LARP and stuff
I managed to get to the camp not too late and even got a bottom bunk! I took Heidi to the store and came back with snacks for myself too. Since we didn't have a cave until Saturday, there was no rush for putting up a cave and game-on was almost on time!
I gotta admit, my "duty" at Winter Haven is pretty minimal at the best. I am at the event, but I'm not involved in the game in any way... I'm sort of a fire marshal, transport, gopher, and general lazy-body who occupies space at NPC camp. But as long as I'm wanted, I'm glad to be there.
Things seem to have gone very well over-all. We had Melissa from Final Haven helping out on Friday and early Saturday (I think she had fun) and a total players in the high 30s.
Saturday was the "Beer Fest" and then the "Waxies" show. A few folks mentioned maybe starting a fire, so I got a large fire going in no time and I tended it for the next several hours. The Waxies came in-character as "Ire Rememberance Army" members who fought against the Springhold occupation... so when they played "Go On Home British Soldiers", they changed the lyrics to "Go on home Springhold soldiers." They said it was their first dry show in 3 years. Afterwards, it was off to Big T's for the game break, and to give the band food and drink. They were about to order "what was on tap", when I mentioned to them that they had a beer list with hundreds of beers... they seemed glad I enlightened them to that and I don't think a single one of them ordered off the drink board. *laughs* While I was there, they had a "Philly Steak Burger" on the menu. It was supposed to come with "Green peppers, onions, Swiss cheese and A1 Thick and Rich", but I was like, "What the hell is this?" So I had them take off the A1 and replace the Swiss with American and WOW!!! I will order this burger again!
Then, it was back to the game and putting up the cave for the battle and such. Again, I didn't do much... just mostly chilled out near the cave at times, or down at NPC camp for the couple of "Starfish" calls. Otherwise, things seemed to have gone quite well with the rest of the night.
Sunday came early and the cave and most of the packing up was done early... we were almost ready to leave by 12:30pm... except that the PCs took their time.. and we didn't get out of the camp until almost 3pm.
At about 6pm, several of us met up at Golden Corral in Muskegon, then later to Phil's for chat and decompress a bit.
However, after I got home, I was getting ready for sleep, but I had this energetic boost and couldn't get to sleep until almost 3:30am. When I woke up this morning, I was feeling uneasy and had a headache. I wasn't feeling well at all, and so I called into work and stayed in bed until about 4pm. I have little more than just a little firmness in the brain, but I'll likely be hitting the hay anyways just in case I'm fighting something off.
It seems that someone at the LARP had the H1N1. Now, it's going to be another 6 months before we have another Winter Haven, but I think we will need to implement some sort of rule of "if you think you have the flu, please leave the game" policy. I mean, not even H1N1... if you have any sort of easily transmittable virus.
I gotta admit, my "duty" at Winter Haven is pretty minimal at the best. I am at the event, but I'm not involved in the game in any way... I'm sort of a fire marshal, transport, gopher, and general lazy-body who occupies space at NPC camp. But as long as I'm wanted, I'm glad to be there.
Things seem to have gone very well over-all. We had Melissa from Final Haven helping out on Friday and early Saturday (I think she had fun) and a total players in the high 30s.
Saturday was the "Beer Fest" and then the "Waxies" show. A few folks mentioned maybe starting a fire, so I got a large fire going in no time and I tended it for the next several hours. The Waxies came in-character as "Ire Rememberance Army" members who fought against the Springhold occupation... so when they played "Go On Home British Soldiers", they changed the lyrics to "Go on home Springhold soldiers." They said it was their first dry show in 3 years. Afterwards, it was off to Big T's for the game break, and to give the band food and drink. They were about to order "what was on tap", when I mentioned to them that they had a beer list with hundreds of beers... they seemed glad I enlightened them to that and I don't think a single one of them ordered off the drink board. *laughs* While I was there, they had a "Philly Steak Burger" on the menu. It was supposed to come with "Green peppers, onions, Swiss cheese and A1 Thick and Rich", but I was like, "What the hell is this?" So I had them take off the A1 and replace the Swiss with American and WOW!!! I will order this burger again!
Then, it was back to the game and putting up the cave for the battle and such. Again, I didn't do much... just mostly chilled out near the cave at times, or down at NPC camp for the couple of "Starfish" calls. Otherwise, things seemed to have gone quite well with the rest of the night.
Sunday came early and the cave and most of the packing up was done early... we were almost ready to leave by 12:30pm... except that the PCs took their time.. and we didn't get out of the camp until almost 3pm.
At about 6pm, several of us met up at Golden Corral in Muskegon, then later to Phil's for chat and decompress a bit.
However, after I got home, I was getting ready for sleep, but I had this energetic boost and couldn't get to sleep until almost 3:30am. When I woke up this morning, I was feeling uneasy and had a headache. I wasn't feeling well at all, and so I called into work and stayed in bed until about 4pm. I have little more than just a little firmness in the brain, but I'll likely be hitting the hay anyways just in case I'm fighting something off.
It seems that someone at the LARP had the H1N1. Now, it's going to be another 6 months before we have another Winter Haven, but I think we will need to implement some sort of rule of "if you think you have the flu, please leave the game" policy. I mean, not even H1N1... if you have any sort of easily transmittable virus.