Rapier Marshal Meeting - Unevent 2024

Author: Magister Percival Aldridge, KRM

Staff

  • Kingdom Earl Marshal: New Master Giacomo Vincenti
  • Deputy for Rapier: Magister Percival Aldridge (retiring May, 2025)
  • Deputies:
    • Master Cailin Blackwood
    • Master Dante di Pietro
    • Master Geoffrey Gamble
    • Laerer Thorgrimr inn Kyrri DEM for Youth Rapier (dotted line)

Marshal & Fighter Stats

  • 84 active rapier marshals (3.5% increase)
  • 13 MITs
  • 5 Youth rapier marshals
  • Authorized fighters:
    • Heavy Rapier: 396 (20% decrease!)
    • Heavy Rapier 2H: 35
    • Light Rapier: 144
    • C&T: 136
    • C&T 2H: 53
    • Rapier Spear: 63
    • Youth Rapier: Still 0 :(

Reporting

  • 57 reports for 2024 (discounting tests & duplicates)
  • 12 Injuries (21%)
  • 12 Behavorial Incidents (21%)
  • 19 Equipment failures (33%)
  • Following event rapier reports are currently missing according to the warrant database:
    • Grit War: 11/8/24
    • War of the Wings: No report in the system, but also no issue listed on the warrant site
  • 3.1.3.8.1.2 A list of all authorization attempts INCLUDING WEAPON FORM ANDRESULT (emphasis mine)
  • Practice reports not required unless there’s an incident
  • No quarterly reporting requirement to this office; that’s a waiver reporting requirement

Experiments

  • None active at this time
  • Trying to get Grappling up and running before I retire

General Comments

  • 4.4 All gentles who wish to participate in combat activities in ANY CAPACITY at an event as defined in 4.3.1 must sign in with the MoL-IC of the event. (emphasis mine)
  • Spear gauges - Please acquire something and add it to your tool kit
  • Chain shirts - MUST be visually inspected per Society rules (9.10). Repairs MUST be done with appropriate metal, such as jewelry jump rings, wire that’s been welded or riveted, etc.
  • Tips - Darkwood tips out of stock indefinitely; some recent blunt acquisitions are showing more rubber at the flat surface, leaving more room to bend and punch through the sides
  • Rules rewrite still actively being worked at the Society level - SLOW progress
  • Calibration - reports indicate a generally upward trend; stop that!

Questions?