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Re: Renfaire weekends, 2013
« Reply #15 on: 2013-05-17, 19:57:55 »
Reminds me of my friends and I airsofting... we always, always sacrifice our bodies to protect our weapons!  ;D just don't hurt the pretty helmet!

Always keep a spare head bucket handy. :)
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Re: Renfaire weekends, 2013
« Reply #16 on: 2013-05-18, 16:05:40 »

Well tomorrow (sunday the 19th), I'll probably run a little late getting to VARF. I may get there closer to lunch time. I expect tonight to be a late night, with Squire Jason's bachelor party. :)
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Re: Renfaire weekends, 2013
« Reply #17 on: 2013-05-18, 16:10:54 »
give him our best!!!!! and tell him there's still time to get outta this deal of marriage! lol

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Re: Renfaire weekends, 2013
« Reply #18 on: 2013-05-18, 21:57:32 »
give him our best!!!!! and tell him there's still time to get outta this deal of marriage! lol

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Re: Renfaire weekends, 2013
« Reply #19 on: 2013-05-19, 01:38:05 »
I will hopefully be able to make MDRF every other weekend or so. And really hope to spend more days with you knights therein....

I've never been to VARF, but from the photos I've seen it is even more 'Renaissancy' than MDRF. I would really seem out of place (and time) as an intolerant, 12th-century Templar ;D Maryland is do-able just because there are so many more people.
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Re: Renfaire weekends, 2013
« Reply #20 on: 2013-05-19, 02:23:45 »
I'm not sure if the exact time period of VARF is closer to renaissance than MDRF, but the majority of the cast seems to be dressed more in that style. However, don't let that hold you back from attending; last year there was somebody there in a samurai soft kit. And there's lots of people in mundane clothing. Nothing to worry about!
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Re: Renfaire weekends, 2013
« Reply #21 on: 2013-05-19, 07:49:20 »

Oh yeah, as a patron it doesn't really matter. :) But yeah, VARF is set slightly later in the period than MDRF, as it's Queen Elizabeth, versus King Henry VIII.
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Re: Renfaire weekends, 2013
« Reply #22 on: 2013-05-19, 08:33:00 »

Oh yeah, as a patron it doesn't really matter. :) But yeah, VARF is set slightly later in the period than MDRF, as it's Queen Elizabeth, versus King Henry VIII.

Noone will notice if you are spending the majority of time at the tavern. :) :)
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Re: Renfaire weekends, 2013
« Reply #23 on: 2013-05-19, 08:53:32 »

Oh yeah, as a patron it doesn't really matter. :) But yeah, VARF is set slightly later in the period than MDRF, as it's Queen Elizabeth, versus King Henry VIII.

Noone will notice if you are spending the majority of time at the tavern. :) :)

WAIT! There is a renaissance faire there? I thought it was just a quirky beer/wine tent set up in a field for wayward travelers! ;)
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Re: Renfaire weekends, 2013
« Reply #24 on: 2013-05-19, 11:16:44 »

Oh yeah, as a patron it doesn't really matter. :) But yeah, VARF is set slightly later in the period than MDRF, as it's Queen Elizabeth, versus King Henry VIII.

Noone will notice if you are spending the majority of time at the tavern. :) :)

Possibly! I might spend the whole time in the tavern. I could make a sitcom out of it. The crazy Templar who has been there for 400 years and is immortal as long as he doesn't leave the tavern.... I would regale the patrons with how awesome things were - "in my day, when men were MEN. Puffy shirts? Plate armor? HA! In MY day, we wore chain mail, over bare skin! We didn't talk like funny Shakespeare guys either, more like Clint Eastwood: "You gonna convert, punk? Well are ya?"

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Re: Renfaire weekends, 2013
« Reply #25 on: 2013-05-20, 11:24:40 »
Sorry Silvanus. You cannot make some tavern version of 'Highlander'. "There can be only one..."  ;D  8)
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Re: Renfaire weekends, 2013
« Reply #26 on: 2013-05-20, 19:07:24 »
It would be nice to see a brother Templar there...I'm usually the only one, Silvanus.  ;)
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Re: Renfaire weekends, 2013
« Reply #27 on: 2013-05-20, 21:45:02 »


WAIT! There is a renaissance faire there? I thought it was just a quirky beer/wine tent set up in a field for wayward travelers! ;)


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Re: Renfaire weekends, 2013
« Reply #28 on: 2013-05-21, 13:02:30 »
And Congrats to Sir Jason...I am happy for him.
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Re: Renfaire weekends, 2013
« Reply #29 on: 2013-05-26, 23:41:13 »
Doh!  Jeff Wasson was at VARF this weekend....
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