CaptainJackRussell

Well, Hawkyns, come over here and join one of our LARP. No more safety then abolutely needed (foam weapons, sure), no warm barrack (as long as the plot and setting do not require), and our food is absolutely not what we have every day... We slept more then once in tents at 20° below, had Zweiback (a kind of hardtack) and bacon for breakfast, and your wine ration in the evening had to be earned... So and similar is the way we play. but I agree, most LARPs are just like fantasy-touched camping. But there are some players which choose another way. and we have a lot of fun... Fair Winds, Jack

Therefor also may be useful: http://www.aemma.org Fair Winds

Well...it's a difficult topic... I'm a fencer of the Liechtenaur-school (15th century) and also do Jogo Do Pau along to asian martial arts. In Germany, you see the same picture of an old handwriting interpreted in a lot of different ways from group to group. Some seems to be logical, some do not, some simply don't work when trying at a little more speed. We trained without full contact for many years, but the final question about the "does it really work" can only be answered when training at full speed. If you do it "half speed", one will always be a half and a point faster... Therefor we modified the armour used in Jogo Do Pau and now we can do exercises at full speed. We found out how some technics now work fine (not working al lower speed before) and the other way as well. I guess, the best way to find out which kind of fencing is the best for you is to try them al. One by one. Yours is that where you have the most fun. Immer im Vor, Jack

Foxe, Porter and myself, we're german. Maybe, Ahoy is the german hoa hoa? Jack

Feeling quite...strange. Felt in love with a lass' i only know from the phone. Today in the evening I will meet her, but before I have to cross this whole country (800 km)...

Not even just one German???...

It's just this. The shape is almost the same for the last 300 years... What would you change?:)) Jack

They shaved. Certainly. The ones which where rich enough to buy a shaving knife and soap. The rest I guess just let ir grow until too long to work with, then cut it of with...what they had. Otherwise they may have used a quite sharp normal blade, but it will hurt and not repeated so often. I use a shaving knife and normal soap, if I have to shave in role. Fair winds, Jack

Hello, GoF, well, at reenacting/living history you always try to be historically very accurate, and you mostly do actions for an audience using real weapons and need almost no rules. LARP is, as you said, Live Action Roleplay. It can have various settings. You may play a fantasy-setting, a more historical one, some players are roleplaying with a StarWars/ StarTrek-Setting. While playing, there will be no audiance. You really take the role of your chosen Character, have given him a name, a job, a background, and now you let that figure live, which means: You!!! are enjoing, more or less well-guided by gamemasters and following games rules, adventures. If you have to fight, all melee-weapons are made from foam and latex, looking quite real, but are rather harmless. Firearms are sometimes simulated with toyguns and marbles, which you blindly pull out of a bag to see the result of your shot, sometimes (especially for Sci-Fi-settings) they use paintball- or airsoft guns, in our rules firearms do not real harm. They hit automatically, and you should play this like running agains a wall of glass. It's more stylish for a pirate setting. Fact is, if you want to smuggle anything into a british fort to free the prisoners, you indeed have to do. To play your role just for your and your friends joy. Whole wars where fought with fantasy settings, orcs plunders human villages and are driven away by heroic knights or something like that. Me, I'm playing a pirate setting campaign as a Captain of a pirates ship, the Roisin Dubh, and I have eight real played crewmen. Otherwise 163 virtual ones, just "left behind on board". The second campaign I play is a dark future one. It's a quite funny and awfully expensive hobbie. Greetz, Jack

Why does ye' picture in the banner now look more angry tae me? Always welcome! Yours, Jack

Certainly I can, cap, maybe it's because I'm german:) Ein heitrer Sinn means "a happy mind" der beste Gewinn is "the best win, best bet. This is a stone always a Japanese or American (sorry for that) would like... In Germany here you can get them a lot on every fleamarket. Indeed, some old men and men with a historical tradition like shooters, volunteery firemen, hunters, retired soldiers and people like that use stones. At any special day. Higly decorated ones. Day by day they use what all the others use: a simple glass mug. Sorry for that reply, I guess it'n rather not what you wanted to hear... Jack

afaik (a real captain here from Hamburg told me) "Ahoi" is simply a construction of vocals with the highest noise amplizudes, which means, it is exactly what you have to shout if you wish that your call will take the maximum distance possible. "Alaaf" seems to be a old warcry from the cologne people. It means in cologne-german "All-Aaf", over all. So the complete meaning is "Cologne Over all". Where "Helau" comes from...no idea Keep ye' powder dry, Jack

I'd like to nominate the callenish gunner and captain bloodscalp...

Great look!!! what boots do you wear? The tankard is quite fine, looks very period. May I use the pics acc. to http://pyracy.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=7352? fair winds, Jack

Joseph Fire Crow, a native american musician playing the flute and drums. Just the thing to switch of brain and relax within that music.

Chinese food, too, but made of a dry bowl of beef noodles (a taiwanese special dish). The only thing, once again, I have here, and now it's 1:30 in the morning over here...

Lonely. Just lonely. It's a strange, sad feeling. i hate that mood...

Well tempered, well tempered... :)

shame on ye'!....

Enjoying a fine beer before I go to sleep

Also frustrated with search for a new job. Our company will close down in June.

Try to get awake...

Searching Ebay for fancy stuff...

Andy M. Steward - Fire In The Glen

Writing a short story for a magazine...