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Masquerade mask for glasses wearers
Cheap but effective if you donāt own contacts. I made small hooks that should fall on your glasses if you measure it right. Since it lands on your glasses it shouldnāt scratch you. This only works with really light masks though
Reblog to save an aesthetic
Disenjangle (VERB): The process of stripping your belt of favors, pouches, bells, tokens, drinking vessels, weapons, etc before visiting the toilet. Necessary to avoid piddling on oneās accessories while wearing garb.
very useful word
Ā Ā Ā Quantum.Ā Ā Ā Ā Glowing One.
The costume for my character for the Fallout inspired LARP Valvet. (2018) Sweden.Ā
ā¦I just woke up from a dream in which there was an app that notified you when nearby LARPs needed an NPC, and you could, like, go pretend to be a surly shopkeeper or whatever and get paid, like, $10 for it.
damn now i want this to be an actual thing.
You are between 4 and 7 feet in length, possess a head, mantle, eight locomotive limbs and two manipulative tentacles arranged symmetrically around your central axis. You respire through osmotic absorption of oxygen suspended in liquid hydrogen dioxide. You are, in short, a space squid. The evolutionary advantage your species enjoys is that while engaged in mating behaviors using your two tentacles, your ganglia meld with those of your partners, combining your intellect and skills, but also your attitudes and biases. Which is critically important today, because your deep space colonization vessel has broken down! If you can keep the ship habitable, restart the engines, and plot a new course you should be able survive to settle on a planet. If you hope to survive, you will have to work together! WHAT: SPACE SQUIDS, a parlor larp playtest for 6 - 24 players (the more the merrier!). Designed by Kevin McIntyre and Jon Cole Organized by Jon Cole, Kevin McIntyre, and Kathy Shane WHEN: Saturday, June 30th from 2pm to 6pm REGISTRATION: If you are interested in playing, fill out our Space Squids Sign-Up Form before 11:59 pm on Monday, June 25th. If more people sign up than we have room for attendance will be decided by weighted lottery. You should know if you are in or out of the larp by Tuesday, June 26th. If fewer folks than the max sign up, registration will be open after the deadline for stragglers. WHERE: A North Minneapolis Nonprofit located near Broadway and Emerson Avenue in Minneapolis. Accessible by bus. We are requesting a voluntary good will donation $5-10 to support the work of the nonprofit in appreciation for the use of their space. No one will be turned away if they are unable to make a donation.Ā
PLAY STYLE: This is a silly puzzle solving game with the theme of being squids searching for happy romantic or familial relationships. It has a light and engaging āmind-meldā mechanic where you hold hands with the right combination of characters to solve challenges. Suitable for people who havenāt roleplayed before. Ā THEMES: hookups, romance, polyamory, puzzle solving, space disaster ACCESSIBILITY: The play venue is ADA accessible. Plenty of seating. Water available. Climate controlled building. Gender neutral bathroom available.
COSTUMING: Costuming is not required at all. If you are excited about it, you can dress up as some kind of cephalopod, just make sure your arms and hands will be able to move freely. CONTENT ADVISORY: Metaphorical sex through a hand-holding mechanic (far far less intense than ars amandi), metaphorical flirting through mutual rubbing of backs of hands, hook ups and casual encounters, romantic relationships beginning and ending, seeking meaningful relationships and perhaps failing, making bad decisions and living with the consequences. WHAT IS A PLAYTEST?: āSpace Squidsā is the working title for a game that is still being designed, but is fun already! A playtest is a larp session intended to find design flaws in an in-development game. Often, designers will ask players for their thoughts on the experience after a playtest.
SOCIAL: If you would like to hang out after the larp a group will go to the Broadway Pizza at 2025 West River Rd N, Minneapolis. Anyone is welcome to join in on this, including people who didnāt attend the larp! ART: Last of the Starmakers by David ācinemamindā Romero
Masquerade mask for glasses wearers
Cheap but effective if you donāt own contacts. I made small hooks that should fall on your glasses if you measure it right. Since it lands on your glasses it shouldnāt scratch you. This only works with really light masks though
Reblog to save an aesthetic
Yes beautiful thank youĀ - a glasses wearing LARPer who loves masquerades
This is amaaaaazing advice
@not-a-space-alien good advice
Holy cow I love this. Would be so good for LARPs
Highlights from yesterdayās LARP
So every year I help organize and run an alien invasion LARP, and this year was probably our best one yet?Ā Not to brag but we seriously killed it.Ā This year the aliens were attempting to remove humans from the planet to build a colony, or barring that stop them from developing deep space travel by any means necessary.Ā Here are some of my favorite things that happened:
Team America had a shrine to Captain America on their table.
Team Alien picked a fight with Team France after France shot at them ONCE, completely destroyed them.
Team Japan got a hold of alien tech and were making knock offs to sell on the black market, so everyone else thought they had tech but if they tried to use it it failed.
Team Brazil decided to relocate to the moon at one point.Ā They also made all their politicians into Super Soldiers.
TEAM INDIA BUILT GIANT SPIDER ROBOTS AT SOME POINT AND YET NEVER THOUGHT TO USE THEM AGAINST THE ALIENS???
THEY ALSO INVENTED CLEAN ENERGY AND SOME OTHER SHIT AND LIKE MADE SO MUCH MONEY.
Team Alien created a bioweapon to use on the humans at the same time the Corporation Teams created one to use on the aliens: a standoff ensued.
In the last two hours of the game the aliens were like āfuck it our plan isnāt working, letās just bodyswap some motherfuckers.ā and then proceeded to abduct and bodyswap like half of the human players.
Body swapping required a series of high challenge dice rolls to pull off, which resulted in a lot of people being handed dice, being asked to roll, and then being told ādonāt worry about it.ā
The Alien Team tried to write this dice rolling off as scanning for a plague, which resulted in the entire human team freaking out about Space Herpes.
MOTHERFUCKERS BODYSWAPPED SO MANY PEOPLE THEY FORGOT WHO THEY BODYSWAPPED AND HAD TO START ASKING PEOPLE āHEY DID WEā¦ DO THE THING?Ā TO YOU?ā
Team France literally had the launch codes to blow up the alien ship on the last turn and then their President got bodyswapped on his way to launch them AND THIS WAS A COINCIDENCE THE ALIENS HAD NO IDEA.
The CEO of one of the Corporation teams got bodyswapped and then had to reveal that he was actually a clone and had been assassinated in game four times.Ā His real body had been jettisoned into space.
TEAM AMERICA FOR SOME REASON THOUGHT THEY HAD BROUGHT ABOUT WORLD PEACE AND WERE BLISSFULLY UNAWARE THAT BRAZIL WAS BUILDING A DRILL THAT COULD FUCKING CRACK OPEN THE PLANET THEY WERE SO SAD TO LEARN EVERYONE HAD LIED TO THEM.
Somebody slipped Team Alien a transmission that got redacted to the point that all it was was the word āmeā and a phone number.Ā They called it once, hung up, and never figured out who it belonged to.
ONE OF THE CORPORATIONS LEAKED THE ALIEN TRANSMISSION FREQUENCY AND SO THERE WAS A LINE TO TALK TO THE ALIENS THAT WAS SO LONG WE HAD TO MAKE A SECOND ALIEN HQ OUTSIDE THE BUILDING SO WE COULD GET THROUGH MORE PEOPLE FASTER.
The game ended literally just when France had created a successful scanner to detect bodyswaps and had imprisoned a couple of the swapped players inside the UN and were interrogating them but it just dissolved into āI KNOW YOUāRE A CLONE.āĀ āNO.āĀ āMY SCANNER SAYS SO.āĀ āNO?ā
Humanity descended into chaos, aliens waited out WW3 and took over.
Brazilian Parliament survived on the moon for some reason, but then got abducted and bodyswapped.
dang Id like to play
What are your favourite LARP makeup looks?
I recently tried the fawn makeup look and the fishnet scales look, I think every LARPer tries them at least once. But my favorite is still my porcelain doll makeup.
I finished my costume for my Alabaster Grotesque, Copione, for Madrigal 3! Iām so very, very excited! (Copione isnāt)
Looks awesome! Hope to see you there soon!
Iāll be the guy in the fez, with the coffee.
Love it!!
Brynn the troll, A Larp monster costume I made
So beautiful.
Letās say you wanted to glue fabric to wood, but what do you use? What about glass to paper? This to ThatĀ lets you choose two things you want to glue and lists what types of glue is best. (Because people have a need to glue things to other things!)
This is an incredibly awesome site.Ā Go check it out!
Whhhhaaaaaattt!???
EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THIS
I like to mention this website when Iām on costuming panels. Insanely useful.
Openness, Comunication and Game Design
Iāve had a bit of a revelation in the past month. In the UK there is no formalized way of talking about larp, and there certainly isnāt any central school of thought on the matter. One the reasons I am so obsessive about defining terms on this blog is because I know when I say something, even something as simple as PvP there are *many* *many* ways to interpret it.Ā
I have talked about what you should include in game advertisements before, being honest about what you are selling is massively important. Normally the things I think of are: What type of game play it is (fighty? talky? investigative? big damn heroes? every day people? sneaky bastards?), threat level, lethality level, any trigger warnings, and the accessibility of the game, mechanics, rules on PvP, E&D policy, ect.
I think I need to add an adendum. Talking about you philosophy of game design. For instance, agency and proactive play. Games rarely talk about their stance on the agency vs narrative line. But to me as a player that is a deal breaking point. Similarly opinions on right to fail and right to succeed, and how to deal with the unexpected, and how proactive players are *expected* to be are important. But they are almost never talked about outside of IRL conversations with refs, or people running blogs like this one.
So, for the new year, when I launch my website for Broken Mirror Larp group, I am going to include a philosophies of design page, and possibly a design blog specific to the games we are running.Ā
I encourage you to do the same with whatever games you are involved in.Ā
Itās relatively common for larps in my region (Northeastern US) to have at least SOME indication of what theyāre going for in genre, tone, style, etc. But terms always have to be defined in conversation, because even the most seemingly fundamental concepts can mean different things to different people.
Nearly every Northeaster live combat campaign Iāve ever been involved with will include, somewhere in the description, a claim of a good mix of (non-combat) roleplay and combat*, an encouragement to play good characters (who wonāt engage in wanton PvP) and player agency. When literally all of them say this, it sadly loses meaning, on top of various terms having different meanings to different people and many descriptors being purely relative. If you want to distinguish your LARP, I think itās good to read other LARP descriptions and elaborate with examples of how you intend to accomplish these things. Otherwise, players are choosing solely based on genre and what their friends are playing. Itās also true that plenty of LARPs have a design philosophy (not always a conscious one!) of having low player agency while masking it as high agency. Iāve heard game runners literally say,Ā āthe more agency my players get, the unhappier they areā (and there were legitimate reasons for this.) But the end result is ... I canāt necessarily trust a LARP that claims to be high player agency. Looking forward to checking out the website for Broken Mirror LARP!
The Angelic Host, Phillip Valdez
have intense WANT for this mask
Portia, The Seething Mother at Seventh Kingdom IGE
armor and helmet made by shenanagin
outfit, model, jewelry by vanessa
wasp prop by mattĀ āmarsā wagner
that headdress tho
Siege of Troy
Photos of Cheiron, King of the Centaurs, from a weekend long theater LARP, Siege of Troy. Post on Fair Escape blog about the mechanics of Siege of Troy. Post on Fair Escape blog about playing Aphrodite during Siege of Troy.
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