September 22, 2013

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On this first day of Fall, the citizens of the Valley of Smoke found themselves quite busy with a variety of activities.

As the day began on our field, an astonishing 8 new people ventured forth to join our ranks. As many of these players have not yet chosen their warrior names, it becomes difficult to identify them at the moment. Some of them had experience with fighting before, while others had none. Of course, the lack of experience matters not to us, we teach our newcomers how to fight and play just the same!

The day's point was to get our candidates for the upcoming reign qualified for their attempts at running for office. Three brave souls stepped forward to answer the call. 

 

 

Office                 Player

Sheriff                Riken Eclipse

Regent               Grainmag

Champion         Seran A'Imith

As such proceedings are often considered boring, however, they will be discussed at length at the end of this blog post.

 The clouds provided a decent amount of shade, and the cooperative weather kept everyone on their feet until late in the evening this week. The newest players were introduced to basic game skills and rules while the candidates and a few other volunteers took on the challenge of the crown qualifications tournament. 

Once all of the tournament stuff was out of the way, everyone joined in together a class battle game and had no small amount of fun in picking each other off. The new players needed a little encouragement at this point, but were soon in the spirit of the game and slaying their comrades with all the gusto of seasoned warriors.

After this, a points style game was introduced. Each team had a special dagger. They were tasked with using that special dagger in order to slay the captain of the other team. For 15 minutes, the game raged. The score was tied at 2-2 with a minute remaining, when one team pulled out a last second score to win.

<-- In a variation on a class annihilation game, players were split into two very uneven teams: on one side, our resident bard Zamorak Darkfighter, our fighter Henry Greatwing, and one of our barbarians Grainmag, formed a team by themselves. On the other end of the field: everyone else, including all 7 of our 8 new players. In a lesson on teamwork, the three man team won the battle with only three lives remaining.

The day ended with a few rounds of class battles with the minion game twist. As darkness began to overtake the lands, the brave warriors retired for the week, with plans to meet again next week. 

Below are the results for the crown qualifications for those running for office:

As each player is running unopposed, all they needed to do was qualify for their offices. This meant that the day was full of required activities to get them qualified. The day began with the crown tournament - an opportunity for players to pit their skills against each other and possibly win some awards for doing a good job. Three categories saw much challenging combat. Winners for each category are listed below.

Single Short Sword - Grainmag

Florentine - Seran A'Imith

Open - Grainmag

Overall Tournament Winner - Grainmag

Qualification also means an arts and sciences display from the candidates. At least, from the hopeful sheriff and regent. Scores and entries are as follows, on a scale of 0.0-5.0:

Riken 

Green Chemise = 4.0

Hand Woven Apron = 5.0

Neckline Installation Instructions = 5.0

Spoken Performance = 5.0

Grainmag 

Pencil Drawing = 3.0

Arrow Head = 3.0

<-- And, finally, the three candidates sat down to take the required reeves exams. Every holder of office must pass at least one version of these exams once a year, to prove that they understand the rules. 

The candidates have multiple chances to pass these exams before the election comes.