Saturday, February 7, 2009

Knight Games

Posted by Abby Marie at 9:16 AM

Those of you who go/went to BYU-- do you know about the Quill and Scroll club? Well they ALWAYS dress in medieval period garb and sometimes you see them with big wooden swords having fights on the lawn. They're real serious about what they do. A friend of mine had the "King" of the club in his ward and he even wore a crown almost 24/7. They are...well...interesting. I'm not trying to denigrate the Quill and Scroll club--I'm just trying to give you a picture of what they are. (Denigrate was the dictionary.com word of the day today meaning: to attack the reputation of, or defame.) Anyway, last night BYU put on an event called Knight Games---home sweet home for the Quill and Scroll club. Rose dipping, chain mail making, sword fighting, a labryinth and a masquerade sounded like a lot of fun to me too-- AND it was free which was the real selling point. It was one of those things were you think....that was kind of cool.....or weird. We had a lot of fun though, and I think Brett is even seriously considering joining the Quill and Scroll club now. Okay, maybe not :).



I met up with some of my NZ friends: Marcie, Cameron, Kirsten and Becky (Becky is a sister of an NZ friend).

We spent most of the night with Jenny and Daniel. They are so much fun to hang out with.

This is Jenny and Daniel entering the Labryinth. We even had to answer 2 riddles in order to continue through the maze and then to get out.


This is my homemade chain mail--it could protect me in a sword fight. Do you believe me?


This is called 'boffering'. They made padded swords and shields and we just beat each other up with them. We played it like army dodgeball. If you got hit in the leg you had to hop, then if you got hit in the other leg you had to kneel.

4 comments:

Daniel said...

Wow. It looks like I'm going to boffer someone to death. I didn't try to look that angry. Promise.

February 7, 2009 at 10:12 AM
Marcindra LaPriel said...

I am so happy we got to play with you last night and meet your man :) We should definitely make it a point to play more often.

February 7, 2009 at 10:57 AM
Andy Porter said...

you brother Ben was "one of those guys" for a minute or so.
Joe

February 7, 2009 at 3:02 PM
Ben Porter said...

My friend calls those people "Carnies". I was never really a carny. I had friends who were. They got me interested in Calligraphy and illumination (the artwork that decorates calligraphic scrolls) The sword fighting was pretty interesting too. Then they invited me to an "event". It really creeped me out. We left after about 20 minutes, and I never returned. It frightened me the most that carnies never seem to stop being carnies. It may be fun for like an hour a week, but not 24/7.

February 8, 2009 at 7:14 PM

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