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NEWS
POSTONMENT OF MOUNT EDGCUMBE EVENT
It is with deep regret that the Mount Edgcumbe Bandits, Brigands & Buccaneers has had to be postponed until the Late May Bank Holiday 2012. - You might well ask why given its great success last year? Well to sustain a business such as this we need at least four events over which to spread the costs and make a profit, or some other form of income, especially in these uncertain economic times. We have been waiting on decisions from a number of areas to see if more events could be scheduled and if other related work could be booked.
Over the last two years, through the development of Bandits, Brigands & Buccaneers, I have neglected my other businesses. Since December I have been refocusing on these so that next year there will be other revenues contributing to the whole.
This is one of the reasons why the website has not been updated and the others are that, without decisions, we would have just been publishing rumour and conjecture.
Mount Edgcumbe, will happen next year, Fort Amherst is doubtful, as whilst the event was great for participants as a whole, the sites many levels made it difficult for us to manage the public. Also, some of the re-enactors at the lower levels felt isolated from the main areas of entertainment and plot; venue management has changed; and the new building/bridge/access works may well affect things. The pictures from Fort Amherst will go up on the website and
many of the game ideas used there will be deployed at Mount Edgcumbe in 2012.
The website will be continually updated and we will now be taking registrations. Bandits, Brigands & Buccaneers has always evolved and improved with each event and with the postponement to 2012 you can be assured that it will be even bigger and better than any before.
EVENT DATES NEXT YEAR - 2011
27th to 30th May at Mount Edgcume, Nr Plymouth and 23rd to 25th September at Fort Amherst, Chatham - The website will be fully updated with details for booking up very soon.
1st September– All’s under full sail for the Fort Amherst event - All’s under full sail for the Fort Amherst event,
1st September– All’s under full sail for the Fort Amherst event - All’s under full sail for the Fort Amherst event, the emphasis this time being on giving participants the very best Bandits, Brigands & Buccaneers experience; not just in terms of setting and look, but in terms of adventure, daring-do and full-on piratical involvement. Ya gonna ave some serious fun this’ne, I’ms a tellin’ ye. We’ve a full range of entertainers to entertain thee and our poor cannon fodder public, but this time they’ll ave far more to yield to thee than just the game coin ye’ll be a stealin’ from’em. They’ll have clues to lost treasures and rumours of foul enemies also a huntin’ them – to the winner the spoils and be prepared, t’ tell’ee more would just ruin the salty tales yet t’ be told… The Ghost Hunters using the Tunnels on the Saturday Night will not be affecting the plot – you’ll have well and enough to contend with yourselves up, back, in the wooded ruins – the tunnels will be fully utilised during the event Friday and Sunday nights and every day. Costs for participants £35.00 if received before 16th September, £50.00 on the gate.
ALL CHANGE AT FORT AMHERST AGAIN – Bristol as a consequence is dropped, Fort Widley can’t be resurrected. Fort Amherst, Chatham 24th to 26th September 2010
Reasons: Premise licence issues (given event numbers) are still to be resolved – I can, and will, take care of this myself if necessary, before the new September date, but currently the Trustees of the Fort wish to continue their application in their own name for the long term benefit of all events taking place there. I have undertaken to work with them on this.
Mount Edgcumbe was a massive success, and although it’s going to cost me dearly in cancelling the intervening events I have to make sure the next continues this upward trend in expectation. I daren’t jeopardise the success of the future events by rushing on and not taking into account, or responding to, all your helpful ideas, constructive comments and suggestions either e-mailed directly to me, sent via face book or communicated on The Pirates Forumotion. I value your input; it needs acknowledgment, discussion and incorporation into the game. Adequate crewing/marshalling is key but so also is the devolvement, understanding and involvement, at group level, in plot and reasons/excuses for set pieces and battles, at set times (the 3 time tabled seaborne raids a day at Edgcumbe for example) within the overall game flow. The re-enactors do their displays when scheduled but I also need to make sure they have liaison in incorporating them into all that is going on so that they maximise their enjoyment of the event.
  
The Wanted Posters are now working well under Mick & Esme control but they would have been unable to be involved in the end of July date. Smuggling of contraband and its rewards needs to be simplified and this will be sorted by Fort Amherst in September.
Replies to all you various suggestions and discussion topics will now start being made as well as event photographs being put up on the Scurvy Scum website (all of Mayhem’s are up Esme’s Friday batch is up Sat, Sun & Mon to come) as well event winners notices and mentions in despatches. Please keep an eye on the website and join the face book page.
22nd June – Esme Brown's Photos of the Mount Edgcumbe Event - first page (8) of Photos, from the Friday up on site in Events & Galleries section. Thanks Esme..
21st June – Mayhem Photography Photos of the Mount Edgcumbe Event - 7 Pages of Photos up on site in Events & Galleries section. My thanks to Dick.
11th June – IMPORTANT DATE CHANGES - Fort Widley cancelled; Fort Amherst, Chatham postponed until 30th July - 1st August. We are victims of our own success Reasons: Fort Widley - Len & Silver have left. The riding stables have taken over day to day running of the fort and were proposing to limit our use of cannon and gun fire until after 3.00pm. The caravan club booking the previous weekend was also limiting our set-up from the Wednesday only. Last time at Fort Widley we had just under 200 participants now we are running at well over 400 with lots more stalls and props to erect. Fort Widley would be "bursting at the seams" just coping with us let alone the public. Yes we could hire fields at the back of the fort for extra camping and parking but guns, horses and overcrowding issues really prohibit our safe use of the fort any further.
Fort Amherst - is a fantastic venue, a totally different site to Mount Edgcumbe, overlooking a loop in the Thames, with tunnels, huge caverns, many ramparts and buildings we can use, as well as camping in woodland glades and adventures in other ruins - we need to make best use of this site to provide participants with a truly
unforgettable experience. Currently there are illness and premises issues which would have been resolved by the end of the month but with the situation at Fort Widley it was thought best to give it more time.
The new dates - do not conflict with any major role-play or re-enactment events and having rung around all the major participant groups, the Crimson Moon, caterers and performers to establish that they can make these dates the next event is now confirmed: Fort Amherst, Chatham 30th July to 1st August.
8th June – 2 Minute Promo on You Tube This 1st edit made public before approval is fine, except it should have had a role-player interviewed as well, to provide balance. It has primarily been made to help promote the event to potential new venue owners, so Scurvy Scum can come north, for more to participate and enjoy. You can access this current.edit by clicking here
A final edit will be embedded on the website soon along with a 10 minute documentary and video news reel.
4th June – Thanks to me Scurvy Crew we couldn't have done it with out you. We are now packed-up and away from Mount Edgcumbe with fond memories of a fantastic site and an exceptional piratical experience, made all the better by every participant. My thanks to one and all...
 
20th May – Aargh the Keewaydin be savin’ the day… With the Bessie Ellen unable t’ make it back to Plymouth in time, the black ship Keewaydin be takin’ over the attack runs on the Cremyll ferries 3 times a day in front of Plymouth Hoe, cannon n’ swivel gun a blazin’…
The Devonport Beagle projects montague whaler will also be involved in Marine landings and the Spirit of Rame along with other smuggler crewed pilot gigs will be helping in the landing of contraband…
6th May – New Medals for Military Actions. For Militia, Revenue, Town Guard and Marines 4 new medals as pictured above, replicas of those awarded in the Peninsular & Napoleonic Wars. To find out more and other benefits in playing Militia click here
4th May – New Toys-for-the-Boys – so re-enactors have taken up foam and latex, now role-players can join in the black powder and steel areas of the battle – training first. Specially commissioned, 9mm blank firing Blunderbuss & Pistols, so need for a licence, but they are only to be used, when & where, black powder is being used. New long-arms coming soon the new re-enactment cutlasses will be on show shortly. For more details click here “Have a Care”
1st May – New Training Nights for Participants local to Mount Edgcumbe. 2 new training nights have started for all manner of piratical activities, swashbuckling & hornpipe included, every Tuesday and Wednesday Plymouth and Millbrook all styles of Participant welcome. For more information click here.
5th April – Investment continues in Township and Encampments. 4 new Watch Towers to help with the wider gates, new timber framed fronts to the Merchant Ventures Hall and Bank, mast, crows-nest and dance deck for the evenings “Rum n’ Hornpipe”, 3 new coffins for burials, and new grave stones – now you’ll be able to take away your own Epitaph as well as your own Wanted Poster.
  
Improved bar work, pumps, taps and coolers for the Crimson Moon, courtesy of our sponsors, the Wooden Hand Brewery
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6th April – Ship scupperin' news, then full sail to the rescue from the Baltic.
After getting permission from the owners and the harbourmaster to attack the largest of the Cremyll Ferries 3 times a day in front of Plymouth Hoe, we learn to our cost why the owners of The Phoenix had held off from full contract. 4 days does not compare to a 5 weeks charter sailing the Irish Sea.
However, after approaching The Ruth, out of Penzance, the skipper of The Phoenix has found us another ship, The Bessie Ellen (above), returning to her home port of Plymouth – one of the last west country ketches, the favoured ship of the famed Cawsand Bay Smugglers.
22nd March – Scurvy Scum promotes at The Original Re-enactors Market.
Aargh… We welcome more n’ more of ye to the fray… More Sea Thieves joining the Sheppey’s; more joining the Rievers
Revenge; the Siege Group joining as Privateers, alongside the Bone Idol, operating under the governors “Letter o’ Mark”.
29th
February – ILHF, Warwick
More a comin' Robber/Bandits & Militia. Aargh lets give these Pirates what's for...
24th
Feb – Sponsor Announced The Wooden Hand Brewery
Ye'll 'ave noticed the logos now taste the beer. Yes we 'ave our first sponsor and right good tastin' piratical beers too. The good Abbott will be a servin' them in the Crimson Moon - by draft n' bottle.
15th
February – Kit Fair Bristol
 Aargh t'was good t' see yez all at the weekend n' hear ofl all the crews a comin'. E-mail ya names t' make sure o' yar place n' discount.
24th
Nov – Cruel Tide Gift Vouchers now available for Xmas
Aargh… If no
one knows what t’get ye for Yule Tide, how’s
about one of these here vouchers...
As stated on the costs and registrations
page, they cost just £25.00; and as well as getting
into the late May Bank Holiday event, they also entitle
you to play at every other 2010 event at the same £25.00
price, no matter when you pay, even “on-the-gate”.
However, you do have to register by e-mail at least 3 weeks
before the event you’re attending – preferably
earlier. To go to registration
form, and order voucher, click here
12th
Nov – Brigantine, the Phoenix now at Edgcumbe
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the late May Bank Holiday event, at Mount Edgcumbe, we are
now using The Phoenix, a brigantine, larger, more manoeuvrable
than The Matthew, and more in keeping with the event.
It
also takes more passengers, in addition to crew, and lots
more when at mooring.
As an incentive for the various pirate
groups to get their crews together and get their names in
early, there are eight 12 place slots, for piratical manoeuvres,
at sea, aboard the Phoenix.
There’s no charge for these
places as they’ll be used for directed roles which
will be fun for the participants, will earn them “coin”,
and prices on all their heads. They will be allocated on
a “first come first, served basis” as an incentive
to book early.
Come on Cap’ns, let’s
be ‘av’in you, get yaz scurvy crews together…
Ha arg
1st
Nov - Huge thanks to Participants & Crew
We’ve now arisen from all flotsam n jetsam, salvage,
shipment and stowage of all the equipment, props and kit
that was the last Scurvy Scum event of this year. Having
received all your good comments and praises concerning all
the fun and shinnanigans you all got up to, and looked at
all the many photos, it seems it was a lot more successful
than I, submerged in the problems on the inside could have
fathomed. A huge thanks to all that participated and worked
so hard in keeping it on the right course and steering it
clear all the reefs and shallows we encountered. It would
not have been the same without you. Once again a massive
heart felt thanks to all.
September Photo Gallery
links now appear on the Events & Galleries Page:
those from Sean Maguire of Skian Mhor link
and those from Iain Sewell
of The Crimson Moon are at
link. The Photo Montages
are currently being updated and a number of photos from
the September event appear at the bottom of the home page
with montage link.
20th
September – 25-27 Sept event is 37% up on numbers
- and that’s before we start taking more
on the gate. All player packs have been prepared in accordance
with the names on the now updated Player Participant Lists,
Militia, Entertainer & Trader Personnel and Crew Lists
on the website.
We will be away from Monday Morning with set-up beginning
at Fort Widley on Tuesday.
All the things that weren't quite right with the first event
have been corrected - wanted posters, ship sides etc and
some of the new tweaks been added. Has been a very busy
time and apologise for not updating the various news columns,
notice boards and forums.
See you all at Fort Widley Friday.
Loot n' shoot well me hearties
17th
July – Rules on a Page
Well, on two sides of a page, have been updated & are
available on site click here
The main rules are currently being updated with full explanation
of Smuggling and Trading Game
27th
June – Event Late May Bank Holiday 2010
Plans for next years events are afoot, the first will be
at: Mount Edgcumbe, opposite Plymouth – straight run
down the M5 and A38. The area of the site we are using is
large, easily accommodating the Citadel, Squalors and a
host of Pirate and Outlaw Encampments and boasting:
landing beaches, a 3 cannon battery (those there don’t
work but we will be adding considerably to the fire-power),
a fortified block house for the jail, a temple for the crustacean
cultists and a folly. Most important of all,
the full size replica of an Elizabethan Barque, The Matthew,
will be standing off in the Barn Pool deep water anchorage,
providing: more cannon fire, at least 2 tiers of plank walking,
crows nest climbs (yes all safety harness/insurance in place),
raiding trips,
late night dinning & Captains meetings etc.
More craft will be involved, the passenger ferries coming
from Admirals Hard and the May Flower Steps, will come under
attack.
Click here for pictures
26th June
- montages of all the various aspects & activities at
the event can also now be viewed by following the link on
the “Events Galleries” page or by clicking here
25th June
– More May Event Pictures
Yet more pictures from Iain (the Abbot Costello)
of the Crimson Moon Tavern can be found in their album web
site here
16th June
– May Event Pictures
Pictures of the May event are available on www.lrphotel.co.uk/Pirateship.htm
more will go up on the Events & Galleries section of
the website shortly.
8th June
– New pages now exist on the Website for: -.
Event Costs & Discounts,
Registration
Form
You can now register for the next event 25th to 27th September
7th June –
Thanks to everyone who took part in Bandits, Brigands &
Buccaneers 1
We the organisers are taking note of all your comments,
constructive criticisms and suggestions on the various www.thepirates.forumotion.net/forum.htm
and www.rule7.co.uk
forum threads.
Much will be fed back into rule updates and the organisation
and running of
Bandits, Brigands & Buccaneers 2 – 25th to 27th
September – once again at Fort Widley, Portsmouth.
A temporary home page is now up, just with quotes concerning
the event in May.
This will be expanded upon as soon as the all the game themes
and plots have been fully devised.
This news section will be regually updated
so come back and check out it out again soon
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