With that I declare the Winterhaven Jousting Tournament officially OVER!
First of all I want to thank you all for your encouraging words and compliments but mainly for your participation that has made this event possible.
There are a couple of people that I need to thank individually:
I will start things of with my Wife and Kids who helped with some set ups and have been very supportive throughout this whole ordeal.
Tim (Tiermann) – for starters for trading with me so I could have a couple of more options in the joust, also for quickly latching on to the idea and helping me out in my start up threads. For taking it one step further and starting the league and already scheduling the second tournament. Finally for his awesome overviews during the events that really helped people to have a clue what was going on.
Arnaud (Cowabounga) – for sending me a lot of stuff including Sir Jaknoi and his squire and basically all custom heraldry seen during the tournament. For the discussions we had about how things should look which I really enjoyed. And the great photo story about Sir Christopher.
Martin Milner – for also supporting the idea from the start and trading some knights with me to further complete my collection. Your short photo story was great and was a great trend setter for the other participants
MamaDragon (Ronastoo) – for our chats on IRC which really helped shape your champion into the simple klicky he is…JustFred! Also a big thanks for trading with me
Elaine (skypurr) – for trading with me the old black/red/white caparison and of course the great photo story about Sir Fergus. Also our collaboration on “The Winterhaven Joust” was a fun experience for me.
Ali Baba – for coming to help out with the set up and leaving his Avatar and champion in my care.
Gaston (Tonguello) – for supporting this with his epic “Garden of Heroes” and being a willful victim to my Dungeon Master tricks and the TWO invited you got for the banquet.
WarriorOfToys – for your support from the first moment and great photo story about King Aun and Lord Etir.
Sir Wolf (Wolf Knight) – for your never wavering encouragements and the great photo story about Sir Baldthar.
el jefe – for your great interlude about Sir Cecil’s doubt.
Giorginetto – for your ever present excitement and support, but most of all your patience which I have been testing with only posting this now!!
So that’s it for now. There will be many more short stories about Winterhaven in the coming months, but the setup in our Playmoden is gone and will now make way for our Zoo set up!
Again thank you all very much!
-----PS-----
Here is a song from the great band Bolt Thrower, that I would like to link specifically for you Giorginetto!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5YE_pWBOl8
For those of you not into Death Metal here are the first lines of the song:
Bolt Thrower – This Time it’s War
Intimidation
you can't take much more,
No compromise
this time its war.
Take none alive
their battle cry roars,
Nowhere to hide
this time its war.