[Hellsgate] Zombie Tourney

[Chris Zakes]

At 09:08 AM 10/24/2012, you wrote:

>Awesome I am totally going! :D Will we be wearing garb for this? Or
>Halloween costumes? Haha

>~Martha Gilbert


Pretty much your choice. Since it's a weekday evening, some folks 
come directly from work and wear mundane clothes. Others have time to 
change into SCA clothes. Since it's a just-for-fun event, Halloween 
costumes--especially anything zombie-related--should be fine, too.


A bit of history and information about the Bryn Gwlad Zombie Tourney:

For the past few years, Bryn Gwlad has held a Zombie Tourney at the 
Fighter Practice before Halloween. It was started after Sir Gaston 
ran across a line in a period fealty oath, saying "our liege man, 
against every creature, living or dead..." Actually it's two 
tournies, one for the armored folks, one for the rapier folks.

The tournament is a "snowball" format: in the first round, the 
fighters will be paired up like usual; A and B fight, and, say, B 
loses. He's now a zombie, and A's minion. In the next round A and B 
will fight C and D. The winning team captain now has *three* zombie 
minions, and they go on to face other teams of four in the next 
round. This continues until there is an overall winner.

The basic rules:

1. Humans fight as normal. Zombies can be wounded/dismembered by 
blows to the arm or leg, but can only be killed by a blow to the head.

2. Zombies are not the brightest creatures--they tend to follow 
orders mindlessly.

3. These are "slow" zombies--they shamble and lurch around, not move 
at full combat speed.

4. Zombies are typically armed with some kind of blunt instrument: 
single sword or mace on the armored field, and boffers on the rapier field.

5. Double kills will be refought until there is a clear winner--we 
don't want rogue zombies terrorizing the neighborhood.

Presuming there are enough boffers, the armored and rapier tourneys 
will culminate in a grand, boffer-only melee for all the fighters. 
(So if you've got boffer weapons, bring them out.)

         -Tivar Moondragon