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Here is a photo my wife took of me at the Kansas City Renaissance Festival when we bumped into the Archive denizen known as Lord Thomas the Black.

http://www.mediumaevum.com/josh/AA1.jpg

Here's one a friend took of me and my wife, Ann Marie:

http://www.mediumaevum.com/josh/Ren1.jpg

My harness is better than those on the jousters there. I couldn't walk ten feet without somebody stopping me and asking if I'd pose for pictures with them. Sometimes, I even got kissed by (more or less...) cute chicks in bodices...

It's fun to do that. It's also fairly easy to have a better looking harness than a jouster--if you don't joust. But that doesn't make you any less of a rock star at the faire. Plus, as a paying guest, you have the right, even the duty, to drink to a good buzz in a way that faire workers cannot.

Jehan de Pelham, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham wrote:...to drink to a good buzz in a way that faire workers cannot.

Jehan de Pelham, squire of Sir Vitus

You have been sadly misinformed, Squire. That is exactly the duty of Faire workers...

You have been sadly misinformed, Squire. That is exactly the duty of Faire workers...

So, where they hiring???

That is a nice looking kit. And I too, often get asked to pose for pictures, but usually it's little ol' ladies & kids....the kisses are so infrequent as to not even be worth mentioning!

Hey Josh! I was wondering when you'd get around to posting that. I'd almost forgotten how good your kit looked!

Sorry it took me so long, Thomas. I just this week learned how to upload photos. Hope to see you at Kris Kinder this weekend.

Josh_Warren wrote:Sorry it took me so long, Thomas. I just this week learned how to upload photos. Hope to see you at Kris Kinder this weekend.

I'll be there! I have 22 knights' chains to enter in the largess competition. See you there!

I enjoy "buzzing the Rennies" as well - we have a substantial ren faire nearby every summer, and I often show up in my "only-sort-of Crusader" outfit: butted mail hauberk, coif and heraldic surcoat, boots and a longsword. I make some of the staff nervous, I think...but really enjoy posing for pictures with folks.

I went to the Ohio Renn. Faire dressed as a Crusader, and one of the 16th C. ladies said "My, you've certainly been gone a long time, my lord"!

Imagine that, a rennie recognizing that a crusader is out of place in Elizabethan England.

I'd rather people show up dressed as Crusaders than "gothed-up" pixies or 18th-century pirates...

At a renn faire, I'd rather show up as a gothed up pixie...

I wasn't frowning upon the crusader, rather praising the actress. The pixies do bother me a bit unless they are cute then they just bother the wife. The klingons on the other hand...[/img]

Well, I'd better not tell you about the two stormtroopers asking if people saw any droids . . .

Oops.

It was actually pretty funny, one of the workers perked up when they mentioned an "emperor" and I caught them pointing to the sky a few times in their conversation. Historical? No, but funny.

Mike F wrote:Well, I'd better not tell you about the two stormtroopers asking if people saw any droids . . .

Oops.

It was actually pretty funny, one of the workers perked up when they mentioned an "emperor" and I caught them pointing to the sky a few times in their conversation. Historical? No, but funny.

Darth Charlemagne, and his apprentice, Darth Maximillian?

Matt Broadway wrote:At a renn faire, I'd rather show up as a gothed up pixie...

Does anyone else get the desire to wash out their brain with bleach at the mental picture generated herein?

Kevin O'Shaughnessy (someone needs to make an icon for burning eyes!)

Its not to hard to have a better looking harness than a jouster when its not getting as beat up as thiuers .. but still looks nice