My thoughts on St Wolfgang
Yeah, lotsa thoughts, I seem to have complicated relationship with this game, but this time I quite enjoyed it.
I think I have finally understood what is the problem for me with this larp, and why it occurs, as I never had anything like that in other larps. Yup, this is all about Catholic faith. I have no moral problems larping around this, but it is so hard to actually get in character.
Last time my character was a nun, and she was meant to be a virtuous person, very devoted to God service, blah-blah. This time it was a Gypsy princess, still a very devoted and even holy. Still, both of them had flaws that were rather un-Catholic.
I think I've been trying to make characters on something I do not understand enough, and I've made them both very complicated, so eventually it got me really confused as to how I should behave. This whole holiness and virtuous acting stuff probably needs appropriate state of mind that I do not possess.
So I came up with idea for a third SWVH character, which should be a more simple one, and with more primitive mind. Thus I will have no problems trying to cope with things that are so alien to me.
And yeah, I get to make a new costume too;-)))
So far the game was cool, and I am very happy with how my Gypsies managed. We did a lot of Gypsy stuff, including music, dancing, apothecary, and seduction, and I think we made a good impression and good input. Looks like I was right organizing this group, and I'm now holding a high opinion of myself as I was able to actually organize people in the way that they integrated and started acting as group. I'm glad they had fun, and I know some of them are thinking of coming next game as same characters, so my Gypsy inspiration seems to have worked well. Yay me.
A lesson from this game: never again make a character with a baby. This is obviously totally not my thing. In fact, after
aliette_rowan took the baby from me, my first thought was "Gosh, how convenient it is WITHOUT baby!" I'm a terrible mother, my Gypsies told me that on the way to the game when they found out that baby was packed in the boot.
Another lesson - never come to St Wolfgang without a sword. Again, not my thing in this case, in a larp like this I feel very useless without a sword.
Another lesson - cleavage is good. I was waiting for half of the game for someone to disrespect me doubting I'm a Christian and requesting to present the cross, which was looking so well on my necklace. Lucky me! It was the cardinal who finally asked this question, and I happily demonstrated the cross. He looked very pleased, probably finally believed I'm a good Catholic. (Funny thing is that I've also had loads of crosses on my bracelets, about few dozens;-)))
Another lesson - make a costume that is CONVENIENT TO WEAR. Mine was a torture. Need to do something about it. But it got a lot of compliments, including that from Chantelle (yay me!), so it probably worth all the efforts I put into making it.
And I'm seriously thinking whether or not to take the Holy Water skill next time, as I spent half of weekend chanting over those little bottles, and my throat was sore, not even mentioning I was missing things happening around.
All in all, I think my new character will be something very different from what I normally have, and I hope it will finally make me feel good enough. This Catholicism is a complicated thingy *sigh*