Fur & Feather Tavern

Hosted by

The Shire of Dregate (Omak, WA )

Event Summary

Date: April 19 , 2002 until April, 21 2002
Site opens at: 12:00 AM on April 19th 2002
Site closes at: 12:00 AM on April 21th 2002

Bill Stevenson billst@televar.com

Fur & Feather Tavern – Dregate
April 19-21

The Fur & Feather Tavern is open to all April 19-21, but caters to rapier and bardic enthusiasts. All the steel you can eat…or serve your friends.

Rapier combat is featured during a “capture the flag” team tourney and street battles on Saturday. A War Crown-style tourney is Sunday. Erics are available for pick up fights.

The team tourney is in a maze with bleachers for spectators.

Mass combat takes place on three streets amongst numerous buildings, complete with alleys and murder holes perfect for general sneakiness.

Bring your Gerhard pistol! There is a tourney using the infamous rubber band guns in a shooting gallery.

Saturday night everyone moves to the tavern where you are given a bag of coins to purchase food, tip wenches or bards. The bardic competitor with the most coins wins the competition, same for competing wenches. There are period game and darts tourneys.

A rapier War Crown-style tourney is Sunday, with round robin fighting leading top fighters to single elimination until two are left to lead participants through war scenarios.

AUTOCRAT: Andrew Williams (mka Bill Stevenson), P.O. Box 4195, Omak, WA 98841, (509) 826-1395, billst@televar.com

SITE INFO: Okanogan County Fairgrounds, 175 Rodeo Trail Drive, Okanogan, WA 98840. Site opens April 19 at 5 p.m., closes April 21 at 3 p.m. and is discreetly damp. Site fee and feast ticket are $10 US. Children under 12 are $5 US. Make checks payable to SCA Inc. – Shire of Dregate.

DIRECTIONS: The fairgrounds are in Okanogan (North Central Washington), two hours north of Wenatchee and one hour south of Osoyoos, BC, on Highway 97. Take the northern Okanogan exit (west) marked for the Okanogan County Fairgrounds. Turn right (north) at the bottom of the hill onto Rodeo Trail Road. Follow the road for one mile. Site is on the left. Former site of two May Crown events.

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