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The Hunt was a lot of fun. This was my third year of it, and now I've been a hunter (when I was a frosh and not yet a SWILlie), a monster (dactyl guard, sophomore year), and a squire. Playing the spondees looks fun. I decided to squire this year because two years of experience have shown me that I'm not much good with hand-to-hand combat, but maybe it would be a little different with water pistols. At any rate I had a good time running around shouting, "Squire! Squire!" and collecting swords to be returned to Hunt Central. Considering that I haven't gone running since Wednesday because of the two colloquia this week, it was a decent workout too. And catching up with nightengalesknd afterwards was good too.

Note to self: propose having two Hunt Centrals, one dedicated solely to swords/hunter regeneration and the other with money/sales. I suppose the one complicating factor is that the squires would have to run all the regular swords to Sword Central and any longswords/shields to the Central Bank of SWIL. Also a bullhorn or other communications equipment should be procured for communication with the wizards, for crowd control, and emergency use. Perhaps walkie-talkies, if available cheaply, might be considered. Or else perhaps if I'm crazy enough and someone like blaketh with more electronics know-how can help, it might be possible to build a small radio transmitter/receiver. Perhaps that would even make a tough Physics 82 electronics project. Probably there are a ton of FCC regulations, though, about frequency bands and radiated power. A bullhorn should certainly be got somehow, however. Perhaps it might be possible to borrow from Public Safety or the athletics department.

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