The Dreaded LARPseal!
LARP went pretty awesomely, all things considered--everyone in Requiem for Vegas was chill, and keeping myself from saying "I'm a new ST, take it easy on me" was a good plan. LARP runs itself, and the STs are just facilitators. Pretty boss, especially because it was a really small group tonight. Hunter is cool so far, but I think I need to change my character somewhat to fit my mental image of her. As usual my first session was a little "off," but I'll try to fix that for next time. Confidence in new characters in LARP can be difficult, but the freshman/new people did spectacularly. I have some ideas about what I'd like to do with Hazel in terms of creative pursuits, but I should talk to my STs about it before going ahead with it. It was really cute how Kristen's character and Margaret's whipped out their crocheting/knitting projects during LARP, and how many people have kids or are older than 25. Kristen's hair-do reminded me of Peggy from Mad Men in the best way possible.
I think that I as an ST would really like to try and encourage any long-term players I have to try to not have the saddest backstory in the room. As a player it's really tiring to have your character's or other character's stories written off because someone feels like they "win" in some way because their parents murdered kittens or something equally awful. You don't really win LARP or other RPing activities where you assume a different persona, which is why I try to keep away from that sort of thing in general, or have characters deal with what they're going through and move on. Some people were just turned into vampires because their sires felt like it; or a hunter hunts because they saw some shit one time and decided to explore it further.
So there's that little on-going rant.
My week otherwise has been pretty normal. I had a birthday, and it went pretty well I think. I'm twenty, and nothing has really changed in any significant way.
There's so much less drama it seems compared to the first three weeks--either that or people are intentionally not telling me about it was my birthday? I don't know. I think it's difficult to prioritize things--for example, I missed bluebooking with Robbie this week because I couldn't really manage to find the time necessary to do that. I mean, it sucks, but it happens sometimes, and I take responsibility for it. I think that's true with problems between people--for example, someone said something that really upset me a couple of weeks ago, but I tried to put it aside and examine why I was upset. Sometimes it's not worth the energy. If I've learned anything this semester so far, it's that sometimes it's just not worth it to get upset or offended, and to just take people as they are instead of getting annoyed. It's difficult, but I'm trying to let things roll off me.
I almost worked on my story today. It's crazy how I made up the world of Black City in May, and now in September it still holds my interest to a certain extent. Creativity is still down the tubes, but what do you want from me? I just like doodling my Dragon-Blood character, who I still might want to play in Living World actually. For some reason slice of life stuff is interesting to me right now, and I'm not sure why. Being emotionally exhausted makes it impossible to want to do other things like draw or write, which is one of the main reasons I haven't worked on the posters for the radio play. I don't want it to seem like I'm lazy, but I feel really awful right now for just being so uninspired to do anything other than doodle in my notebooks during class.
I should go to bed, since it's crazy late and my sleep schedule is fucked up.
I think that I as an ST would really like to try and encourage any long-term players I have to try to not have the saddest backstory in the room. As a player it's really tiring to have your character's or other character's stories written off because someone feels like they "win" in some way because their parents murdered kittens or something equally awful. You don't really win LARP or other RPing activities where you assume a different persona, which is why I try to keep away from that sort of thing in general, or have characters deal with what they're going through and move on. Some people were just turned into vampires because their sires felt like it; or a hunter hunts because they saw some shit one time and decided to explore it further.
So there's that little on-going rant.
My week otherwise has been pretty normal. I had a birthday, and it went pretty well I think. I'm twenty, and nothing has really changed in any significant way.
There's so much less drama it seems compared to the first three weeks--either that or people are intentionally not telling me about it was my birthday? I don't know. I think it's difficult to prioritize things--for example, I missed bluebooking with Robbie this week because I couldn't really manage to find the time necessary to do that. I mean, it sucks, but it happens sometimes, and I take responsibility for it. I think that's true with problems between people--for example, someone said something that really upset me a couple of weeks ago, but I tried to put it aside and examine why I was upset. Sometimes it's not worth the energy. If I've learned anything this semester so far, it's that sometimes it's just not worth it to get upset or offended, and to just take people as they are instead of getting annoyed. It's difficult, but I'm trying to let things roll off me.
I almost worked on my story today. It's crazy how I made up the world of Black City in May, and now in September it still holds my interest to a certain extent. Creativity is still down the tubes, but what do you want from me? I just like doodling my Dragon-Blood character, who I still might want to play in Living World actually. For some reason slice of life stuff is interesting to me right now, and I'm not sure why. Being emotionally exhausted makes it impossible to want to do other things like draw or write, which is one of the main reasons I haven't worked on the posters for the radio play. I don't want it to seem like I'm lazy, but I feel really awful right now for just being so uninspired to do anything other than doodle in my notebooks during class.
I should go to bed, since it's crazy late and my sleep schedule is fucked up.