by: Eric "Johan" Stegehuis
*puts down piece of chocolate cake*
We started the day in the lands of Eagle’s Rook being introduced to Avendroth fae and signing up for all of the tournaments at once, which I highly appreciate because it minimized downtime between formats. Combat began with a double elimination 2pt armor single short duel extravaganza which was quite fun, but did take a significant amount of time. Thankfully, the event staff realized this and moved to unarmored combat for the rest of the day and played with double versus single elimination until they found what I believe to be a good balance of double elim no armor with one or two fights running at a time. Side note, I am extra happy we didn’t do armor for the double dagger contest because I would like to keep my knuckles. We had a litany of marshals, many from Eagle’s Rook and one of them looking suspiciously like if Saegan had anime hair, who helped the day run very smoothly and explained the format to every combat. Everyone fought honorably (including the weather) and seemed to enjoy the fights and the rounds of snacks and food produced by the kitchen to keep us sustained.
Throughout the day, adventurers took part in the alchemy dungeon (I don’t remember its actual name) which tested your creativity and knowledge of alchemical recipes as well as magical thinking. I love these kinds of “escape room” puzzle tourneys and look forward to seeing the next evolution of this. The other noncom tournament was due before the event started and challenged us to recall the history of Eagle’s Rook, the winning contestant of which I believe was published earlier this week.
I would be remiss if I did not mention the dog on the field. His name is Camo and he is everyone’s best friend, they might just not know it yet. He got to meet so many people and was the perfect little fluff (ignore that he’s not that little) to go cuddle with between fights. Seriously it was nice to see adventurers taking turns walking around or playing with the dog friend. I love him.
Eventually, it was time for the final tournament: any combo double elim and points are awarded based on how many kills you get before elimination, which is interesting and fun if you ask me. As for winners, I believe Shandar won most of the tournaments and so deservingly got first place overall; the reward for which was first pick of the many chocolate treats laid out by the event staff. I picked out a large piece of flourless chocolate cake made by Fern and it was absolutely delicious. Other participants took their picks and eventually everybody who wanted a treat got one. I look forward to more events hosted by Eagle’s Rook! Anyways, I gotta finish this cake.
*picks up cake again*
Oh btw did I forget the mention there was a dog?
