Fall
Tourney -- Reislingshire
October 25-26, 1975
| Held at Sycamore Campsite #1, Trimmer Lake Campground, East of Fresno. Iain of Cawdor was the autocrat. Lists were held for Champion of the Shire. There was a Libelous and Satirical Poetry Contest, an on-the-spot, freehand drawing contest on a martial theme, an Orc shoot, a team situation attack and defense competition, a fighting quest featuring Boggies, an Ogre, a two-headed monster, a couple of used maidens and a couple of dark knights, and the Rieslingshire version of Who Do You Trust. |
Annotations:
“I seem to have mixed the spring and fall events at Trimmer Lake
together in my muddled memories. In my earlier message about the event
with the fighting quest I recalled ...
“Then on Sunday there was a cross between an obstacle course and
a time and distance road rally, with a sort of D&D meets Monty Python
flavor to the human-played obstacles. Ones that I remember included a
troll (Craig of the Chambers), a two-headed monster/warrior (I forget
who played him/them), a boulder throwing ogre (Olaf of course) and the
Black Knight ("None Shall Pass" quoth Douglas). Unless I'm deluding
myself I had the combined lowest course time and penalty score, primarily
because I wasn't carrying a sword and shield and didn't feel compelled
to fight when the rules allowed avoidance. (That's how I got past Olaf,
you can't block a boulder with a spear so I just dodged and ran, ditto
the two headed monster - I stuck the glaive shaft between their legs,
ran widdershins and dumped them on their keisters then scooted out of
Dodge). The other amusing aspect of the course was that many combatants
were followed along it by their gallery of friends and groupies, just
like Arnie's Army.
“I also remember playing roving referee after I had run the course
and witnessing Olaf scoring a perfect free-throw on Terrence of Halliday's
very pointy bascinet "Swish! Nothing but point!"
“The Orc shoot was a very challenging cross-country broken-terrain
archery contest. I recall that the Golden Rivers contingent performed
quite well and vaguely recall having the top score for the day myself
(doubtless just my swollen ego).” – Kevin Peregrynne
“For Kevin’s information, the two-headed monster was played
by myself and Detrich von Vinebergen (a lefty).” – Rand
of Dunbar
Description
of this event, © Copyright 1980 by William R. Keyes (Wilhelm von
Schlüssel)
This is from The History of the West Kingdom, Volume 1 (the only volume
produced). When reading this text, please keep in mind the following disclaimer:
Disclaimer: This history may have errors in it, as much of the detail is “remembered” history, or as one of the cover pages of the original type-written manuscript states “The material within is derived from the information printed in The Crown Prints and in The Page, and from the memories of the participants.” The original document was typed on onion-skin paper, with hand-written notes (often in the margins). All attempts have been made to reconcile the notes with the original document.
Annotations, when they are added, are from The Annotated History of the West, Volume 1, which is the same text as Master Wilhelm's mentioned above, with commentary from members of the SCA who were active at the time of the event, and are added to help clarify questions and expand on what happened and why. This volume is copyright © Ken Mayer (Hirsch von Henford). Caid thanks Master Hirsch for his kind permission to use data directly from the West Kingdom Site.
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