[Ansteorra] Mud Star (was First Event)

[Michael Silverhands]

On Sep 25, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Kaitlyn Mckenna wrote:

> The event with Hillary's car was Five Star..also known as Mud Star.
> The fighters had a lovely time of fighting in the woods, then comeing
> out to dump the water out of their armor.
> Court was held in the mud. Everything was in the mud. We gave up early
> on trying to stay dry or clean.
>
> --kaitlyn
>

Thanks for the memory jog, Kaitlyn. :-)

I had a nagging suspicion that I had mixed up two events... but, hey,  
when you've been to one event with water sheeting across the list  
field in a river 4" deep, you've been to them all. ;-)

I remember the encampment area... those whose tents happened (by  
chance) to have been set up facing away from the direction of flow  
fared considerably better than those whose tent faced towards it. :-(

Is that the event where Jenny was found in her tent, on an air  
mattress, floating in about 6" of water... *sound asleep*?

I remember the woods battles... I was marshaling... there was some  
sort of quest... you had to go into the woods, find a particular  
person (non-combatant), talk to them, and find out what to do next.  
(Get a flag from them? Something like that? I don't remember.) But  
you couldn't see more than about 5-10' in the woods due to the  
weather (raining hard, overcast, etc.). Consequently, many fighters  
never did find the quest-keeper. I remember that the quest-keeper was  
supposed to be sort of hiding, but they finally started yelling "Hey!  
You! Yeah, you! Come over here!" and things like that, to help the  
fighters echo-locate them when all else failed. *chuckle*

I remember that several of the fighters just resorted to "pick up  
fights" in the woods out of boredom, since they had spent maybe an  
hour looking for the quest-keeper and gotten nothing but soaked to  
the skin... unless a friendly marshal pointed them in the right  
direction. :-P

I remember them straggling back out of the woods in ones and twos,  
probably looking forward to changing into something warm and dry...  
and the look on their faces when they saw their encampment. :-(

Am I remembering the right event?

Michael