LARPs, Halloween, and New England
My brain has been made of cheese this week. Cheese, and LARPs.
Consequently I have gotten no writing done--not even the edits I need to do for the run of Cracks at Consequences. I suppose there is always tomorrow.
Until, of course, there's not.
... that got grim fast.
Have some bullet points!
- Matt and I tickets to see the October 24th RiffTrax Live at the Framingham AMC (*grumbles that Burlington is apparently no longer participating*).The riff is going to be Night of the Living Dead. Anyone care to join us?
- Chances of apple-picking this weekend look high. It is more a question of who will be joining us. Good, I was getting worried about missing this fall tradition. I think they revoke your New Englander license if you do.
- I am close to the end of the audiobook of Jumper. I swear this is the same narrator as The Kingkiller Chronicle. Which... does not surprise me. Davey and Kvothe seem to have the same teenaged hero complex ;)
- Have been reading The Lies of Locke Lamora, slowly. Nothing much to say yet, except that the world is utterly fascinating.
- Still need to finish my costume for the next game of TBC. I was originally going to decorate the green velvet and satin dress I got at Savers to make it less plain, and more Milady-appropriate. Then I heard about the Halloween dance, and considered making a more costume-y costume. I mused about who Milady would dress up as, and my first thought was "The Queen of Hearts, of course."
Alas, that would require going in a completely different direction, and with very limited time, so I think that Milady shall have to wear something simpler. I will deck out the green dress, and decorate a witch's hat to go with, and that shall be the end of my costuming efforts. Matt argues that Milady would not be the sort to wear costumes, anyway, so I think I can get away with this.
The dress I'm working with, by the way, was originally a $300 dress, by the original tags, which I removed last night when I Dryel-ed it. That was proooobably back in the 80s, judging by the style and egregious shoulder pads. I got it for $40 at Savers last year, but that doesn't mean I don't feel bad about the amount of modification I'm going to do to it--slashing the sleeves, and changing the neckline, at the very least. It's a little too modest for Milady's tastes as-is.
- Speaking of LARPs and Halloween, I quite liked offside7's post about The Most Wonderful Time of the Year, LARPers' Christmas--i.e. Halloween. Especially in New England, where we take both Halloween, and LARPing, very seriously.
(I told my geeky coworker there were only about six Accelerant LARPs running in MA right now. "Only?" she said, in astonishment).
- Speaking of Accelerant, I am already making plans for the next Shadows game I'll be at, though it will be next spring. I was delighted, actually, that dervishspin asked me to contribute something for game 2, so know that I will be there in spirit :)
At the very least, I want some sort of bag or pouch to carry things in at my next game, because I didn't have pockets for most of the weekend, and that was inconvenient. I alternated between using various leather bags that people loaned me, and using a pashmina-sash that had a tendency to lose coins (As some PCs found out when they tried to loot me. They finally gave up in frustration at the Senussi with the complex clothing ;) )
I also want to get a period lantern/flashlight of some sort--my Maglite doesn't quite fit in.
The whole "your costume is your identifier" thing is frustrating, because I would like to improve both Hahanzi and Tabitha's costumes. Ah well. Perhaps I can do it piece by piece, retaining the most emblematic features. For Tabitha it would most definitely be the hat. Hahanzi has less of one, though.
I would also like to have some sort of period handcraft I could engage in when my job is just to be hangin' out with the PCs. I spent a lot of time in the Open Palms as Hahanzi scribbling in my journal, which is fine, but I still have a very hard time with the amount of writing she does as a Dom. They are not exactly a people known for their written traditions.
Knitting would be appropriate for a Westerner, and it's actually something I can do, but I'm not sure how it would look for a non-Western character to be doing it?
... actually, I just searched, and apparently the earliest examples of knitting were found in Egypt, dating back to cotton stockings from the 11th-15th centuries! Cool! So knitting it is.
Consequently I have gotten no writing done--not even the edits I need to do for the run of Cracks at Consequences. I suppose there is always tomorrow.
Until, of course, there's not.
... that got grim fast.
Have some bullet points!
- Matt and I tickets to see the October 24th RiffTrax Live at the Framingham AMC (*grumbles that Burlington is apparently no longer participating*).The riff is going to be Night of the Living Dead. Anyone care to join us?
- Chances of apple-picking this weekend look high. It is more a question of who will be joining us. Good, I was getting worried about missing this fall tradition. I think they revoke your New Englander license if you do.
- I am close to the end of the audiobook of Jumper. I swear this is the same narrator as The Kingkiller Chronicle. Which... does not surprise me. Davey and Kvothe seem to have the same teenaged hero complex ;)
- Have been reading The Lies of Locke Lamora, slowly. Nothing much to say yet, except that the world is utterly fascinating.
- Still need to finish my costume for the next game of TBC. I was originally going to decorate the green velvet and satin dress I got at Savers to make it less plain, and more Milady-appropriate. Then I heard about the Halloween dance, and considered making a more costume-y costume. I mused about who Milady would dress up as, and my first thought was "The Queen of Hearts, of course."
Alas, that would require going in a completely different direction, and with very limited time, so I think that Milady shall have to wear something simpler. I will deck out the green dress, and decorate a witch's hat to go with, and that shall be the end of my costuming efforts. Matt argues that Milady would not be the sort to wear costumes, anyway, so I think I can get away with this.
The dress I'm working with, by the way, was originally a $300 dress, by the original tags, which I removed last night when I Dryel-ed it. That was proooobably back in the 80s, judging by the style and egregious shoulder pads. I got it for $40 at Savers last year, but that doesn't mean I don't feel bad about the amount of modification I'm going to do to it--slashing the sleeves, and changing the neckline, at the very least. It's a little too modest for Milady's tastes as-is.
- Speaking of LARPs and Halloween, I quite liked offside7's post about The Most Wonderful Time of the Year, LARPers' Christmas--i.e. Halloween. Especially in New England, where we take both Halloween, and LARPing, very seriously.
(I told my geeky coworker there were only about six Accelerant LARPs running in MA right now. "Only?" she said, in astonishment).
- Speaking of Accelerant, I am already making plans for the next Shadows game I'll be at, though it will be next spring. I was delighted, actually, that dervishspin asked me to contribute something for game 2, so know that I will be there in spirit :)
At the very least, I want some sort of bag or pouch to carry things in at my next game, because I didn't have pockets for most of the weekend, and that was inconvenient. I alternated between using various leather bags that people loaned me, and using a pashmina-sash that had a tendency to lose coins (As some PCs found out when they tried to loot me. They finally gave up in frustration at the Senussi with the complex clothing ;) )
I also want to get a period lantern/flashlight of some sort--my Maglite doesn't quite fit in.
The whole "your costume is your identifier" thing is frustrating, because I would like to improve both Hahanzi and Tabitha's costumes. Ah well. Perhaps I can do it piece by piece, retaining the most emblematic features. For Tabitha it would most definitely be the hat. Hahanzi has less of one, though.
I would also like to have some sort of period handcraft I could engage in when my job is just to be hangin' out with the PCs. I spent a lot of time in the Open Palms as Hahanzi scribbling in my journal, which is fine, but I still have a very hard time with the amount of writing she does as a Dom. They are not exactly a people known for their written traditions.
Knitting would be appropriate for a Westerner, and it's actually something I can do, but I'm not sure how it would look for a non-Western character to be doing it?
... actually, I just searched, and apparently the earliest examples of knitting were found in Egypt, dating back to cotton stockings from the 11th-15th centuries! Cool! So knitting it is.