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Dec. 14th, 2004 01:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greenstormFirst LARP session last Sunday. It was pretty cool. I'll be talking more about it later, I think, but it's very interesting to see the differences and similarities between physical and textual roleplay. It's definitely different inside session more than it is outside, so actual playing the char feels different, while things like costuming the char and writing them up don't feel different at all from Chia stuff.
Weird to have -no possibility- of crossgender playing.
Weird to have the character use that internal sense of 'me' instead of having a number of them in my head at once. Immersion is both deeper (the thoughts of the character are my thoughts) and less focused (no overhead describing what happens, it just happens, so more thought cycles are left free). It's beautiful to be in a group full of good roleplayers, with such a high entry-bad that you never run into newbies. It's frustrating to be 'just a player' with no wider vision of what's going on -- no logs, not really any 'this happened over there while you weren't looking'. It's a very first-person viewpoint dealie, and there are things I'm interested in that my char just doesn't care about. Costuming is really fun. Body language is exquisite to roleplay physically, I think it comes across a lot better.
There were a lot of fun body-language incidents -- my char edging towards someone flirtatiously and they edge away till they both end up in the bushes, a lot of crossed arms or standing sideways (hip-on) to people, a lot of eye contact things. I wear a wig to play her, and long hair is such an excellent roleplay aid. It screens and limits your view, like blinders, it's like a shield to hide behind from eye contact, it gives you something to toss and toy with, it makes me even RL feel like a little corralled female, and so it helps me to play the socially acceptable teenager very much.
So that was cool.
I'm still sick, which is not so cool. Being outdoors for five hours or something for the LARP, plus the night after (last night) going to the Hollywood on cheap night and sitting through two movies until late seems not to have helped the sickness. I saw both Sky Captain and Team America for a total of $4, which is about what they were worth together (though Chris paid, and I paid him back in sex as per the good old male/female bargain, so really there's no way to lose even if they weren't worth admission price). Not unhappy, was surprised at how bored I was for the first half of Sky Captain and how I didn't get the creeping horrors at Team America (it was a good send-up of standard Hollywood movies and not too preachy, so I appreciated the action-movie parody aspect).
I have inspiration for more building on Chia, and I also have a place that takes paypal which makes (get this) camo washable sanitary pads w/ organic cotton lining, and who wouldn't rather be using camo print to sop up blood? So I'm motivated to try and out time in to follow up this motivation. As a note, I'm amazed at how much easier it is to remove blood from cloth (cold water) than mud.
And shortly I will go nap.
That's it for now. :)
Weird to have -no possibility- of crossgender playing.
Weird to have the character use that internal sense of 'me' instead of having a number of them in my head at once. Immersion is both deeper (the thoughts of the character are my thoughts) and less focused (no overhead describing what happens, it just happens, so more thought cycles are left free). It's beautiful to be in a group full of good roleplayers, with such a high entry-bad that you never run into newbies. It's frustrating to be 'just a player' with no wider vision of what's going on -- no logs, not really any 'this happened over there while you weren't looking'. It's a very first-person viewpoint dealie, and there are things I'm interested in that my char just doesn't care about. Costuming is really fun. Body language is exquisite to roleplay physically, I think it comes across a lot better.
There were a lot of fun body-language incidents -- my char edging towards someone flirtatiously and they edge away till they both end up in the bushes, a lot of crossed arms or standing sideways (hip-on) to people, a lot of eye contact things. I wear a wig to play her, and long hair is such an excellent roleplay aid. It screens and limits your view, like blinders, it's like a shield to hide behind from eye contact, it gives you something to toss and toy with, it makes me even RL feel like a little corralled female, and so it helps me to play the socially acceptable teenager very much.
So that was cool.
I'm still sick, which is not so cool. Being outdoors for five hours or something for the LARP, plus the night after (last night) going to the Hollywood on cheap night and sitting through two movies until late seems not to have helped the sickness. I saw both Sky Captain and Team America for a total of $4, which is about what they were worth together (though Chris paid, and I paid him back in sex as per the good old male/female bargain, so really there's no way to lose even if they weren't worth admission price). Not unhappy, was surprised at how bored I was for the first half of Sky Captain and how I didn't get the creeping horrors at Team America (it was a good send-up of standard Hollywood movies and not too preachy, so I appreciated the action-movie parody aspect).
I have inspiration for more building on Chia, and I also have a place that takes paypal which makes (get this) camo washable sanitary pads w/ organic cotton lining, and who wouldn't rather be using camo print to sop up blood? So I'm motivated to try and out time in to follow up this motivation. As a note, I'm amazed at how much easier it is to remove blood from cloth (cold water) than mud.
And shortly I will go nap.
That's it for now. :)
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Date: 2004-12-15 09:00 am (UTC)uh...drag?
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Date: 2004-12-15 09:23 am (UTC)I dont know how good a gal I was, but other players quickly forgot that I was a guy.
I've been tempted to do it again, but I've just not been in a troupe that I felt comfortable in.
Anyway... for me the best part about larp is the whole "I" space. My best games are when I'm completely immersed in my character's goals and drives, and I can see people reacting to that.
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