Chair Jousting

Have at thee!
by Smoo

Have a jousting tournament!

Last night around 10 pm, we decided to finally try out luck at jousting. We've been floating different ideas on how to do it, from using cars with 10 foot iron rods to wheelchairs and crutches, but we settled on using two rolling office chairs from my house and a pair of boffers left over from goofing off at college. There can be only one champion!


Mil'vardea and I called one of our friends (lets call him 'Fro-mage' until we think up a good pseudonym) and asked him to join us and rope a fourth person into our antics. He agreed and we set out to the Local Preppy College to do battle in one of their parking lots. The night was freezing cold (literally) and a fell wind carried the stench of . . . frat boys, I think. Fro-mage arrived fashionably late with a strange girl he found on the internet and we started the joust.

Each team had two people. One person would sit on a backwards chair, so they had some protection offered by the back rest, while their partner pushed them forward. We got off to a rocky start with Fro-mage knocking his new friend over by pushing too hard, but we got the hang of going forward quickly. Steering was another issue however, as the first jousts ended with frantic near misses and collisions.

Eventually we mastered charging toward each other with our lances and spearing the opponent in the chest (or neck, or elbow, or groin, whatever happened to be in the way). It was awesome fun, though we forgot to keep score since its hard to judge who would have won each pass and it was nigh impossible to break a lance or unhorse each other. We plan to do this again with more people, more equal rolling chairs, and maybe rules as well.

..::heartsinfall::..