November Bash is filled with ghastly ghouls, ghosts and the undead.
The undead approaches. We must beware and be ever vigilant, as we know they come near Samhain!
Dress in your spookiest garb, or a period rendition of a creature of the night.
Arts and Sciences competition theme is any concepts of death, afterlife, and/or undeath, any and all cultures welcome, any and all mediums welcome, be creative (documentation is nice if possible).
Potluck picnic lunch is a Spookchuterie and I encourage all populace to bring their favourite spooky dishes and drinks to share. If you don’t have time to painstakingly craft your potions, concoctions, salume, or gustatory, to ward off the army of darkness, store bought is fine.
The tournaments are to be a Zombie tournament filled with fighting, silliness and maybe extra limbs.
The tournament in the first round, the fighters will be paired up like usual; A and B fight, and, say, B loses. He becomes a zombie, and is now 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 from their Zombie Master explicitly, but 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 field. (maybe boffer or random foam limbs)
5. Double kills will be refought until there is a clear winner–we don’t want rogue zombies terrorizing the neighbourhood.
Presuming we have enough boffers (soft, non-rigid items), the armoured and rapier tourneys will culminate in a grand, boffer-only melee for all the fighters. (If you’ve got boffer weapons, bring them out.)
Populace will have a boffer tourney at the end to help K*ll all the zombies, if people are willing.
Price
Members free, non-member $10 insurance
Contact
Steward: Nicolette de Coulours
Bookings not required.
Picture taken from La Danse macabre. Paris, Guy Marchant, 1486. See Wikimedia Commons-
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Danse_Macabre_-_Guyot_Marchand9_(Abbot_and_Bailiff).jpg
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