Great weekend
May. 8th, 2006 08:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mikeknI took a half day on Friday so that ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shadowpony and I could head up to starseeker1221's place at a reasonable time. It was a nice theory. We got out of here around 3, made pretty good time into NJ, but then we started hitting traffic and construction. Of course it didn't help that I kept changing what route we were going to go :) After a few stops, I think we got in around 9:30 - just in time for a late dinner (well, at least the place was still open). After dinner we chatted for a little while, but quickly collapsed.
The next morning we headed out to the EK Laurel's Prize Tourney. As I've mentioned here a few times, I was entering a game reconstruction intojducoeur's challenge. I entered a reconstruction of a late-period card game called Losing Loadum. The game is mentioned in several places in the 1590s, but the only written rules are from around 1665.
I'd been meaning to try a reconstruction from a primary source, but had never gotten to it. The challenge was just the thing to get me moving. It laid out the parameters for what he wanted, and set the deadline - both good things for me to have to keep a project on track. I was very pleased with my results, and the game was probably one of the best that I could have picked for my first effort. It was fairly straight forward, but with a few places where you have to reason through exactly what the author meant, so it wasn't too hard nor too easy.
Best of all the game is fun, challenging and slightly twisted. (Hidden trump? Not admitting that you've lost? Trading cards?) We played several times at the event and everyone who played seemed to enjoy it. I got some good feedback on the reconstruction and have a few places that I need to flesh out some more. I'll probably try to teach it at Beltaine, and will definitely be teaching it at Pennsic.
As a side note, there is another reconstruction of this game on-line. I found it early on, but didn't read it until last night and I was interested/pleased to note that we came up with different results from the same source. Having had a chance to play mine and think about how the differences would effect the game, I definitely like mine better :)
After the event we headed back to Worcester for dinner. The rest of the evening was spent harassing the rabbits and playing Killer Bunnies until after midnight (I lost every time...)
Sunday morning we got up not so bright and early (about 7).shadowpony and I said our goodbyes and hopped in the car to head back home. The gods of traffic were with us, (as was whoever keeps me from getting pulled over) and we made it back home in a mere 4 and half hours. I was able to get changed and get to the shire's demo by 1. I missed seeing singewulf get his AoA presented to him, but it sounds like it went perfectly :) I spent the rest of the afternoon teaching and playing games (just 9 Men Morris, Fitchneal, Alquerques, and Fox and Geese) to anyone who would stop long enough.
After the demo,violet_amy and went home and collapsed for awhile. We got a call from Derek who was craving La Campagnola, so they came up to our place and we all went out for dinner. (Mmm, gnocchi)
Monday began a little early for me, I started coughing around 2 something AM and never really did get back to sleep (in spite of trying several times). I went into work late (not that anyone was there to care). Got a few things done that needed doing, and now I have to get ready to go to Ohio tomorrow. We're going back to Canfield to update the system we installed a few months ago. Shouldn't be any trouble, but my boss has us flying out of Philly at 6:30 in the morning :p I'll be back late Wednesday night, and probably off-line the entire time.
"To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum,
you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself."
- William Congreve, Love for Love (act I, sc. 2), 1695
shadowpony and I could head up to starseeker1221's place at a reasonable time. It was a nice theory. We got out of here around 3, made pretty good time into NJ, but then we started hitting traffic and construction. Of course it didn't help that I kept changing what route we were going to go :) After a few stops, I think we got in around 9:30 - just in time for a late dinner (well, at least the place was still open). After dinner we chatted for a little while, but quickly collapsed. The next morning we headed out to the EK Laurel's Prize Tourney. As I've mentioned here a few times, I was entering a game reconstruction into
jducoeur's challenge. I entered a reconstruction of a late-period card game called Losing Loadum. The game is mentioned in several places in the 1590s, but the only written rules are from around 1665. I'd been meaning to try a reconstruction from a primary source, but had never gotten to it. The challenge was just the thing to get me moving. It laid out the parameters for what he wanted, and set the deadline - both good things for me to have to keep a project on track. I was very pleased with my results, and the game was probably one of the best that I could have picked for my first effort. It was fairly straight forward, but with a few places where you have to reason through exactly what the author meant, so it wasn't too hard nor too easy.
Best of all the game is fun, challenging and slightly twisted. (Hidden trump? Not admitting that you've lost? Trading cards?) We played several times at the event and everyone who played seemed to enjoy it. I got some good feedback on the reconstruction and have a few places that I need to flesh out some more. I'll probably try to teach it at Beltaine, and will definitely be teaching it at Pennsic.
As a side note, there is another reconstruction of this game on-line. I found it early on, but didn't read it until last night and I was interested/pleased to note that we came up with different results from the same source. Having had a chance to play mine and think about how the differences would effect the game, I definitely like mine better :)
After the event we headed back to Worcester for dinner. The rest of the evening was spent harassing the rabbits and playing Killer Bunnies until after midnight (I lost every time...)
Sunday morning we got up not so bright and early (about 7).
shadowpony and I said our goodbyes and hopped in the car to head back home. The gods of traffic were with us, (as was whoever keeps me from getting pulled over) and we made it back home in a mere 4 and half hours. I was able to get changed and get to the shire's demo by 1. I missed seeing singewulf get his AoA presented to him, but it sounds like it went perfectly :) I spent the rest of the afternoon teaching and playing games (just 9 Men Morris, Fitchneal, Alquerques, and Fox and Geese) to anyone who would stop long enough. After the demo,
violet_amy and went home and collapsed for awhile. We got a call from Derek who was craving La Campagnola, so they came up to our place and we all went out for dinner. (Mmm, gnocchi)Monday began a little early for me, I started coughing around 2 something AM and never really did get back to sleep (in spite of trying several times). I went into work late (not that anyone was there to care). Got a few things done that needed doing, and now I have to get ready to go to Ohio tomorrow. We're going back to Canfield to update the system we installed a few months ago. Shouldn't be any trouble, but my boss has us flying out of Philly at 6:30 in the morning :p I'll be back late Wednesday night, and probably off-line the entire time.
"To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum,
you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself."
- William Congreve, Love for Love (act I, sc. 2), 1695
