AER: Venom Wars II, The Great Dragon Hunt

 

The IKV Melota cruised from DFW to North Louisiana to visit the IKV Bayou Serpent.  
(Both are KAG vessels of the Cold Revenge Quadrant.)  After arriving Friday night 
and setting up a dynamite camp, we partied with K’allen (QuadCommander), Torsha and 
Ripar (Captain, IKVBS).  

The morning saw a wonderful mist for klingons and we geared up for paintball after 
coffee and breakfast.  The other shooters arrived and by the time that we were ready 
to play, the mist was gone and cloud cover had the temperature about right.  

 

We started an excellent scenario game.  A Ferengi ship had exploded hitting the 
atmosphere and there were scattered packages containing valuable items.  The team 
with the most value, not necessarily the most packages, after the 2 hours would win.  
The fighting was hard an furious, and the cloud cover wandered off leaving a driving 
sun that heated the BDU’s.  The scenario ended at 1338 with the horns and whistles.  
Dragen missed the truck back to base.  By 1400, we were worried about Dragen.  He 
had still not shown up so we started searching for him.  

We have recently lost a fellow Warrior who was heat sensitive.  Heat sensitive or not, 
anybody is suseptable to viper bites.  So after cruising the trails and paths for 2 
hours we were really worried.  We started a line search through the bush looking for 
Dragen. 

At 1530 we had called the local hospital.  At about 1615 we decided to call the sheriff 
to bring in more help and dogs to continue searching.  This, of course, turns our problem 
into a public problem.  Just as Torsha was headed to the trailer to call, we heard a 
diesel coming down the driveway.  Here comes Dragen all bloody with his shirt torn, 
paintball helmet on his head, driving a full sized John Deere with PTO and front end 
loader attached.

 

The shock, the relief,  the end of the worry.  Damn.  Whew!

 

Dragen had gotten lost and completely off of the property and into a pine thicket.  
He was so deeply behind that he was not hitting civilization as he was cruising the 
back 40s.  When he found the tractor, he performed a “field acquisition” in order to 
find civilization and return to K’allen’s place.  Torsha followed him back to the 
property to return the tractor.  The owner is the father of one of the deputies that 
would have responded had we called the shire reeve.  He  was apparently of good humor 
upon hearing the story about why his tractor was acquired since Dragen was able to 
return home with us.

 

The Great Dragen Hunt was over.

 

By now, we were all too tired to continue paintball.  We had also burned all of our 
adrenaline worrying.  Thus once again, Venom Wars consisted of only one paintball 
battle.

 

Now that we were finally able to eat, the Stage was prepared and a minor “oversight” 
was corrected.  Dragen and Y’lesh were paintball virgins on their first outing and 
managed to not get hit.  So they were sent to a tree to each get 1 shot in a butt cheek 
so that they would understand the game a little better.  They now understand the pain 
of the game.

At this time, the packages were opened and point scores totaled.  Once again the IKV 
Bayou Serpent beat the IKV Melota in the only game of the trip.  Congrats to the home 
team.  We shall do you in next year.

 

Wow!  You should have seen the stage and Ceremonies that the IKV Bayou Serpent put 
on.  K’allen and Ripar did a marvelous job.  They built tall stage with a backdrop.  
Each upper support had a cardassian skull piked upon it.  Banners were hung behind 
the stage for viewing.  The Warriors present did a dry run through of the choreography 
before the real Ceremonies and performed well during the real thing.  Bloodwine was 
dipped and I presented Nivek with a special Bloodwine mug.  There was the Prayer and 
a Death Howl.  Then awards were handed out for Most Bruises and Least Bruises.  
Campaign pins were handed out for both Venom Wars.  Dragen received his official 
promotion to 2nd Lt. from the Quadrant Commander with the advise, “Remember, nothing 
runs like a John Deere.”. 

K’llen carried Kamin’s spear during the Ceremonies.  We all thank your for the 
gesture since Kamin would have been there with us.

 

I also give thanks to Brandy for assisting me with the videography.  

 

Then the party afterwards.  The IKV Bayou Serpent crew were great hosts and a lot 
of fun.  For some reason we kept breaking chairs.  It was a bad night for chairs.  
Nobody was getting hurt.  It was simply that chairs were dying.  Mr. Carnahan, K’allen’s 
Father, once again joined the crowd.  He is a ball of fun on his own to be around.  
There was some Batleth and DaQtag demonstrated.  Nivek stepped up to try the Batleth 
giving the IKV Bayou Serpent four Warriors who have accepted the Challenge.  Nivek 
also showed his musket to us so different cultures from different centuries were 
presented.

With many different discussion threads going, a lot was talked about and enjoyed.  
Uniforms and Ceremonies concepts were talked about.  Stupid stunts at work and with 
cars was another well done thread.  We discussed banner designs and how to make the 
skulls used at Ceremonies.

 

Sunday morning saw the usual teardown and cleanup.  It was hard parting but necessary 
as the mundane world called us home.

 

It was a very interesting and productive weekend with great friends.