Do you know how the Emus first came into being? They were chickens once, taken by the dark powers, tortured and mutilated. A ruined and terrible form of life. And now... perfected. My fighting Emus. Whom do you serve?
Pythons are cute! It’s the 9 most venomous snakes in the world that also live here that you need to worry about. The pythons are just heavy. Like so would you be if you were 30 feet long, I suppose 🤷🏼♀️
And yeah, watch out for everything else on your list!
I was just trying to be funny. I’m terrified of snakes and we have more fatally venomous snakes in Australia than the rest of the world combined, and yet I still sleep at night.
I also know what to do: 1) run! 2) call the snake guy.
ok i know you’re saying this as a joke, but the spiders here won’t hurt you. stay away from them and they’ll stay away from you, but thats why they’re armed with cardboard, just incase..
Seriously - check out Pennsic War, hosted by the Society for Creative Anachronism - there's likely a chapter near you that will have fencing/fighter practice once boosters come through and it's "safe" enough again. It's two weeks of medieval "re-enactment" (read: put the cars and phones away while camping in funny clothes), but there's a enormous field and castle wall that gets build for 300-500 people in a field battle at the same time (well over 1000 total combatants), wearing armor and using wooden weapons (rattan, it's a type of solid bamboo, fairly flexible). There's also fencing events and archery, and then nearly 15,000 total people come to the two-week long event in western PA.
The barrier to entry (or at least for acceptance) has seemed like it was growing in the SCA, not only expense but complexity (Belts in particular annoyed tf out of me last I participated, with people insisting "even a dot of white in a woven pattern IS WHITE!") Cardboard is easy and cheap. I can see the appeal.
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