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| Getting packed and checking costumes |
Samantha here. This past weekend, the human took me out to her LARP (live action role playing game). Actually she took me the last time she went as well, only we didn't take pictures that time. I have a face character of my very own, and last time the players had to find and rescue me. (I was picking flowers somewhere dangerous. I was fine. I swear.)
I have a new face character this time, to go with my human's characters. She even made me a new dress and some accessories for my new role. Usually I wear the blue dress and the floral wreath.
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| Sleeve embroidery and a new belt and belt pouch |
The green dress is a really simple T tunic/dress. The human made it in something like 30 minutes, even counting the machine embroidery at the hem. The trim on the sleeves was left over from the human making other LARP costuming, so I lucked out. It matches my dress perfectly. The human also made me a leather belt and a belt pouch to go on it. The pouch has a black bead as a fastener and opens and closes. I stored a gem in it to give to the players.
It actually took a while to pack everything. I had to remember water and sunscreen and bug spray (and more water because it was 87 degrees out all weekend). And then the backpack wasn't big enough for everything, so I had to wear my new belt and my wreath on the trip.
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| Settling in at the staff center |
I unpacked once we got to the staff center. My human claimed a couch to sleep on, and I put my stuff there too. And then all the other staff came over and gushed over how cute I was with my new belt pouch. (There's a staffer now who promises they'll help with my costume changes if my human is busy. They're a very nice human.)
The human and I have matching dresses and floral wreaths (mine is on the right and hers is on the left). We looked adorable together. We wore them to go to a tea party, and the players brought us gifts. I had to give the pearl necklace back by the end of game because the human thought it was too expensive a gift. They were real pearls, after all. But it looked perfect on me and I really wanted to keep it for myself. There was a set of little bronze cups too, but the human has plans for those.
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| Picking flowers during some downtime |
The human and her friends (and the players) kept me busy the rest of the time (and amazingly did not lose anything of mine in the couch). I had some time to go pick flowers and play on the tire swing and wander around in the woods. I did not fall into the river. I was very good and stayed on the banks because there was no lifeguard and the human would have been very very mad had I fallen in. (And then she would have had to go find players to rescue me again.) I had a great time and I will totally do this again in the fall.
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| Adventuring in the woods |
I've never been LARPing before but it looks like a lot of fun! I didn't realize so much work went into preparing the event with outfits and accessories, as well as the space. Looks like Samantha had a great time and is soon working her way to main character status! :D
ReplyDeleteThis is one of the LARPs that rent out a summer camp for a weekend, so there's logistics that goes into feeding and housing 60 or so people on top of the costumes, props, and boffer weapons. It's a lot of fun, and also a lot of work.
DeleteOh wow, 60 people? No wonder why there's a lot of logistics involved. Is it difficult to come up with a script that incorporates everyone and gives them relatively similar importance? With that many people participating I'm sure it gives you reign to come up with some pretty detailed and elaborate plot lines for epic LARPing. :D
DeleteWith 40ish players and 20ish cast, we're on the small side of woods LARPs. The bigger ones have 90-100 players and 40-60 cast... I have no idea how their logistics works. I have enough trouble with this game.
DeleteGenerally each staffer has their own specialties for plot writing. Mine are combat and elaborate modules (setting up buildings to be other areas of the game world, like dungeons or castles or whatnot). Nothing is scripted, per se. We generally have some idea of what we'd like to have happen for any plot we run, but sometimes the players throw us a complete curveball and then it's total improv.
I love your costume! I think the belt and the embroidery on the hem is my favorite part.
ReplyDelete-Callie