It sure is dusty here
Hey everyone, remember me? The one that used to post incessantly but is now AWOL for weeks at a time? Yeah. Hi.
Last time you heard from me, I was all excited because me and Tigger had got a house, and we were moving in the day after Chimera, because we're kind of batshit insane like that. And I was also super excited because Chimera was shaping up to be a great event. Now it's...oh, six weeks later, how did that all go?
FABULOUS, thank you for asking! I am writing this entry from the larp room of me and Tigger's new place, we've been living here for two weeks and we're getting settled. The garage is slowly emptying of boxes, the house is slowly filling up with books, CDs, DVDs, costumes and weaponary of many kinds (from the foam swordy goodness to the plastic guns to the airsoft to the steel swords...) and I'm slowly, very slowly, getting the hang of this grown up thing. I've discovered that clean clothes no longer miraculously appear of their own accord, and I must remember to do washing otherwise morning comes and there's no clean socks to wear and things get tricky. People keep asking me if living with Tigger is the most fabulous thing in the world, and it's been great so far, but I've been sick as a dog for three weeks now so I'm sure I'm going to start enjoying life a lot more when making it through the day is no longer a Herculean task in and of itself.
I pretty much got sick the week before Chimera, really, really sick. It was some kind of noxious flu bug compounded by stress which was not so much from Chimera or moving, but some personal stuff, and the fact that we were having 20/20 come to do a piece on larping, and they were filming Chimera. Larping and the media is this massive can of worms, so I was basically have conniptions that what if I made the wrong choice and they made us like a rabid gang of crazies? It ended up going fine, the reporter and the producer were lovely people, really enthusiastic, and we even convinced the reporter to play in the Great Exhibition - not only was he really good at it, he had a great time. So...that's going to be on telly sometime, and believe me, I'll post as soon as I know when.
Chimera itself kicked some serious ass. Like, it was a huge event, we had between 40-60 people for most of the rounds, and we had over 80 people for the Great Exhibition. We played 18 games over the weekend, we had heaps of new faces, and the convention ran like a well oiled machine. Months and months and months of planning in meticulous detail, then forcing everyone to memorise the plans paid off. Nikki also scored us a V sponsorship so we were swimming in the stuff all weekend. How about that? Biggest larp event in the country, national media coverage, external sponsorship...we're getting there!
For more, I'm going to refer you to the photos that my sister, the official photographer, took. If you look at nothing else, check out the Great Exhibition photos, beccause we knocked that one out of the park. Not only did the writers write a stonking good game (I really, really must do a write up of my night because I had a serious ball as Mina Murray) but it looked freaking fabulous - is it, in fact, possible to turn a scout hall into a nice looking Victorian exhibition on a budget of $400? The answer is...well, see for yourself.
Me, I don't remember a lot of the weekend. I was really sick the whole time, I almost collapsed halfway through The Black Hart of Camelot (I was in serious pain the whole game and didn't do much playing) and wasn't sure I'd make it to Great Ex. Nikki and Moo ran the whole show for me, while I lay in a semi-concious and diseased heap in a side room. You have no idea how gutted I was to be in that state, but the main thing was, everyone else had fun, the event was a success and even better, our visiting six Wellingtonians had such a great time they're re-igniting their own larp scene, and they're going to team up with nzLARPS. Serious, serious awesome.
That's the last month of my life recapped for you, apart from moving and Chimera and being sick, not a lot has happened. There's been work and unpacking and me getting excited about stupid things like new bookshelves, a fridge and our wrought iron Victorian coat stand that arrived today for me to hang my coat on.
In short, I am as nerderiffic as usual. Hopefully posting more - I'd like to pretend I have free time but between Masquerade on Fleet Street's rerun coming up, and then Wolfgang, and Requiem happening once a month (herding werewolves is a lot like herding cats only they're more likely to rip you to shreds) that's a lot of geeking to be getting on with.
Last time you heard from me, I was all excited because me and Tigger had got a house, and we were moving in the day after Chimera, because we're kind of batshit insane like that. And I was also super excited because Chimera was shaping up to be a great event. Now it's...oh, six weeks later, how did that all go?
FABULOUS, thank you for asking! I am writing this entry from the larp room of me and Tigger's new place, we've been living here for two weeks and we're getting settled. The garage is slowly emptying of boxes, the house is slowly filling up with books, CDs, DVDs, costumes and weaponary of many kinds (from the foam swordy goodness to the plastic guns to the airsoft to the steel swords...) and I'm slowly, very slowly, getting the hang of this grown up thing. I've discovered that clean clothes no longer miraculously appear of their own accord, and I must remember to do washing otherwise morning comes and there's no clean socks to wear and things get tricky. People keep asking me if living with Tigger is the most fabulous thing in the world, and it's been great so far, but I've been sick as a dog for three weeks now so I'm sure I'm going to start enjoying life a lot more when making it through the day is no longer a Herculean task in and of itself.
I pretty much got sick the week before Chimera, really, really sick. It was some kind of noxious flu bug compounded by stress which was not so much from Chimera or moving, but some personal stuff, and the fact that we were having 20/20 come to do a piece on larping, and they were filming Chimera. Larping and the media is this massive can of worms, so I was basically have conniptions that what if I made the wrong choice and they made us like a rabid gang of crazies? It ended up going fine, the reporter and the producer were lovely people, really enthusiastic, and we even convinced the reporter to play in the Great Exhibition - not only was he really good at it, he had a great time. So...that's going to be on telly sometime, and believe me, I'll post as soon as I know when.
Chimera itself kicked some serious ass. Like, it was a huge event, we had between 40-60 people for most of the rounds, and we had over 80 people for the Great Exhibition. We played 18 games over the weekend, we had heaps of new faces, and the convention ran like a well oiled machine. Months and months and months of planning in meticulous detail, then forcing everyone to memorise the plans paid off. Nikki also scored us a V sponsorship so we were swimming in the stuff all weekend. How about that? Biggest larp event in the country, national media coverage, external sponsorship...we're getting there!
For more, I'm going to refer you to the photos that my sister, the official photographer, took. If you look at nothing else, check out the Great Exhibition photos, beccause we knocked that one out of the park. Not only did the writers write a stonking good game (I really, really must do a write up of my night because I had a serious ball as Mina Murray) but it looked freaking fabulous - is it, in fact, possible to turn a scout hall into a nice looking Victorian exhibition on a budget of $400? The answer is...well, see for yourself.
Me, I don't remember a lot of the weekend. I was really sick the whole time, I almost collapsed halfway through The Black Hart of Camelot (I was in serious pain the whole game and didn't do much playing) and wasn't sure I'd make it to Great Ex. Nikki and Moo ran the whole show for me, while I lay in a semi-concious and diseased heap in a side room. You have no idea how gutted I was to be in that state, but the main thing was, everyone else had fun, the event was a success and even better, our visiting six Wellingtonians had such a great time they're re-igniting their own larp scene, and they're going to team up with nzLARPS. Serious, serious awesome.
That's the last month of my life recapped for you, apart from moving and Chimera and being sick, not a lot has happened. There's been work and unpacking and me getting excited about stupid things like new bookshelves, a fridge and our wrought iron Victorian coat stand that arrived today for me to hang my coat on.
In short, I am as nerderiffic as usual. Hopefully posting more - I'd like to pretend I have free time but between Masquerade on Fleet Street's rerun coming up, and then Wolfgang, and Requiem happening once a month (herding werewolves is a lot like herding cats only they're more likely to rip you to shreds) that's a lot of geeking to be getting on with.