It wasn't until I walked off the dungeon and realised that my hand was several times the size that it should be that I start thinking that something might be wrong, but first aiders have a look and I don't appear to be in any pain, so I don't think too much about it. Then a few hours later, when I'm in shock, the pain kicks in and we very much realise that I've broken it. However, by this point everyone on site is either asleep or pissed, so I must wait until morning to go to hospital. The things I do to get out of site clean-up, eh?

Most awkward injury:  Local system has a two day overland/linear every year.  One poor individual dislocates his knee in the middle of Swaledale, and needs evacing by mountain rescue.

Also managed to miss the man down call and sort of sauntered away from the fight so as to not disrupt the flow of the game, of course the ambulance did disrupt it a bit.

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Build a man a fire and he will be warm for a day, set a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life.

After I pick the grass and dust from my teeth I stand up.  Big mistake.  I go and lie down with my head down and my legs up on a log because o/w I'm going to "call down the chunder" all over the place.

I think it was that same renewal where I had to do something like 6 rituals in 2-3 days.  A nerve wracking experience on the hottest day in August, whilst wearing black furs and black leather pants (I was young and foolish, (As opposed to now, when I'm old and foolish))   I wake up at night and my "legs" have become swollen, red and very, very itchy in a heat rash like no other I've ever seen.

Ahhh... happy days...

I have a slightly weak ankle, which I have sprained several times. Two of them were vaguely humourous;

Incident 1 - at Brit Rex, playing a silly christmas game involving jumping from piece of sacking to piece of sacking. I slip and fall. Everyone, including me, laughs. After everyone stops laughing someone offers me a hand and starts to pull me to my feet - my foot touches the ground and I scream. He put me back down.

Incident 2 - I'd be captured and was about have my throat slit. I could hear my rescue party but frankly they were taking their sweet time. I could see my guns. So, I roll under the sword being held in front of me, grab my guns and proceed to start shooting. In the middle of it I have a rabbit hole interface error. A couple of moments later the first aider and I agree its ok, and I continue my escape. Only after I'd marched up to the marine leading my rescue party and informed him he was late did it start to really hurt. It was worth it for the look on his face.

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I was actually a Barrow Wight, not often you get me though, usually you duck the chance... still had to let you win that one... Really enjoyed the "Being smashed into the floor" bit, very fun...

Yeah I think you hit the back of your head on a tent peg or something if I remember right. S'what was said at the time.

Could have told me, I worked bloody hard playing him...

All my LRP injuries involve being hit in the eye. Either smashed glasses (rare, don't wear them at events), contact lenses being knocked out or to the back of my eyeball by arrows, or freakishly having my retina bruised by a club that was thrown to me to catch, but hit a tree branch and flipped up into my face.

The last one stopped me doing LRP fights for about two years.

Worst injury I ever knew was Col Bird's trachaea though. That'd be the reason why no event I ever run will allow "safe" thrusting weapons.