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Sir Nate:

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--- Quote from: Sir Nate on 2014-01-16, 23:49:12 ---What is a cod piece exactly?

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Let's just say that it protects the family jewels. ;)

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Ah Ok, I do remember seeing a picture of Henry the 8ths armor and There was a, David bowie from labyrinth bulge. Smith must had to use a whole ingot. Lmao

Sir Douglas:

--- Quote from: Sir Nate on 2014-01-17, 02:19:55 ---
Ah Ok, I do remember seeing a picture of Henry the 8ths armor and There was a, David bowie from labyrinth bulge. Smith must had to use a whole ingot. Lmao

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It's funny how many times I've heard a codpiece being described as "What David Bowie wore in Labyrinth". Apparently, that's a common explanation.

Regarding Living History and DoK in particular, what's the level of participation required at such events? My mom is showing some interest in participating, but I've having a hard time explaining to her that it's not like a RenFest. I think she has the idea that she's just going to dress up, walk around, and wave at people, but I was under the impression that there's more patron-to-reenactor interaction/education than what you'd get from just dressing up at a RenFest. And that you're still in "History Mode" even after all the patrons have gone...basically living like a medieval person for a few days. I mean, she's not lacking in the medieval history department or anything, I just think she has the wrong impression of what Living History is about. (I have managed to explain to her the importance of historically-accurate fabrics, however.)

Sir Edward:

--- Quote from: DouglasTheYounger on 2014-01-18, 01:02:12 ---Regarding Living History and DoK in particular, what's the level of participation required at such events? My mom is showing some interest in participating, but I've having a hard time explaining to her that it's not like a RenFest. I think she has the idea that she's just going to dress up, walk around, and wave at people, but I was under the impression that there's more patron-to-reenactor interaction/education than what you'd get from just dressing up at a RenFest. And that you're still in "History Mode" even after all the patrons have gone...basically living like a medieval person for a few days. I mean, she's not lacking in the medieval history department or anything, I just think she has the wrong impression of what Living History is about. (I have managed to explain to her the importance of historically-accurate fabrics, however.)

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Yeah, it can be hard to explain to people who aren't familiar with it already. Basically the event is open to the public during "business" hours, during which time you need to be authentic as possible, and highly interactive with visitors in an educational role.

After hours, it's a little more relaxed, but people still want to "enjoy the magic" and stay as historical as possible, but conversations will naturally drift to a wide range of modern topics. So it's not like you're "staying in character" after hours, and no one got mad at us for using flashlights in and around our tents (briefly). ;)  But people will get mad if they're having a "magic moment" and you ruin it. :)


Sir Douglas:
Yeah, I've never done it myself and I'm trying to explain it to her. It's not exactly the smoothest operation. ;) I hate feeling like such a noob, but I guess you can't get experience without being a noob first....

Sir Wolf:
ok figure this.
your at an event. you are trying to look/feel/smell as period as you can. your group is based on 1 fixed point in time. you can only have armour, weapons, clothing from that time frame and place or that could have been imported to you. you must have a job/station to explain why you are there. your group has certain codes, standards, rules as far as who you can be and what you have to wear. to bring something new into the group you have to have say 3 sources for that 1 point in time in that one part of one country. it can get really over tedious sometimes.

i have done everything from greek to ww2 and everything in between.  nothing beats sleeping out under the stars, or eating a hot breakfast cooked over a fire. the feeling of being worn out after just one day and a night and thinking.. WOW how did they do it for a lifetime?

i have to say i love the age of black powder now the most. we have pants hahaha. sleeping in a fox hole or in a trench. the smell of powder and gas in your nose. freezing or sweating to death in wools... I'm a loon i think sometimes.

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