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Main => The Campaign => Topic started by: Sir Wolf on 2010-07-18, 02:33:40
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http://www.freewebs.com/blackknightsfightgroup/
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Oh my GOSH!!! The Hospitallers!!!
I should look into joining these wonderful folk!
Edit: NVM... they are way out of state. :(
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If I ever make it out to St. Louis, I'll have to check'm out. They're Hospitaliers too...
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STL Ren faire is my home faire, and I've seen these guys in action a few times. Very cool, well choreographed, and fast! I would looove to join them, but my screwy work schedule would make that kind of commitment impossible :(.
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Man, I'd love just to do it a few times...I say I'm too old for anything overly organized that requires significant chunks of time, but that just looks like it'd be a blast!
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I shouldn't say they require huge chunks of time, it's just the days they meet, and the days they perform absolutely don't work for me (I cannot stress how much I hate working Saturdays!!). At the faire, they usually have an encampment where they have living history going on, and then they do live steel demonstrations throughout the day. Very educational and very entertaining.
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Who does work on Saturdays? LOL
If you do, Red Knight, then my condolences to you good sir!
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I could've been a condender! :'(
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Maybe I should join, but my outfit is a Templar knight outfit, could easily just order myself a Hospitaller surcoat and work it from there.
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do ittttttttttttt. do ittttttttttttttttt!
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You'll have to move to Missouri. Of course, then you could borrow my shield press!
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Would I HAVE to move to Missouri in order to use your shield press, Red Knight? lol
Conall do it...I've been flirting with the idea of doing a Hospitalier as well since I've yet to see one out...plenty of Crusaders and Templars but I've not seen a Hospitalier. Yet.
GDFB sells one that looks really nice, but if its all wool forget it. I got their Templar stuff last winter and it was unbelievably thick and heavy! Great for winter wars I guess...but definitely not for me.
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I've seen Hospitallers out at the renfaires from time to time. They're definitely few and far between compared to Templars. The Teutonic knights are also infrequent from what I've seen.
I think the Highland Anvil shop at MDRF (tiny little shop, easy to miss, and the only plate armorer on site, though rarely with armor for sale since it typically sells as soon as he puts it out) has some Hospitaller surcoats for sale. They might be the GDFB ones, I didn't look closely enough to see.
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Hmm...well Sir Brian was the first Teuton I've seen and I can't recall seeing any Hospitaliers previously but it could just be that they weren't there when I was. I think I'm slowly outgrowing my Crusader self and moving further toward the future, so to speak. I'm not at the point where I'm researching my coat of arms for crafting a suitable surcoat, banner and shield...but I'm getting there, I think.
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Would I HAVE to move to Missouri in order to use your shield press, Red Knight? lol
Nah! I'll just ship it to you. You want same day air, right? ;)
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Nah! I'll just ship it to you. You want same day air, right? ;)
Free shipping? :)
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heck I'll take one then! ;)
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Yea, me too...or I'll just borrow his and pay to ship it back! I figure I only need 3 more shields, blanks...then paint them to suit later on.
LOL - I'm only sayin that cuz I know he won't ship that shield press to me, just like I know I won't paint these shields myself.
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hehehe
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If I lived anywhere near you guys, I'd just pack the press into my trunk and meet you at the MDRF. Everyone could use it during the faire season, and just give it back to me the last weekend. An added bonus for me: Armouring up during a Maryland October, instead of a Missouri June :'(.
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Red Knight, all jokes aside, we should plan that. Armor is much more pleasant and accomodating in the cooler months- but some of us do brave the VARF during July and that can be just as brutal I would think. I went. Once. lol
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VARF has pushed their season a little earlier due to the heat now. It's running mostly in May and June now, but yes, those June days can get pretty brutal out there at times. I usually aim to armor up down there, and that's sometimes hard to do.
MDRF often has some brutal days in the early part of the season, and particularly the opening week as it's in August. We've been very lucky this year, with pleasant weather most weekends and the opportunity to wear armor almost the entire time. In fact, I've worn some amount of armor much more frequently than ever before, only wearing other garb on a couple of days.
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I have been toying with the idea of just going in garb, no armor- but the idea seems foreign to me. If its real hot, I'll go with just the maille and surcoat, but if its like what I'm expecting this weekend (or the weekend I met you guys) then I'm going with the full harness. Well, can't do much about the greaves, no strap still. Suppose I could just lash it to my lower leg, no? lol
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MDRF often has some brutal days in the early part of the season, and particularly the opening week as it's in August. We've been very lucky this year, with pleasant weather most weekends and the opportunity to wear armor almost the entire time. In fact, I've worn some amount of armor much more frequently than ever before, only wearing other garb on a couple of days.
I can attest to that since this was the third season I wore armor on opening weekend! ;)
They really need to switch kids weekend at MDRF to some time in September! :(
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Why in September?
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Kid's weekend is usually opening weekend, so that's a weekend that we want to be in armor, but it's usually too hot. The first time I ever wore armor to MDRF, I did so on opening day. It was one of these days with something like 100 degrees and 75% humidity. I only lasted about 45 minutes before I ripped it all off, and ended up sick for the rest of the day due to dehydration in that first hour. I learned my lesson about setting limits for myself.
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Got you...I gotta tell ya, having your own water supply does make a difference. I found that getting a period kostrel would cost over $100...for what amounts to a leather and pitch water bottle. In looking around, I came across a link to a dude ranch out west who made and sold leather canteens (differing sizes, I went with a 16 oz I think, or was it 32?)with food-grade plastic bladders inside. Worked out GREAT- I tossed it in the freezer an hour before we left and it stayed relatively cold for a long while. $30.
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Red Knight, all jokes aside, we should plan that. Armor is much more pleasant and accomodating in the cooler months- but some of us do brave the VARF during July and that can be just as brutal I would think. I went. Once. lol
I guess it's a dry heat in Jerusalem, Crusader? ;)
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Yes, much more agreeable than, say, the damp heat that is Lake Anna. ;)
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If the heat doesn't get you the 3 eyed fish will.
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You know you're gonna have to explain that one, Ancelyn. lol
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Well, one half of Lake Anna is separated from the other half by a dam. That side serves as the cooling water for the Lake anna Nuclear Power Station. Hence the 3 eyed fish. :-D
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LOL
I wasn't sure...I'm familiar with the Lake Anna station having worked with a nuclear service org that tested and refitted steam generator tubing but its been a while since I caught a leak joke like that. lol