So, we played two games of Robin Hood on Saturday - here’s the report from the first game.
The scenario is thus:
The Lady Marian is being escorted through Sherwood to Nottingham by Sir Robert Montfichet (played by yours truly), a couple of his knights, and a strong escort hastily – and only slightly incongruously - recruited from Eric the Shed’s Brettonians (since some of Malamute’s men-at-arms had failed to show up on time from the errant painting elves!)
Inside the castle walls, lurks the villainous Sheriff (Jimbibbly), his knights, archers and men-at-arms.
In the forest skulk two bands of outlaws led respectively by Robin Hood (Dr De’Ath) and Fucking Massive John (Malamute)
In the village there are two parties of knights. King Richard and some crusaders are at prayer in the church (played by Damas), whilst a roving band of itinerant mercenary Danish knights are carousing in the adjacent tavern (played, appropriately enough, by that carousing Danish mercenary, Dr The Viking…)
Can Sir Robert safely deliver Marian into the hands of her unintended, the rascally Sheriff Bibbly?
Can the various criminals lurking in the forest effect a daring rescue?
On which side will King Richard, his crusaders, and the mercenary knights come down?
Here we go then…
A general view of the BLAM environs, packed with happy LAFers. The Robin Hood game is in the foreground…
Malamute, in his traditional medieval English headgear, makes a final adjustment to the position of a tree. Very important this…
A rather splendid view of Jimbibbly’s reworked GW fortress.
No, I don’t know why there is a pack of wolves running round with a bunch of monks in the middle of the table. This was a detail that completely passed me by…
Sir Robert leads his motley column, the Lady Marian safely held in the middle, towards the gates of Nottingham and the looming, godlike apparition of Jimbibbly, the wicked Sheriff himself…
The Sheriff promptly sends out his mounted knights to escort the column in…
But in the depths of the dark forest, something is stirring…
Abruptly, King Richard and his crusaders spill out of the church, looking for heroic deeds to undertake. Oh, that’s lucky – a damsel in distress being led to a fate worse than death. Clearly intervention is required… Blasted do-gooders
Richard leads his men to seize the gates… Just as the Sheriff’s archers are pouring out of them… Could be messy.
Speaking of messy, Robin Hood and assorted merry men have emerged from the forest, and Sir Robert and his men wheel in to meet them, leaving the column to proceed unimpeded. This did not end well for Sir Robert who, along with his men, was surrounded by a mob of varlets, pulled from his horse and slain (although not before he’d despatched Little John and Friar Tuck – ha ha!)
Next, the dratted Danes emerge half-pissed from the tavern and start milling around in a threatening manner. Which side are they going to come down on?
Aha! The Danes are heading off towards the castle. Perhaps that’s where they think the money is. Or the beer. (We find that Danes are hugely motivated by beer…)
Meanwhile, Richard and his crusaders are making short work of the Sheriff’s archers in the castle gateway… So the Sheriff’s knights charge back to join in the fray, evening things up a bit.
King Richard cuts his way into the castle where he is met by some more robust opponents…
A quick peek over the castle wall shows the Danes hot-footing it towards the fray… But which side will they join?
And here comes Marian and her escort, recklessly peppered with arrows by the outlaws lurking on the fringe of the forest…
Richard still hacking away, most of his crusaders dead, and about to be speared through the back by Sir William Le Singe…
Aha, the valiant Danes wheel left to take on the robber band of Fucking Massive John, who have been attempting to sneak up on the gateway…
Fucking Massive John soon buys it. That's two little Johns killed in one game - good work!
Marian’s escort reaches the gateway but can’t force a way through because of the huge scrum blocking the entrance…
Meanwhile, rather late in the day, Robin Hood and the remains of his merry men rush forward to the rescue…
But they’ve left it too late! With Richard finally slain, and the Sheriff Bibbly repeatedly crying ‘I’m the King!’ in a squeaky voice, Marian is unceremoniously hustled inside the gate to meet her groom-to-be…
The gates are slammed shut behind her (only trapping a few of the Sheriff’s men outside – he’s all heart that one) and that, ladies and gentlemen, is game over.
Victory to the forces of repression, inexplicably aided and abetted by a parcel of Danish rogues…
I should say that in the second game, Robin Hood, as played by Dodge, outwitted the rascally Sheriff, as played by Bullshot, rescued Marian in spectacular fashion and fairly short order, and hightailed it back into Sherwood with his prize.
So at the end of the day, it was one all between goodies and baddies. Which is probably how it should be.
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April 28, 2024, 05:51:48 PM
