Okay, now that I've gotten that out of my system (what kind of freak can guess Cabana Boy during Charades?)...

Had a blast at the Picnic. Thank God I'm on the West Coast, though.

I also wanted to say that the way Charades was run last night (and not just because I got second) was probably the best it's been since the first Picnic I went to (which I think was the first Mentor sponsored Lirisa Picnic ever, with the oak compasses). We actually had to think about it instead of just plugging sign messages into a search engine. And Seei did a great job.

Thanks, Mentors.


Qreyq

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Come to the Pack House!
http://www.rakashpack.8m.com/

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<<<(what kind of freak can guess Cabana Boy during Charades?)...>>>

Even worse what kind of freak can figure out how to give the clues for Cabana Boy? ... Um that would be me

::ducks::

Seei

I am glad you all had a good time.. I had a blast .. anyone know how to get this leather lotion out of my hair?

ARG! I missed it... AGAIN!! I'm fated to never actually attend a Lirisa Picnic. ::grunts and stomps around:: I was even off work too.. but I only read boards while at work, so wasn't reading any reminders. I'm sucha bad ranga.

~Kywolf

May I direct your attention to the calendar, November 3. Details to be posted in the coming days.

V
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"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition."

- Henry V, William Shakespeare

In the interest of time and resources, I've taken the Nekkid Ranger Race out of the Lirisa Picnic agenda, but will be submitting it as a separate event sooner than soon.

V

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"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition."

- Henry V, William Shakespeare

Can I still be naked for the other events?

-Mvorn

Here's some info on the various contests to be held during the Lirisa Picnic.

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*Tall Tales Told Truly (Story Telling Contest)*

Tell your best tall tale in 10 minutes or less. Points will be deducted for each minute over 10.

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*Scavenger Hunt*

Eight items will need to be retrieved during this mad dash through Therengia. Clues will be given as to the location of the items. One hour time limit, points awared on number of items gathered and order of return. Are you up to the challenge?

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*Skinning and Tanning*

A two-fold contest, you will show off a trophy skinnable and also construct an item from supplies provided. There will be three tiers for this competition; Circle 1-40, 41-80, 81 and above.

For the skinning portion of the competition, you will need to bring with you to the picnic a trophy to be judged. Choose from the following list:

*Circle 1-40*

rat, frog, goblin, antelope, jackal, cougar, black bear, Haven ram, blood wolf, snowbeast, serpent, silver leucro, crocodile, snow goblin, shaggy barghest, small peccary, heggarangi boar, la?tami, frostweyr bear, gargoyle

*Circle 41-80*

black leucro, river boa, lesser shadow hound, red leucro, clouded arzumos, caracal, viscious warcats, golden pard, blight ogre, nightstalker unyn, nightreaver unyn, lanky grey lache, young forest gryphon, giant blade spider, dobek moryun, elsralaels, long fanged warcats, scavenger troll, hulking barghest, azure merrow

*Circle 80 and above*

adan?f blood warrior, adan?f shadow mage, marbled angiswaerd, sleek hele?la, dolomars, muscular firecats, bristle-back peccary, saber-toothed warcats, germish?din, shadow beast, cinder beast, celpeze, basilisk, seordmaors, polo?izh, armadillo

Points will be awarded based on quality of the trophy.

The tanning portion will involve crafting an item from materials provided by your event crew. Already tanned hides and pelts will be provided along with patterns and other necessities to craft an item.

Points will be awarded based on quality of the item.

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*Archery Tournament*

Stick bow or crossbow allowed. You may only participate in one category.

Tiers as follows:

Circle 1-20
Circle 21-40
Circle 41-60
Circle 61-80
Circle 81-100
Circle 101+

Flites of 3 archers will shoot, archer with the highest score moving on. The three archers in each circle tier will compete in the finals to determine first, second and third place. Your event team will provide color-coded arrows or bolts to be used. Points to be awarded depending on target ring hit.

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Any questions, find me, Pfanston, or Hanryu IG or direct them to this board or my play.net email address.

~V~

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"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition."

- Henry V, William Shakespeare

I was told they weren't skinnable, however, I'll accept a trophy from malchata.

~V~

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"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition."

- Henry V, William Shakespeare

Malchata are very easy to web, very easy to kill with ranged, and very easy to skin perfectly with arrange. The only difficult thing about them is if they hit you.

The date of the Lirisa Picnic in Lang is fast approaching. Here's the link to the events that will happen during the picnic. Hope to see you all there!

https://www.play.net/forums/messages.asp?forum=20&category=13&topic=13&message=438

~V~


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"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition."

- Henry V, William Shakespeare

I just wanted to post a big huge thank you to everyone who helped me out last night. I received a number of very nice comments and I think the event was a success.

Thank you to my mentor brothers and sisters (in no particular order), Hanryu, Pfanston, Seei, Leucius, Worrclan, Chabelle, Juason, Janora, Barola and Wyndz.

And when you see them, please thank my non-mentor friends who offered their time when I was panicking; Ryalle, Mordibar, Mazrian, and Shianalee.

Last but certainly not least, my thanks to Maece and Eleara for the wonderful prizes and help getting the picnic off the ground.

The picnic wouldn't have happened with all of your help. My thanks!

V


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"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition."

- Henry V, William Shakespeare

I also wanted to thank all of the mentors for pull the Picnic off so well, the gift, and good times. And a thats to everyone that showed up as well.

I also wanted to apologize for zoning out and finally leaving without saying much. My dad took me by supprise, by walking in with 3 pheasants. Not a big deal normally, but he had a cataract removed 10 days ago. He was whining about missing hunting season, so I sent him off with my old single shot .410. That will teach me, you'd think I wouldn't under estimate the old fart by now. ;)

-Cordin

Niles and I would like to thank you, Valynn, and all the Mentors for such a great event. I hate that more people didn't show for such a well-organized, fun evening. Kudos to the poet for the scavenger hunt riddles. More kudos to Maz and Han for a well-run archery tournament. Being able to yell at the contestants from the peanut gallery is priceless.

The gifts were excellent-- who doesn't need a new rangerly camb? Not enough of those out there. Love the map case -- I'm cramming all my gazillion horse vouchers in it! (Notice hidden plea to make transferring ownership easier and more convenient to the source of the horse flesh.)

Looking forward to the Nekkid Race.
Keep up the good work, Mentors!

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Master Craftsman Thryntyrlz BagMaker steps out from under Caelfind's road-worn traveler's cloak.

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Tvini gets a Nilerbone brain from inside her canvas sack.
Tvini pokes her Nilerbone brain.
Nilerbone sneezes!

It was alot of fun, and a good chance to socialize with some of these reclusive rangers. The gifts and prizes were awesome.

I just wish I'd have known the skinning contest and tanning contests were linked. Heh, I had an absolutely fabulous skin. I was quite proud of it. I should make Pfanston give it back.


~Van

I got my skin back. How did yours app, Vandyman?

Also, who won archery?


~Dulcinia

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[Mvorn] "Dulcinia is the only woman I would allow myself to cheat on my wife with, she's dreamy"

Not everyone comes here to hug and smooch and give pretend birth on the floor of the bank in Ratha.
-Galren Moonskin

<<<Circle 81-100
First place: Valashay>>>

Really? I sat there for 2 hours waiting for this bracket to come up, and whwen it did, I was told there was no other people in this group. I was then asked if I wanted to compete in the 101 and over, I said yes, and then was never called.

Asterid

Also, please remember to watch the conflicts ~Sidatura

No worries Valynn. I was told I won the bracket by default since there was no other competition in the circle bracket. I would have gladly competed against Valashay in the 81-100 bracket or Falkonis and Vandyl in the 101 + bracket. I think the archery tournament was very well done. I enjoyed watching everyone compete, and the occasional "hey watch where you're shooting that thing!" to the folks that missed the target. And there whos bolt went astray and "speared a bluejay."

I wish I had remembered and woken up sooner, as I would have liked to attend some of the other events. Hopefully, next one.

Asterid

Also, please remember to watch the conflicts ~Sidatura

Although I lost the archery contest, I must say, I did enjoy the fact that there was a randomness to it. I mean the range I hit in the green (instead of a bullseye) was funny, considering Van and I were still hitting bullseyes when we pushed the target further out, after the event was over.

Randomness does make things a bit more interesting and fun.

Falker

<<No worries Valynn. I was told I won the bracket by default since there was no other competition in the circle bracket.>>

I remember hearing someone mention this too.


<<Randomness does make things a bit more interesting and fun.>>

I don't know if it's complete randomness or not. But I'm more of a fan of the idea of larger range of potential accuracy, than more true randomness. One that expands as targets get further, and narrows as they get closer, but always calculated based on stat/skills. Kind of like creatures, sometimes you don't always apoc the things you'd expect to, and vice versa, sometimes you do on things you usually don't. It's just that in combat, there is so much more to factor that makes the range very expansive(stuns, encumberance, fatigue, balance, etc...).


~Van

>>>I turned in a malchata rib that appraised 1485 lirums. That was my best one at least.

Wow. Mine had that exact appraisal.


~Dulcinia

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[Mvorn] "Dulcinia is the only woman I would allow myself to cheat on my wife with, she's dreamy"

Not everyone comes here to hug and smooch and give pretend birth on the floor of the bank in Ratha.
-Galren Moonskin