March 9, 2014

Today, we at the Valley of Smoke welcomed our Lord Prada Forell back to the world of the fight-able with a grand 21 people on the field.

We had visitors from all over today, with the knight Tosc coming up from Charleston to play with us. Members of Black Widow Lake came up to play with us today as well, including Zedd, Valinessa, and a new member named Skylarr. Finally, our Lord Tungdil came home from college to visit us as well, bringing his bow.

We started the day with a simple ditch line. Two sides, each going against the other in all-out combat. We held this for a dozen rounds or more, with much laughter and literal mud slinging.

The field is a little muddy after a hard winter. Anyone thinking of joining us in the next few weeks should bring water-proof shoes!

We've played throughout the winter whenever weather permitted. But now that the weather is breaking, it was great to see so many out on our field today.

When the ditching was over, we split up into two teams of ten and played two class battles while our feet churned up the mud on the field. Riken launched an amazing shot with one of her throwing discs that sailed over two people's heads and casually floated in to kill the archer in the back of the pack. It was quite funny.

Amazing archery skills ruled the field today. Both sides rallied into all-out attacks, leaving dozens of three-inch-deep gaps in the mud on the field.

After two mutual annihilation class games, we took a break and held our monthly Althing meeting. There were several topics that were discussed, but only one vote held.

Afterwards, we held a few rounds of minion game, with class abilities being allowed. After several rounds of this, we took another short break.

Tosc introduced a game called kill your killer, wherein players who die remain dead until their killer is in turn killed. We played this game until people started getting tired, then most of us packed up and headed home.

Several of us stayed late to spar a little bit in the parking lot. After we all got tired, we broke up and went home for the week to scrape the mud off of our clothes.