LARP: Live Action Roleplay

[DrSmurrie]

Thankyou for notifying me about this topic. I requested it in the first place but as I don't read the SPAM topic, I didn't see this topic.
And I think this topic isn't SPAM at all. It's really interesting to hear your stories and what it's all about. Thank you for sharing and making this such a nice topic. I will keep an eye on this topic for more info and more news with your upcoming plans and events.
//subscribed to this topic. Thx bro!

Hey,

first and foremost: No problem at all! And well when I was searching for the right place to post this I just didn't dare do it outside of the SPAM subforums because well, it didn't belong anywhere else either.

Concerning future plans, "LARP" season is temporarily over because well LARP in Winter is awesome but hard.
So what am I planning at the moment?

I'm researching a new event here in Belgium named "Omen" that'll have somekind of realistic feel but with magic.
The thing is about that world: Magic is SO powerful that it has to be done in utmost secrecy or you get hunted by inquisition or burned like a witch. But if you're good enough and you succesfully perform the biggest and most crazy rituals you'll be able to do the most badass things with magic there.

Another awesome thing about it is that there'll be something called "Social points". These give you a form of status or conversational "edge". The cool part about it is that players can take beggar skills and "force" people to give them something. because when you do'nt give to a beggar in that world and someone else saw it you lose face and thus social points ;p

Our plan? We'll go EXTREME beggar-style !

Concerning the other events:

De Poort (The Gate):
I haven't talked about this one yet but you could say I'm just an alchemist there but it hasn't been real succesful and fun for me. This is because I do not own combat skills at all and the poisons which I could make are very very illegal and it's very very hard to be able to get the poison extractor to make them. Because it's obviously illegal in that world as well. I had a lot of money the last event of Poort to buy alchemical ingredients but I got dragged to an Rock Orc camp and they stole half my money and then I had the gangrene disease because of them and needed to let it come to it's final state (42°C fever) to get an operation. After that I spend even more time with Dr. Orca, a half-orc doctor that pulls out one of your teeth for his cllection when he does an operation on you, in the sickbay as I always got beaten up for some reason. WHERE WERE DOES FIGHTER AND MAGIC CHARACTERS TO PROTECT US? And other characters stole my money while I was unconscious. So I was never able to buy my alchemical reagents and thus my character got absolutely useless. And if it wasn't bad enough my character ended up losing his entire arm permanently! So if next event isn't better or interesting I'm going to let my character die and make a new one.

Het Wiel Des Tijds (The Wheel Of Time):

This event is new and we had our first experience a month and half ago and it was UBER EPIC! This is my favorite LARP together with Aether and Conquest of Mythodea at the moment. Sadly enough net event will have to wait until June! This event is actually why I bought the Samourai Armour. Because with five people we are an Asion style group from the land of "Zenpagu". We are litteraly dressed as Edo Japan samourai, drink sake, walk around with those typical umbrella's, talk about bushido and honour all the time and drink sake. That's who we are there and that means that we are the ULTIMATE CULTURE SHOCK for the other groups as they are normal medieval style humans of the Empire, elves and dwarfs.

On the first event all the players were kidnapped in various places in the world by Pirates and used as slaves to row their ship. Luckily, or not, the slave ship was attacked and the ship sank. We were set adrift for 2 more days in open seas with barely enough strength to hold on to wooden bits of ship leftovers. We survived but were all stranded in different places and in need of help. Luckily we found eachother pretty fast and were welcomed in a small village with a sanatorium for magicians. A SANATORIUM FOR INSANE MAGES!? It had to go wrong and it did. But the Pirates came back as well in a very immortal-ish fashion and plagued us in our hard lives. The rest of the story is to specific ;p

The cool thing was that because we were stranded we had "lost" everything we owned and thus had to go chop wood and mine iron and stuff to make weapons and armours for our characters once again. It took quite a while, the whole weekend to be precise but it was awesome in its own way.

My character there is called Gunshi Genkaku (which translate from Japanese as: Gunshi: "Strategist/he who plots" and Genkaku: "Illusion") and I'm a Halfling that had immigrated to Zenpagu after having been falsely accused with my people in the Empire. We lived for 2 generations in Rah Shasi, a cruel dessert full of monsters and stuff like that. But those hardships learned my halfling people how to use the Fata Morgana's as illusions to protect themselves as well as how to convert the poison of cactusses and the like to food and witchcraft. When my character was still young my halfling people, the Fire Foots, reached the other side of Rah Shasi and to their surprise found the civilised lands of Zenpagu, a Japan like land with warring states. We were welcomed but paranoid as we were because of the empire we started specialising in knowing everything about everyone and everything in Zenpagu.

With this background story I explain how my character, in ingame terms a BARD class character, can use illusion magic, witchcraft magic and he knows a lot about secrets of the world. In Wheel of Time Bards are Jacks of all Trades but Master of None and that's precisely how my character works. I can fight with a sword, wear chainmail armour but not platemail, am able to cast illusion magic but not as high as the Illusionist class and the same for witch spells. But I'm also rogue-ish so I can open locks, but not as good as thieves, and can steal stuff. Unique to the bard class is KNOWLEDGE and SINGING. But I'm not taking anything from the singing skills that would give bonuses to damage, or fear protection and stuff because well.. That's not my character style and I can't sing or play music.

In any case by the time my character is of age: 21 in Zenpagu the clan of the Yamamoto is trying to unite all the clans as one land: Zenpagu. First they fought the warrior Samourai clan of the Zaraki, battlehardened samourai, 10 times as strong as the avarage Yamamoto. But then they had to fight the Feng clan, a clan of ninjas and stealth. And the Yamamoto had trouble fighting these "unfair" fighters as they didn't fight honorably face to face. This is where my character comes in. He wanted to thank the Yamamoto clan for accepting them in Zenpagu years ago and thus decided to help against the Feng. Ofcourse we were accepted and my group of Halflings were led by me to use illusion and intelligence to fight the Feng. Very soon after joining efforts Zenpagu got united and my character and my people recieved a clan name of their own under the Yamamoto: We became the clan of the Genkaku and I became strategist and Leader of the Intelligence unit of the Yamamoto's army.

Now that the threats of our own country were gone we decided with the Shogun to find knowledge about outside Zenpagu, past the Rah Shasi dessert in the Empire. This is why I, strategist and intelligence leader, as well as representative of the Shogun together with someone from every clan were sent out to the Empire. Somewhere along these travels we were abducted by the Pirates This also means one of my friends is a Zaraki Barbarian Samourai together with a Goblin Druid he rescued. Goblins are accepted in our society because we do not know racism in Zenpagu. People are judged by skill and worth. The last person in our group is a kind of Priest. But what do priests do in our world? They make our holy weapons (katana's) and harness ki and zen.

One of the first things that became a problem is that the EMPIRE is opposed to us RACIST! In the tavern only humans could enter and the other races like me had to sit in a dirty corner or stay outside. Because of this the humans from the Empire didn't take me serious as representative of the Shogun and I got treated very very bad. Especially because we didn't have any of our stuff so no papers to proove who we are. This means that we now find the Empire very barbaric and we might even start a war because they mistreated me and our Goblin. BOOOH RACISM, JOIN ZENPAGU! But we'll see how it changes next event because now we have gathered new armour and weapons and we were able to send a letter to the Shogun. In any case the racism led us to getting very good relations on the event with the Sun and Moon Elf players and with the dwarfs.

Oh and I had my Samourai armour with me on the first event butwasn't able to let someone make it for me in the end so I didn't wear it in the end! But to my surprise I didn't mind at all because I have found a lot of special magical tablets with illusion and witchcraft spells I could learn. I have never ever felt a character develop so much in a single weekend!

I only have one photo but it's one where we wear our costumes to the F.A.C.T.S., a Fantasy Anime Comics Toys and Science Fiction convention. It's me on the left, than Gert standing next to me, Jelle as Odo Zaraki kneeling and my sister. My Sister doesn't LARP though. The Guy that's lying down and the one on the right are two random Bleach cosplayers that wanted a photo of us.