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[swan_tower]

Man, I have missed LARPing. And if I can say that after the costume I wore last night, it really must be true.

(Short form, for those who I'm very glad didn't see it: think truck stop diner waitress. I've done skin-tight and low-cut costumes before; now, with the crossing of the short skirt boundary, I've got about as far as I can in terms of revealing costumes without violating public decency laws. You know there's a problem when you put off getting changed until game's right about to start.)

Beforehand, gollumgollum and I were running a scene for a different (tabletop) game, and we ended up half-LARPing it, with me stretched out on a couch and her in a chair at my side, because it just wasn't possible to get into the right headspace without doing the spatial positioning the scene required. And we both felt underdressed for playing those characters. Once you get used to physically performing things, it can seem weird to not do so; I know I've been frustrated in tabletop games when I'm having an important, personal conversation with someone and we're on opposite sides of the room. It just isn't the same. I like the physicality, the way that posture and stance and clothing and everything else can change the way you behave.

But there aren't any LARPs in town I feel particularly inspired to join right now. (OTOH, maybe this means the boy and I will get off our butts and run "The Dance and the Dawn" like we've been saying we will.)

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[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Well, but my cursive is just bad. And not in the right way.

I doubt you'll go batshit like LKH. A certain amount of thinking of your characters as real is normal.