Happy!

[bouteillebleu]

I have a sword!

To be precise, it's in a big cardboard box propped up against my desk at work. I don't want to take it out because otherwise I won't be able to get it back into the box to go home, and I'd really rather not be carrying a sword on the bus, LARP-safe or not. So it stays in the box.

As the auction link above says, it's a 50" Eldritch katana. I have precisely one Treasure Trap character who can (a) wield it without exploding their mana everywhere messily and (b) do more than superficial damage IC when wielding it. :)

I'm also going to need a back scabbard for it, probably, because my legs are not long enough to keep it off the ground if it's in a drop scabbard off my belt.

(For anyone who was worried, this is indeed a LARP sword - it's made out of carbon-fibre or fibreglass, then foam, then latex. The worst you can get from this sword if someone whacks you with it is a bruise, and that only if they really hit you hard. :)

Comments

[chess]

Basically when carrying weaponary or good fake weaponary you have to keep it out of sight so that people can't possibly think you are threatening them with it, and if you are confronted about it you need to be able to demonstrate a lawful reason why you are carrying it (I think most sensible reasons, like 'going to my re-enactment group' or 'taking it for show-and-tell', work fine).