Weekend LARP
So I played in a little LARP Saturday night. It was the final chapter of a three parter that started about two years ago. I missed the first game, but enjoyed the middle and the end.
The game was called "Moment of Glory" and it was a Regency-era historical game. My character has some fairly period-appropriate goals (find a husband!) but I managed to get caught up in several adjunct plots and never quite followed through my primary motivations. But I did have fun, which is what's really important. I spent most of the evening entwined in a mystery right out of a Jane Austen novel. A young man of very suspicious quality was courting a young lady of my acquaintance and we were trying to determine if he was a cad or a gentleman under extreme circumstances. We even devised a clever test, but ran out of time before we could apply it.
My character was quite certain he was a cad, and, of course, his lady love wanted to believe him a gentleman. During the final wrap-up we discovered he was mostly a gentleman, but a bit cad-like in some of his actions. All in all, very fun. I was actually a little surprised at how much fun I had, since my LARP tastes tend to run a little more toward the super-natural and this game had no magic powers, mutant abilities or advanced technology. Not my usual fare at all. ;) But it was great. I guess hard work and good writing can trump a decided lack of aliens!!!
I wore a Regency dress I had created for the second game (based off the Simplicity pattern). I never did finish my Regency corset, but I did put some effort into styling my hair. I was pretty happy with the 'do', although all the rain frizzed it out a bit. However, I think that probably made it even more historically accurate. I have a few pictures a friend snapped.
The game was called "Moment of Glory" and it was a Regency-era historical game. My character has some fairly period-appropriate goals (find a husband!) but I managed to get caught up in several adjunct plots and never quite followed through my primary motivations. But I did have fun, which is what's really important. I spent most of the evening entwined in a mystery right out of a Jane Austen novel. A young man of very suspicious quality was courting a young lady of my acquaintance and we were trying to determine if he was a cad or a gentleman under extreme circumstances. We even devised a clever test, but ran out of time before we could apply it.
My character was quite certain he was a cad, and, of course, his lady love wanted to believe him a gentleman. During the final wrap-up we discovered he was mostly a gentleman, but a bit cad-like in some of his actions. All in all, very fun. I was actually a little surprised at how much fun I had, since my LARP tastes tend to run a little more toward the super-natural and this game had no magic powers, mutant abilities or advanced technology. Not my usual fare at all. ;) But it was great. I guess hard work and good writing can trump a decided lack of aliens!!!
I wore a Regency dress I had created for the second game (based off the Simplicity pattern). I never did finish my Regency corset, but I did put some effort into styling my hair. I was pretty happy with the 'do', although all the rain frizzed it out a bit. However, I think that probably made it even more historically accurate. I have a few pictures a friend snapped.