The most the insurance company will let me get away with for an open competition is split bamboo shanai's. These will be dipped in blue powder to ensure folks know when they have been hit. There will however be several different historical recreationst and martial art groups on site who will be doing live steel demos and workshoppes. -----Original Message----- From: MedCat7 at aol.com Sent: Dec 28, 2004 7:04 AM To: carpovita at earthlink.net, dragaera at dragaera.info Subject: Re: A Weekend in Dragaera! If I can think of any ideas, I will certainly let you know! As for the fighting; are there going to be real swords, imatations or foam padded? In a message dated 12/28/2004 12:56:57 AM Eastern Standard Time, carpovita at earthlink.net writes: >Well folks it's official... > >Opus 2006 will be hosting a weekend full of Dragaera-centric events. >Opus is helf every May in Denver Colorado. > >Thus far the planned events include: > >- A dragaeran feast > >- Panels on Dragaera hosted by SKZB himself > >- A Weekend long full immersion LARP set in Dragaera in which all players will get to be cast as and compete against various Dragaerans (and easterners) from the novels... And YES our beloved Steve will be PLAYING... > >- The Premiere of several games that were first introduced in the books, many of which will be played in Vlad's on site pub and gambling establishment, the Dicing Dragon. > >- A Dragaera based costume contest > >- A Dzur dueling pit and dueling competion for a cash purse (Open to non Dzur as well, swords only no magic) > >- Additional panels on art and writing... > >- And anything else that I and you fine folks on the list can come up with between now and then. > >Respond to my email here if you have ideas, quetions or comments about this event. >Thanks in advance for your interest and help. > >Rion ~ www.opusfest.com >