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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Malleus on September 29, 2003, 07:23:43 AM
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Hello, people, I know I've been absent for a while, will be returning shortly, but I HAVE to tell you about the weekend I just had.
My sister-in-law and her husband got me in a spot in a Live Action Role Playing (LARP) adventure called Otherworld. They've done it before, and since you can do it only once.... they work there as staff.
I played with 5 friends of my brother-in-law, who I've never met before.... but our group RULED! 6 guys, aggressive, active, and VERY tough. We were an unmoveable force.... heh heh.
They have a HUGE 4H camp, like 350 acres, with a town, a gypsy camp, several houses, a few shops, the cabins we sleep in, a tavern, graveyard... etc. And you get to wander around completing your primary quest from your Duchess, and then fulfill side quests that you pick up along the way from other sources. All the while looking in the woods for treasure chests and watching out for monsters getting ready to gank you.
I was Druss, the Bard, and without patting myself on the back too hard..... I simply kicked tail. I had to defend a Gypsy of false charge, pulled verse out of my bellybutton to make an object move, had to write a verse for the Aventurere's Song, etc. Was WAY cool.
Our group, the Testosterone Lads of Elsewhich TOTALLY blew the treasure curve. Our Companion, a staff member who walks with you was DYING laughing at the way we were finding MASS money.
Wandering down a trail to get somewhere and the Paladin passes gas. We all stop to berate him. Oh, look, a chest!
The Mage falls over a rock, we bend to pick him up. Oh, look, a chest!
We found over 15 the first DAY! It was awesome.
The fights were GREAT, Padded swords and arrows. Staff members dressed in costume. One fight that must be relayed was we were on yet another journey, fought 3 Wolven, a bandit clan, and killed them with no losses. On the road slightly below us we see 3 MORE Wolven, taunt back and forth and kill them, again with no losses. RIGHT after we finish them off, we are attacked by 4 Skeevers, and they ALMOST finished us, lol.
The URL is http://www.otherworld.org
You people HAVE to look into this for next year and get your applications in. The money is WELL SPENT, you are billeted, fed, and WOWED by a VERY intricate story.
I am SURE I will be on staff this year. And I hope to see you all there. PLEASE ask questions and GET YOUR APPLICATIONS IN!!!!
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My word.
We used to have people who did this stuff at university, I never imagined people did it in the real world. I thought they would just graduate and sober up. Every sunday morning, without fail, my crew would row past them on the riverbank as they practised their swordfighting. They called themselves 'Treasure Trappers' - a term that seemed to become an equivalent to geek. And most of them studied physics.
Each to their own. Glad you had a good weekend. :)
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Any porn?
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"I put on my robe and wizard hat"
:rofl
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What? No wenching?
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They were no match for Malleus' lightning bolts. (http://www.planetradio.net/ogre-battle.large.mpeg)
Aggressive, active, and VERY tough. An unmoveable force.... heh heh.
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I spent all of my weekend on a post math exam stress releasing binge in which I roleplayed belligerence and debauchery, found treasure and spent it on wenches with whom I roleplayed love in order to get under their padded underwear.
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Must...not....comment.....
Must.......hang......on...... .
(Was that video from the event?)
If I'm going to do something like that, you know so hapless nearby town, not aware they are participating, is getting raped and pillaged!
I could see the local news now...
"Today's top story, Fryberg ransacked by merciless horde of marauding nerds!."
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No, but from what I understand, its the same concept.
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Originally posted by Animal
No, but from what I understand, its the same concept.
SO basically, you dress up as Tolkiens worst nightmare and beat each other with cardboard tubes?
rah rah
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I have a video of your weekend right here.
http://www.innercite.com/~sunking/shmoo6.mpeg
You really need to play some sports.
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And wear robes and make-up if I remember correctly. Which is unfair, because you could easily confuse them with the highly original goth types, casually rebelling against conformity around campus.
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Originally posted by Dowding
And wear robes and make-up if I remember correctly. Which is unfair, because you could easily confuse them with the highly original goth types, casually rebelling against conformity around campus.
That is terrible.Here the Goth's take the good time and effort to refine a look that denotes their seperation from mainstream society, and along comes Frodo with his band of merry men to screw it up.
Damn you weekend-weinies!
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Whata buncha nerds! You should be like real men and play pretend airplane games instead.
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MT is a secret goblin-worrier.
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Glad to hear you had fun, Malleus. Remember, everyone enjoys different things. Dowding can make fun of you for this, and you can make fun of him for shrimping.
To each his own.
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Originally posted by midnight Target
Whata buncha nerds! You should be like real men and play pretend airplane games instead.
:rofl
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Every sunday morning, without fail, my crew would row past them on the riverbank as they practised their swordfighting.
In the U.S., rowing is mainly a female sport. My school has only a female rowing team, there is no male counter-part.
Whata buncha nerds! You should be like real men and play pretend airplane games instead.
Hahahahaha.
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nerd...yet for some reason i beleive all of you are strangely attracted to it...i know i am...:o
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Originally posted by vorticon
nerd...yet for some reason i beleive all of you are strangely attracted to it...i know i am...:o
I can honestly say, from what I saw on the video, that holds no attrtaction for me.
Maybe you could do the same thing, without costumes, and using paintball guns as weapons.
That would make it interesting.
Hey, Paintball is silly too, but I love that game.
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but that would just be running around in the woods shooting at other roving teams while finding little prize packages
sounds fun to me
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nerd!!
go do paintball instead.
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DO you get to whack someone with the sword until they bleed?
That would be cool.
How do you know who won the swordfight?
"It's just a flesh wound!"
"I got you!"
"No you did'nt!"
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LOL SunKing... Malleus, is that the exact type of fighting you guys would do? How the hell do you keep track of hits and stuff?
Were you able to camp at monster spawn points and exp? :D
"Wait! I wasn't hit! Your Holy Ethereal Sword of Nerf only crits for 49 damage!" "Only a flesh wound!"
[edit]: HAHA, oops I didnt read what Muck said before posting [/edit]
Originally posted by davidpt40
In the U.S., rowing is mainly a female sport.
what?! why would it be mainly female? there are male rowing teams all over the place. They even televise some competitions on ESPN 2 every once and a while.
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Rowing is mainly a female sport due to some rule about men and women having equal representation in sports programs at college. Quite a few schools have female-only rowing teams. Have you been living under a rock the last 2 years?
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naked chicks in chainmail r3wL :eek:
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Too easy.
MiniD
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Originally posted by davidpt40
Rowing is mainly a female sport due to some rule about men and women having equal representation in sports programs at college. Quite a few schools have female-only rowing teams. Have you been living under a rock the last 2 years?
Really now... Show me this rule. it's moot anyhow... I didn't know rowing was restricted to universities. OH thats right, it isnt.
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Rowing is a women's only sport... lemme think about that....
Tell that to the Armed forces who each have a rowing team. Jesus, even the SAS rows. Every university in Britain has rowing teams, male and female.
If you're implying it's less than tough, I think you'll find rowing is one of the most intensive sports around - it's all about power endurance and technique. The whole crew getting the power down for the length of the race as efficiently as possible.
I've played alot of sports. Football, rugby - and I've never been as knackered at the end of an event as I was after a full race. Nevermind, having to do it 3-4 times in an afternoon. It isn't a sport for weaklings.
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Dowding, "doing it" 3-4 times in an afternoon with his 5 boatmates, all pulling and thrusting in sweaty harmony, finally collapsing from sheer exhaustion, having never been so "knackered". LOL! :rofl
...this is probably a bad time to mention that I like tennis. :D
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"knackered"....
IS that British for Chafed?
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You **** SOB. :D
Does it spice the image up to tell you our cox was a five foot one 19 year old girlie? ;)
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Originally posted by mason22
naked chicks in chainmail r3wL
You got that right.
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Originally posted by Octavius
Really now... Show me this rule. it's moot anyhow... I didn't know rowing was restricted to universities. OH thats right, it isnt.
Title IX says something about equal number of women's sports to men's sports or something like that. That's why there're so many schools with women's volleyball, but no counterpart such as men's volleyball. It usually stacks up something like this:
Mens Womens
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Football Volleyball
Baseball Softball
Basketball Basketball
Soccer Soccer
Track Track
Tennis Tennis
Golf Golf
Swimming Swimming
Wrestling Crew
... depending on the budget for athletics.
In my area, high school varsity golf, tennis, swimming, and wrestling/crew are proposed for termination next year as a cost-cutting exercise. To be honest, I don't think they'll be missed very much. With the exception of wrestling/crew, the others to be axed are "club" sports. From my experience with women's volleyball, most of the players learn more at the club level than they do in the brief 3-month varsity season.
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Does it spice the image up to tell you our cox was a five foot one 19 year old girlie?
wow, things are different over there. our girlies don't even have cox. :lol
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Originally posted by capt. apathy
wow, things are different over there. our girlies don't even have cox. :lol
So who is that Cox Swain?
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Thanks Gofaster. Although I never actually felt there was a need. When I was in high school, our conference (and the whole state for that matter) was fairly even in terms of male/female sports.
Each gender already had equal representation... never had a gender specific sport. The athletic dept determined how much each sport was funded depending on their performance and participation. Boys volleyball was cancelled one year due to lack of participation.
From what David had said, I read it as "mainly female everywhere in the US"... which is bunk :) That generalization most likely came from a regional or local sample. In Wisconsin, it's pretty "fair" if you'd like to call it that.
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If you're implying it's less than tough, I think you'll find rowing is one of the most intensive sports around - it's all about power endurance and technique. The whole crew getting the power down for the length of the race as efficiently as possible.
Thats not what I was implying at all. I was commenting on how rowing is a female dominated sport (in college at least) in the U.S. The female sports issue was all over 60 minutes and other new shows a few years ago. To the point that some universities, such as mine (University of Louisville), do not have male rowing teams.
But I think that running (my sport of choice) is much more intense than rowing. I've been in races where my heart rate never dropped below 90% (~190 beats per minute).
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The 100th best weekend of my life I got laid about 6 times.
eskimo
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Originally posted by eskimo2
The 100th best weekend of my life I got laid about 6 times.
eskimo
Yeah, but how much did it cost? :D
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Originally posted by eskimo2
The 100th best weekend of my life I got laid about 6 times.
eskimo
:D well if we're bringing THAT into the mix... then last weekend was a good one for me too! Visiting some two female 'friends' in Lacrosse we all had fun... simultaneously. :D
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Originally posted by Octavius
:D well if we're bringing THAT into the mix... then last weekend was a good one for me too! Visiting some two female 'friends' in Lacrosse we all had fun... simultaneously. :D
you lucky young bassturd! you know in about 10 or 15 years that's going to cost you about $300 each! :D
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Originally posted by Octavius
:D well if we're bringing THAT into the mix... then last weekend was a good one for me too! Visiting some two female 'friends' in Lacrosse we all had fun... simultaneously. :D
I expect full details of this to be posted in the squad forum. Pictures, of the girls, is required. Please omit those that have any male nudity.
(My opinion of you was very high...you have now been elevated to near God-like status.):D
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You want full details Curval?
I have the inside scoop on Octavious' sex binge, here is a pic:
(http://www.alienvisuals.com/daedalus/sheep1.jpg)
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lol...I assume that he is choking the sheep to tighten everything up at the moment of release. Almost a Bismark.:D
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I expect full details of this to be posted in the squad forum. Pictures, of the girls, is required.
Ut oh, this isn't going to go the route of the muckmaw swinger bag and boobjob thread is it?
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Originally posted by capt. apathy
wow, things are different over there. our girlies don't even have cox. :lol
:rofl
/Edit\ The Reason Vorticon is interested in this is for those who do not know where he was for the school year during the summer, he's Harry Potter, and well, He would just beat the shi! outta those guys with his magical powers.
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You know...just to put things into perspective here...there are people on the outside who think WE'RE ALL NERDS for playing our little computer game (Aces High).
If the guy likes to play (insert time period here) soldier, wish him well and go back to your pretend airplanes & rudder pedals, guys.
:rolleyes:
F4i
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Originally posted by Animal
I spent all of my weekend on a post math exam stress releasing binge in which I roleplayed belligerence and debauchery, found treasure and spent it on wenches with whom I roleplayed love in order to get under their padded underwear.
ditto
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I don't know, some of the chicks on that otherworld site look pretty good. of course, it might be the medieval dress who raise their breasts and corset thair fatrolls :D
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LOL!!!
Why is it that flight sims just seem to attract the goofiest people on the planet?:p
Don't be so quick to poke fun at Malleus' weekend, I hear some of you spit pilots dress the same way all the time. :D
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Originally posted by midnight Target
Whata buncha nerds! You should be like real men and play pretend airplane games instead.
If you wear a paper mache square head with a wacky cape playing AH, and have a troll attack you with ping pong balls yelling "Lighting bolt, lightning bolt, Niki Attack" you won't be less of a man per say, sure. But you'd be a complete dip***** for sure.
If you mimic Weazel2, the political fixated O Club tarded clown, thad be worse, yup.
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If you're throwing rocks at a "troll" as a mage and yelling "lightning bolt!", wouldn't it make more sense to yell, "magic missile!"?
What I really like is the cheerleader at the end of the video clapping and yelling...man, even dorks have groupies!
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this thread reminded me of something that happened about 12 years ago.
I'd been out drinking all night, celibrating a friends B-day, the cab drops me off at about 6am. I'm almost asleep (about 8am) when the kids are up and watching tv, making noise, being kids.
so the wife says she's gonna take them to the park to play so I can get some sleep. I decide that I'm not really tired (and am still feeling quite good) and decide to go along.
so anyway I still have a wonderfull buzz going about 10am, and I'm playing catch with the boy. anyway, do to my 'condition' a ball gets past me, and rolls down the hill and into some bushes.
so I go off after it and as I go through the bushes I look up, face to face with a fluff'n viking. horned helm, full beard, long hair, what looks like bear skin leggings and vest and a huge tin-foil battle axe. I almost s**t myself!
when I finally was able to come to my senses I look around and there is another guy in a suit of real chainmail that must of cost him a couple $k, another in a breastplate, some chick in a hooded cloak with "spock ears" on.
chemicaly speaking I was in no condition to take this all in. so with out saying a word, wearing a blank stare, and hearing something from them about "mortals not interfearing with their holy quest" I stumble out of the bushes and head back up to the family.
after rejoining the family I decide not to mention it because it this time I'm begining to doubt how firm a grip on reality I'm mantaining. I do sugest to the kids that maybe they want to go play in another part of the park, up top above the crater maybe (the park is on an old dormant volcano).
so at the new location and with no sign of full sized action figures, we start running around having fun, the usual, playing with the kids, kid stuff.
about a 1/2 hour later my oldest daughter (4 or 5 then), shows me her great find. a handfull of nice shinny rocks (polished up real nice, quarts agates and such). se says she found them laying between the roots of the biggest tree on the hill, and asks if she can keep them.
sure, no problem.
it wasn't until later that day that I realised, she had probably beaten them to their "holy quest". they're probably still up tere wandering around looking for their rocks.
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Originally posted by Creamo
If you wear a paper mache square head with a wacky cape playing AH, and have a troll attack you with ping pong balls yelling "Lighting bolt, lightning bolt, Niki Attack" you won't be less of a man per say, sure. But you'd be a complete dip***** for sure.
If you mimic Weazel2, the political fixated O Club tarded clown, thad be worse, yup.
Is that your impression of a guy without a sense of humor?
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Originally posted by Ripper29
"I put on my robe and wizard hat"
LOL! HARRRR!