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home from Nordanil
Aug. 25th, 2014 01:30 amI am just back from Nordanil, the Lajv (LARP) where I got to play a Viking Storman for the weekend. Everyone tells me that with the beard and man muscles I was convincing enough that they never had any difficulties remembering to refer to my character as "he". This pleases me. I was one of three women on site playing male roles, but the other two were playing young boys who didn't yet have beards, and at least on one occasion that I know of, someone referred to one of them as "your sister" to which her his brother corrected "my brother".
( the write up for the weekend got long, so I will put most of it under a cut )
The next thing I knew I was yawning and walking into the dark forest with my wife and all of the other characters, and that was when everything went weird, as they do.
( the part of the story that I understood at the time ) Oh, I should mention more about the hird, and by extension some of my character's back story:( back story )
( before returning to the story of this weekend's event )and while I was there the "game over" bell rung, so when I came out everyone was talking at once and hugging, and I happily joined in the group for my share of hugs and happy babble, now in English when speaking to me.
Between conversations with people on site and with my traveling companions on the drive home, I have pieced together ( a few plot details that I had missed )
Was it fun? Yup.
Would I do it again? Yes, but only if the weather is nice and cool like this weekend was—no way would I be willing to wear my man muscle padding under layers of wool clothing on a hot summer day!
Would I have changed anything? Yah, make more of the major plot bits happen during times of day I (and my character) wanted to be awake. (I would change the part about how much Swedish I understood, but that problem will solve itself if I keep living in Sweden long enough, which I plan to do.)
Oh, my goodness--it is now 01:30 and I started typing around 21:00. This is nearly nine full pages in Word. I wonder if anyone will read all of it?
( the write up for the weekend got long, so I will put most of it under a cut )
The next thing I knew I was yawning and walking into the dark forest with my wife and all of the other characters, and that was when everything went weird, as they do.
( the part of the story that I understood at the time ) Oh, I should mention more about the hird, and by extension some of my character's back story:( back story )
( before returning to the story of this weekend's event )and while I was there the "game over" bell rung, so when I came out everyone was talking at once and hugging, and I happily joined in the group for my share of hugs and happy babble, now in English when speaking to me.
Between conversations with people on site and with my traveling companions on the drive home, I have pieced together ( a few plot details that I had missed )
Was it fun? Yup.
Would I do it again? Yes, but only if the weather is nice and cool like this weekend was—no way would I be willing to wear my man muscle padding under layers of wool clothing on a hot summer day!
Would I have changed anything? Yah, make more of the major plot bits happen during times of day I (and my character) wanted to be awake. (I would change the part about how much Swedish I understood, but that problem will solve itself if I keep living in Sweden long enough, which I plan to do.)
Oh, my goodness--it is now 01:30 and I started typing around 21:00. This is nearly nine full pages in Word. I wonder if anyone will read all of it?