The First Day.....

We started out first day of questing on a very, very sunny Tuesday afternoon. The temperature was around 24ish degrees I would say, so we took a vote and both decided the the normal uniform we will be wearing for our questing was inappropriate (a suit jacket, suit trousers, and our beautiful "Knightly Adventures" t-shirts), so we ended up in the t-shirts and shorts, and let me tell you...it was still boiling!!

We kicked off at 3pm and headed straight to the high street, with our camerman Mr. Mark Boyer. At first we had a very slow response between Next and Tesco. Walking around with signs explaining what we were doing gained us attention, people as they passed would look at the sign and then keep walking. Upon asking some of these people if they did have quests for us they believed there was a catch, and us simply being nice was "too good to be true". Eventually Nick had a clever idea of standing outside Tesco express, so we headed down there and BOOYA! The first quest of the day, from two mid-20's gentlemen. After an explanation of what we were doing they asked us to perform the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet. All good...However, neither me nor Nick really knew the words, so we gave them the "What light through yonder window breaks" and the old classic "Romeo, Romeo where for art thou Romeo?". This went down a treat, and garnered some attention from the passing public, as we performed it pretty loud, but I still insist my performance as Juliet standing on a bench is the best Juliet ever performed.

After the success of the first quest we were less worried about walking around for hours getting nothing. We headed to the Cathedral Green...and what a good time we had there. As it was sunny it was packed with students and "norms" alike just chilling and spillin' on the green. The poor people didn't know what was about to hit them. Our second task came in the form of a group of uni/college students, who asked us to sing "Bohemian Rhapsody" to another group of students the other side of the green...easy. At full voice, belting it out across the whole area me and Nick nailed it, to enormous applause from all. Score two for the quest box!! We then went between 3 groups of students (the two from the previous quest about 3 times) and ended up dancing the YMCA for some people, dancing the YMCA while I was sitting on Nick's shoulders for another task (which is suprisingly hard to do), and singing "Like a Virgin" to another group. Unfortuantly going up to a group of strangers and saying that "we wanted to sing like a virgin to them" was a sentence that needed explanation :)

We then met two ladies of the older persuasion who asked Nick and I two things, the first was for Nick to present some flowers to one of them, which he did superbly. The second was I had to present a rose to the second lady, and then propose while Nick sung "I Will Always Love You" (he did a killer job). The last quest we did on the green came at the exit, as I carried a young lady's shopping to where she and her friend wanted to sit. I make that around 8 tasks...oh yeah!!

Upon realising that we were getting quite silly quests from the student population, just for entertainment purposes we chose to move on and see what else we could get. This led to us meeting two very nice college kids in the Real McCoy arcade, and their "quest" was for us to talk to one of them (who was a photography student doing a piece on "Timeless) about what timeless was. I really enjoyed this part of the day, as it's not often you just chat with absoloutly strangers about a rather deep topic! We linked the word "timeless" to what we were doing, trying to see if a code of honour from hundreds of years ago had a timeless quality to it. Yeah...we're proper intelligent...you're so jealous...

Sweating like Gordon Brown and his aides we decided to take a trip back up onto campus, where at Thornlea, Nick read a few pages of a drama student's book. Once we arrived at Devonshire House the heat had got to us, and we decided to give up...however it was a very good day!!

Random Thoughts:

Alot of people are very wary just when you're offering to help them. Since when was someone being nice a threat, and why is there always suspicion? I really hope that we get a more trusting response the next time we do it.

If we didn't say it was a University project would people generally ignore us completely?

The older generation are not as likely to ask us do stuff. Why do they fear late teens/early twenties people. Especially after we've explained that it's totally above board!

Alot of the student aged people seemed to use us as entertainment and to try and embarass us, however when we performed their quests perfectly and with a smile on our faces were they shocked that we actually went through with it?

Lots of people are sexually motivated. The amount of people whose first idea of a quest was "get your penis out" was just stupid. Why is everyone so horny? Does the sun make people more horny? Dirty Exeter folk...

Until next time...stay funky!