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A Sheep

15th Century out, 19th Century in.

This week I got rid of a bit of Medieval gear, none of my costume just weapons and armour, this includes 5 polearm's including Katherine my pole mace which I made myself while having welding lessons and I'm already kinda of regretting selling it. I also got rid of 3 swords and a sword blade, remarkably that still leaves me my best sword and a very good two handed axe which is extremely light to use. I also got rid of my weighty Milanese arm armour, my fully enclosed leg armour, a breast and back plate that looks like it had been through several wars, and a pair of steel gauntlets, so all the armour I have left is my padded jack, my visored English style great Bascinet 14C, a very rusty 15C sallet and a 12C open face great helm, I call my crusader helm.

Picture of 4 of my polearms.

So I'm feeling a little de-cluttered and clad to be rid in the most part since I have not fought in a battle for about 5 years and not fought in full armour for about 12 years I can't see the point in keeping it, especially since the only reenactment I now do if any is the odd murder mysteries and living history Henry the VIII court costume so don't need fighting the kit.

Other than that I spent the weekend visiting car boots & charity shop looking for tat to turn into steam punk tat and found nothing, so I visited my favorite scrap metal / antiques shop in Wirksworth where I found a few bits and spent nearly £ 12 on 3 items, £8 of which was spent on something called a Viltalator see the picture below I couldn't resist, hardly needs jazzing up to use in a steam punk Universe. The Vitalator is 19C electric shock therapy machine, I just need to plug it in and find a volunteer ....muhaahar, although it needs a modern plug with square not round pins and no idea if it works, since on the internet in good condition which this is not, they sell for a £100 or so.

A Vitalator

I also finished the 1st of my gadgets for the Science of Murder Ascendancy Larp event, but can't put pictures here since I want the gadgets to be a surprise for the players.

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This rabbit is an escapee, sitting outside his cage nibbling grass.

Two weekends of Larp

The last 2 weekends have been spend larping with Ascendancy.

The 1st weekend was spent running up and down Shining Cliffs steep hills at the end of a very hot humid week and so was very draining.

Having officially handed in my player status and joined the referee team full time meant I could play certain characters to their full potential which was great.

Photos of the player group.


This event was small group event, a precursor to next event and introduced 3 new players with starting characters to larp, but also contained several very experience players with powerful characters, no healers which made it difficult to balance, but it turned out OK, they all survived and had a good time.

This is the crew for the event doing what we do best wait for the players.



The 2nd weekend was at Murton Park, less running around, but a very open plot which gave the players chance to go in many directions and the crew chance to drop bits of personal plot in here and there, the event ended earlier than expected when the players jumped the refs with a group side plot they all decided to go on that ultimately ended with in character choices that split the player base into 3, each group with legitimate claim to their own morale high ground.

Me has a tribal type.


My fellow tribesmen.


Me getting shot.


DaveP did a excellent job with makeup at the weekend, I didn't get many photos since I was very busy but here's a couple of spirit Totems Dave created.

Mink.


Toad.


Having finished early we still only managed to get back to my house for five where pizza was consumed.

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Not often you get chance to take a photo of a lady in a lake.

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Lichens marks

Cottage mice battles

This weekend I spent Saturday battling in a warm Chimera shop, although its been worse and I expect this week it will be worse with all the fuss the media are making about 28 degrees, its not like southern Europe where you get upto 40 degrees, or death valley where you get up into 50's although the name death valley says a lot.

The battle itself involved Sam and Jock fighting AndyL and loosing, probably because Jocks plan A went down the toilet through bad luck and they had no plan B, although I would say they had a very difficult job to do. I used 50 or so newly painted chaos warriors in the battle but I have no pictures since I didn't take my camera to the shop and now they are packed away.

Sunday I spent finishing my friend website for their holiday cottage, well getting to a stage they can check it, make comments, corrections, addition etc. So I spent a good few hours of my afternoon sitting at my computer screen, that's after nipping to PCworld for a new mouse. It really hard to find basic mouse, and they all seemed to be wireless, in the end I succumbed to a wireless one since the basic ones just didn't feel right.