#steampunk larp

[bethdooner]

Results from Age of Aether Images from the Steampunk & War of the Worlds style LRP. I unfortunately had a huge fatigue spike during the weekend, but am pleased with what I was able to get regardless. Photography: Beth Dooner. Please do not repost without my permission or remove the caption. Reblogging is fine. 

[adsumcirrat]

I am going to the Steampunk picnic on September 18th. AAAAND, I am LARPing a Steampunk adventure on the CONiáš the day after.

So far I have bought: white eye-liner and eye-shadow, a black and silver brocade shirt (from a thrift shop), metallic temporary tattoos, fine chains for creating jewelry, white suspenders, and I have ordered a black top-hat.

Ican’twaitIcan’twaitIcan’twaitIcan’twaitIcan’twaitIcan’twaitIcan’twaitIcan’twait!

For my Czech Peeps, the Steampunk picnic will be in Prague at the Stromovka park, near Planetarium (no Golem, though there will be a steam roller Mamut). CONiáš starts at 10 a.m. in the Municipal Library of Prague at Mariánské náměstí.

[radio-free-beth-sarim]

Garb guidelines for a Steampunk LARP I'm working on

Smokestack Jungle

On Decorum

                What do you think when you imagine a steampunk larp? Ladies in the finest hoop skirt and corset adorned in superfluous gears? Gentlemen in fine suits and tophats with brass pipes attached? Coal dust covered mechanics in ornate goggles working on complex retrofuturistic steamworks? For the average person within the scope of Smokestack Jungle, these things are beyond their reach. Rest assured, steampunk is the heart of this game, but the fantastical element is more understated than most settings you're probably used to. Truth be told, I got the idea for this game while watching the movie Gangs of New York. The setting is a kind of low-life urban-centric take on the genre, really more punk than steam. We're playing people so far below the poverty line most of the advantages of such a retro-future would bring would be as much a fantasy to them as they are to us. The only option left to them is to steal and fight for what small scraps a society like that would produce.

                So where exactly does that leave your typical steampunk attire? Well, there's certainly a place for it in this game. As most people seek to raise themselves out of the street, the trappings of high society become status symbols. A thief can have an impressive watch collection. A bludger might keep trophies from people he's mugged. Maybe, just maybe, a crime boss can actually afford a decent tailored suit.

                But this is a game about life on the street here, people. Our characters live in the shadows of neo-victoriana, come from blue collar backgrounds (at best) and have to fend for themselves by hook or by crook in an uncaring city with very few rules.

                So you can have your clockwork, your goggles, your steampunk fashion. But please, dirty it up a little.

On Blue Jeans

                During the San Francisco gold rush, Mr. Levi Strauss went west selling his new invention, Sturdy Pants, to coal miners. These pants were blue, made of denim, and riveted together to make them more durable. So yes. Levi's 501 jeans existed in the 19th century. Since we're playing working class characters, blue jeans may in fact be the pants of choice for your character. Does this mean blue jeans are allowed in Smokestack Jungle?

                Yes, with an asterisk. If you come out to play in blue jeans, please make them the nastiest, most ragged thing you own. This will probably work in your favor because they'll be the most comfortable pair of jeans ever. If you show up in nice looking jeans, you won't be turned away, but we'll probably give you sideways glances while speaking of "that guy" and not invite you to our wild after-game parties with cake, ice cream, two clowns, and a blood orgy inside a bouncy castle. Also, we'll tell you to dirty 'em up by next event or you won't get a credit for showing up. Keep in mind, Jeans are considered the bare minimum of what you're expected to wear and fight in. You are expected to either find better garb as soon as possible (and there are a number of ways to go about doing that) or make those jeans look like you just came back from prospecting.