[Hellsgate] Zombie Tourney
Chris Zakes
dontivar at gmail.com
Wed Oct 24 11:23:35 PDT 2012
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
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