home from Nordanil

[kareina]

I am just back from Nordanil, the Lajv (LARP) where I got to play a Viking Storman for the weekend. Everyone tells me that with the beard and man muscles I was convincing enough that they never had any difficulties remembering to refer to my character as "he". This pleases me. I was one of three women on site playing male roles, but the other two

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[kareina]

I am afraid the write up sounded like a complaint about understanding, when, really, I should be bouncing off the walls for joy in that I understood so much and managed to play a Swedish speaker reasonably successfully. Ok, so I had to repeat the information to the slaves in the kitchen about the middle outhouse being out of baby wipes three times before they understood me, but that was the only time that people didn't understand what I said, and I don't think they were expecting that topic...

[ohhhlife]

Wow! That sounds really awesome! It'd be fun to try to stay in character and interact with other characters for all that time.