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[chess]

I probably owe you all a LJ entry, although I'm still stuck at skip=100 right now. In case I hadn't told you, I'm
off to freeze my butt off on a campsite near Manchester this weekend, in the name of Live Action Role-Play. This is all phamster's fault. Should be fun,
even if my period decided to be a week late, in the spirit of 'turning up at precisely the wrong moment'. Technically
I should have expected it, with all the random swapping around it's done in the past to safeguard me from going anywhere near a swimming pool at a SU holiday.

I've spent the last week expecting to have a period and hence being very snappy and PMT-ish; I was meant to be leading at CH last Thursday but thought it was best not after having chewed several people out over the course of the day. I probably should stop beating up on Helena for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, but it doesn't seem to bother her, so I guess it's not too much of a priority.

We had Economics in the computer room yesterday and she discovered how to make Laura (the small one) jump, and then we sent a wheely chair over (express delivery) and declared that it was 'give Laura a heart attack day'. (The chair was originally aimed for a) the centre of the room, b) Mr Moore, but I decided it was altogether too obvious that I was the only one with a good angle to those places whereas as Helena had already been tormenting Laura she was the first suspect for the chair delivery.)

Yes, I'm mean. Did you have a question?

Anyway, Laura was playing Tetris and Pacman when we were meant to be working; at least we were pretending to be working while we talked about AD&D characters. The reason I'm at skip=100 is that I've spent an inordinate amount of time creating and messing with an 18th-level AD&D character for a random Rondak's Portal game Melody insisted we both applied for. I burnt two evenings trying to maximise her saves and AC. Her history is over 3500 words long - well, she *is* an eighteenth level elf, 170 years old, multiclassed four ways (Barbarian 1 / Fighter 4 / Order of the Bow Initiate 8 / Ghostwalker 5). And now her fortitude save is +30 and her AC is 41. She has four or five arrowshots (five if she
takes -2 to hit) at 1d8+13+1d6 per arrow, add another damage if she's firing masterwork or magic arrows. I still don't
give her thirty seconds against Melody's sorceress, though.

I am skipping school today. This is Naughty. Then again, I *am* in the 6th form and my parents are fully colluding
on the issue, so *shrug*.

Comments

[naath.livejournal.com]

/goes off to look at LARP site.

is vaguely annoyed.

Why no alcohol? it's supposed to be fun? besides, it's supposed to mediaeval, and all they ever drank was ale.

And who cares what clothes you show up in? you have to wear a *costume* for it.

Gods! Who's running this?

I'm sure the actually LARP part is proably fun, but I wouldn't go to an event that I couldn't wear what I wanted to on the train over.

[chess]

There's alcohol on the Saturday night; it's just that if you're drunk while adventuring you're more likely to fall down places, or get carried away, and break things (yourself/equipment/other people). As for 'what clothes you show up in', you can show up in anything you like as long as you have the stuff to get changed into, it's just that it's easier not to have to lug an entire change of clothing that you'll have to change into immediately (they don't have *that* much costume to lend out, for example they don't have any trousers to lend out, so you're expected to bring as much as possible that could pass for costume).

Personally, I think it would be quite amusing to wear full kit on the train over, but my parents would kill me if I tried :).

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[naath.livejournal.com]

nah. They say you can't show up in biker leathers (unless with bike) or T-shirts with 'occult' stuff or band names.

Costume I get.

[chess]

I.e. don't make people more scared of us than they are already :). I mean, we did enough scaring-of-the-normals while on-site in costume; they don't want to scare people like, for instance, *my parents*.