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Who is monstering and who is playing?

Details up on the dragons muster now. I am intending to monster, I would suggest newbies do the same.

Ian

[Immortal Rites]

hi ian. I am still very reluctant to monster.

I know im not obliged to 'run around monster' but for a 5 day event im not sure if they will have enough 'speaking/acting' parts to keep me entertained. Im reluctant on health grounds at the moment as i still have a bad chest and am going for hip xrays on thursday so may not be able to run around too much come april depending on the outcome.  

Id prefere to go in character and and stay in/around the main camp. (providing back up when nessasary).

[Death Jester]

what is the monster/player costs?

Just so I can spread the word

[Jimmy]

Players: book before 8th march £50, book after £55, Pay on the door (only if there are plenty of monsters) £60.

Monsters: £10 (refunded upon arrival)

[Death Jester]

Hmmmm, may be able to drum up some monsters then.

How many drivers are going and how many players will we have etc?

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[Jimmy]

Ditto with the two people thing, I am in two minds to play or monster still.

Weather will surely be harsh, especially after what we have witnessed recently.

[Death Jester]

do we need to take anywhere near as much stuff if we are not playing?

And I have myself and one other definate, going to book it asap

[Jimmy]

need to take as much kit as you have due to not knowing which monster role you will get. It needs to be fairly generic stuff, non specific to your character.

In other words, leave tabbards behind and shields also if a cover cannot be found/made for them in time. Take everything else.

Oh and lots of layers if it is anything like last year

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If we get an idea of numbers it may be worth considering a van. I would be happy to drive a swb tranni if needed. That will take 3 plus all the kit and we could get more in the cars.

We need as many pole arms as we can manage. So far we have one which belongs to Nurse Mat.

Maybe take one shield, and we play our characters on the first night so tabbards but no armour will be required.

Ian

[Immortal Rites]

is it ok to come in character for event ian?

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[Immortal Rites]

well you and geoff are the bosses. would it be a bit odd if there was like only one phede there?

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Whoever has the eldest character at an event is the boss,  You can play if you want to.

Just to warn you last year we had 5 days of fairly constant walking around in the cold and rain and snow and hail and sun and snow and rain and.....  If your health isnt up to it dont do it. This is the hardest larp event you will ever do. As a player you wont get a chance to rest and we are too far from Chester to go home.

Ian

[Immortal Rites]

i asked the event organiser for some help with deciding.

[Death Jester]

I think your money would be better spent on getting a 1/4 staff ready for future events that will be more enjoyable for you

[Immortal Rites]

Hi Ian,

The muster guys got back to me, they recommended monstering instead as i get plenty of rest and they need people for speaking so count me and gav in to monster!

Also there is a gentleman of my aquaintance who is a massive larp fan and has begged me all night at lassties to let him come monstering with us.

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We need commitments off people to either pplay or monster so we can start making arrangements. We need to know asap if we are taking a van or not.

I am planning on monstering. Who else?

Ian

[Immortal Rites]

me and gav will monster.

[Shaphron]

we are hoping to monster - will check matt can get the time off work and confirm

[Immortal Rites]

ok deffo count three for us, gav, me and a little guy called Taz!

[Death Jester]

got me and kay from down here at least. As I said earlier, probably just us i'd wager

[Haskeer]

the daz will be monstering.
theres a chance i may be able to get car but as i share with my mum there may be some obsticles. also my car is CENSORED and therefore if we have other drivers i would adv using them. people who i have give lifts to from the club will be able to tell how much my car struggles with three people in it let alone with kit.

hope that helps.

[Immortal Rites]

Monster List so Far:

Daz
Aaron
Ian with car
Giulia
Gav
Taz
Kay
Matt?
Shelly? with car

Players list so Far:
Josh? with car
Geoff

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Updated your post. Any news on Van?

Ian

[Immortal Rites]

Mike said he doesnt think we will be able to borrow it. Im hunting online for a van rental now.

May i suggest us all chucking in the money for it as its a bit unfair to make one person pick up the tab.

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If we do a van it will be all contribute, possibly not car drivers though as they are already paying through their cars.

[Immortal Rites]

Ok these are what ive found so far, based on 9-14th april, chester pick up.
(based on 9 people sharing the cost.)

Thrifty Car and Van rental.
Vauxhall Commode: £127.48
£14 each.

Enterprise Rent a Van
Vauxhall Astravan: £122.48
£13.60 each.

1van1
Vauxhall Combo Van: £120.85
£13.42 each

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[Immortal Rites]

well excuse me for trying  

we are trying to get a car for gav to drive aswell.  Taz is only tiny so we can stick him in the back with us.

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Youll be suprised how much he/she takes up. Its a 3-4 hour journey they need to be comfy.

If you can try for trannie vans and the like with those dates and see what you get. It shouldnt be that much more expensive. Short wheelbase regular roof would be fine I imagine. We can then get 2 in the van and 4 in each car.

Dont worry about car for Gav, Geoff can drive the van and we have 3 cars going potentially that means we can take 14 bodies. and kit.

Ian

[Immortal Rites]

Enterprise.
Short wheel base, medium commertial van (vauxhall vivaro van), 4 door, 3 seater.
£162.90
£18.10 each

Thrifty.
Short wheel base van, ford transit, 3 seater
£153.71
£17.07 each

1van1.
medium vauxhall vivaro va, 3 door, 3 seater.
£162.50
£18.05

hows that? hehehe

[Immortal Rites]

right ive trawled the internet again and thats about the cheapest i can find hun. it goes to £170 from there.

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THats exactly what we need. Ill speak to Geoff make sure he is ok driving them, cant see a problem. Then we'll talk to everyone next week.


Can someone who is going tonight make sure that everyone going to the Dragons event knows we need to have a meeting next week.

Costs to monster are going to be

£10 refunded booking fee
£25(estimated) for food
£20 for the van
£? For the Van petrol(divided between everyone)
£? For the car your are traveling in petrol
£? Beer
£? Snacks

Sounds good?

Ian

[Immortal Rites]

meeting when and where next week?

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Weapons practice? Is everyone going?

Ian

[Immortal Rites]

can you pic me gav and taz up from the ice rink please?

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Will hopefully be there with you.

Ian

[Immortal Rites]

woot! you brave boy ian!!

[Death Jester]

Guess with petrol add up the van and cars and everyone pays the same. Otherwise the up to 3 people travelling in the van don't pay anywhere near as much. N I think Its best to have committed bookings before hiring a van. Dont want to end up with only 4 people going or something daft

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Well need commited bookings and cash for the van and bokings within a few weeks I expect.  Talk about it affter the training day, well have a debrief in the town crier or somewhere.

Ian

[Shaphron]

Matt and I are definately monstering - time is booked off work and everything. Where do we download forms, and when do we get told who our player is?

Also, there is no way we can afford to share a van, we will do our own transport. Sorry guys, but we simply cannot afford it at all. Only going cos monstering is free - it's petrol and food cost only, which we can afford, but not anything on top.

Sorry.

Shell

[Jimmy]

im sure i linked to the booking form on a post about the drawn line so best have a look there

[Shaphron]

ok

[Warlord Osman]

Hi All.

My name is Mike.  I play a character called Osman at the LT events in the Dragons faction.

I am looking for the Children of Phedes.  Is this the right place?


Cheers
Mike

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You have found us, most of us post on here

How can we help?

(Brother Gates) Ian

[Jimmy]

Nice to see you have found us Osman, anything we can help you with?

(Brother Miach) Josh

[Death Jester]

I have spoken to a couple of other players and it seems to be that people want us there IC, there is a healing and shield lack apparantly. (may be what our troll friend wants too)

I would go IC but I may have a couple of new people to look after. but i'd guess that someone else could watch over them

[Immortal Rites]

IC is a matter of money for us two unfortunatly. we can only afford to monster. But will be IC on thursday.

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I have noticed the lack of heavies. I could be tempted to switch to playing, we would need monsters to cover. Aaron are you willing to play? That will give us 2 shields.

They'll be fine, we can give them too... Daz

hmm maybe a bad idea, how about at and shell.

Ian

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This is dependant on e finding my character card

Ian

[Warlord Osman]

Brilliant news!  Glad i found you all.

I am trying to get my head around how many healers we have for the Easter event.  As you boys tend to lead the way on healing i thought it would be good to find out from you first.  I also have plans to set up some sort of mobile healing station, a small one that wont attract too much attention.  Are any of you boys gonna be carrying shields?  

I also want to know how you guys like to work and make sure that is taken into account when i am planning the army tactics.  Let me know your grand plans!  I also have got my grubby little fingers in the armory.  what Armour, weapons & potions do you need.  I have got a cold sword, fire sword, 2 unshatterable shields, Loads of Potions (I make these myself) and 3 suits of master crafted medium Armour.

If any of you boy are on IM please add me.  Would be good to chat:
Osman_troll@hotmail.com

I would like to sit with you all on the Thursday.  I think you boys are a wicked group and want to make the most of what you do best.

Cheers
Mike

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So far there is on one of us playing and he is full healer, no shield. I am considering switching to playing if I can get a monster as we are looking a little squishy, but I cant find my character card, if I can I will try and play. Im talking to the others about it as well.

The plan was to monster one, play one originally I might just monster the next few events.  Even if I play we will still only have 1 shield and 1 healer I think, everyone else is monstering and skint.

Kit wise I think both of us have armour and a shield would be wasted on me(Shield mastery). A weapon would be useful.

If we can put a good showing in we generally like to work as the reserve, we can put healing or a shield wall where we are weakest, or we can generally turn a flank quite well. It gives us the most flexability and seemed to work very well last year with 3 shields. however if the shield wall is as weak as I am expecting, for the Dragons and for us then I would expect we will be needed to boost the shield wall itself.

Good to hear from you, Im on msn if that helps, borgoth@blueyonder.co.uk.

Ian(Gates)

[Death Jester]

I would go IC for sure if i can have a shiny shield. but i guess we wont be much of a shield unit with just me haha

[Death Jester]

Still not sure if i am going to monster or play..... eeeek!

[Immortal Rites]

better hurry up cos your running out of kit making time.

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I thought player places are closed. Your monstering.

Ian

[Death Jester]

someone posted saying that you could pay on the door even. so why close it?

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Maxed out on insurance numbers, ask on the dragons website it might just be a rumour.

No hairy mat btw, you ok to come in my car? Need company on the way back to keep me awake.

Ian

[Jimmy]

Woooo! just got my new character card through today and as such I now have advanced healing and am 2 gold and 2 silver richer

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Dont you mean the Children of Phedes are 2 gold and 2 silver richer   .We need to get the money out of the bank, which means Daz or Geoff have to go to an event.


Ian

[Jimmy]

yes yes i do mean that o leader of ours! Advanced healing FTW!

[Death Jester]

We need shinies to make us even more deadly.

Ok, sure thing, just need to let Matt and Shell know.

Why is the hairy one a no show?

[Kamikazegerbil]

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ok nother change of plan, Mike is coming, if Aaron can still go with Mat and Shell I can sort out mike, seen as no one else really knows him

Ian

[Death Jester]

So Mike is coming down here 1st? Then going from here?

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Hes coming to mine in the morning.  I offered him a lift ages ago and didnt hear from him for ages.  He dosent know Mat and Shelly so hes best coming with me.

Oh and I have a decent camp cooker so will be self catering at the event.  Others can use it but I want a contribution towards the gas refil.

Ian

[Death Jester]

I guess I will be self catering as I havent paid for otherwise, metric CENSORED-ton of sausage rolls I think lol

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You can pay on the door for food if you want, trying to save a bit of cash in the long run.

Ian

[Death Jester]

EEEEK! May get screwed this weekend cos I am looking for somewher eto live and found a place so may need to stick around to fast track forms and so on. May be a victim of prioritsation

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[Death Jester]

sounds a little harsh there.

Matt dropped out for good reason and I may have to as well. I am taking over a business soon and am trying to find a place to live.

I will post on here and let the people who need to know the score asap by phone.

It is not a case of 'bothering' you know how much i want to go, how I have been wanting to get some practice in and such since the last event. So please don't treat me unfairly here. I have alot on my plate and i'm not the first or the last to have issues last minute so feel free to be understanding.

[Shaphron]

i'm going to guess that Ian was in a bad mood yesterday? Combined with trying to organise for us all, and it being 2 days before said event, probably put him on edge. We're still willing to take you down, I'm guessing meeting at the station in chester? Will double check check-in times and estimated journey times (I like getting places early/on time) and post back here my best guess of when we should set off from the station. I'll PM you with my mobile number, and I'll check the boards tonight and tomorrow morning. If you don't have tiome to say on the boards give me a text saying if you're coming or not - we'll be there for you if you need us.

Shell

[Shaphron]

OK, after checking the booking form, and looking online, the only place which might be able to tell me if there is an official "please do not arrive before this time" thing is the forums, and since I don't have an LT character I can't join up (as I understand it, your user name has to be your character name). So, I'm going to go under the idea that the earlier we get there, the easier it will be to pitch the tent, and to get a good spot for pitching the tent. According to google, it should be about 2hr 30mins drive, looks easy (straight down the M6, then M5, then M42, then M40, off at juntion 12, straight south to camp), so setting off at 10:30 ish from station sound ok? we'll be there between 1:30 and 2, maybe a bit later depending on stopping and traffic. I can't even find anything saying when time in is, but I'm guessing the evening? Someone please correct me if any of these assumptions are incorrect.

Shell

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We cant get on site before 2ish.  You can sign on the forums, there is no IC but anymore so the name you use dosent matter.

Googlemaps told me 3 hours to get there, Ill be leaving as soon as Mike arrives at mine.

Ian

[Immortal Rites]

site opens at 2-2.30pm. time in is 7pm.

time off site on monday is 6pm.

[Shaphron]

thanks guys. Google maps - I'm going from chester station to the piost code - there seems to be no map on the scout camp website (it seems rather sh!t to be honest) so I'm hoping this is the right place/time. We used the post code to get to the last one tho, and it turned out to take us to completely the wrong place, so I'm not sure this wont either. I'm hoping tho, cos it is right next to Horley, which bodes well for Horley Scout camp.

As I'm paranoid about getting lost (I HATE being lost) I'm going to bring the map & directions from google maps tonight, to make sure I'm going to the right place...

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[Death Jester]

I sent out txts but just to be sure I will post here. I can't make it, tomorrow will be a mad day for me and today hasn't been much fun so I hope everyone has a great time and bring me back some heads of the slain