[Bryn-gwlad] Archery and the Moustache War

[Marlin Stout]

caladin wrote:

>Didnt' one of the archers (iolo?) also manage to lodge a combat bolt 
>directly in some young lad's
>bar visor, and get ti stuck as if it had penatrated. and scaring the lad 
>so much that he fell over backwards
>as if truely poleaxed dead... and thus scaring the said archer to great 
>extreems.
>
>Cal-
>

I don't know about the MW, but at Gothic VII I lodged a bolt in Ferghus 
McKenna's chest. I had borrowed some of Ld Jehan's baldar-blunted bolts 
and the Barony's crossbow for my first foray into combat archery, and 
Ferghus and I ended up on opposite sides of a bridge battle. One of my 
shots hit him dead in the chest, and the Baldar blunt got stuck under 
his gorget flap and the top of his kidney belt. We both got a good laugh 
out of it, it was a one-in-a-million shot, and I just wish I'd had a 
camera with me.

One of the marshals was less amused. He looked over at Ferghus to see 
what the fuss was about and saw 15" of shaft and feathers sticking out 
of his chest, and the concept of 'crossbow bolt' didn't spring to mind; 
he apparently thought for a moment it was a longbow arrow, and got a bit 
concerned about where the other 13" went....

Charles