Vampire-LARP among expensive art...
First, thank you for all the nice words the other day. :-) Always happy to hear I am a good sister! I do try to be. My brother is one hell of a brother to. We are just very very different from each other. And now when it is his turn to go through some tough times, I do try to be there for him. I really am. He is a wonderful man, my brother, so... :-)
Anyway.
Wanted to write about the LARP I was at yesterday. We still do the same thing. The LARP is every other week. And me and peting73 go to every other LARP each. Which means I get to LARP once a month. :-) Works brilliantly!
And I was lucky this time. Because it was my turn to LARP last night. And it was a special edition LARP, sorta. Because we, the LARP-club/society got invited to LARP at the art-museum here in town. With people that had never LARPed before. :-D
Just... wow... What an experience that was! Even though it failed somewhat at start, since communication from the GM's failed epically. They hadn't given us the information that they should. Ugh... But once the LARP started, I had SO MUCH FUN!
My character had been tortured as a punishment earlier, so she sported half a Glasgow smile... I got help from a friend with doing the makeup for it, but I gotta say... it turned out WAY better then I thought! She is really good at doing makeup like this... She only used a little bit of liquid silicone, a red lip-pen and some eyeshadow to create this:
(Can click it for bigger...)
I'll have to keep up that makeup now, even though it'll be less red the next time, since it'll be more healed then. It'll stay though. My character COULD heal it away, but since her mistress allowed it to happen and gave her blessing, my character will keep the scar to remind her... unless she is forced to heal it. Could happen. We'll see, I guess. :-)
Anyway, she managed to piss off the most powerful vampire in the city by calling him a 'Fucking pig!' (and it wasn't even planned!), annoy her mistress and her mistress's lovers, possibly getting another lover (which would be the third one!), nearly flying into a violent rage (twice!), and possibly getting new friends...
It was a very special event, I gotta say. To be able to play your character in such a setting. The art museum was open after hours especially for this. The Curator was there. A lovely women who had never in her life LARPed before either, but joined in as well! And she was REALLY good! When I asked her after wards if she'd had fun, she said she really did. And she hoped this could happen again!
Dude. I really hope so. LARPing is so so much more then people think.
I was eating and hanging out with our youngest members in our break (we always have a break at around midnight). Those three girls are only 16, struggling with school and bullies and all that. And we talked about LARPing and what it has given us, apart from great friends of various ages. And the girls pointed out that they have grown, A LOT! They got a lot of self-esteem from this. They dare to put their foot down when the bullies come running, telling them to fuck off pretty much. They dare to stand up in front of the class and hold a presentation without blushing. They dare to hold a discussion in front of the class. To show what they can do. That they are good at what they do. That they are worthy some attention as well.
You can't be shy when playing a 200 year old vampire. So you fake it. And then, all of a sudden, you don't have fake it anymore. :-) And all the friends they've gotten, so many different people, have helped to. :-)
I was very happy to hear that. I've seen it before. I've done this since 2001. There has been many, many people younger then me that has joined our LARP club/society since then. And they've all grown as people beyond belief.
LARPing is awesome. And that is that. :-)
In conclusion, my Saturday evening/night:
;-)
This entry is crossposted between LJ and DW. Comment where you are comfortable.
Anyway.
Wanted to write about the LARP I was at yesterday. We still do the same thing. The LARP is every other week. And me and peting73 go to every other LARP each. Which means I get to LARP once a month. :-) Works brilliantly!
And I was lucky this time. Because it was my turn to LARP last night. And it was a special edition LARP, sorta. Because we, the LARP-club/society got invited to LARP at the art-museum here in town. With people that had never LARPed before. :-D
Just... wow... What an experience that was! Even though it failed somewhat at start, since communication from the GM's failed epically. They hadn't given us the information that they should. Ugh... But once the LARP started, I had SO MUCH FUN!
My character had been tortured as a punishment earlier, so she sported half a Glasgow smile... I got help from a friend with doing the makeup for it, but I gotta say... it turned out WAY better then I thought! She is really good at doing makeup like this... She only used a little bit of liquid silicone, a red lip-pen and some eyeshadow to create this:
(Can click it for bigger...)
I'll have to keep up that makeup now, even though it'll be less red the next time, since it'll be more healed then. It'll stay though. My character COULD heal it away, but since her mistress allowed it to happen and gave her blessing, my character will keep the scar to remind her... unless she is forced to heal it. Could happen. We'll see, I guess. :-)
Anyway, she managed to piss off the most powerful vampire in the city by calling him a 'Fucking pig!' (and it wasn't even planned!), annoy her mistress and her mistress's lovers, possibly getting another lover (which would be the third one!), nearly flying into a violent rage (twice!), and possibly getting new friends...
It was a very special event, I gotta say. To be able to play your character in such a setting. The art museum was open after hours especially for this. The Curator was there. A lovely women who had never in her life LARPed before either, but joined in as well! And she was REALLY good! When I asked her after wards if she'd had fun, she said she really did. And she hoped this could happen again!
Dude. I really hope so. LARPing is so so much more then people think.
I was eating and hanging out with our youngest members in our break (we always have a break at around midnight). Those three girls are only 16, struggling with school and bullies and all that. And we talked about LARPing and what it has given us, apart from great friends of various ages. And the girls pointed out that they have grown, A LOT! They got a lot of self-esteem from this. They dare to put their foot down when the bullies come running, telling them to fuck off pretty much. They dare to stand up in front of the class and hold a presentation without blushing. They dare to hold a discussion in front of the class. To show what they can do. That they are good at what they do. That they are worthy some attention as well.
You can't be shy when playing a 200 year old vampire. So you fake it. And then, all of a sudden, you don't have fake it anymore. :-) And all the friends they've gotten, so many different people, have helped to. :-)
I was very happy to hear that. I've seen it before. I've done this since 2001. There has been many, many people younger then me that has joined our LARP club/society since then. And they've all grown as people beyond belief.
LARPing is awesome. And that is that. :-)
In conclusion, my Saturday evening/night:
- Meet up at 4pm in the afternoon, fixed up our usual place where we always LARP.
- Left at 5pm to the museum.
- Started LARPing at 6:30pm.
- LARPed until 11pm.
- Break-time! Fixed food and went back to our usual place.
- Started LARPing again at 00:30am.
- Kept it up until 4am.
- Helped cleaning up and such after wards, drove my young 16 year old friends home.
- Got home, got rid of makeup and clothes without waking up peting73 or Alexandra.
- Checked time. 5am.
- Collapsed in bed.
;-)
This entry is crossposted between LJ and DW. Comment where you are comfortable.