The entire event was one long Dick joke

[kingandy]

Back from Voice of the Seraph.  It proved to be a lot further away than we initially envisaged - South Wales, so not a brief after-work jaunt - but was nonetheless highly enjoyable.

I'm sorry to say that they blew Riftworld out of the water in terms of props and set - impressive though RW's remote-controlled gun turret was, it paled in comparison next to Crooked House's motherfucking tank.  Not to mention the various archaeological dig sites, buried chambers and actual plague of locusts.

In case that last is in any way vague: There were actual, live locusts.  No half-way measures here.

Despite the fact that my character was largely useless for much of the event, I had a great time bumbling around and, well, being useless.  I probably should have stuck my oar in a little more and definitely should have been more strict with my young charge, Malcolm, whose curiousity got him tortured to death and resurrected as a zombie.  In fact I lost both of my sidekicks at the same time (in the same way, though while Malcolm was down in the mine for curiousity, "Spanners" was performing some valuable bomb maintenance), which I suppose in some circles would be considered careless.

If I've one criticism of the event it's that we were penalised for not using our feats.  I can see penalties for forgetting your fumbles, but most of the feats were for very specific situations that often didn't come up.  After the first day I found nobody to bribe and no impossible script to translate, and I really didn't find much opportunity to baffle anyone with science (though looking back I can see a couple that I missed), so I ended the Saturday with a full complement of feats and, as a result, had one less for the Sunday.  Of course, as it happens I didn't need any at all on the Sunday either, so it wasn't much of a problem, but it still seems a little harsh.

Fumbles, of course, were used with gay abandon.  Everybody loves to fuck up.

Pictures as we get them.  For now enjoy these pre-event costume tests courtesy stsquad.

Comments

[myki.livejournal.com]

motherfucking tank? motherfucking TANK? motherfucking TANK!

[kingandy]

It fired! Admittedly there were no projectiles involved, it was actually a synchronised pair of pyrotechnic charges, but the cannon went "boom" and the ground went "ka-blam!" and everybody fell over and it was so cool.

[batelf.livejournal.com]

A plague of Locusts? How many did they have making up this plague?

[kingandy]

Well they were the advertised "cast of thousands" so I would guess at least a thousand.

A lot, basically. I didn't see them come out myself, sadly...

[wulfboy.livejournal.com]

Motherfucking plague of locusts"!?!*

Wow.

* I don't often go for two exclamation marks and a question mark but this time I'll make an exception.

[wulfboy.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, and you both look very dapper. Tell stsquad I said so.

[amber-missy.livejournal.com]

Yup - they were sooooo pretty that, after having passed out (not entirely IC) from exhaustion getting to the dig-site (HOW MANY SAND DUNES) I spent the next few minutes trying to prevent the massacre as people stood on them trying to view the gates of heaven!

Locusts, crickets etc... Many many bugs!

The most amusing part was the huge number of girly squeals related to them! :P

[amber-missy.livejournal.com]

Er... Didn't realise your two comments were linked - I meant the bugs were pretty... Not that the good doctor didn't look rather stunning! ;)

[samharber.livejournal.com]

more strict with my young charge, Malcolm, whose curiousity got him tortured to death and resurrected as a zombie.
When he was resurrected, did you a) notice, and b)start being more strict with him?

"No Malcolm. No brains till after you've cleaned up those finds."
*WHACK*

[kingandy]

They behaved perfectly reasonably (though they did gain a certain taste for human flesh, they were polite enough to drag it off out of sight, and came back with toothpicks). I did notice, though, because I had given him a medical examination and pronounced him dead...

I did start being more strict with him though. "Malcolm! I really am very disappointed with you. First getting yourself killed, and now handing around cigarettes..."

[kingandy]

You would have to ask him, but I'm sure it was just a monumental coincidence.

[glove-puppet.livejournal.com]

Directed this way by Mr. Harber, I feel obliged to tell you that the quality of your bumbling was second only to the fabness of your "taken aback" looks. It's a good job that unconcious zombies can snigger unnoticed whilst face down in the half dark. :)

[kingandy]

Ahh, too kind. I often worry that my performances are too understated, so it's nice to be remembered. :)

[amber-missy.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean about the feats and fumbles - there was one fumble that I couldn't use at all - I was supposed to have flash-backs to a terrible event in my past, but no-one would listen to me when I was RPing important stuff, so why should they when I was screaming about a beast coming to hunt me down...? I would have just been told to shut up and get a life! I did manage to use all my feats, but even then they weren't the best or easiest to use.

Although that was my first 1 off event (having only LARPed at 3 Maelstroms before) I had a fantastic time. I feel like I missed out on a lot that I didn't think of, just coz I don't feel like I was in the same mindset as people who'd LARPed more than me. My best friend was a demon for goodness sake - and I didn't even know about it! *sigh*

However, we did manage to save the world! Horrah! And Dhaaarling... feel free to fetch me a brandy...?

Yours
~Lady Veronica Cavendish (soon to be Lady Veronica Scannon? - Louis and Veronica may have got married after the world was saved... Even if he was a zombie!)

[kingandy]

Yes, I imagine Dr Hawkins was quite perplexed that the zombies didn't all drop down dead when the shaman kicked it ... shouldn't have let poor Malcolm get himself all explodied after all. But still, it is perhaps for the best, being a hideous crime against nature and such.

[amber-missy.livejournal.com]

Veronica had a theory that, although the shaman raised several of the dead, he was not responsible for the fact that everyone who died rose again. Shaman dude had to do a ritual to be able to raise the dead. I believe that since the gate of heaven was opened, this prevented souls from entering heaven or hell and were doomed to wander the earth. By preventing the gate of hell being opened, we stopped judgement day in it's entirity from beginning (at the end of which the world would be destroyed and all would be judged - typical apocolypse stuff). We never quite worked out if we should perhaps close the gate of heaven (I thought we should!) but it wasn't really needed to finish the film!

Additionally, it allowed Veronica and Lou to add a romantic side-storyline to the whole cinedrama - without that, what would the girls who were dragged by their boyfriends to see the zombie flick get to appreciate... There were no zombie sex-scenes, but the romance was there from before he was zombified.

It was agreed that technically the romance should have been with Dick Brittan, (it's always supposed to be the lead that gets laid... Just look at James Bond!) but we thought that, as there was no romance there at all, he must be gay and having an affair with Perky! (Not that there's anything wrong with that, but there should still be romance!)

[kingandy]

Yes, even in the most family-friendly child-oriented films, the hero is always rewarded with sex.

Dick and Perky were so a couple.