Brennan & Caoilfhionn's Ducal Challenge I

Saturday the 27th was Brennan & Caoilfhionn's First Ducal Challenge. You may remember the post I made two weeks ago showing that I made a thing for it. I hadn't expected to go to the event, but due to car problems, I ended up being in the area for the event, and decided to go. I never planned on participating in the Rapier tournament, but it turns out I'm feeling good enough to fight again. So I fought!

The prizes. The half in the foreground were the prizes for rapier combatants, background were fore heavy combatants.
Photo by Christy Page

I made a thing for the Ducal Challenge!

The 27th is Brennan & Caoilfhionn's Ducal Challenge down in Settmour Swamp. The idea of the tourney is similar to the Master Gregory Finche Memorial Tournament held at GNEW this year where every entrant crafts something to use as their entry fee, and everyone walks away with something made by an entrant. As I am still broken, I can't fence, and I actually won't be able to attend the event either. I love making cloaks and needed to time myself so I know how long it takes to make one for the future, so I decided to make one to donate in case a fencer needed an entry. So this post is more of an art post than a rapier post. Deal with it.

GNEW XXX

Hmm GNEW XXX. Imagine if it was still called the S&M War this year . . . I'm amazed I didn't hear that joke at all.

It was a wet and weird weekend. We attended with the singular focus of getting rid of stress that mundane life has piled on us.Let's face it, our intentions were a teensy bit (read: a great deal) self-centered.

Is this a post about Rapier? Kinda

About seven or eight months ago I had been talking with a friend of mine at an event about me never getting the chance to be Rapier MiC (Marshal in Charge) at an event. She responded by saying she MiC'ed Sommer Draw in Bergental every year and was willing to share that role with me this year if I wanted to. I was more than willing.