I did it again...

Argh, two months! two months of silence!
There's been two LARPs since!
And I haven't written anything!

Not that I don't have anything to say, I have loads!
But I only get motivated to write when I'm at work. And I can't.
When I get home, I'm to tired to write.
Damned...
I'll have to kick myself harder!

Hopefully a post soon.
I'm not forgetting you guys!

3 days...

Three days until the LARP. And still so many things to do.
Why is it that it always seems ok, there is always enough time to wory about it later, always enough time to work on things; but then you open your eyes and realise that you only have 8 hours left and nothing done?
I hate when this happens.

I've actually been doing a lot of things. Just not enough.
I still have some very important things to do and props to buy, but I guess that my ideas will have to wait.

For the moment, I have to make due with what I have and do what is the most urgent.

Tonight I am on my own so no one will disturb me, I WILL finish repairing the chest, I WILL be practicing my songs, I WILL be preparing my stuff.

I hope...


UPDATE!!!!!!:  

I did repair the chest! Broke 2 Dremmel blades in the process but heck, it's done!
Preparing the stuff will wait, but I am also practicing my singing. I will have.... probably no new songs by this weekend since we need more group practices...

Because I can.

Three little cats, three little cats, three little cats, cats, cats,
Straw hat, straw hat, straw hat, hat, hat
Floor mat, floor mat, floor mat, mat, mat
Sleepwalker, sleepwalker, sleepwalker, walker, walker
Newsletter, newsletter, newsletter, letter letter
Very noisy, very noisy, very noisy, noisy, noisy
marabou, marabou, marabou, bou, bou
bit of cigar, bit of cigar, bit of cigar, gar, gar
railing, railing, railing, ling, ling
berzerk rage, berzerk rage, berzerk rage, rage, rage
Toothache, toothache, toothache, ache, ache
toothpaste, toothpaste, toothpaste, paste, paste
flat frieze, flat frieze, flat frieze, frieze, frieze
platonic, platinoc, platonic, nic, nic
picnic ground, picnic ground, picnic ground, ground, ground
navvy, navvy, navvy, vy, vy
sawing wood, sawing wood, sawing wood, wood, wood
hot drink, hot drink, hot drink, drink, drink
boiler, boiler, boiler, ler, ler
Hermitage, hermitage, hermitage, tage, tage
Sooty Blotch, sooty blotch, sooty blotch, blotch, blotch
'm not cons, not cons, not cons, cons, cons
bass, bass, bass, ass, ass
barnyard, barnyard, barnyard, yard, yard
courtesan, courtesan, courtesan, san, san
Jeanne d'Arc, Jeanne d'Arc, Jeanne d'Arc, d'Arc, d'Arc
of rainbow, of rainbow, of rainbow, bow, bow
overcast, overcast, overcast, cast, cast
vermifuge, vermifuge, vermifuge, fuge, fuge
fugitive, fugitive, fugitive, tive, tive
typhoid, typhoid, typhoid, id, id
identical, identical, identical, al, al
nervous twitch, nervous twitch, nervous twitch, twitch, twitch
war widow, war widow, war widow, dow, dow
Trojan War, Trojan War, Trojan War, War, War
Three little cats, three little cats, three little cats, cats, cats.



This was a horrible experience, but I had to.
Don't ask.

New Look!

Brand new look for the blog. I guess I felt like something new.

New look and new batch of posts coming soon. I suddently had a burst of inspiration on what to write.

Don't expect anything serious though, I've had so much stress I can't even think straight as of late.

Anyways, let me know what you think about the new look!

Disclaimer

I guess I need to write this, I had people ask me about it.

YES, my character is a whore that flirts and sleeps with anyone that has the money to spend.

NO, I do NOT sleep with other players. I have a boyfriend and I am happy.

I am a very touchy-feely type of person though so I tend to give lots of hugs and sit on laps and squish people's faces in my breasts, but that is ALL.
And when I kiss and fondle Ewen, that,s because I've known her for years and we both like to show off.

So don't ask me if I'm willing to sleep with you, don't ask me if I slept with so and so, don't ask me if I really do the double Rochelloise pinwheel in real life.
The answer is NO.

My character might have a different answer though....

Gah!!!!

I'm so not good at keeping promises... I can't even update my blog regularly...
Oh well. Season started so now I'll have more people poking me to update more often.

The downside is that a lot of what I'd like to post is about secrets in my character's background. Secrets that I can't post here since other players read my blog.

Oh well.

On to posting!

Silence no more!

Ha, winter, the most horrible of seasons. Why you ask?
Because there are no LARPs!
But as the snow melts, as the dog turds surface, we are faced with a new hope.
Summer is coming soon, and so is LARP season!

As the sun comes back, I will be slowly going out of my ways to find new and interesting stuff for the LARP.
I already started going through my stuff, and I found out that I have way to many costumes that I will never wear... but at least I can help people in need of costumes!

Hurray for summer! I will begin posting again!

R.I.P. to two very important people.

The month of January was very difficult for me and my sweetheart. Two very important people died, and one of them died yesterday.

The first to die was J, my love's grand-father. He was very old, his health had been going downhill for quite some time and caused him to abandon music, his passion, a few weeks before passing away. I'm a bit hazy on the details, but it was pneumonia that got to him in the end if I am not mistaken.
He was my love's best friend.

The other one was John, our cat. Not Legion, our other cat. The one we had before I found Legion. John (not his real name, but the name my ove used fr him on the interwebs) had skin cancer. We had it removed but it didn't heal correctly and he had a pouch of pus and blood that was created under his wound. We had no choice but to get him put down. It was a very sad moment that involved a lot of crying. I guess my love will be crying for most of the weekend. I can't blame him, John has been with him for over 10 years, through good and bad.

R.I.P. both of you, may musician heaven be an endless concert and cat heaven be full of sunbeams and lap.

Forgive my silence.. please.

I spent so long without updating, I nearly forgot about my blog; and when I thought about it, I felt to guilty to write. Vicious circle that ends up with me not updating ever...
So here I am, more than a month since the last post, posting about my lack of posts.
But, there are a few things that make me motivated to write:
1- Winter is full on, the winter LARP is bound to be soon and summer is getting close! Can't wait to LARP!
2- Since I have been trying to convert people to join me, I am constantly talking about LARPing, and I now have bazillions of ideas!
3- I just got a comment from someone in Sweden! I have a reader that I don't know! This is so cool! I have readers that are not family nor people I poked into visiting my blog!!!!

So Sta, whoever you are, thanks for your comment, and I hope you enjoyed reading my blog enough to come back again.

Also, note to all my readers: I like it when you leave comments, LOVE it. And please, leave them on my blog, I know I can reply if you leave them on MSN Messenger or face-to-face, but on my blog, it makes me feel like I'm writing for people other than me!

Ok, narcissistic rant over.

Back to posting normally!!!

Things I don't understand.

Ok, I play a Bard. That is an innkeeper. That is a whore.
But I play a bard. why? because I love to sing.
I play an innkeeper. why? because I love to take care of people and make evil and cunning plans to have even more money without needing to fight.
I play a whore. why? because I have no shame whatsoever.

The thing is, contrary to what it seems like, I have no confidence in my skills.
I think that my voice is horrible.
I don't really like my own cooking and invent recipes on the fly.
I am the shyest person ever, I don't care about making a fool of myself, as long as no one else is involved. I don't want people to be fools. That and I don't trust people to believing the "it's only a game" part.
Oh and like any person, I don't think that I am attractive.

Ok, useless ranting but I have horrible hair that cannot be tamed, only detained in a tight braid; I have a horrible acne problem that makes me look like I'm 12 and I have an anoying personality!
I know that I have an annoying personality! I've always had it. And then people tell me I'm annoying!
I KNOW!

So yeah, back to the main subject.
I play a jaded bard whore... yet I must resist telling people to shut up when they compliment my voice or my looks because I disagree.

What is pretty in a badly proportionned zit-faced freak like me? What is melodic in a broken squealy voice like mine? What is good in the randomly tossed together produce that ends up looking like a brown goop (It often looks like I'm a bone-gnawer who used the gift "cooking")?

I just don't understand....

You can do miracles with rotten wood and rusty nails. (With Pictures)

Welcome to the inn.

It`s awesome what you can do with rusty nails and rotten planks of wood. Like this inn, holding on buckets filled with cement. This is basically a front view that is really cute and all...

We are planning on eventually putting cedar planks to finish the outside of the inn, and hanging some lights outside the door. Also we will have a big plaque with a gold lion painted on it.

Another view of the front. We could use a bit more windows but I guess it's better to have less so that we can't break what's not there.

If it wasn't for the buckets, the inn would be in deep shit since the ground is NOT level and even if we tried digging, there are about 2 inches of dirt before you hit solid rock.

On this side of the inn, we actually didn't repair much. the bunch of bricks in the foreground is our fire pit... And that window you see had the nostril prints of an Orc for half the summer.

The window also lets us keep an eye on the fire from inside.

This is the back wall. this is the most finished wall of the whole building.

Well, the leftmost window is actually broken so it's a gaping hole... but we shut it with planks so the snow wouldn't come in.

And here is the point were I realise we went to repair the other side of the inn and I didn't take pictures of it... Just imagine that the triangle between the wall and the roof is missing. But now it's not.

So like I was saying, here is how we repair a window.  We just put planks randomly and drive nails into the beams.

We are still unsure if we will repair the window or just cut a door and make an outside veranda to have barbecues in order to be able to cook more food.

This is a corner! duh. With Marie-Helene, one of the DMs, being cheerfull since we are repairing the inn.
The window behind her is the one we can see the fire from. And there is another window behind the plank of wood.

The bench has been repaired (it was loosing it's legs) by driving nails into each and every interlocking part.

We are awesome.

As you can see in the corner, the triangle had not been entirely repaired yet.
Also we have a new shelf unit! that makes 2 shelf units!
We'd see them better if it wasn't for Ewen's butt. But it's fine, she has a nice butt.

And we see part of the bar... full of stuff...
It will be repaired to. We like the bar, but it's nice to have some storage AND some counter-space. and the counter is way to high anyways.
But it's understandable, the people who built it are all super tall.

Here we have Ben, the other DM, installing planks of wood so we can install hooks for coats and cloaks. We also built a cage/ box/ thingydo to put weapons so they won't be everywhere.

Ben said that the nails that Marie bought were flimsy pieces of crap... but he was the only one to complain... (Marie, I think Ben would like his balls back...)

Also we changed the door knob so now the door stays closed and LOCKS! No more will we need to put a table in front of the door to prevent the wind from opening it.

And last picture, same corner where Marie was.
Eventually we will put plastic lining, fibreglass insulationg, more plastic lining and close the walls... but that is for the future.

For the moment, we are happy to have a door that locks, no holes in the walls and chairs you can sit on without falling.

We accept donations to make this inn better!

Just send them to the DMs!

Photos of Legion!!!

So in one of my earlier posts I mentionned my cat.

Now here are pictures. (They were taken with my phone so no one is allowed to complain!)

This is when we were still at the LARP. Poor little cat was so scared when we got attacked by a were-wolf...

He survived that weekend eating anything we gave him (mostly eggs and meat mixed with veggies) and sleeping with me for warmth.

I think everyone at the LARP, even the ones that are allergic, held the cat at some point during the weekend.

When we got home, we were so scared that our other cat would maul the poor little kitten that we kept him in a separate room. We fed the cat with wet food and eggs to fatten him up. it didn't take long and he was a lot better.

This one was taken not to long ago... maybe two months now...

Already he is a lot better. After spending a while with food, loving people and a friend cat, he is super happy!

The satisfied look in his face is because he is sleeping with us.  (The foot in the background is not mine but my boyfriend's.)

And this is last week, Legion was pretending to be a pair of shoes.

From 6 pounds he is now a healthy 8.6 pounds and is soooo happy.

He still meows like crazy if I dare try to sleep without telling him though...
But it's ok.



More pics soon!

Pics about the repairs on the inn!

A note for the unenlightened.

I realised that I've been talking about LARPing for a while and haven't even said what it is.
Mostly because I have been writting for myself and people in the know.

But as I am giving the blog's address to people who might not know what I am talking about, here is a description.


LARP: Live Action Role-Playing, (the rest will be shamelessly stolen from wikipedia and edited as I see fit since I can't be bothered to pull a description out from my ass)

A live action role-playing game (LARP) is a form of role-playing game where the participants physically act out their characters' actions. The players pursue goals within a fictional setting represented by the real world, while interacting with each other in character. The outcome of player actions may be mediated by game rules, or determined by consensus among players. Event arrangers called gamemasters decide the setting and rules to be used and facilitate play.


The first LARPs were run in the late 1970s, inspired by role-playing games and genre fiction. The activity spread internationally during the 1980s, and has diversified into a wide variety of styles. The fictional genres used vary greatly, from realistic modern or historical settings to fantastic or futuristic eras. LARPs range in size from small private events lasting a few hours to huge public events with thousands of players lasting for days.



Playing a LARP is often called larping, and one who does it is a larper.

LARP does not have a single point of origin, but was invented independently by separate groups in the late 1970s and early 1980s. These groups shared an experience with genre fiction or tabletop role-playing games, and a desire to physically experience such settings. In addition to tabletop role-playing, LARP was preceded and possibly influenced by childhood games of pretend, play fighting, costume parties, roleplay simulations, Commedia dell’arte, improvisational theatre, psychodrama, military simulations, and historical reenactment groups.

Today LARP is a popular activity in North America, Europe, Russia and Australasia. Large games with thousands of participants are run by for-profit companies, various LARP books are published and an increasingly professional industry sells costume, armour, and foam weapons intended primarily for LARP.

Players physically portray characters in a fictional setting, improvising their characters' speech and movements somewhat like actors in improvisational theatre. This is distinct from tabletop role-playing games, where character actions are described verbally. The setting, characters, and rules may be defined in a publication or created by the arrangers or players. LARPs may be played in a public or private area, and may last for hours or days. There is usually no audience, and bystanders are typically either ignored or treated as part of the fictional setting. Players may dress as their character and carry appropriate equipment, and the environment is sometimes decorated to resemble the setting. LARPs can be one-off events or a series of events in the same setting, and events can vary in size from a handful of players to several thousand.

Player actions in the real world represent character actions in an imaginary setting. Game rules, physical symbols and theatrical improvisation are used to bridge differences between the real world and the setting. For example, a rope could signify an imaginary wall. Realistic-looking weapon props and risky physical activity are sometimes discouraged or forbidden for safety reasons.

There is a distinction between when a player is in character, meaning they are actively representing their character, and when the player is out of character, meaning they are being themselves. Some LARPs encourage players to stay consistently in character except in emergencies, while others accept players being out of character at times. Character knowledge is usually considered to be separate from player knowledge, and acting upon information a character would not know may be viewed as cheating.

The players take on roles called player characters (PCs), that they may create themselves or be given by the gamemasters. Players sometimes play the same character repeatedly at separate events, progressively developing the character and its relations with other characters and the setting.

The GMs (gamemasters) determine the fictional framework of a LARP, and may also influence an event and act as referees while it is taking place. Unlike the GM in a tabletop role-playing game, a LARP GM seldom has an overview of everything that is happening during play because numerous players may be interacting in separate physical spaces, especially at larger LARP events. For this reason a LARP GM's role is often less concerned with tightly maintaining a narrative or directly entertaining the players, and more with arranging the structure of the LARP before play begins, facilitating the players and crew to maintain the fictional environment during play and who handle details such as advertising the event, booking a venue, and financial management

Crew members assist the gamemasters in setting up and maintaining the environment of the LARP during play, which sometimes involves playing non-player characters (NPCs). NPCs exist to make the LARP more satisfying for the players, and typically receive more direction from the GMs than PCs do. In a tabletop role-playing game a GM usually plays all the NPCs, whereas in a LARP each NPC is typically played by a separate crew member. Sometimes players are asked to play NPCs for periods of an event.

Much of play consists of interactions between characters. Some LARP scenarios primarily feature interaction between PCs, who may be written with connections that encourage interesting interactions. Other scenarios focus on interaction between PCs and aspects of the setting, including NPCs, that are under the direction of the GMs.

Many LARPs have game rules that determine how characters can affect each other and the setting. These rules may define characters' capabilities, what can be done with various items, and what characters can do during the downtime between LARP events. Because referees are often not available to mediate all character actions, players are relied upon to be honest in their application of the rules.

Some LARP rules call for the use of simulated weapons such as foam weapons or airsoft guns to determine whether characters succeed in hitting each another in combat situations. The alternative is to pause role-play and determine the outcome of an action symbolically, for example by rolling dice, playing rock-paper-scissors or comparing character attributes.

There are also LARPs that do without rules, instead relying on players to use their common sense or feel for dramatic appropriateness to cooperatively decide what the outcome of their actions will be.

LARPs set in the modern day may explore everyday concerns, or special interests such as espionage or military activity. Such LARPs may resemble an Alternate Reality Game, an Assassin game, or a military simulation using live combat with airsoft, laser tag, or paintball markers. LARPs can also be set in historical eras, or have semi-historical settings with mythological or fantastical aspects incorporated.

Fantasy is one of the most common LARP genres internationally, and is the genre that the largest events use. Fantasy genre LARPs are set in pseudo-historical worlds inspired by fantasy literature and fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons. These settings typically have magic, fantasy races, and limited technology. Many fantasy LARPs focus on adventure or on competition between character factions. In contrast, science fiction LARPs take place in futuristic settings with high technology and sometimes with extraterrestrial life. This describes a broad array of LARPs, including politically themed LARPs depicting dystopian or utopian societies and settings inspired by cyberpunk, space opera and post-apocalyptic fiction.

Horror LARPs are inspired by horror fiction. Popular sub-genres include zombie apocalypse and Cthulhu Mythos, sometimes using the published Cthulhu Live rules. The World of Darkness, published by White Wolf, Inc., is a widely-used goth-punk horror setting in which players usually portray secretive supernatural creatures such as vampires and werewolves. This setting can be played using Mind's Eye Theatre, which is a set of LARP rules also published by White Wolf. World of Darkness LARPs are usually played in a chronicle, a series of short events held at regular intervals, and are also popular at conventions. An international chronicle is run by White Wolf's official fan club the Camarilla.

In the Nordic countries, LARP has achieved a high level of public recognition and popularity. It is often shown in a positive light in mainstream media, with an emphasis on the dramatic and creative aspects. However, even in Norway where LARP has greater recognition than in most other countries, it has still not achieved full recognition as a cultural activity by government bodies.

 
 
There! Now you are all enlightened and I can go back to posting about interesting stuff!
 
Yes. I am shameless.
 
and Evil.

Legion's Story!

If you are a player in Milandes your knowledge of Legion is a big evil demon that kills people.

Legion is also my cat. If you played in the last game of the 2009 season, you know what I"m talking about.

This little cat had been abandonned, no one knows where he came from. He was starved and alone, little fluffy fuzzball in the deep dark evil woods.
And then there was the LARP.

A week before the LARP, people stopped by to bring things over in advance and to put up their tents.
They saw this cute little fluffy kitten.
Thinking it belonged to one of the neighbors, they played with it and left it there.


At the LARP, this fuzzball was abandonned and alone, people asked the neighbors and no one knew who the cat belonged to.

I saw that cat and fell in love (damned chivalry genes!). I brought it to the inn, fed it and kept it warm. People spent the whole weekend playing with it.At the time, we thought it was a female (damned cats and their similar genitals.) so we named it Princess.

After the LARP, I brought the cat home. a trip to the vet later, we learn that it's a male, he's healthy apart from being WAY to skinny and having had a tapeworm (de-worming products for the win) and having had fleas. Princess became Legion.

And now, well, the cat is awesomely cute, weighs a healthy 9 pounds and is a real whore. Pick him up and he's happy, pet him and he's happy, feed him and he's happy. He's happy as long as you don't put him down.


What a cute little whore!

What I plan on posting next...

Yep, this is only to post my ideas of futur posts!

So here is the list.
I will cross out topics as I write about them and add a link to the relevant post.
I will also add to the list as I see fit.


1. List of Inn items
2. Legion’s Story
3. More Background info
4. The Caravan’s Story
5. Recipes
6. Pictures
7. to be determined...

Out of Character presentation!

Ok! So real life events now, not just character backstory...

I'm curently playing Beldandy at a LARP called Milandes in the province of Quebec.
I play an innkeeper. Why? because I like it.
Actually, the idea first came after playing for a few years in other LARPs and talking to people who went to different LARPs and to people who had their own LARP.
The main reccuring characteristic was that innkeepers were always the most annoying NPC to play because the actors prefer to be monsters and such, and if they are portrayed by players, they are never at the Inn since players prefer to fight said monsters.
Personnaly, I love LARPing, but I hate fighting.

I know, some of you are wondering why the f*** do I LARP if I don't like fighting.
The reason: because I love role-playing.

An other recurring theme I saw in LARPs is that people tend to forget they need to eat. They are so busy trying to beat monsters of finding more treasures that they forget to eat. The usual LARP meal is beer, gummies and car temperature chunky soup cans.

So I decided that the greatest way to continue playing while not fighting was to become an innkeeper.

I talked about my project for years to everyone around me since I knew I wouldn't be able to take care of everything myself.
Most of my LARPing friends were not interested. "Where's the fun if you don't get to explode monsters' faces?" But eventually I found a friend who was not interested at all in fighting, just like me, and who thought that the idea of being an innkeeper was pretty cool.

Then followed a long time of looking for a LARP who would accept innkeepers and endless Value Village and flea market stalking in order to find pots and pans and bowls and spoons and all that medieval looking sh*t we would need.

Eventually, we found one, not Milandes, but after playing there for a season, we realised we didn't like the place.
Then we found Milandes.

Seriously, the place is awesome. The people are awesome. The story is awesome.
I just love it all.
Except the bugs.
But hey...

Anyways, now we are happily playing innkeepers in this great LARP, where we entertain people, constantly explode with lewd comments and just love the people.

Eye-candy for everyone!