Black Knight, (Monty Python's)

[Moginheden]

This game is based off Monty Python's famous "Black Knight" sketch from the holy grail.

One person is the Black Knight. All other participants must line up and face off against the black knight in duels one on one.

The Black Knight can only be killed when all of his hit zones have been killed. This means if he loses both legs and both arms, he is still alive until he is also hit in the chest. Hits to a destroyed chest do not carry through to remaining limbs, Hits to the chest while at least one limb is active count as a strike to a limb of the black knight's choice. Hits to lost arms/legs do carry through as normal.

The Black Knight does not regain limbs between duels. Challengers regain everything after their duel.

If the Black Knight loses both arms he is allowed to hold a weapon against his upper-torso, (simulating holding the sword in his teeth.) or a foot using a dead hand, but the weapon must remain in contact with the non-dead hit zone to count, and When the Black Knight loses an arm he must hold the upper-arm against his torso but can still use the forearm to swing his weapon. A hit to the arm holding the weapon counts against the hit zone "holding" the weapon chest, (hands holding weapons are still invulnerable and chest shots are redirected as described above.)

When the Black Knight is killed the challenger who defeated him becomes the new Black Knight and regains any limbs he lost to the previous black knight.

In holding with the original skit only long swords may be used, (single long blue or red) and armor doesn't count.

The game is won when the black knight has defeated all challengers without losing his spot as black knight, (including the previous black knight who is now a challenger.)

[Moginheden]

I'm wondering about adding a 30-60 second limit on duels, (counted by the spectators,) the Black Knight wins if it lasts that long. The Black knight loses if he is deemed to be running away.

[Cib]

Interesting idea. Kinda silly, but sounds fun enough. Should we try it tomorrow then?

[draggoas]

lol

[Darr]

Yeah, it is kinda funny but it sounds like it will work. The only thing is, is that we don't have allot of large swords at the moment. Therefore if there is a large group playing the people dueling the Black Knight would have to hand off weapons to each other sort of like this: The person at the front of the line doesn't have a weapon. He is handed a weapon by the second person who is handed a weapon by the third person ect. After each duel whoever has dyed moves to the back of the line and passes his weapon on. In this way it would be possible to have less weapons then fighters.

[Darr]

So, when we played this the other day some things just didn't make sense. Well, I just thought of a way to make Black Knight work. Instead of having to hit all the target zones before the Black Knight dies why not have only one target zone that will kill him and that is the chest. The catch is that you have to disable all his other limbs before you can kill him there. So if he is hit in the chest but still has an arm or a leg or whatever then it does not count. He has to lose all limbs before the kill shot can be effected.

[Cib]

That might work better.

[Moginheden]

That helps Darr, but we still have the no arms problem, it's really difficult to fight with no arms.

If your guaranteed to have a chest until you die we can skip the leg holding sword rules that didn't really work. The black knight would still need to wield a sword with his chest though... not ideal.

How about if you lose an arm you have to hold the part above the elbow against your chest but you still get to use your forearm? It's less like the black knight... but might be more playable.

[Darr]

That sounds okay, It could work that way. It could also be that you have to first disable his legs then his arms and then his chest.

[Moginheden]

I have updated the original post to reflect the current rules that seem to work. strikethrough text is old and removed rules, ittalic text is new additions.

[Moginheden]

Full transcript of the scene can be found here: www.skepticfiles.org/en001/knight.htm

Here are some quotes the black knight can say for random fun:
'Tis but a scratch.
I've had worse.
Right, I'll do you for that.
NONE SHALL PASS.
I MOVE FOR NO MAN.
I'm invincible!
Have at you!
Ohhh, had enough, eh?
Just a flesh wound.
Come on, you pansy!
Chicken!!! Chicken!!!!!!!
The Black Knight ALWAYS TRIUMPHS! Have at you!!
I'll bite your legs off!