I can imagine with the LARPing stuff, castles would be awesome. Or quazar.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 27 Feb 2011, 19:50, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

SUIT UP FOR LASER TAG

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Sun 27 Feb 2011, 19:54, Reply)

yeah, that was the deal we had
we could borrow it to play in in winter. Was pretty dramatic at night when we played vampire there too
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 27 Feb 2011, 19:55, Reply)

How many people go to the event? I'd quite like to go as a photographer.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 27 Feb 2011, 19:57, Reply)

that's how I started, photographing a local one
depends on the event - local ones used to be about 10, small events (weekends) are about 100-150, large events 4000 or so
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 27 Feb 2011, 20:01, Reply)

Woh', cool. That's a _lot_ of people.
I joined the Freemasons for a bit, which is the closest to LARPing I've ever been, it's all very very Zelda. In general, it's good fun, except I found there was to much pesudo-religion and bickering for my liking. I absolutly love the stuff I know though, when I walk around London I can see so much of it and I think "So many people walk past this but don't know what it means; but I do".

What sort of thing do you do when you go LARPing?
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 27 Feb 2011, 20:05, Reply)

:)
dress as an egyptian alchemist, fight baddies, get involved in politics, drink tea, bitch about things, drink bad concoctions of booze, sing songs, sleep very little
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 27 Feb 2011, 20:08, Reply)

Sounds fantastic actually.

( girlinthehole, Sun 27 Feb 2011, 20:09, Reply)

it really is
you just have to deal with the nerdery. If you can handle that and being cold and rained on, it's brilliant.

There may be a follow up to my larp dating coll3ctive entry from a guy I went out with who larped for the first time. He might show more of the bad side ;)
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 27 Feb 2011, 20:13, Reply)

There's a bad side?

( girlinthehole, Sun 27 Feb 2011, 20:14, Reply)

mud, rain, no sleep

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 27 Feb 2011, 20:22, Reply)

Oh! I thought you meant something more naughty.

( girlinthehole, Sun 27 Feb 2011, 20:30, Reply)

apparently it's easy to pull at larp
...unless you're me :(
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 27 Feb 2011, 20:39, Reply)

How does the fighting work? Do you have coloured powder that you throw into the wind and yell something, then everyone else knows that is an enchantment spell and they come under your command?
Is there really baddys, or are they like people who have a different conflicting story where there is a fight, nobody is right, nobody is wrong, they're just at war with each other? Or are there deffo down-and-outright baddys?
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 27 Feb 2011, 20:14, Reply)

I would rather be a baddie than a goodie.
Decepticons were way cooler than Autobots, amirite?
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 27 Feb 2011, 20:17, Reply)

I love stories when there is no such thing as a baddie, that they're there through circamstance of some kind.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 27 Feb 2011, 20:21, Reply)

I read that as "Geordy" too and lol'd.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 27 Feb 2011, 20:21, Reply)

the one I do
fighting works on a hits based system (if you get hit a number of times on any location it becomes immobile)
Spells involve you shouting something specific and pointing at someeone and they respond by falling over or running away or something.

Usually you play your character and sometimes you get into fights with other characters. There are also people who play the monsters who are generally 'the baddies', zombies, daemons, innocent villagers who turn out to be daemons.

hope this helps
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 27 Feb 2011, 20:25, Reply)

I just cannot get my head around larping.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 27 Feb 2011, 20:27, Reply)

ever played D&D
or computer games that are role play based? It's like that only with more ham acting
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 27 Feb 2011, 20:30, Reply)

of course I have
But larping is several levels of wrongness over playing Oblivion.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 27 Feb 2011, 20:33, Reply)

There's worse things to be in life.
A train spotter for instance.
( girlinthehole, Sun 27 Feb 2011, 20:38, Reply)

or a Tory voter.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 27 Feb 2011, 20:41, Reply)

I've met a Tory voter.
She's lovely. She doesn't eat babies and once rescued a cat from a tree.
( girlinthehole, Sun 27 Feb 2011, 20:43, Reply)

arsebollocks.
I loathe Tories. Utter selfishness on a ballot paper. And the callousness of Thatcher was fucking world class.

Testing out the poll tax on Scotland a year before England as punishment for not supporting her- totally unforgivable. Not to mention the hypocrisy of back to basics etc.

Turn my fucking stomach.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 27 Feb 2011, 20:52, Reply)

I didn't say I've met Thatcher.

( girlinthehole, Sun 27 Feb 2011, 20:58, Reply)

doesn't matter.
Thatcher is the wank material for all modern Tories- her policies and views are still evoked as some kind of rightward golden age. I was a kid in Scotland when her policies came in- when she dies later this year it will be a fucking party for me and my peer group- that bitch and her troop of acolytes (in government now) are a bunch of selfish, self serving cunts. Not welcome round my house. Only a shade less unacceptable than Nick Griffin.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 27 Feb 2011, 21:09, Reply)

It sounds like a good laugh really, esspechally when you know what you're doing.
Can you borrow costumes on your first go? What happens when you 'die', can you then go off to a tent/BBQ or do you have to lay down? Is there a lot of time by yourself, or is there some sort of buddy system?
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 27 Feb 2011, 20:28, Reply)

the weekend ones you can hang out with your mates all the time if you want
if you're unconscious you lie down until someone heals you. If you are dead dead you make a new character. There are lots of times for bbqs and arsing around, depending on how you play the game.

Usually you go with a group of mates, so n00bs borrow kit and follow people around until they get the hang of it
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 27 Feb 2011, 20:32, Reply)