/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>8415242
Let me tell you how bad it is here, using this delightful example from the mid-'90s: there was this guy at one of our Kingdom's parks, an older guy who had gotten Agent Oranged in Vietnam back in the '70s. His whole family played Amtgard, so he'd become something of a local fixture at this Barony, he even held court positions several times vying for his knighthood (which he never got because he was a dildo). One of the things about Amtgard is that you have to sign a medical waiver to even play the game, and on this waiver there's a clause that states that if you have a medical condition that makes the game unsafe for others then you're technically not allowed to play and that you fully understand this, and this guy signed it. Well, as time progressed the gene damage from the Agent Orange began to numb his extremities: he couldn't feel when he was taking hits from the weapons anymore, and he turned into what we called a "rhino-hiding sluffer" of epic proportions. He simply could't register that he'd been hit unless it physically knocked him to the ground, which wasn't/isn't kosher in Amtgard. As his condition deteriorated, it was brought to the attention of the Kingdom that the guy was a cheating faggot who wouldn't take his hits because he 'couldn't feel them', so Kingdom asked him what the hell was going on. He 'fessed up to his diagnosis and Kingdom 'suggested' that he retire from the game. He refused and claimed if anyone tried to force him to leave, despite him having signed a waiver stating that if he was medically unfit to play the game he was not permitted to play it, he would bring the matter before a judge and that he would claim it was discrimination. The bastards blinked and let him stay, and over a period of a month he basically drove everyone but his immediate family from his local land because he'd made gameplay impossible. He literally had to die before that land recovered enough to regain its Barony status.