Live role play (LRP/LARP)

Started by Elvi, May 20, 2006, 08:49:06 PM

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Elvi

This discussion has been split off from another as we had gone way off the track of the origional topic



My live role play character is six years old, it's strange, I put on certain pieces of her costume and then I am her, will be very very strange when she dies.

Mind you, her IC husband is in his 15th year now (He started when the system started) there are only two others left now and I have no idea what the whole game world is going to do when he goes.....
(Let alone my character)
It's been fun, but Elvi has now left the building

Violet Maui

::Wants to do live roleplay. Has a hissy fit.::

Mmhmm, I'd love to make a movie of Sinnara/Chi - She started out as a runaway slave and has spent four years in training as Chi's main focus of attention. >:3 And the fun is just beginning!
"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but whips and chains excite me. So tie me up and throw me down, to show me that you like me."

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ultracomplexxx

how a live roleplay is done? on the game section? or there is a chat / roleplay section?
you use a yahoo or MSN Messenger Violet? or you roleplay live here ?

Violet Maui

Live roleplay would be better left up to Elvi to explain. :) I've never done it - And no, it has nothing to do with this forum. It's real life fun!

I have yahoo, yes, but it's not working for the moment.
"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but whips and chains excite me. So tie me up and throw me down, to show me that you like me."

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Elvi

Live role play,(LRP) or live action roleplay (LARP)
Is done in person, with living and breathing people to interact with and beat to bits with specially made weapons.
They are based on systems ranging from high fantasy to sci-fi.
The one I roleplay in is a high fantasy game, with a miriad of wierd and wonderful races, magic, incantation, specialist healers, warriors, pirates, orcs, goblins, deamons....the list goes on.

We dress in costume and live that character for the duration of the event, the longest being 6 days.
Total immersion and total suspension of belief.

It is totally different to playing on a messenger, or table top, or play by post.
It's been fun, but Elvi has now left the building

ultracomplexxx

got the idea now
shame i cant do it for real... seems i have to be happy with post or messenger  sniff

Elvi

Well fortunately, (Or not, depending on how you look at it), the type of adult roleplay as is played on this site cannot really be done in LRP.
So internet is the place to do it. *grins*
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King_Furby

LOL i found that bit of conversation an enjoyable read.

Hey untracomplexx it looks like you need some virtual reality stuff. Too bad it's not invented yet.

We could all use a holodeck at times. Woot

ultracomplexxx

hahahaha
yeah, i forgot about the holodeck... now that you remind me of that i have to start working on that  lol

....... resistance, is futile

alahendra

Quote from: Elvi on May 20, 2006, 09:52:11 PM
Live role play,(LRP) or live action roleplay (LARP)
Is done in person, with living and breathing people to interact with and beat to bits with specially made weapons.
They are based on systems ranging from high fantasy to sci-fi.
The one I roleplay in is a high fantasy game, with a miriad of wierd and wonderful races, magic, incantation, specialist healers, warriors, pirates, orcs, goblins, deamons....the list goes on.

We dress in costume and live that character for the duration of the event, the longest being 6 days.
Total immersion and total suspension of belief.

It is totally different to playing on a messenger, or table top, or play by post.

Up to 6 days?  Do you stay in character 24/7 the whole time?
"You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan
Designed and directed by his red right hand..."

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Elvi

Official time in is 10am to 2am the next morning, but many of us continue to role play, it just means that we won't get attacked during the hours of 2am to 10am.
However, guards are posted and duties are taken and 'life' carries on as it would do in the game world.
Lots of talky plot, politics, drinking to our dead heroes, that sort of thing.....
It's been fun, but Elvi has now left the building

alahendra

Wow, that must be a memorable experience.  I've heard of LARPing, but I didn't realize that it was that involved.  Cool!
"You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan
Designed and directed by his red right hand..."

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Elvi

It is over here and in this system.
Some of the smaller weekend events are 24/7, very tiring and very satisfying.
(I always sleep with my boots on and at least mostly clothed)
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Violet Maui

Ready at a moment's notice, eh Elvi? :D
"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but whips and chains excite me. So tie me up and throw me down, to show me that you like me."

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tcost

I was into live rp back in the 80s (when we had to invent it ourselves) and the early 90s.  But, Elvi, believe me, there's no reason that you can't have adult larps.  But you'd better know the other people involved very well, and if you make a mistake it can be a doozy.
I prefer justice to irony.

Elvi

Well, we have 'adult' on the surface, or the ladies of the brothel and the sucubi wouldn't have much fun, but this is a family system and there is no way I would be 'active' with my IC husband.
(Even though I have had two children by him and am pregnant again in the game world that is)

And of course, there are real life couples who role play IC couples and the single players, but what I am saying is that there is no overt sexual behaviour.   
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Swedish Steel

But plenty of covert stuff going on in the bushes, eh? ;)
Only times I tried it we were 40 guys, and 1 girl I belive. It was a testosterone fogged hackfest. Great excersise though, and really fun.
"Ah, no, not bukkake chef! Secret ingredient always same."

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Elvi

Or in tents?

It is still a predominately male 'sport', but more and more women are getting hooked on it.
(Like me who found it rather late in life, I am one og the oldest people in the system and I have to admit it's good being around a lot of young'ns who are young enough to be my children.....)
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Swedish Steel

Do the old guard get alot of respect from the young 'uns?
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Elvi

*LOL*
The powerful like my IC husband yes.....they wouldn't dare not to!
('cos they tend to end up laying dead in a ditch if they don't)

But IC I get no more and no less respect than any other, plus my character is a lot younger than I am in reality.
Infact my enemy quota actually increased the better known I became and when I married the high incantor, I was then seen as a viable target to use against him. 

OOC there are a lot of the younger ones who enjoy my company and also use me as a sounding board for their ideas/problems etc.
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Violet Maui

That's so cute, IC pregnancy. >:3 You have an excuse to have cravings and eat what you want without actually having to gain weight because of a baby. ::Ponders this. Cackles.::
"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but whips and chains excite me. So tie me up and throw me down, to show me that you like me."

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Elvi

*LOL*
Last IC pregnancy was Mustard.
Every time anyone called Muster, to call us together, I went into a frenzy wanting mustard, my IC husband carried a jar of it around with him at all times and at one event, I had the Lord High General running around trying to find mustard for me at three o'clock in the morning.

(Was even funnier when I ate it, the hot English Mustard, spread on cream cake......hell, the things that you have to do for role play!)
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Violet Maui

"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but whips and chains excite me. So tie me up and throw me down, to show me that you like me."

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Mistiq

LARPing seems really interesting, though I doubt if I could find a game close by me. Being in Los Angeles has its downsides I tell you. I would definately have to live roleplay on a smaller scale as I am uncomfortible in a plethora of people. I stillthink it's something I should get into now that I know all I have to do is act, and I could use the practice.

(I know people who eat mustard on green apples I have yet to try it, but it might be tasty)

tcost

Mistiq, I heard recently about a new LARP group being formed in Oceanside.  It's not suburban LA, but it's not a long drive at all.  If you like, I'll dig up the information for you.

tcost
I prefer justice to irony.

Elvi

*laughs and rubs hands together*
More converts to the cause.......

Mistiq,
I can't comment upon American live role players, but from the experience I have had here, they are kind, conciderate.
All do their best to make sure that the individual is enjoying themselves and that they are safe and happy about what they are doing.
(Of course the human nature factor applies here as in all walks of life and there's always the odd pain in the backside)

So if tcost can find the information, go give it a try.
At least then you will know if you are suited to it or if it's not for you.....
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ZK

I've done a few LARP games, but none of them would be concidered "great, adventureous and such" on the good scale. Since they all followed the oWoD. It just got really gruesome, sorrowful and inhuman.

Not to mention, all the time I played, I either played a crazy character or ended up crazy. o.o

From my Malkavian, Tzimiscie and Redcap. It was loads of violent fun. There are more women that play WoD, but I've found, anyone associating with the Camarilla [fanclub not Vampire faction] were bunch of jerkwads here. x.x
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"Only the insane have strength enough to prosper. Only those who prosper may judge what is sane."

Elvi

#27
Playing 'vampire' and a game derived from another game, never really cuts it in my books.

For me it has to be a completely different game world with different values and rules.

And talking about insanity, my character is out of tilt with the world she is in and magic effects her really badly, so what happens?
She ends up being married to the most powerful magic user, in the game world and surrounded by his uber powerful associates.
It's really hard sometimes, having to throw a fit in the middle of a game because your husband is casting magic near you and a ref whispers in your ear that you have reached your limit of control.
(Or in one case, using it on you, so that you collapse to the floor, with him standing over you trying not to laugh and saying 'oops sorry dear, forgot and you were bleeding')
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ZK

#28
To each there on. I'm not really a big fan of high fantasy, aside from a few pencil and paper games, other then that. I tend to stick with modern to future and times in between such. Also, as for a note. I've only gotten my feet wet, not drenched like many others, afterall this upcoming June i'm turning 21, the future will tell where my enjoyments mature into. :)
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Elvi

Oh I do an occassional present time game and a futuristic game as well.
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kylie

I just skimmed...  For what it's worth, I've been to a few primarily tabletop RPG cons that had maybe one or two LARPs on the side.  Some seemed to run the better part of a day or two, and some ran only three or four hours.  So depending where you are and how long you want to go at it, a very wide range of stuff is at least conceivable. 

Most of the LARPs I've seen have not had much in the way of props, so that isn't strictly necessary either.  I see it more as an arrangement that emphasizes persuasion and makes you decide very quickly who to talk to, how, and when...

     

tcost

To meander way back toward a related subject I brought up a long time ago, what do you all think of the possibility of an intentionally adult LARP?  There have been many times when ordinary LARPs have lapsed into adult activity, usually with just one couple but sometimes with larger groups. 
I prefer justice to irony.

kylie

#32
I think it might be fun to do something halfway between a rl LARP and an Elliquiy thread, off in chat somewhere.  Of course, finding shared genre interests, compatible online environments for chat, and scheduling would be the kickers.

I also think a rl erotic LARP could be interesting.  Perhaps people could choose or set up characters in ways that make it more likely they'll enter the sorts of situations that fit their desires.  Whether or not it would have to have any more "real" sex than the typical LARP has "real" combat...  Well, that would depend a lot on the people involved.  Hee.