Ok, I want to put my hand up as the person who fired the arrows in question. Like the others have said it was completely accidental and both times I stopped, apologised and waited to see if you were okay before continuing on. Whenever I aimed at someone to shoot them I did my best to aim for the abdomen or lower legs.
As anyone who knows me will attest I hate hurting people- I’m an ambulance officer, I’m not in the habit of breaking people in order to fix them and I like to be proactive about safety- I raised a concern about the chain gates with the GMs before the game having run into them in the dark more than once( and hence why Vanya now has a specially made first aid kit). If I hurt someone accidentally I am mortified- I accidentally hit Patrick on the neck with a pole-arm once and spent most of the rest of the day apologising to him. The only reason why I brought the bow and arrows along was because I was checked out on LARP archery by Adam, who also checked my bow for pound-draw, and as part of that training I was shot with those arrows from several different ranges- from a good 10m away to about 4ft. The only reason why I bought the IDV arrows was because they were recommended to me as LARP safe and I didn’t want to dare building my own as an inexperienced weapon-maker.
Because safety is a legitimate concern for everyone I’m very surprised that you didn’t bring up your concerns with me or the GMs at the time or later on Sunday. I would have been happy to listen and discuss it with you. I personally feel very attacked by the wording of your post and I don’t feel it’s appropriate to express legitimate concerns in such a fashion on a public forum when it could very easily cause offence and hurt that wasn’t intended in the message. We’re all in this to have fun, not scrap it out between us.