Hurling?

[Ormorof]

No, this is no April fools joke, the first Hurling tournaments took place on the French servers last night. More tournaments should appear on the English servers in the coming days so check your server news regularly if you are interested ! Hurling, like its name doesn't suggest, is a noble sport opposing two teams of Hurlers on a carefully delimited ground. The aim of the game is to delicately push the pig (usually with the help of a flimsy spear) into the scoring zone of the opposing team.
It should be known that the origins of this sport remain shrouded in mystery and many races have their own version of the game which they all of course affirm is the original one. The rules slowly became standardised under the reign of King Arthur (another example of the magnificent work done by the Great King's teams), and it was not uncommon to see matches between two opposing families, two groups of friends or even two whole villages !
War unfortunately put an end to all that. The game became a simple memory next to the torment and affliction faced by each realm. The playing grounds became overgrown, the sticks reinforced with good metal to hunt down marauders and highway men.
Then, little by little, the authorities realised that the moral of the local population would play an active part in determining victory or defeat in the ongoing war. Whatever the cause, one of the three realms decided to bring Hurling back to the people, and the enemy intelligence services quickly latched on to the idea too. It is hard to say which realm was the first one but whatever, games have started once again.
Leaving behind the roleplay, we have placed a small event on the servers about Hurling, an event that we will no doubt play again in the future, and we are in fact considering scripting the whole event so that it is entirely automated and can be started by the players without any external assistance. This unfortunately will take some time to implement so keep checking the news sections.

sounds like a nice distraction

 

[yaruar]

sounds like a nice distraction

givf real hurling, it's a bloody nasty sport and to be reccomended...

when my university hockey team toured ireland i tried to set up some hurling games but everyone on my team was too scared!

 

[Taen]

One of the fastest sports in the world .. Really great game to play but it can get quite dangerous .. had friends lose all their front teeth etc.

 

[Tasslehoff]

Sounds just like when they made the game football aye? Same princip just other instruments to perform it. Was great fun though

 

[Breon]

Should give albs dwarf tossing imo

 

[Blondy]

Should give albs dwarf tossing imo

Lol. Some people may take that the wrong way How about troll tossing instead? would have to invent steel or somthing.

 

[Flimgoblin]

Sounds just like when they made the game football aye? Same princip just other instruments to perform it. Was great fun though

aye - think Hurling might be more in line with the times/races as well... I'm sure some history buff will know

 

[Eredan]

They should add a new race in all 3 realms : The Gnome. This race wouldn't exactly be a real playable race/class just a class to make fun of and be the centre of the Annual Punting Championships.

I suppose we could use the Luri but we need to have them added to Albion & Midgard. Hibs have all the fun

 

[Jonaldo]

Try and hurl a luri and 4 of his mates will unstealth/PA you

 

[Belomar]

Don't hurl on the shell, dude, I just waxed it! :touch:

 

[York]

Should give albs dwarf tossing imo

you shouldnt sexually abuse dwarves!