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Hyborian Tales III: The Mad Exultation of Battle When the Blue Blades Flame and Crimson, will be held from 25th-28th May at and around Nantyr Outdoor Education Centre, Plas Nantyr, Near Glyn Ceiriog, Wrexham.
"I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I seek not beyond death. It may be the blackness averred by the Nemedian skeptics, or Crom's realm of ice and cloud, or the snowy plains and vaulted halls of the Nordheimer's Valhalla. I know not, nor do I care. Let me live deep while I live, let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame and crimson, and I am content. Let teachers and priests and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content."
-- Robert E. Howard, _Queen of the Black Coast_, 1934
This will be a long weekend event, with three tavern nights (Friday, Saturday, Sunday) and three adventures (Saturday, Sunday, Bank Holiday Monday) running during the course of the weekend. Each player will be in a party of just four to five people, playing in one adventure, with all the other players and the regular staff crewing for them. This lets us have 15+ crew for each adventure, giving the players a truly heroic feel as they wade through gore!
Yes, you'll only get 6 hours of adventuring in during the weekend -- but we intend to challenge you harder during those six hours than you would expect in 48 hours of the average LRP event.
The tavern nights will each be themed based on the adventure that will happen the following day, allowing for us to do a bit of scene-setting and briefing. Each night will be populated by different characters and featuring different entertainments. Each player will play two of the tavern nights, including the one linked to their adventure, and crew one tavern night (though crewing a tavern night will be no hardship -- we'll ensure you get social roles, rather than servile ones). Once you've booked, we'll get you brainstorming with the HT team member who's been assigned to the tavern night that you'll be crewing, and see what you can all come up with in terms of a bit of plot for the evening, as was done in a somewhat more off-the-cuff (but highly successful) way last year for the Nordheimer tavern night.
Centrally heated indoor accommodation will be provided for all players in the main building on the site. This is a converted school & is very comfortable, with all yer modern conveniences including decent loos and showers -- after all that traipsing about you may be glad of such comforts, even those of you who usually relish roughing it....
This is a fully catered event. Breakfast will be served prior to Time In each day. Some kind of in-character lunch break will be arranged as a part of each adventure, e.g. you may raid a merchant caravan full of food, or get invited to share lunch with a nomad group, or whatever. Each tavern evening will have incorporate a cooked evening meal (as feast-like as we can manage, depending on the usual budgetary constraints).
A Note on Parties: If you can get 5 people together, we'll call that an adventuring party and aim to work with you in determining the kind of adventure you go on. If you can't, don't worry -- we'll throw you in with some other rogues that you can trust... more or less.
A Note on Footwear and Clothing: The site is at the foot of the Berwyns. We envisage each six-hour adventure to include around 10 miles of walking up hills and down dales. This part of Britain has spectacular scenery & is steeped in old Celtic legend, but fortunately for us isn't especially widely known. Still, you will be high up and sometimes several miles from civilization. We will have first aid equipment on each adventure (and would appreciate any additional first-aiders among the player base making themselves known to us). However, we'd rather you didn't throw yourselves off mountains in the first place if possible, so we recommend you bring sensible footwear, warm & reasonably weatherproof clothing, and snacks & water to keep yourselves going. You might like to get reasonably fit before the event, too, if you're not at the moment... 10-ish miles in 6 hours should be manageable by most adults, even LRPers, but whether you'll be capable of having a scrap at the end is another matter. 
Strictly limited to 15 players. We need a minimum of 12 players to run the event at all. (Yes, we've dropped the numbers somewhat -- things went so well last year with the unexpectedly small parties that we want to do the same again.)
If anyone's travelling from ruddy miles away, like the Channel Islands or something, feel free to crash at ours for a day or so before and/or after the event if you want. We live about half an hour's drive from the site so it's no bother. Just let us know.
Cost: £65 if your cheque arrives by 5th April. £70 if your cheque arrives by 20th April. £75 if your cheque arrives by 5th May. £80 on the door. This is a price rise since last year, but we reckon that's acceptable since we've gone for fully catered this time.
Cheques should be made payable to Ian Sturrock, and sent to 2, Cherry Tree Cottages, Westminster Rd, Brynteg, Wrexham LL11 6DL.
Email me for more information:
isturrock (at) dsl (dot) pipex (dot) com
Hyborian Tales rules and background information can be found on our website:
http://www.hyboriantales.com/
http://www.hyboriantales.com
PD: Ghostdance ("Respawning Pleb")
Riftworld: Rossar Kuug ("Clearly mad, because he thinks he's a Com-Trow Skirmisher" - Aela)
Hyborian Tales: Crew, cook, dogsbody, general labourer, toilet cleaner ("Dangerously overoptimistic ref" -- Tom Nowell)
Otherwise usually crew ("Quite spry & fit, & willing to wear a big costume & run around a lot" -- various event organisers)
"My other oversized foam weapon is THE LORD" -- Questionable Content
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Has conan become king by this game i would like to play one of his Aquilonian soldiers,and wat is wif the bloody hike just because you haf a 12 pack some of us haf big bones, will b there me and junior he is paying 4 himself.
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You guys would both be very welcome.  Don't think of them as hikes so much as adventures that happen to involve a fair bit of walking....
We've not really mentioned that Conan bloke too much so far, if at all. I've tended to assume that the games are set prior to his conquest of Aquilonia, just because that way we have the option of throwing him in somewhere as an NPC, if we ever get Arnold Schwarzenegger realising how important it is that he show up and monster for us sometime instead of all that governor of California bollocks.
http://www.hyboriantales.com
PD: Ghostdance ("Respawning Pleb")
Riftworld: Rossar Kuug ("Clearly mad, because he thinks he's a Com-Trow Skirmisher" - Aela)
Hyborian Tales: Crew, cook, dogsbody, general labourer, toilet cleaner ("Dangerously overoptimistic ref" -- Tom Nowell)
Otherwise usually crew ("Quite spry & fit, & willing to wear a big costume & run around a lot" -- various event organisers)
"My other oversized foam weapon is THE LORD" -- Questionable Content
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Champion
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Hi there guys, extremely interested, although i have to say most of my money is invested in a car and stuff for running serenity in the short term. i realy want to come to this though. oh well, they goes another £100
Of one particular question, given the footware suggestions, i'm having difficulty comming up with a way to do this while keeping in the theme of clothing as i'm planning on playing a shemite.
Does anybody have suggestions how i can turn plain leather sandles into "sensible footware"? or at least do something that is in theme and setting but have it durable, warm and dry enough for the event?
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Knight
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Woohoo!!! 2 spots please for the aardvaark and I
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Heroic Knight
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The cheque is in the post....
I may well take you up on the offer of a bed the night before, save me missing the first tavern this time.
I'll be bringing a new character concept, if anyone is interested in joining a group of Hyperborean human resource experts then let me know.
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Cheque is in the post.
reasonably fit he says.......HoHO HO!
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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CelticKnots,
Well, if it were me, I'd probably wear walking boots, and camouflage them with home-made gaitery things. That wouldn't look especially Shemitish, but it's a habit you could have picked up on your travels, and would maybe be mostly covered by your robes. But then, I have dodgy ankles anyway, so maybe I worry about this stuff too much.
Merrell occasionally do walking shoes that can be modified to look reasonably IC -- this kind of thing:
http://www.shoesdirect.co.uk/acatalog/Shoesdirect_Merrell_Improv_Stretch_363.html
Still, unless you can pick them up for about £15 in a sale somewhere, which I think is what my LRP Merrell shoes cost, they're a bit expensive.
You could also talk to Andy Rimmer about caligae -- I know he's made a pair for himself for LRP. Dunno if he'd use them for a 10-mile hike though....
http://www.hyboriantales.com
PD: Ghostdance ("Respawning Pleb")
Riftworld: Rossar Kuug ("Clearly mad, because he thinks he's a Com-Trow Skirmisher" - Aela)
Hyborian Tales: Crew, cook, dogsbody, general labourer, toilet cleaner ("Dangerously overoptimistic ref" -- Tom Nowell)
Otherwise usually crew ("Quite spry & fit, & willing to wear a big costume & run around a lot" -- various event organisers)
"My other oversized foam weapon is THE LORD" -- Questionable Content
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You could try here for caligae
http://www.hightowercrafts.com/page26.html
Not sure if the guy still operates, though, his website hasn't been updated in at least 2 years....
I have seen some of his stuff 'in the flesh' as it were (about 10 years ago, to be fair) and it's very high quality (or was then)
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Hightower are still in business
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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