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Post by MarkL on Sept 20, 2004 7:46:49 GMT -5
everyone dies of natural causes.. a posioned spear to the body naturally kills you.
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Post by Bogof on Sept 20, 2004 15:04:55 GMT -5
My greatest memory of that time was not the organised events, but of a player. Ukko the dwarf. He was kinda scrawny and his pointy ears jutted out about 5 inches from his head, he was the player that brought forth the ritual of the undead chicken, the said ritual took place and invovled a metal biscuit tin upturned with four birthday candles lit at each corner and a rubber chicken. When the ceremony was complete, we KNEW the chicken was a zombie by the way it flew in the air to great height....aided a....little... by ukko.
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Post by Louise Karczmarz on Sept 20, 2004 16:52:54 GMT -5
Newp mark.... we try to avoid gaffer or boffer weapons if at all possible. Fibre glass core, foam blade with a latex and isoflex finish.... well, isoflex now, before they had a matt finish and were frequently talc'ed. They most commonly have a leather handgrip. i've seen lrp rocks, even a giant lrp sthingy!
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Post by Louise Karczmarz on Sept 20, 2004 16:54:30 GMT -5
ok, whoever made s/thingy a censored word put their hand in the air....
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Post by Louise Karczmarz on Sept 20, 2004 16:55:32 GMT -5
or is it the p/oo it objects to it sp/oon?
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Post by MarkL on Sept 20, 2004 17:06:44 GMT -5
Fibre core weapons are just starting to catch on here.
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Post by Louise Karczmarz on Sept 20, 2004 17:10:02 GMT -5
They are much more fun to use, they aren't too difficult to make either.
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Post by MarkL on Sept 20, 2004 21:18:35 GMT -5
but they're more expensive and if not made right.. they have a whippiness to them.
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Post by Bogof on Sept 21, 2004 15:13:39 GMT -5
But if you follow the main guides, you can make good safe weapons, I've made a load of throwing daggers for about £5 each and am making short swords for about £10 and small double headed axes for around £15. All with proper materials and I've even got a good wood effect finish on them too!
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Post by MarkL on Sept 21, 2004 18:00:46 GMT -5
you all have more experience making them.
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Post by louise on Sept 22, 2004 7:27:15 GMT -5
Maybe so, but it is not like we had a 'teacher' as such. There are plenty of reasonable guides out there on how to make them and if you get together as an LRP group you can make them pretty quickly and less expensively than trying to do it all yourself. As for whipiness - only if you make them poorly.
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Post by MarkL on Sept 22, 2004 10:25:35 GMT -5
its neccessarily making it poorly as its making it incorrectly.
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Post by Louise Karczmarz on Sept 22, 2004 10:35:20 GMT -5
For whatever reason that it does not come out right.... whether it be ignorance of how, cutting corners, or lack of skill, the end result is the same - a poorly made weapon.
I know what you are trying to say, but by poorly made, I was not implying a deliberate lack of care necessarily.
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Post by MarkL on Sept 22, 2004 15:15:13 GMT -5
i just perfer to seperate poorly made with lack of skill.. cause one can be the other but not the reverse.
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Post by Bogof on Sept 22, 2004 15:19:45 GMT -5
I didn't make weapons for about 10-12 years, I only began again this year, and I only made about 6 weapons before that. I had to relearn a lot and I've used new techniques I found on the Pagga board. The original and in my opinion best newbie guide to making weapons is here: home.clara.net/arianrhod/Aldebaran/Main.html
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