Of vampires and other unclean beasts
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king_pellinorIf there's one real downside to LARPing, it's people with dogs. I very much dislike them.
Specifically, people who take their dogs out to the woods for walks and then don't bother to clean up after them. I'm now missing a glove, due to not really thinking I'm going to be able to clean it up, and I have a mail shirt and a bracer to try to clean out carefully. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Anyway, apart from that it was great fun. A few embarrassing but oh-so-funny hiccups with roots and so on: I managed the classic "Charge - oops" sequence, plus a swift u-turn at full speed that ended up with me upside down in a bramble patch while the dark elf I'd been chasing slit my throat between giggles. A few minutes later, though, the same player (now monstering a mage) cast a mighty spell of "By my Dark Powers I - eek!". Karma's a bugger sometimes…. :-D
Incidentally, my character has joined the local militia, headed up by the Sheriff. People keep looking very askance at me now that I'm wearing his tabard (it is a fairly replusive shade of pinky-purple), and a High Priest started to go on about how he really didn't like him. Luckily we met some monsters before he could actually come out and tell me outright that my new boss is a vampire (as I know out of character - why else would I take the job?), and then it seemed to slip his mind.
Not-entirely-coincidentally, I was later cut down by a vampire which was busy screaming about how much he hates the Sheriff and how he's going to kill him. Oh, so *that's* why people keep referring to vampires in connexion with the Sheriff - they're obviously a little confused…. ;-)
Apparently there was some debate among the party as to whether they were going to heal me up or not. Rotten swines :-(
All a little late starting, though, and later finishing, so I was terribly late getting home for D&D. It's nice to come home to a house full of beer and nibbles, though :-D
Specifically, people who take their dogs out to the woods for walks and then don't bother to clean up after them. I'm now missing a glove, due to not really thinking I'm going to be able to clean it up, and I have a mail shirt and a bracer to try to clean out carefully. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Anyway, apart from that it was great fun. A few embarrassing but oh-so-funny hiccups with roots and so on: I managed the classic "Charge - oops" sequence, plus a swift u-turn at full speed that ended up with me upside down in a bramble patch while the dark elf I'd been chasing slit my throat between giggles. A few minutes later, though, the same player (now monstering a mage) cast a mighty spell of "By my Dark Powers I - eek!". Karma's a bugger sometimes…. :-D
Incidentally, my character has joined the local militia, headed up by the Sheriff. People keep looking very askance at me now that I'm wearing his tabard (it is a fairly replusive shade of pinky-purple), and a High Priest started to go on about how he really didn't like him. Luckily we met some monsters before he could actually come out and tell me outright that my new boss is a vampire (as I know out of character - why else would I take the job?), and then it seemed to slip his mind.
Not-entirely-coincidentally, I was later cut down by a vampire which was busy screaming about how much he hates the Sheriff and how he's going to kill him. Oh, so *that's* why people keep referring to vampires in connexion with the Sheriff - they're obviously a little confused…. ;-)
Apparently there was some debate among the party as to whether they were going to heal me up or not. Rotten swines :-(
All a little late starting, though, and later finishing, so I was terribly late getting home for D&D. It's nice to come home to a house full of beer and nibbles, though :-D
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Date: 2005-10-03 03:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-04 10:18 am (UTC)I'd pay a lot of money to see video of this...but then I suspect no video clip could outdo what my imagination has conjured up. ;-)
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Date: 2005-10-05 02:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-06 08:37 am (UTC)Of course I now have slightly shinier patches of mail on each of them, but ho hum.