Afternoon, second day of Genghis Con
Jan. 20th, 2007 06:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catalyst2Couldn't face any lunch after the enormous breakfast this morning but I went for a drive with Darren down to Subway and read the paper while he grabbed lunch.
Back to the Con and it was Robo Rally with Wez. I only watched while Darren played the live action version. Again, everybody was very patient with the instructions and it was well organised. On a personal note, I found this game to have too much of a random element to it for me to enjoy it. That said, everybody on the board seemed to be having a good time!
Combat LARP started about halfway through so I headed over there with my sword. I lost in the first round but did get a good suicide cut in on my opponent in the second round when I was on my knees and I lunged forward and scored a (lethal) torso cut from underneath his guard as he moved in to finish me off! The guy I lost (2-1) to was an eventual semi-finalist so I didn't feel too bad about that. He did get a few good hard shots in on me though!
After the LARP, Darren and I headed over to the Trebuchet firing (water balloons only). Very impressive scale model it was too and the action was very authentic, no springs or coils, just counterweight. When it fired, it worked very well and gave the same high trajectory a trebuchet should - the sling seemed to cause a lot of problems though.
Went off to watch "An Inconvenient Truth" which I will review later in the week, after I have processed it a little more.
Back to the Con and it was Robo Rally with Wez. I only watched while Darren played the live action version. Again, everybody was very patient with the instructions and it was well organised. On a personal note, I found this game to have too much of a random element to it for me to enjoy it. That said, everybody on the board seemed to be having a good time!
Combat LARP started about halfway through so I headed over there with my sword. I lost in the first round but did get a good suicide cut in on my opponent in the second round when I was on my knees and I lunged forward and scored a (lethal) torso cut from underneath his guard as he moved in to finish me off! The guy I lost (2-1) to was an eventual semi-finalist so I didn't feel too bad about that. He did get a few good hard shots in on me though!
After the LARP, Darren and I headed over to the Trebuchet firing (water balloons only). Very impressive scale model it was too and the action was very authentic, no springs or coils, just counterweight. When it fired, it worked very well and gave the same high trajectory a trebuchet should - the sling seemed to cause a lot of problems though.
Went off to watch "An Inconvenient Truth" which I will review later in the week, after I have processed it a little more.
