Yay! I went to treasure trap (the Live Action Roleplaying campaign)! It was fun. It was good because:
* It's fun
* There's a whole plot and world going on for you to explore
* You're in character by default, so waste less time going "Ah, but" (though this may change in linear :))
* There are shiny costumes. Some with amazing detail, some simple but effective. I'm impressed by people who make them.
* It's a good way to meet a lot of people that I like but don't see enough of, and that I know a bit and would like to know better, and that I didn't know before but seem lovely.
It was perhaps unfortunate that (though I had to start sometime and this was at least as good a time as any other):
* I looked when the next interactive was, but didn't look to see that there wasn't an AGM during it, which wasn't really relevent to me as I don't know the rules well enough to start changing them :)
* There is start of term plot arc being set up, so new people were a bit distracting for the refs
* I picked a totally generic character to play once to chat to people with, which is fair enough, but in retrospect I should have picked one more bicarbonatey, and gone with something subtler next time.
* After being too forceful all week I finally got 8.5 hours sleep, and didn't want a character too manic, because I felt someone throwaway crashing loudly into every conversation without ref direction could kind of get in everyone's way when I don't know what I'm doing.
* It's weird when you look at someone you know and a completely different person is staring out of their eyes.
* Everyone was convinced they knew me. This is nice when they had seen me around, but at least four different people had the idea I was someone else, was a regular LARPer, or knew what I was doing :)
But in summary, it was good, I'm planning on being a monster tomorrow in linear, developing a character for next week, and LARPing for the rest of this term.
Thanks to everyone who was nice to the newbie, including Chess who's just lovely, Elf-guy who had a great costume, Ed for lemonade, Kirsty and Rob for rules advice despite being busy, the wonderful human hug Rosy for moral support, and other people who suggested things.
* It's fun
* There's a whole plot and world going on for you to explore
* You're in character by default, so waste less time going "Ah, but" (though this may change in linear :))
* There are shiny costumes. Some with amazing detail, some simple but effective. I'm impressed by people who make them.
* It's a good way to meet a lot of people that I like but don't see enough of, and that I know a bit and would like to know better, and that I didn't know before but seem lovely.
It was perhaps unfortunate that (though I had to start sometime and this was at least as good a time as any other):
* I looked when the next interactive was, but didn't look to see that there wasn't an AGM during it, which wasn't really relevent to me as I don't know the rules well enough to start changing them :)
* There is start of term plot arc being set up, so new people were a bit distracting for the refs
* I picked a totally generic character to play once to chat to people with, which is fair enough, but in retrospect I should have picked one more bicarbonatey, and gone with something subtler next time.
* After being too forceful all week I finally got 8.5 hours sleep, and didn't want a character too manic, because I felt someone throwaway crashing loudly into every conversation without ref direction could kind of get in everyone's way when I don't know what I'm doing.
* It's weird when you look at someone you know and a completely different person is staring out of their eyes.
* Everyone was convinced they knew me. This is nice when they had seen me around, but at least four different people had the idea I was someone else, was a regular LARPer, or knew what I was doing :)
But in summary, it was good, I'm planning on being a monster tomorrow in linear, developing a character for next week, and LARPing for the rest of this term.
Thanks to everyone who was nice to the newbie, including Chess who's just lovely, Elf-guy who had a great costume, Ed for lemonade, Kirsty and Rob for rules advice despite being busy, the wonderful human hug Rosy for moral support, and other people who suggested things.