By Peppy Bristlebrush Each year on March 17th, we Hobbits celebrate Bullroarer Took Day! And we commemorate those who have fallen in the Battle of the Greenfields in S.R. 1147. And this is the program of the Celebrations in Brockenborings: The rules of engagement for the re-enactment of the Battle of the Greenfields Note: We are not going for historically correct, we are aiming for fun! Preparations: We ask you to come dressed in green, as is tradition on Bullroarer Took day. But we also ask you to bring a non-green and non-red outfit. This can even be your combat outfit, providing ofcourse that that is not green or red! If you have a goblin mask (or any other mask) in your vault, please bring that too, slotted in your non-green outfit. At the Bird and Baby, offer to share masks with others who can then put it in their Wardrobe and give it back to you. Also bring any snowballs, rotten fruit, D.R.A.G.O.N., batswarms and such. You'll need them! But remember that we need to be in Brockenborings strictly at eight bells! The group leaves the Bird and Baby at 19:45. At the start of the re-enactment the two group guides announce themselves. They will be dressed in red. They will briefly explain these rules again. You will be asked to enable involuntary emotes for the duration of the Battle. You will then be split into two groups of about equal size and each group will be linked to a group guide. Now then, a roll of the dice will decide which group are the goblins and which group are the hobbits. The goblin group will don their masks and non-green outfits. And we are ready to rumble at the signal of one of the group guides! As soon as the signal is given, you can target a member of the opposite group and attack. You can use everything that is at your disposal: weapon skills, class skills, snowballs, rotten fruit, batswarms, D.R.A.G.O.N., and beside your regular weapon: frying pans, rolling pins, egg baskets, bagpipes, pitch forks, handbags and so on. We originally based the battle mechanics on sparring, but Bounder Primstone of Brockenborings did not give us a permit to do so ((the Shire is a non-sparring zone, apparently)). So you can instead taunt, slap, fishslap, roar, charge, challenge or anything else you can think of and ofcourse throw projectiles or try to have an entire platoon faint, cheer or dance on command. Use bagpipes and/or drums to inject fear in your opponents. Let those creative juices flow freely! The battle comes to a halt when a truce is called. Please stop all attacks on your opponents, but you can still taunt them verbally ofcourse. Now watch what happens next.. |
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