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[hellvetic]

Happy new year 2595, everyone - Team Ratatösk is giving their LARP debut in the end of January, and three or four Hellvetics are going. That means it’s crafting time!

Lore dictates that every Hellvetic has a Trailblazer. I, Jünger, did not really need one when I was playing the auxiliary soldier Staub (†), and I did not know if her successor would be enough fun to get one. Turns out, playing Jünger is a lot of fun; so I got me a NERF Rapidstrike and gave it a case mod. It doesn’t need to fire in game, but it will need sound, which is the project I was waiting for to get into electronics. So Jünger will be fumbling forward off-game and keep you posted eventually.

Moreover, the padded parts of the Hellvetic costume need to be “refreshed”, since thin coats of acrylic color don’t survive being mashine washed. This time, I’m using fabric paint to add a bit of depth and grunge. Let’s see how it fares...

[hellvetic]

Convention: Zenodeur 1 - “Zuflucht” by zenit-endzeit. (cf. board thread)

September 2019, Knüllwald near Kassel, Germany.

All pictures, as usual, by KOBOLDfoto - thank you Thori! :)

[hellvetic]

Meanwhile at the Protectorate’s border

In Mai 2595 two Hellvetics belonging to the Section I 01 were posted at the border of the Protectorate and the Ramein region. They were stationed as hired guns to guard a post by an old bygone ruin. Thus was the situation at the beginning of the weekend when the LARP event ZENIT 4.5  took place. Then some groups of travelers arrived. Among them were two fellow Hellvetics from the III 03 you might recognize from other posts, and an Enemoi agent who ended up wounding half of the Hellvetics at the post and one of the passing judges.

Before things went south there was time for Corporal Falkenberg and his private to do some push-ups.

Private Jünger talking to a spitalian and her hired guard who was lucky enough to move on before the Enemoi made his final move.

Jünger got lucky, too. She wasn’t wearing any armor but the Enemoi choose to shoot Private Gamper instead who was walking down the traveler’s camp just beside her that morning. Falkenberg was wounded when he tried to capture the shooter. Meanwhile Corporal Frey prepared to provide covering fire.

It’s worse to lose one’s gear than to lose one’s life as a Hellvetic soldier. So comrades made sure that the armour parts and, most important, the trailblazers of the two wounded ware kept safe. This lead to this situation: Corporal Frey standing tall with three rifles with three barrels each. You can see how differently each LARPer approached the trailblazer’s design.

At the end, she and Jünger were the only unscathed Hellvetics at the post. They went up to the spore infested ruin to use the radio relay and notify the Alpine Fortress. The Enemoi had been killed by then, but he proved to be a worthy opponent who knew to make most of the terrain.