A regular fixture of the Stormhold calendar, Monthly Bash is a day filled with medieval fun of all sorts. Comprising of heavy and rapier tournaments, and members of the populace pursuing their own interests – singing, sewing, dancing and much more. Some months may have a particular theme or special activity, and there’s always something going on. This is a garbed event, and loaner gear is generally available. If you need to borrow gear, please contact the Hospitaller Lady Fionnghuala nic an tSionnaigh.
Bring a picnic, some craft projects, your armour… Whatever you want! Just be sure to bring yourself. Bookings are not required.

Water and toilets available on site.

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October Monthly Bash has Arts and Sciences and the theme of the event is brought to you by the letter “K”

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November Monthly bash is-

Ghastly ghouls, zombies and beasties
November Bash is filled with ghastly ghouls, ghosts and the undead.

The undead approaches. We must beware and be ever vigilant, as we know they come near Samhain!
Dress in your spookiest garb, or a period rendition of a creature of the night.

Arts and Sciences competition theme is any concepts of death, afterlife, and/or undeath, any and all cultures welcome, any and all mediums welcome, be creative (documentation is nice if possible).

Potluck picnic lunch is a Spookchuterie and I encourage all populace to bring their favourite spooky dishes and drinks to share. If you don’t have time to painstakingly craft your potions, concoctions, salume, or gustatory, to ward off the army of darkness, store bought is fine.

The tournaments are to be a Zombie tournament filled with fighting, silliness and maybe extra limbs.

The tournament in the first round, the fighters will be paired up like usual; A and B fight, and, say, B loses. He becomes a zombie, and is now A’s minion. In the next round A and B will fight C and D. The winning team captain now has three zombie minions, and they go on to face other teams of four in the next round. This continues until there is an overall winner.

The basic rules:
1. Humans fight as normal. Zombies can be wounded/dismembered by blows to the arm or leg, but can only be killed by a blow to the head.
2. Zombies are not the brightest creatures–they tend to follow orders from their Zombie Master explicitly, but mindlessly.
3. These are “slow” zombies–they shamble and lurch around, not move at full combat speed.
4. Zombies are typically armed with some kind of blunt instrument: single sword or mace on the field. (maybe boffer or random foam limbs)
5. Double kills will be refought until there is a clear winner–we don’t want rogue zombies terrorising the neighbourhood.

Presuming we have enough boffers (soft, non-rigid items), the armoured and rapier tourneys will culminate in a grand, boffer-only melee for all the fighters. (If you’ve got boffer weapons, bring them out.)

Populace will have a boffer tourney at the end to help kill all the zombies, if people are willing.

Dates	Held on the first Sunday of the month: 5 October 2 November More dates to be announced soon!
Timetable:	10:00 am – Set up 11:00 am – Court 11:30 am – Heavy Tournament 12.30 Lunch/A&S Competition 1.00pm pm – Fencing Tournament
Location	Darling Gardens, South Terrace, Clifton Hill, Victoria. Melway map 44 D2.
Bring	It depends what you want to do – projects to work on, armour/protective gear if you wish to fight, and a picnic lunch is always pleasant.
Cost	Members: Free (donation appreciated). Non-Members: Non-members must pay Event Insurance, $10 per adult and $5 per minor. EFTPOS preferred.
Bookings	Bookings are not required.
Note	We are following the Lochac SCA COVID-19 Response Plan. Participants are reminded that if they are unwell or showing cold or flu-like symptoms, they must not attend.As this event is in the state of Victoria, please remember that anyone carrying or using any kind of sword in the state – including visitors – must carry proof that they completed the Victorian weapons exemption application process with the SCA Ltd Registrar – see https://sca.org.au/victorian-weapons-legislation/ for detailed information.
Event Steward	Luisa Schloss of The Gorge (October) Nicolette de Coulours (November)

Image source: Gorleston Psalter, England (Suffolk), 1310-1324, Add MS 49622, f. 210v, held by the British Library.