Sounds like a lot of fun! ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Lochac Events via Lochac Announce Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2025 at 4:09 pm Subject: [announce] Stormhold, 2 November: Ghastly ghouls, zombies and beasties bash To: 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. ----------- The SCA Kingdom of Lochac Announcements List ----------- To post an announcement send an email to announce@lochac.sca.org To unsubscribe send an email to lochac-announce-leave@lochac.sca.org For other lists visit https://lochac.sca.org/mailing-lists/