We have gotten a rather strange request...

So, Chi Omega saw our article in the paper, and, due to this year's homecoming theme being Miners of the Round Table, were wondering if we would fight with them and/or for them at their house's front yard and/or roof this Thursday at one of their homecoming parties. Afterwards, we can have refreshments, etc. They sounded really interested in us and said they wanted to learn more about us, so we might want to consider having an additional practice or something there. If you don't know, Chi Omega is a sorority, so we might be able to get some more girls interested in the club. Thoughts?

i'm game, maybe not as much for the roof fighting though....lol although im wondering what time and what sort of party

I most definitely am game for this.

According to Iohn, Kappa Sigma has asked us to do something similar, hopefully he will give us some more info on that. So, things may be complicated.

I vote no on Kappa Sigma and yes to Chi Omega. My reasoning is simple: We need more GIRLS on campus involved in boffer club, and while boys are always awesome to have more of, I think it would do our club some good to try and get some more girls interested in the sport. I can't think of a better way to do that than to help them win a contest.

point, kairi

I think that's a pretty good point. So, I'll try to get some specifics from the person that contacted me, and maybe we can see who's interested at practice.

If you have the time to do both why not? Seems stupid to deny yourselves a chance to recruit.

I must say, my first reaction when I heard about this was "No, we are not here simply for your amusement" But, after reading the actual post, I think it's not a bad Idea. Of course, garb should be required IMO.

Yeah, it will be a fun chance to fight and recruit, but only if they take us seriously, i'm not really into just being a decoration

I definitely agree on not being decoration and on wearing garb. The person I talked to said they'll come to practice tomorrow at 3:45 to go over details. (I'm trying to see if they can come a bit later when more people will be there) So, if possible, we could use some people there earlier than 4, also, has anybody made any loaner gear? I've got a roll of foam for anybody willing to make stuff.

i always carry guns with my dag stuff, just in case....and that is a negative on the loner, cause i don't have any dap, and three of my weapons had core separation...3! all in the same day

o and i'll try to be there early

They agreed to show up between 4 and 4:30, actually, in the hopes that they could just present to the entire club. Make sure to drag everybody you can to practice.

[b]Chi Omega is so excited that you guys want to come! We also think you guys should dress the part! Hopefully we will have a sweet moat and bridge built by tomorrow afternoon. Can you guys let us know how many people are coming from your group so that we know how much to make for dinner? Crab rangoon seems to be a favorite here, so I want to make sure there's enough! We are excited about this and can't wait to learn more about your organization!

Hey we can make some weapons tomorrow if you guys want to show us how and tell us what kind of supplies we need to get! Let us know!

well I for one am going!

and as far as making weapons for us thanks! it can be a tad tricky the first time but it can be done. generally the supplies needed is as follows for a regular sword:

30 inches of .5" pvc
blue camping foam, non-egg crate. the flat blue stuff
Dap - (contact cement, in the red can, original formula)

pvc is at lowes, and the rest is at wal-mart.

Now we aren't saying you have to make us weapons or anything but if any of you ever wanted to join that is the stuff u'd need. for tutorials i suggest you join the fb group: https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=124039484411&v=app_2373072738

that is the M S&T boffer members, feel free to post whatever and all the links to the how-to pages are in the "boxes" tab at the top

Correct me if I'm wrong ladies, but I think they meant that they wanted to make weapons for themselves, so that they can fight with us. If you do want to make weapons for yourselves, you can find some tutorials here:
http://www.dagorhir.com/gear/

I would recommend if you really want to make swords that you start with this tutorial here:
http://www.dagorhir.com/gear/content/weapon_tutorials/howtomakeabluesword.swf

The flash tutorial is pretty straightforward and tells you just about everything you need to know to do it right the first time. If you decide to make them, do it somewhere you don't have to worry about making a small mess, and be prepared to spend at least 2 hours. Foamsmithing can be a lot of fun, but not everyone enjoys it. If you guys don't have weapons by tomorrow, don't worry too much, we have enough to lend to other people.

it would appear i read their post wrong......i feel silly

yeah and i would recommend you also make these in a well ventalated area if you use dap, it is quite strong.

can we have details posted here? like when and where we will meet, etc? i will also send out the info to the fb group if you want

Odin wrote:

can we have details posted here? like when and where we will meet, etc? i will also send out the info to the fb group if you want

Ask your roommate's girlfriend about the details. She knows. She always knows.

http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=65401&hourly=1&yday=294&weekday=Thursday

so yeah.....it's gonna rain all day, do we have a back up plan? or are we just going to cancel?

What is it with you guys and backing out of a practice every time there's a little water outside? Fight in the rain, don't be a weenie. No more canceling practice on account of weather, please. Most of us are still happy to come to practice when the weather's bad. Those who feel the need to chicken out have no right telling those who don't when they can and can't fight. It frustrates and confuses people when you tell them not to practice and they can clearly tell that the weather is fine.
Rain? fine.
Snow? fine.
Sleet? fine.
Hail? fine.
Freezing cold? fine.
Zombie Apocalypse? fine. (Also, kudos to our fearless leader for showing up to and disappearing from practice without getting tagged by any of the 6+ zombies at practice yesterday)
150 degree heat index? not fine.
Flash Floods? not fine.
Ball Lightning? not fine.
Erupting Volcano? not fine.
Cthulhu? not fine.

Don't get me wrong, I don't expect everyone to come to every practice, but some of you guys are vets of Flood Gates and Iron Fish, you should not be backing down because of a light drizzle.

There, Angus Rant.

tl;dr: we will not cancel. we will fight in the rain, and we will like it!

Well, also, we can't cancel because we said we'd be there, we are not going to be an unreliable club! Oh, and for Chi Omega, we have at least 6 people coming, but we may have around 8 by the time we get there.

Angus wrote:

Ask your roommate's girlfriend about the details. She knows. She always knows.

Lulz. Thanks. XD

DETAILS:
We're meeting at Havener at 4:00PM IN GARB AND WITH WEAPONS. From there, we'll walk to Chi Omega. If need be, I'll bring my car so we can pack it full of any and all weapons we possess. If you have extra garb, bring it, because several of the people who are willing to come and do this don't have spiff-tacular garb (though they should get some, because they're slacking >.>).

In regards to weather:
Rain is stupid. I will never show up to a rainy practice. Snow? Maybe. But fighting in the rain for two hours is a great way to guarantee you'll get sick, and since the level of awesome at practice is far less than the level of awesome at Flood Gates and Iron Fish, I'm not willing to risk it.
Our official policy is to cancel practice if it's below freezing or if it's above 95 degrees. However, once we're an RSO, we'll never have to cancel practice because we can reserve indoor fighting space at miner rec or some place. Thus, that's only temporary.
In short: Kiley will always be at practice. The rest of us might not be.

Hi, my name is Leslie and I'm a chi-o. (yes, we have all been using the same username) I just want to say that I am SO excited for today. I can't wait to learn how to fight! I was just wondering what you guys do in the winter? Do you have indoor practices? And how often do you usually practice? What is your favorite thing about boffing? I'm really interested in the sport! sorry to be so obnoxious

As far as making weapons, maybe you could teach us how to make them after our boffing world premiere. I think we're kind of in a time crunch and we wouldn't want to be fighting with primitive weapons. I personally would want to have enough time to learn how to do it right, rather than quickly.

Anyways, I hope you have fun today and we both learn more about eachother's organizations. Maybe we'll make some new friends too!