Back from Medina

[glenatron]

Just got back from the Jackals Event, which was set in an unseasonably cold Medina, represented by a scout camp near Melton Mowbray.

I may have been colder in a tent, but I don't remember it- on Friday night I slept fully dressed, including several jumpers, in a sleeping bag inside another larger sleeping bag and I was still cold, although a handwarmer thing procured by sleepsy_mouse really helped. During the days I was wearing six or more layers, half of them thermals, which meant I looked pretty buff and couldn't quite bend my arms.

The event itself was really good fun, hanging out with the other lizards and the Wangazulu guys was reliably entertaining and it was a pleasure to see so many friends I meet too infrequently. shanks01 and Gunn were on very entertaining form as well, although I have my doubts about Shanks' self-proclaimed "greatest song ever". I just find it hard to imagine that his finest work revolves around a lady who does that kind of thing for a silver or that we needed to hear about it in so much detail.

I wasn't really paying attention to the plot, although there was to be a lot of fun and tough combat that we miraculously all survived, but it's hard to run a sensible storyline when your site is mostly just a field- it means you're stuck having enemies attack a well fortified defensive location in waves, which doesn't quite make sense because if there were that many surely a siege and an individual rush would be more effective. I mean, obviously, you can't work that with a monster crew, but trying to get into the strategic minds of our enemies that would be a more logical way for them to work. I don't know how you get around that as a plot writer, though- maybe have them trying to kidnap PCs? Tricky...

The final battle was fairly epic- by the last wave of the ( excellent and sizeable ) monster crew it really felt like we didn't have a chance, but somehow everyone survived. Well done us, but also well done crew for balancing out tough monsters to an extent that even an inept faction like the Jackals had to form up to fight them off and still not wiping us all out, as we quite possibly deserved...

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I'm afraid I totally forgot to have my camera with me, it ended up staying in the tent the whole time.

There's another event in February, hopefully I'll remember to take it places then...