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From: brad@sdcrdcf.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.games.frp,net.followup
Subject: Re: IFGS - Real life role playing
Message-ID: <1140@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 13-Jun-84 21:50:15 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 13 21:50:15 1984
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Reply-To: brad@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Brad Spear)
Organization: System Development Corporation, Santa Monica
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RE: SCA
> ... The group have
>real battles with REAL swords, battle axes, etc., and of course REAL
>armour as well. ...

NO! - NO! - NO!  Anyone caught with ANY live steel (real swords, knives,
etc.) is quickly removed from the field in an SCA combat.  In our local
kingdom, no one to my knowledge has brought live steel onto the field.
It's too dangerous.

The weapons are sticks of rattan, shapped with foam and wrapped in duct tape.
This is not nearly as dangerous (and never fatal) as live steel is.  The
armor however, is real.

Brad Spear
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