Post by hmammoth on Feb 26, 2024 10:42:25 GMT -5
Even though this weeks designer has had courses on tour before, it is the first time that once of his creations have been used on Kinetic, so welcome to the Kinetic scottish67. His course which is being used this week, Kingfisher Point has a very interesting history. Back in medieval days, most countries were rules by kings, in fact, it was not just countries, every city,town,village, hamlet seemed to have their own king. Here in Ireland, there were 100's of kings, wall to wall kings in some places, this of course led to issues, every king wanted to be the one to rule them all, every king had some sort of dispute with the neighboring kingdom, and every king had a son or nephew that felt like he could do a better job. Read any history book about those turbulent times and there will be stories of war, murder and good old fashioned usurping such as the time King Harold the Wise went to war over a border dispute involving a particularly stubborn cow. Or the time King Bartholomew the Bold went to war because the neighboring kingdom dared to host a jousting tournament on the same day as his daughter's wedding. The famous mine is bigger than yours war was started when King Winston the Witty started the war after the neighboring kingdom's monarch made a snide comment about the size of his royal codpiece. The Kings of comedy was started when King Prankster the Pernicious started a war as a joke, thinking it would be hilarious. It wasn't. Then there is the usurpings such as when King Chuckleberry the Chivalrous was ousted when it was revealed that his chivalrous acts were merely a cover for his secret hobby of collecting embarrassing anecdotes about his subjects to use as material for his stand-up routines or when King Snickerdoodle the Wise was deposed by his son, Prince Ticklesworth, who secretly poisoned his father's inkwell with hallucinogenic ink, convincing the court that the king's wise decisions were merely delusions.
Anyway, the point I am getting to is a lot of kings, a lot of kings deaths which left a lot of kings bodies. In so many of these deaths, there was no burial, the bodies where just thrown into a rivers. which for some strange and mysterious reason, all flowed to the exact same point, in fact they all flowed to a peninsula shaped very much like a point. Having all these bodies in the water brought problems of their own in the terms of disease. It is a well known fact that this was how the plague was started as well as other diseases such Fecal encephalopathy, Genghis Khanstipation, Lack Toes in Toddler Ants and of course, The Clap. For the safety of all kingdoms, this could not continue. Now it was acknowledged that every king had the right to go to war, that every prince had the right to be king, so this could not be stopped so it was decided that the bodies needed to be removed from the water. As it happens, on this very point, lived a lone fisherman by the name of Samuel Quint or just Quint for short, he lived in a cabin at the point where when he was not fishing, he was boiling shark jaws to sell as a cure for impotence. The Society of leaches, who later evolved to be the World Health Organisation approached Quint offering him 1000 gold pieces to lead a team to fish and dispose of the bodies of kings, now Quint preferred to work along so his reply was "I don't want no volunteers, I don't want no mates, there's just too many kings on this island. 10,000 gold pieces for me by myself. For that you get the head, the tail, the crown, the whole damn thing". So Quint went on to become the worlds first Kingfisher, and the point were he lived(Until his tragic death when he tried to fish for a great white king who was thrown into a river while still alive, Quint and his friends The Sheriff of Brody, and a local barrel make by the name of Hooper went to try and catch it, but Quint never made it back) became known as Kingfisher Point, which is the very spot where this weeks event is being held. It is not often we get a truly historic site for a Kinetic event but this week we do. So which one of you will be named King of Kingfisher Point, and which of you that does not when, will usurp the new King, it should be fun finding out, good luck and have fun.
Anyway, the point I am getting to is a lot of kings, a lot of kings deaths which left a lot of kings bodies. In so many of these deaths, there was no burial, the bodies where just thrown into a rivers. which for some strange and mysterious reason, all flowed to the exact same point, in fact they all flowed to a peninsula shaped very much like a point. Having all these bodies in the water brought problems of their own in the terms of disease. It is a well known fact that this was how the plague was started as well as other diseases such Fecal encephalopathy, Genghis Khanstipation, Lack Toes in Toddler Ants and of course, The Clap. For the safety of all kingdoms, this could not continue. Now it was acknowledged that every king had the right to go to war, that every prince had the right to be king, so this could not be stopped so it was decided that the bodies needed to be removed from the water. As it happens, on this very point, lived a lone fisherman by the name of Samuel Quint or just Quint for short, he lived in a cabin at the point where when he was not fishing, he was boiling shark jaws to sell as a cure for impotence. The Society of leaches, who later evolved to be the World Health Organisation approached Quint offering him 1000 gold pieces to lead a team to fish and dispose of the bodies of kings, now Quint preferred to work along so his reply was "I don't want no volunteers, I don't want no mates, there's just too many kings on this island. 10,000 gold pieces for me by myself. For that you get the head, the tail, the crown, the whole damn thing". So Quint went on to become the worlds first Kingfisher, and the point were he lived(Until his tragic death when he tried to fish for a great white king who was thrown into a river while still alive, Quint and his friends The Sheriff of Brody, and a local barrel make by the name of Hooper went to try and catch it, but Quint never made it back) became known as Kingfisher Point, which is the very spot where this weeks event is being held. It is not often we get a truly historic site for a Kinetic event but this week we do. So which one of you will be named King of Kingfisher Point, and which of you that does not when, will usurp the new King, it should be fun finding out, good luck and have fun.
