Reaver Fever
Jun. 25th, 2013 10:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luckykaaAll that stress of hiring a car and whizzing 130 miles, and sitting in traffic for a good 40 minutes of the journey, just so I could run around a field growling at people.
It was time to LARP again. Serenity. This time at Tuddenham Airsoft. So I arrived on site.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bigbadg was very pleased to see me. Mainly because he's a nice guy and he hadn't seen me for a while, but also because there were, at that point, just 3 crew. I think we had about 6 for most of the event. Fortunately a lot of players were out of action for one reason or another at various points so we had some extras. Was a shame missgadget wasn't there, but she's passed the torch to G, and he's very capable.
It's really a very good site in a lot of ways. It has buildings. With windows we can dive through. I was also very pleased we had a kettle for the crew. This was a serious problem last event. The only tea making facilities were in the IC area. Creating a character just for a cuppa was too much hassle. Downside is there are no facilities. No power and no running water.
Fun little plot. Survival horror with zombies (well , proto-reavers). Also drugs, a friendly neighbourhood drug pusher, rebel slaves, captive ex-mine bosses with exploding bomb collars, reaver babies and people turning from perfectly reasonable pirates and revolutionaries into psycho zombies. Brief appearance from a handful of people with replacement body parts.
Got to play a group of religious fanatics. Our preacher preached fire and brimstone. We had two players join our congregation! One sitting attentively paying rapt attention (she was really sweet, and we all felt very bad about killing her later). Fortunately she didn't die from her wounds because the system doesn't let you die from hand to hand combat. She didn't realise this though so the time she spent being dead was retconned to an out of body experience.
Had a lot of fun playing against type by getting angry and violent for no reason. Also had a lot of fun playing a reaver and coming in through windows, sneaking up on people and attacking them from unexpected directions.
Other coolness - defence drones and combat robots. And an NPC telecommuting in .
Just wish I could have managed more sleep. Adrenaline is not conducive to a good night's sleep. Neither is the midsummer dawn at about 4am. And the cold wind attacking my tent.
Had so much fun though. I was so upset to have to leave so early on Sunday. I missed the frothing with players that happens after the event.
Am always a little concerned about getting newer players involved when crewing. Ultimately it's the players' responsibility to be proactive, but being somewhat shy and reserved myself I'm aware that some people aren't quite sure exactly how to get involved, and are a little reticent about making this known. It's nice to give them some opportunity to grab at plot without dumping plot on them. I do wonder if there's a way we can be more helpful.
It was time to LARP again. Serenity. This time at Tuddenham Airsoft. So I arrived on site.
bigbadg was very pleased to see me. Mainly because he's a nice guy and he hadn't seen me for a while, but also because there were, at that point, just 3 crew. I think we had about 6 for most of the event. Fortunately a lot of players were out of action for one reason or another at various points so we had some extras. Was a shame missgadget wasn't there, but she's passed the torch to G, and he's very capable.It's really a very good site in a lot of ways. It has buildings. With windows we can dive through. I was also very pleased we had a kettle for the crew. This was a serious problem last event. The only tea making facilities were in the IC area. Creating a character just for a cuppa was too much hassle. Downside is there are no facilities. No power and no running water.
Fun little plot. Survival horror with zombies (well , proto-reavers). Also drugs, a friendly neighbourhood drug pusher, rebel slaves, captive ex-mine bosses with exploding bomb collars, reaver babies and people turning from perfectly reasonable pirates and revolutionaries into psycho zombies. Brief appearance from a handful of people with replacement body parts.
Got to play a group of religious fanatics. Our preacher preached fire and brimstone. We had two players join our congregation! One sitting attentively paying rapt attention (she was really sweet, and we all felt very bad about killing her later). Fortunately she didn't die from her wounds because the system doesn't let you die from hand to hand combat. She didn't realise this though so the time she spent being dead was retconned to an out of body experience.
Had a lot of fun playing against type by getting angry and violent for no reason. Also had a lot of fun playing a reaver and coming in through windows, sneaking up on people and attacking them from unexpected directions.
Other coolness - defence drones and combat robots. And an NPC telecommuting in .
Just wish I could have managed more sleep. Adrenaline is not conducive to a good night's sleep. Neither is the midsummer dawn at about 4am. And the cold wind attacking my tent.
Had so much fun though. I was so upset to have to leave so early on Sunday. I missed the frothing with players that happens after the event.
Am always a little concerned about getting newer players involved when crewing. Ultimately it's the players' responsibility to be proactive, but being somewhat shy and reserved myself I'm aware that some people aren't quite sure exactly how to get involved, and are a little reticent about making this known. It's nice to give them some opportunity to grab at plot without dumping plot on them. I do wonder if there's a way we can be more helpful.
