Just got back from the Hunt. It was quite entertaining. There were many more monsters than just the 2 dactyls... There were lots of hobgoblins, some orcs, 3 ninja turtles, a werewolf, a cat, the sphinx, the Jabberwock... Yeah. It was great. Lots of people running around in small groups with foam swords, whapping monsters to win poker chips in order to buy things. If you get hit, you die, so you give up your sword and go back to the line to get a new one. I killed 2 or 3 monsters, and I got killed many times... But all in all, it was a fun 2 hours of amusement... And when I left, it was still going strong. I think it only ends when both dactyls are killed. Which could take awhile. Because the dactyls have guards, as well as water guns that act as murderous venom. Very hard to get close to them.

Of course, the real issue at hand is who thought up of this thing in the first place?! I'm rather curious... It's much more elaborate than I expected, and it's really rather impressively done. Did someone just sitting around at a SWIL meeting a number of years ago just randomly think, "Hey, why don't we run a huge LARP and invite the entire campus?" Actually, that probably is exactly what happened. The really surprising thing is that it's become a tradition and keeps happening year after year and tons of people show up for it.