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Hodegon's 10th Birthday Event

picture and details from the Flier of the event

Map of the site - all the clues where in anglosaxon runes

The Field Kitchen & the Cooks

Hodegon's 10th Birthday Event

For our 10th Birthday it was decided that we should hold a Feast & Treasure Hunt to celebrate with a Anglosaxon / Viking period theme.

The event was held on 18th & 19th Oct 2008 in the Great Pine Forest at Kinglake West

It was a fantastic event - we had 76 people come and take part

Our senario was

Everyone will know what they 10 Holy Relics are at the start when the map is given out

but all of the clues and the map inforamtion is all in Anglo saxon Runes - which they will have to decipher on the map is an alphabet code key to help them.

As they found a relic there would be a clue board near by with the location of another relic in Anglosaxon Runes.

They wont know the number of the bonus relics or what these are - they will come to light when they stumble on to their clues.

Hidden Dangers in the Forest

- to keep those on the treasure hunters on their toes and as nervous as possible

Bears - some of the NVG younger teenage members dressed in fur hoods with bear ears and fur gloves to put on their hands - If the touched someone they were dead and Bears could not be attacked by the questers

Vikings warriors ( Karl, Gary, Dean ) attacking groups in the forest - these could be battled by the questers

Other Questing Parties - Questing Parties could way lay each other and take the relics

Safe Haven - this was the Monastery Tent any relic brought into the Monastery tent was safe

this was also a resurrection point for those who had been killed while questing - once they recieved a blessing from Brother Mappo they could go out again

The 10 Holy Relics ( one for every year of the branch existence)

Relic 1: Hodegetria Icon

Relic 2: Hat of Saint Vlad

Relic 3: Arrow of Saint Edmund

Relic 4: The Grail ( we had as many different medieval styled cups as we could put together and they will have to pick out the collection - the one !)

Relic 5: Chalice of Saint Bede

Relic 6: Finger of Saint Germanus ( there was a number of finger bones from which they will have to pick out - the one!)

Relic 7: Piece of the True Cross

Relic 8: Saint Oswald’s head

Relic 9: The oil of Saint Aidan ( we had a number of little tericota bottles which they had to pick out the collection - the one !)

Relic 10: Saint Birinus hand