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The Renaissance was a golden age when pirates and samurai lived in harmony.
Yeah, one of the Ren Fest’s highlights was watching a band of pirates appreciate a kick-ass Taiko drum group called Fushu Daiko. I’m not sure how pirates and samurai got sucked into the land of King Arthur and cleavage, but I ain’t complaining.
Ocarinas existed long before Link.
While appreciating an ocarina vendor’s wares (and totally getting one with a Triforce) I asked the guy which came first for him, the ocarina or the game. He told me that he’d been selling them for years, but all of a sudden kids kept asking him how to get into the Water Palace. He rushed out, bought an N-64 and devoured the game. Now he makes one modeled after Link’s and it’s a big seller. We also bought his Zelda songbook.
The flying buttress was an important part of women’s apparel.
’nuff said.
Sticks are amazingly expensive.
In honor of Fushu Daiko, Paul and I wanted to buy wooden katanas so we could whale on each other. These finely carved pieces of wood are allegedly worth $60 or something. Yeah. That’s not happening. They also wanted to charge us $60 for a horn that could hold 40 oz of beer. Right.
Jerky is amazingly expensive.
On the way out, we stopped at the Jerky booth which had a variety of flavors, and I basically went nuts. Especially since one of the flavors was Chernobyl. I picked out three ½ lb packages and was told that it would be $50. Now, in their defense, it takes 3 lbs of sirloin to make 1 lb of jerky–but, dude, that’s the price of a game.
Pics here.