Northern California Battle - September 17th - 19th, 2010

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Northern California Battle - September 17th - 19th, 2010

Postby Tati » Tue Jun 29, 2010 7:08 pm

Come join Dagorhir Mallenorod for their Fall Battle "Harvest Massacre"!!

Location: Spring Valley Group Area, Ed Levin County Park
Address: 3100 Calaveras Rd., Milpitas, CA 95035


We are camping overnight on Friday, September 17th and Saturday, September 18th. We'll have a few pick-up battles on Sunday, September 19th, and then pack up and clean up.

The parking fees will depend on if you are staying overnight or not. Parking is $12 per car for Friday and another $12 for Saturday if your carload is staying overnight. Sunday is included for the overnight guests. We have a combination lock at the gate, so we *ARE* able to let people in after sunset.

If you are coming only during the day, parking is $6 per car each day. Sunday is *NOT* included for the day use people, so we recommend not coming on Sunday if you aren't planning on camping with the group.

The registration fee will be much cheaper this time as this group area is smaller and less expensive. We will only be charging $6 per person this time around.

The feast will also be less elaborate, and thus less expensive- please note it will be an additional cost, the registration fee **DOES NOT** include food. We're planning on having meat and vegetable kebabs for the feast on Saturday night, and a pancake breakfast on Sunday morning. We're not positive of the cost at the moment, we'll be figuring that out in the next couple of weeks.

Hope to see you all there!

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Re: Northern California Battle - September 17th - 19th, 2010

Postby Acorn » Wed Jun 30, 2010 10:32 am

sweet. posted this in western bel forums too. hopefully we can get a big oregon crew to come down.
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Re: Northern California Battle - September 17th - 19th, 2010

Postby Tati » Wed Jun 30, 2010 11:25 am

Awesome! Thanks for spreading the word! :)

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Re: Northern California Battle - September 17th - 19th, 2010

Postby Kyrax » Fri Jul 09, 2010 4:17 pm

And we've come up with a name for this event: HARVEST MASSACRE!

Come join in the bloodletting...
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Re: Northern California Battle - September 17th - 19th, 2010

Postby Kyrax » Wed Aug 18, 2010 1:18 pm

We saw a lot of SoCal folks at Mt. Pinos last weekend, so we're hoping to get a good turnout from Aggelgorod and Anduril (and I'll PM some of those folks).

This is going to be a lot of fun.
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Re: Northern California Battle - September 17th - 19th, 2010

Postby Juggernaut » Thu Aug 19, 2010 10:35 pm

Barring anything weird, I will join you for the Massacre!!!!



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Re: Northern California Battle - September 17th - 19th, 2010

Postby Kyrax » Thu Sep 02, 2010 6:57 pm

Great news Juggernaut!

And even more good news has come in - a new local realm, Adelbrand, in San Ramon, CA - they're coming too!

This is going to be a fun event. :spear:
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Re: Northern California Battle - September 17th - 19th, 2010

Postby Bear » Fri Sep 03, 2010 8:36 pm

I may or may not go depending on how school is treating me in the next few weeks.
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Re: Northern California Battle - September 17th - 19th, 2010

Postby Sir Anastasia » Sat Sep 04, 2010 9:10 pm

I bet this event will be awesome. Everyone who can go... should, these people are wonderful.
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Re: Northern California Battle - September 17th - 19th, 2010

Postby Kyrax » Thu Sep 16, 2010 10:33 pm

Oh, and the optional Saturday night Feast ($7 per person).

Saturday evening
Tri-tip kebabs
Veggie kebabs (squash, zuchini, onions, peppers and mushrooms)
Pita bread

Sunday morning
Pancake breakfast
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Re: Northern California Battle - September 17th - 19th, 2010

Postby Kyrax » Mon Sep 20, 2010 10:56 am

Thanks to everyone who came out - it was a blast.

Thanks especially to Sword Coast and Athalbrand, our Belegarth brethren who came to the event. It's great to meet new friends, AND KILL THEM!!!

We have some good pics from the fighting on Saturday - links coming soon.

Silica Vale II will be April 29-May 1, 2011. See you there, or at Battle of the Ring III (MLK day weekend maybe?) or another event.
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Re: Northern California Battle - September 17th - 19th, 2010

Postby Kyrax » Tue Sep 21, 2010 10:56 am

One of our lovely ladies, Wren, took some great video of our Bear Pit fighting at Mallenorod's Harvest Massacre this past weekend (9/17-9/19). I've posted the first two clips... more to follow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_Pp0KLea4k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzXZerMMYus

In the Pit with Mallenorodrim are two fighters from Sword Coast who made the long trip north to join us. Not pictured are a bunch of the Belegrim from our neighboring realm in San Ramon, CA, Athalbrand, who made the trip to Harvest Massacre on Friday and then later on Saturday.

For those who haven't played this, we start off with a long story in a bad russian accent telling of how a village trapped a marauding bear in a pit and then took it on in single combat.

Two players enter the pit and when someone dies, another fighter steps in and the fighting continues. Those standing on the sidelines can swing into the pit and kill a fighter and take their place.

This makes for a fast moving fight in small groups, constantly feeding new fighters into the mix as the ones in the pit die off.

Enjoy!
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Two more videos

Bear Pit #3

Bear Pit #4

One More to follow (the upload failed this morning when I went to get ready for work).
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Re: Northern California Battle - September 17th - 19th, 2010

Postby Juggernaut » Tue Sep 21, 2010 7:40 pm

A wonderful event! Hopefully the start of an excellent West Coast tradition. Huzzah to Rau and Tati for planning the event and sacrificing so much time in volunteer hours to bing our costs down.

Hopefully someone picked up the round shield that I left there. Oops.

Huzzah to all!

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Re: Northern California Battle - September 17th - 19th, 2010

Postby Kyrax » Wed Sep 22, 2010 10:55 am

Juggernaut wrote:A wonderful event! Hopefully the start of an excellent West Coast tradition. Huzzah to Rau and Tati for planning the event and sacrificing so much time in volunteer hours to bing our costs down.

Hopefully someone picked up the round shield that I left there. Oops.

Huzzah to all!

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Yup - figured it had to be yours (the 2005 Chaos Wars sticker was a giveaway). I meant to take it home, but someone else has surely got it. Oh, and I have your shopping bag of odds and ends too.
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Re: Northern California Battle - September 17th - 19th, 2010

Postby Juggernaut » Wed Sep 22, 2010 11:06 am

aargh. I never leave stuff at events. I am a meathead.

Looks like I am coming to a practice!
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Re: Northern California Battle - September 17th - 19th, 2010

Postby Aurvandil » Thu Jun 30, 2011 5:46 pm

hey are you guys doing this again this year?
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Re: Northern California Battle - September 17th - 19th, 2010

Postby Kyrax » Fri Jul 01, 2011 12:41 pm

Aurvandil wrote:hey are you guys doing this again this year?


Trying to figure that out - let me touch base with Tati.

We might do one later though - I'm unavailable from mid-sept to early October.
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Re: Northern California Battle - September 17th - 19th, 2010

Postby Aurvandil » Sat Jul 02, 2011 1:00 am

ah premium. how often do you guys meet for practices and the like?
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Re: Northern California Battle - September 17th - 19th, 2010

Postby Kyrax » Tue Jul 05, 2011 2:29 pm

Aurvandil wrote:ah premium. how often do you guys meet for practices and the like?

There are weekly practices in several locations around the Bay Area, and we're getting together roughly monthly for a more organized battle.
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Re: Northern California Battle - September 17th - 19th, 2010

Postby Aurvandil » Tue Jul 05, 2011 8:20 pm

where besides milpitas?
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Re: Northern California Battle - September 17th - 19th, 2010

Postby Kyrax » Wed Jul 06, 2011 11:49 am

Aurvandil wrote:where besides milpitas?


We have campouts in Milpitas, not practices.

Regular practices are held in Sunnyvale (Mallenorod), Santa Cruz (Salamandastron), San Ramon (Saracor), Benicia (Mallenorod - North), Novato (Juggernaut), and Santa Rosa (Raen Dun'Aear). We've also talked about doing something in San Francisco, and have had feelers for setting up things in some of the Central Valley towns.
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Re: Northern California Battle - September 17th - 19th, 2010

Postby Aurvandil » Wed Jul 06, 2011 7:56 pm

YES! Saracor! when do they meet, do you know? I live mostly in pleasanton.
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Re: Northern California Battle - September 17th - 19th, 2010

Postby No'Vak » Thu Jul 07, 2011 2:25 pm

Aurvandil wrote:YES! Saracor! when do they meet, do you know? I live mostly in pleasanton.


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Re: Northern California Battle - September 17th - 19th, 2010

Postby Kyrax » Thu Jul 07, 2011 3:37 pm

Aurvandil wrote:YES! Saracor! when do they meet, do you know? I live mostly in pleasanton.


No'Vak has provided the long term answer. But to make it really simple, they meet in San Ramon's Central Park and are fighting both today, 7/7, and Saturday 7/9 from 4PM to 7PM. Be There!
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Re: Northern California Battle - September 17th - 19th, 2010

Postby Kyrax » Mon Jul 11, 2011 9:43 am

Kyrax wrote:
Aurvandil wrote:YES! Saracor! when do they meet, do you know? I live mostly in pleasanton.


No'Vak has provided the long term answer. But to make it really simple, they meet in San Ramon's Central Park and are fighting both today, 7/7, and Saturday 7/9 from 4PM to 7PM. Be There!


Oops. They're moving practices to Boone Acres Park on Davona Drive. Check the Saracor Facebook page for locations, dates and times of practices. They're trying to do weekday evening practices, build nights as well as weekend practices. We're also working on holding a Bay Area wide battle every month.
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