Re: Broken Bones

[Michael Surbrook <susano@otd.com>]

Poster: Michael Surbrook <susano@otd.com>

On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, David KUIJT wrote:

> Hi all, Dafydd here, dodging more writing on my dissertation. 
> (O Procrastinator Vile!)

His squire Michael makes a note to inform Elizabeth...
 
[...]

> Lest someone think that I am a safety-minded individual, in the same
> period I've blown my ankle once (polevaulting on my marshal's staff, not
> fighting.  Bad plan -- don't try this at home). I dislocated my shoulder,
> but that was playing rollerhockey.  Two years before I started fighting I
> broke my wrist like a twig playing football with some friends, too.  I've
> broken a collarbone sticking a stick through the spokes of my bicycle
> going full-tilt downhill with no hands, too, but that (although STUPID) 
> wasn't fighting. 

<sigh> Fellow ap Gwystl squires, what are we to *do* with him?  Patch him
up, feed him some warm cocoa and send him back into the fray I guess.

Sticking a stick into your bike spokes?  Why?
 
[...]

> And all the above are ex-Monarchs from this Kingdom.  So anyway, I don't
> see that broken bones are a necessary price of this game, or even of
> success playing it. 

I myself have cracked a bone in the wrist getting hit in an area where my
armor gapped.  I have since fixed this problem.  I also got my finger
(pinke) cracked, but that was because I was wearing lacross glvoes instead
of steel gauntlets while using a great sword and got to greedy at the
barrier.  Oh, and I've been fighting for something like 10 years...

Michael Limner, esq
House ap Gwystl

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                   "There are monkeyboys in the facility..."
      from _The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension_

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