Larping disaster

I have the solution, but it does not fit the problem... well what can I say. Plot meets players. Plot dead... I love LARP and will share my experiences, thoughts, and whatever I can think of here :D this page will be kept free from politics, racism and what else is troubling everyone. So if you are looking for an escape from all this crap you are at the right adress ;)

[larpingdisaster]

What I can’t play

Hey everyone,

it’s been a while but I am baaack with some thoughts about what I can’t play at a LARP :)

As you can see on my avatar, I am a tiny white girl and when I say white I mean I turn invisible if I stand in front of a white wall white ;) So in my opinion certain races I just can’t play and there is such a huge diversity of characters out there that I don’t have to.

So the first race I can’t play is elves. Now you may think “why not?” well, as I stated above I am tiny and no matter what I would wear I would just not look like an elve. There is nothing elve-like about me and that’s fine. If I would want to play a non-human race I could just play a Hobbit, Kender, Dwarf or any smaller race. 

Staying in the Fantasy world another race I can’t play is Drow. For obvious reasons. One: I am white and Two: I am tiny (well I could still play a male Drow but then reason One would kick in again) 

Going to the Vampire world. I could not play an old Assamite for the same reasons that I can’t play a Drow. But even playing a young Assamite is not that realistic because they are, after all not caucasian originated and I do look very caucasian... 

I think by now you get what I am trying to say. You may want to play every race, character, origin story but it’s wise to stop and think before you chose. You can’t change certain things about your appearance, and other things you shouldn’t change. 

But hey, that does not mean that you can’t play anything. There are tons of roles, races, genres for each and everyone to play, no matter what you look like. So stay positive and chose wisely <3

Cheers, Ducky

[larpingdisaster]

1902 set Vampire LARP

Hello everyone

It’s been a while and I am here to give you my experience on a LARP I was a few months ago. Here’s the trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4OhC8Knf_Q And yes it was as amazing as it sounds looks :D

I decided to attend the LARP as an NPC, well 2 NPC to be precise. One per night, the LARP was set over a weekend on Castle Bogensperk in Ljubljana. 

The setting was based on Vampire: The Masquerade in the Camarilla setting. The twist about the LARP E:FN (Emona: Forgotten Nights) - The Golden Years was that it was set in 1902, so lots of awesome costumes to admire during the LARP. Also, Prince Portia invited all Vampires from all over the world, no matter if they are Camarilla, Sabbat, Anarch or whatever they liked to call themselves.  The castle was neutral ground on which no battles were allowed except one specified area outside.

You can all imagine the tension that caused, especially since there were no introductions at the beginning of the LARP. Cold start, BAMN in-game, sort yourselves out and find out whose who ;)

Me being NPC, Sabbat, Lasombra AND part of the security team caused as much friction, as it sounds like it would in a Camarilla held Elysium :D Especially since there were quite few Camarilla Lasombra around at the event that saw me as their enemy. I want you to know how you think the LARP ended for my first character. Her name, btw. is Isabella Segretti. So let me know what you think :)

On the second night, I played a Bruja that was illegally turned… I was supposed to find someone to adopt me during the night. If no one wanted to adopt me, I was supposed to turn back to the NPC room and grab another role. For some reason, every character I spoke to wanted to help me and adopt me, if I could not find someone better suited… So I had no break the whole night and were educated lots. Even played a role in a Mass because Pope Celestine was around and also a Bruja :D  My friends told me that it was not fair that I was playing such a character because it was no challenge. Anyone would want to adopt me… Because I look and I quote: “adorably cute, tiny and just awaken the need for protection in everyone…” But I let you judge that yourself. I will upload a character pic of her later. Her name is Mlada Voislav :D

[larpingdisaster]

Mlada Voislav :) I uploaded this in a separate post too :) Let me know what you think :D

[larpingdisaster]

Mlada Voislav. NPC at Emona - The Golden Years. Bruja fledgling :)

Let me know what you think, please.

[larpingdisaster]

1902 set Vampire LARP

Hello everyone

It’s been a while and I am here to give you my experience on a LARP I was a few months ago. Here’s the trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4OhC8Knf_Q And yes it was as amazing as it sounds looks :D

I decided to attend the LARP as an NPC, well 2 NPC to be precise. One per night, the LARP was set over a weekend on Castle Bogensperk in Ljubljana. 

The setting was based on Vampire: The Masquerade in the Camarilla setting. The twist about the LARP E:FN (Emona: Forgotten Nights) - The Golden Years was that it was set in 1902, so lots of awesome costumes to admire during the LARP. Also, Prince Portia invited all Vampires from all over the world, no matter if they are Camarilla, Sabbat, Anarch or whatever they liked to call themselves.  The castle was neutral ground on which no battles were allowed except one specified area outside.

You can all imagine the tension that caused, especially since there were no introductions at the beginning of the LARP. Cold start, BAMN in-game, sort yourselves out and find out whose who ;)

Me being NPC, Sabbat, Lasombra AND part of the security team caused as much friction, as it sounds like it would in a Camarilla held Elysium :D Especially since there were quite few Camarilla Lasombra around at the event that saw me as their enemy. I want you to know how you think the LARP ended for my first character. Her name, btw. is Isabella Segretti. So let me know what you think :)

On the second night, I played a Bruja that was illegally turned... I was supposed to find someone to adopt me during the night. If no one wanted to adopt me, I was supposed to turn back to the NPC room and grab another role. For some reason, every character I spoke to wanted to help me and adopt me, if I could not find someone better suited... So I had no break the whole night and were educated lots. Even played a role in a Mass because Pope Celestine was around and also a Bruja :D  My friends told me that it was not fair that I was playing such a character because it was no challenge. Anyone would want to adopt me... Because I look and I quote: “adorably cute, tiny and just awaken the need for protection in everyone...” But I let you judge that yourself. I will upload a character pic of her later. Her name is Mlada Voislav :D

[larpingdisaster]

Sorry...

Well... I told you all that I would update about the LARP in Pula, as soon as the pics are uploaded... The problem is that only the pics from the first night are up yet and not the ones from the second one, where all the character portraits and everything was taken and well, I have the  magic ability of turning invisible at any LARP I attend, so there are no pics from me out there yet :’D sorry... Anyway, the LARP was awesome nonetheless! And even though the LARP is now way past and I attended more LARPs since then, there will definitely be an update on this one as soon as the character pics are finally out :)

technically we’re ALL, always LARPing, because the Self is only a construct,

[2rsquared]

I want a new character

[theprettyboysclub]

Then make one.

[mundanemelusina]

“Then make one” has the same energy as “then perish” but like. Opposite. Same and opposite.

[larpingdisaster]

Two little teasers

It seems to take longer then I thought for the pics to show up, so here are two moments from the LARP that internally made me lough hard. As kind of a teaser for the whole thing. Short summary it was a Vampire: The Masquerade LARP that was help by Zagreb by Night and well they have a bit more open rules for what Clans are allowed in the Camarilla then other domains 😉 So don’t wonder if you read about clans that would normally not be tolerated in a Camarilla setting 😊 also this was the location, where we played in Pula :D 

My cute, little, innocent, way too nice Malkavian Neonate with a helper syndrome was talking to an elder of clan Tzimisce from Ljubljana, that she considered her friend when a stranger in her eyes interrupted them with the phrase “excuse me” so she turned to face him with a nice smile and told him “you’re excused” and turned back to her friend… The facial expression of the stranger was priceless. He was so perplexed and clearly surprised to hear that that all he could answer was “what?”, so she repeated herself, not meaning anything bad, just, you know, explaining, that he asked to be excused and well, he is… it took him a few seconds to regain his composer and actually say what he came to tell the elder :D

And here is the way to not get punished by a Harpy you just pissed off 😉 so my Malkavian was trying hard to help some “Ghost” be freed from their shackles that hold them on earth and the lead Harpy (a Ravnos, woops) that was in fact the highest ranking Vampire at the event because Darius said s told her and others that she should listen to a -in her ears- boring Game of Bouquets (a “duel” kind of game in which two opponents had to compliment each other on a subject chosen by a Harpy… and by compliment I mean, insults covered as compliments) so she told him again with a smile that she has more important things to do and just walked off. She could hear him coming after her after a few seconds, he even called out to her, but he used “Malkavian girl” and not her actual name, so she just assumed that he can’t mean her, because as the Harpy he should know the names of all beings present. He tried again to catch up with her and called out once more, but he got caught up in some important duties that she got away and he had no chance to punish her for her rudeness. I had to try really hard not to lough out loud when I heard him coming after her… It was so damn funny and he told me after the game it was one of the most brilliant scenes he had the whole evening and that I used the most Malkavian way to not get punished ever :D

[larpingdisaster]

Fighting post-LARP-depression

Hey you all

I was at one of the most awesome LARP last weekend and of course I feel now like shit because the LARP is over and real life has me back… And I’m just guessing that some of you feel the same way after a great LARP, so here are some tips to help coping with it :)

Fluffing around always helps me to not hit the real world too hard. What I mean with that is that you write out some downtime with your character and others (that most likely feel post-LARP-depression too). What are they doing after the event, where are they now, what are their plans…? Or whatever you feel like writing/skyping/whatevering about :) 

Reading all the “thank you” posts out there, to see that you are not alone

But staying in the LARP bubble is not going to help forever so try doing things that make you happy. No matter if it’s cooking, baking, sewing, reading, sports, studying. Just do the things that help you cope and so slowly get back into your normal day to day rhythm

Last but not least don’t forget to take your medication :)

Please feel free to add to this list :)

PS: I will write about the LARP as soon as I have the pics, so you also have some visuals :)

[larpingdisaster]

Oh course you can always start with your next LARP-Project right away too. There are no rules about having to leave the LARP world behind once one comes back from one...

[larpingdisaster]

Fighting post-LARP-depression

Hey you all

I was at one of the most awesome LARP last weekend and of course I feel now like shit because the LARP is over and real life has me back... And I’m just guessing that some of you feel the same way after a great LARP, so here are some tips to help coping with it :)

Fluffing around always helps me to not hit the real world too hard. What I mean with that is that you write out some downtime with your character and others (that most likely feel post-LARP-depression too). What are they doing after the event, where are they now, what are their plans...? Or whatever you feel like writing/skyping/whatevering about :) 

Reading all the “thank you” posts out there, to see that you are not alone

But staying in the LARP bubble is not going to help forever so try doing things that make you happy. No matter if it’s cooking, baking, sewing, reading, sports, studying. Just do the things that help you cope and so slowly get back into your normal day to day rhythm

Last but not least don’t forget to take your medication :)

Please feel free to add to this list :)

PS: I will write about the LARP as soon as I have the pics, so you also have some visuals :)

[arcaneloquence]

Things you can say in response to literally anything, when you have nothing else to say:

As the prophecy foretold.

But at what cost?

So let it be written; so let it be done.

So…it has come to this.

That’s just what he/she/they would’ve said.

Is this why fate brought us together?

And thus, I die.

…just like in my dream…

Be that as it may, still may it be as it may be.

There is no escape from destiny.

Wise words by wise men write wise deeds in wise pen.

In this economy?

…and then the wolves came.

[nightratz]

I’ve reblogged it before and I’ll reblog it again

[larpingdisaster]

Always useful to have nonsaying phrases at hand in LARP 😁😎

[larpingdisaster]

Characters

I LARP for almost 10 years now, so I did play the one or other character... among others I played an outlaw turned slave turned free woman turned baroness. Or a Ghoul that sassed her way up to be the leader of the Carthians then got killed but got her soul bound to a necklace and stick around only to end up being sacrificed to have her soul entrapped in a Werwolf’s ring to resurrect the other fallen to fight the big battle...

Yeah I know it sounds crazy and that it was, but hey LARP writes crazy stories ;) as soon as I find the time and muse I will write about some characters in more detail :)

[larpingdisaster]

Settings

Soooo. As you already know (or not if you didn’t read the introduction post) I started LARP in a Requiem setting, but that’s not the only setting I played in so far. Let’s list them:

- Vampire: Requiem

- Vampire the Masquerade (both Sabbat and Camarilla)

- Fantasy (different settings here too, from Epic Empires to small Slave settings...)

Okay that are actually just 2 big blocks of LARP, Vampire and Fantasy... But hey they can differ enormously... but there are still settings that I want to experience. Those would be:

- Postapocalyse

- Steampunk 

- Period LARPs and I am almost open for any period ;) does not have to be that old :D

And I will definitely think of more but right now that are the ones that spring to mind

[larpingdisaster]

Introduction

Well hello everyone

I’m Ducky and this is a short introduction of who I am and why I do a blog about LARPing :)

Almost 10 years ago friends of mine basically forced me to come to a LARP with them and it was the best thing that could have happened to me and here are the reasons why:

I have terrible stage fright, like I played the trumpet for over 10 years but refused to do any kind of solos as much as I could because I started shaking (natural vibrato haha) and was afraid to make mistakes etc. but my friends explained to me that in LARP there is no need for stage fright because there is no audience! And no one will ever laugh at you (your character maybe if you do something funny or whatever but not you as a person) because everyone was doing the same hobby and if anyone laughed they would be laughing at themselves... I was still not quite convinced so they told me that I can just play a Ghoul (it was a Vampire: Requiem setting and as you know Ghouls are basically furniture in this) so that I can mostly observe and don’t have to interact with too many people... That sounded reasonable and I agreed to that and damn it was such a freeing experience!

LARP gives you a window to be someone else without any viewers judging your performance. There is an outlet for characteristics that you always wanted to try out, for certain personal traits that are not in your nature but you can explore. And well... I did not end up in the background at all... Damn my character was the leader of the Carthians at the end of the run... Yeah as a Ghoul... I was elected. Was a funny story, will probably write it down at some point ;)

Depending on the setting and the players it can be quite intense and it’s important to have rules but that’s stuff I will discuss in the following posts. In this one I just wanted to let you know how I was introduced to LARP, what my first experience was and so on :)

So that’s about it, see ya soon

[montanajade98]

But what about vampire history teachers. Vampires who read something from a text book then proceed to light the book on fire and throw it out the window because “No. that’s not even close to what really happened. Listen up nerds I’m about to teach you what really happened in France during the revolution”

[sapphosigns]

I need this as a series

[gefdreamsofthesea]

Vampires sharing the recipe for Greek fire.

Vampires speaking in dead languages.

Vampires being able to translate untranslatable scripts.

Vampires who react to straightwashing historical figures like “Are you kidding me everyone knew that man was queer!”

Vampires from cultures who were once antagonistic towards each other stubbornly maintaining a friendship that’s lasted longer than their civilizations.

Vampires who honour forgotten deities you won’t find in mythology books.

[radio-freedunmovin-deactivated2]

Also, vampires who secretly saved stuff from the Library of Alexandra.

[freyadragonlord]

A vampire show that does not revolve all around sex and eternal cursed love.

[northcentralpositronics-blog]

nerd vampire whose knowledge of current events is terrible but they can always remember everything that’s considered “history” so they have a super-detailed knowledge of everything up to about thirty years ago and then ?????

vampire who couldn’t tell you what caravaggio was known for but duelled with him at least three times and slept with him at least ten. “cara-who OH YOU MEAN MICHAEL yeah he was cool”

vampire who spent 100 years in a convent and is still so bitter that in all that time they never made her mother superior “GODDAMMIT I HAD SENIORITY! I HAD SENIORITY!” “okay so first off janet, that was six hundred years ago, but more importantly, maybe if you didn’t always start those complaints off with blasphemy…”

vampire professor who just sort of showed up at oxford when it was founded and is still there (and nobody’s noticed because he still never actually shows up to his lectures)

vampire politician who lifts all their campaign speeches wholesale from speeches given 200 years ago and just waits for someone to catch them out (nobody ever does they’re prime minister and their approval ratings are through the roof)

[northcentralpositronics-blog]

WAIT I HAVE MORE

queer vampire who constantly talks about the fashion for straightness and you need to be really careful because if you tell them straight is default they WILL scream at you for five days straight about what a modern concept heterosexuality is

vampire hoarder who has an entire town where they just kept having to buy new houses to keep their stuff in and some of it’s probably worth tens of millions by now but you’ll never find it in among the 1950s kitschy kitten sculptures and boxes of newspaper (the newspaper is a wonderful mix of yesterday’s guardian and daily courants from 1725)

vampire sailor from manderville’s time who just has so many stories and some of them might even be true

vampire bluestocking girl who took to the internet like a fish to water and spends her whole unlife engaging reddit antifeminists about women’s rights because that’s one fight she’s determined to see through. also with the advent of cheap dyes she literally wears blue socks every day and hopes one day someone gets the joke

vampire doctor who just gets SO CONFUSED about the literature because do you know how hard it is to keep up with medicine kevin? when i got my doctorate we thought leeches were good and then they were bad and now they’re good again? i was published in issue one of the lancet kevin that is 387 lancets kevin how the hell am i meant to remember which one’s current kevin why are they saying cannabis is good for pain like this is news??? (but also lives in a state of wonderment every day in hospital because wow look at all this stuff we can do now look at it kevin!)

entire coven of vampires constantly quibbling over manners because they’re all from different periods: “HATS OFF AT TABLE” “SCREW YOU LEONARD ONLY PEASANTS EAT BAREHEADED” “TABITHA THAT HASN’T BEEN GOOD MANNERS SINCE THE 1500S NOBODY HAS LICE ANY MORE” “IT ISN’T ABOUT LICE LEONARD IT’S ABOUT GOOD MANNERS YOU NEED TO HAVE GOOD MANNERS WHEN YOU HAVE PEOPLE OVER FOR DINNER” “I SWEAR TO GOD TABITHA IF YOU MAKE THAT PUN ONE MORE TIME I WILL SHOVE YOUR STUPID HAT DOWN YOUR THROAT”

[bumbleandbumble]

vampire musicians who might not have been child prodigies but goddammit 500 years of practicing an instrument is bound to get you somewhere (also knowing the composer and being the first person to start playing a song doesn’t hurt either)

[moonsofavalon]

my favorite will always be vampires who know fuck-all about the standard major historical events because they were always somewhere else whenever big shit was going down:

“yeah i heard about the hundred years war but i was in northern african at the time so…”

“the roman empire fell??? how did the fucking roman empire fall??? i spend a fucking handful of decades in india and i come back to this???”

“russia needs to stop having revolutions, i can’t keep them all straight…”

“when did france become a democracy?? and america’s now it’s own country??? i’ve spent the last century in a forest in wallachia scaring small children so––wHat dO yOU meAn we’re calling it romania now??? when the fuck did it become romania???”

“WE HAD A WORLD WAR??? WE HAD TWO WORLD WARS???? well obviously ‘world’ is an exaggeration because i heard nothing about it while i was lost in the amazon rainforest for the last fifty years…”

“listen i spent most of the fourteenth century as a pirate in the south china sea so someone’s gonna had to clue me in on all this ‘black plague’ nonsense.”

[augustarambles]

Drunk history but the guests are vampires

[radioproxy]

!

[detournementsmineurs]

Collection of lachrymatorys (or lachrymosas), these tear catchers or tear vials - sometimes worn on a necklace, sometimes merely held - were used to gather the tears wept by mourners at funerals, to hold the tears of people mourning the passing of loved ones. One type of lachrymosa had a special top which allowed the tears to evaporate (signifying the time to stop mourning), others had a sealed top to allow the tears to last for a year, at which point they would be poured on the grave of the person whom the tears were wept for, Victorian era, 19th Century.

[zooophagous]

On one hand these are beautiful and this is a really interesting and unique form of death ritual. On the other hand Victorians are sooooo fucking extra. Like wow could you make things any more dramatic if you tried.

[chriska-partners-4-life]

This blog will not tolerate any disrespect for Carrie Fisher

[lesbianfreyja]

the phrase “curiosity killed the cat” is actually not the full phrase it actually is “curiosity killed the cat but satisfaction brought it back” so don’t let anyone tell you not to be a curious little baby okay go and be interested in the world uwu

[violet-nomad-deactivated2018120]

See also:

Blood is thicker than water The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.

Meaning that relationships formed by choice are stronger than those formed by birth.

[espurr-roba]

Let’s not forget that “Jack of all trades, master of none” ends with “But better than a master of one.”

It means that being equally good/average at everything is much better than being perfect at one thing and sucking at everything else. So don’t worry if you’re not perfect at something you do! Being okay is better!

[theshantiestme11ophone]

These made me feel better

[thelifeofatubaplayer]

Also, “great minds think alike” ends with “but fools rarely differ”

It goes to show that conformity isn’t always a good thing. And that just because more than one person has the same idea, doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a good idea.

[eattheacid]

what the fuck why haven’t i heard the full version to any of these 

[terror-billie]

“Birds of a feather flock together” ends with “until the cat comes.”

It’s actually a warning about fair-weather friends, not an assessment of how complementary people are.

[engel-tier-deactivated20180213]

I’ve always felt like these were cut down on purpose.

[washington-acp]

I really like these phrases and plan on spreading this knowledge.

[alwayswillgraham]

The early bird catches the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

[its-kks-world]

I want to make designs out of these.

[sunderlorn]

Funny how all the half-finished ones encourage uniformity and upholding the status-quo, while the complete proverbs encourage like…living exciting, eclectic lives driven by choice and personal passion.

[tentaclabia-deactivated20190608]

NICE

[chi-suki]

I will never get over how these phrases have been manipulated to procure a very specific mentality on our culture