Fresno City Renfaire

(this is being posted a little late)

The second day of the Fresno city Renfaire was a blast just like the first one. I showed up early in the morning before the others had woken and met Shane in the encampment. We got up, looked at each other and looked around.

Me: "didn't we have four tables?"

Shane: "We did when I fell asleep at 1AM"

We then chanced a look over to the Dublin Garrison's (English invaders) camp, their stood half of our encampment, set out innocently around their own stuff. In the middle of it all stood a grinning Englishman with a video camera. After viewing their early morning hijinks on the camera(they video-recorded it), both groups helped lug all of our equipment back(including our anvil)

With this start to our festivities, we then set of it a pretty jovial mood. We played a round of 'Dragon's Treasure" where we all dived for a ball protected by a single player. I was wearing my chainmail and couldn't move worth a darn, but O well. On a definite plus side, I got to be in a large brawl with the Dublin garrison. That was a blast and I really enjoyed myself as I got to face someone much bigger than I was in grappling. It looked great. We had really big Gig involving several guilds as someone stole several important items and the guild leaders blamed each other. After some discussion a compromise was reached: They all decided to blame the Gypsies. We immediately fanned out to round up all the gyspies we could find and try them mob-justice style. Chasing the Gyspies throughout the Faire had drawn a huge crowd and we all smiled as they cowered from the Tauth Bean(Irish women), who having finished lunch, were furious that the Gypsy hearing was going on so long. I made a mental note to always be afraid of anyone who considers missing lunch deserving of capital punishment.

All in all, it was a great time and I'm really glad I joined in. The next Faire is in Tulare County, where we will be doing a lot of fighting. I look forward to it.