How you Get Killed in Combat in Amtgard RPG

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"Hi, my name is Austin Harmon, but out here I'm known as Forrest Evergreen, and I'm here on expertvillage.com to teach you about the game of Amtgard. In a normal trench battle like this; when you die; the standard protocol is to put your sword or your hand above your head. This signals that I'm no longer in play, so you don't inadvertently get hit by somebody who thinks you're still playing after you're not paying attention. You wait until one side has been beaten. Then you line back up, and somebody will yell the phrase lay on, which means let's start; let's begin combat again, and you'll fight again until one side has been beaten, and you'll divide back up. Like I said; normally people will switch sides, and sometimes somebody new will come into the game; somebody who wasn't fighting in the previous round. What we'll do is have that person join the side that lost the last round; to give them an advantage, and we'll continue fighting. Sometimes you'll have a four on four battle, and one team will win. They'll give up a dead player, and then five new people will join the game, and all go to the side that just lost. Suddenly, you're outnumbered three to nine; three to ten, and you're like ok, this is interesting. You just fight your way until you can kill one or two people, and get somebody on your side, and rebound the number. There are times that you really have to work at it because you're way outnumbered, and there are times that you're so outnumbered on the other side that you don't get a chance to swing, and you've just got to wait for the next round. It varies back and forth. You never know what's going to happen next."