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Re: New helmet and Era.
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
Date: 
Tue, 28 Dec 1999 14:08:19 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, James Brown writes:
In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Dave Schuler writes:
Then you're in for a real treat, if you can ever make it to Pennsic!  A
very conservative estimate puts the main field battle at about 2000
participants--very possibly upward of 3500 some years.  It's probably the
epitome of geekness, but despite (because of?) this, I love it anyway!
Wholly unlike any mundane experience except perhaps being in a riot, and
that's no fun at all.

Yup!  It's a rush like no other.  How long have you/did you fight?

  I've been fighting on-and-off since 92, and I've been to 5 Pennsics in that
time.  In small melees I opt for greatsword (more like mediocre or slightly-
above-average-sword), but in mass combat I fall back on sword & board.  I
would say of my fighting ability that I've never embarrassed myself, but I'm
not really a master-at-arms, either.
  How long have you been fighting?

     Dave!



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  Re: New helmet and Era.
 
(...) Only for about a year, but I haven't really embarrased myself (since the first war - ouch!). We've got a fairly solid local core of fighters, a couple of whom are *really* good, and (until I screwed up my knee) I was attending a weekly (...) (25 years ago, 28-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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  Re: New helmet and Era.
 
(...) Yup! It's a rush like no other. How long have you/did you fight? (...) That's a lot of steel. And just in helmets - when you consider that most of the heavies out there also have steel knees, well... And I'm not even going to go into how many (...) (25 years ago, 28-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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