Sounds like a lot of fun!
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Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2025 at 4:09 pm
Subject: [announce] Stormhold, 2 November: Ghastly ghouls, zombies and
beasties bash
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Ghastly ghouls, zombies and beasties bash Stormhold, 2 November Tournament
Ghastly ghouls, zombies and beasties
November Bash is filled with ghastly ghouls, ghosts and the undead.
The undead approaches. We must beware and be ever vigilant, as we know they
come near Samhain!
Dress in your spookiest garb, or a period rendition of a creature of the
night.
Arts and Sciences competition theme is any concepts of death, afterlife,
and/or undeath, any and all cultures welcome, any and all mediums welcome,
be creative (documentation is nice if possible).
Potluck picnic lunch is a Spookchuterie and I encourage all populace to
bring their favourite spooky dishes and drinks to share. If you don’t have
time to painstakingly craft your potions, concoctions, salume, or
gustatory, to ward off the army of darkness, store bought is fine.
The tournaments are to be a Zombie tournament filled with fighting,
silliness and maybe extra limbs.
The tournament in the first round, the fighters will be paired up like
usual; A and B fight, and, say, B loses. He becomes a zombie, and is now
A’s minion. In the next round A and B will fight C and D. The winning team
captain now has three zombie minions, and they go on to face other teams of
four in the next round. This continues until there is an overall winner.
The basic rules:
1. Humans fight as normal. Zombies can be wounded/dismembered by blows to
the arm or leg, but can only be killed by a blow to the head.
2. Zombies are not the brightest creatures–they tend to follow orders from
their Zombie Master explicitly, but mindlessly.
3. These are “slow” zombies–they shamble and lurch around, not move at full
combat speed.
4. Zombies are typically armed with some kind of blunt instrument: single
sword or mace on the field. (maybe boffer or random foam limbs)
5. Double kills will be refought until there is a clear winner–we don’t
want rogue zombies terrorizing the neighbourhood.
Presuming we have enough boffers (soft, non-rigid items), the armoured and
rapier tourneys will culminate in a grand, boffer-only melee for all the
fighters. (If you’ve got boffer weapons, bring them out.)
Populace will have a boffer tourney at the end to help kill all the
zombies, if people are willing.
Location Darling Gardens
Close to the facilities
Clifton Hill
Vic 3068
Timetable 10.00am Setup
11.00am Opening Court
11.30 Rapier armour inspection
11.30 Arts and Sciences competition entries laid out
12.00 Rapier tournament
12.30 Picnic potluck lunch Spookcuturie
1.30 Armoured Combat Tournament
3pm Closing Court
3.30 Packdown
Price Members free, non-member $10 insurance
Contact
Steward: Nicolette de Coulours
Bookings not required.
Participants are reminded that if they are unwell or showing cold or
flu-like symptoms, they must not attend.
As this event is hosted by a group based in the state of Victoria, please
remember that anyone carrying or using any kind of sword in the state -
including visitors and those passing through - *must* carry proof that they
have completed the Victorian weapons exemption application process with the
SCA Ltd Registrar - see https://sca.org.au/victorian-weapons-legislation/ for
detailed information.
This announcement has been sent on behalf of the event steward by the Lochac
Seneschals' Database https://seneschaldb.lochac.sca.org/ as part of the
event approval process.
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