>>14750780Have you ever been to a ren faire, anon? I have been quite a few times, with various people in various stages of dress and armament. I once went dressed myself with the shittiest of shit katanas you could ask for, then got a gladius. But this story isn't about me.
I have a friend who is irrevocably a dick. It's not a stretch to say I've wanted to kill him a few times, and that by all rights someone should have by now. He's not a dick all the time, which is probably his only redeeming feature. So, we go to a ren faire, and everyone has their weapons checked but me. So, he had brought along a one handed sword that had some fancy loops in its handguard due to the construction. Now, during the weapon check they will take a small plastic tie and secure your weapon to your belt. They call this thing a "peace tie". They would do this for everyone, and you could cut the damn things off, but it'd be obvious to anyone who saw you trying it. I had a wooden sword, not considered dangerous, but I chose to use it instead of the shitty katana because the 20 dollar piece of shit had already nearly fallen apart. Plus, the bokken was painted black and looked pretty stylish.
At any rate, we all get through the check in, and the asshole motions over to us, and simply says "Hey, check this out." He shows us his peace tie. It fit through the loop on the hand guard, and back around the handle of the sword. Apparently, she hadn't noticed what she was tying it to, she just saw a loop and bam, there it was.
Worse yet, I had yelled at him during a previous week for fucking with my computer.
It was me in a ren faire with the most unstable guy I know who was the only person with a functional metal weapon.
