Give the order now and light the fuse next Saturday during court!

[ya-inga.livejournal.com]

EVIL! *points finger*

also? you slay me : )