Right, so 2 weeks in and another update.
I hear readers thinking that I must be going insane, which is partly true at the very least 😉

So, I just had De Dwaler(The Wanderer) last weekend, and let me tell you, I had fun!
I played this healer called Boris, from Russia(or at the least from that region as the country itself didn’t exist in 1232) and spoke with a rather heavy accent. He is a somewhat simple yet smart man who sees things rather black and white, gray is optional and rather rare. At the beginning I actually did some healing until  Danny(our Demon-host leader) died from a Werewolf ripping out his throat and he took up a Priest. Which left me without the bag of healing goods. So from that point on I pretty much was the guy who went into battle(on his own pace and rather casually I must add) and drag the wounded back.

I also helped on the front at times, mainly when the battle came to a stand off, neither side was willing to go and unable to advance. I would walk up(yes walk, not run, not hastily, just walk) to our line, mumble something along the lines of ‘ Little man get out of Boris’ way!’ and started to pound the (poor) undead in front of us. It was a blast to do just that.
at one point I even charged after someone and ‘shield-bashed’ an undead into the bushes while clubbering the second one. needless to say I enjoyed those moments of battle.

But as with every LARP there is so much more then just the battle, you have the moments in the Tavern where you sit next to a beautiful Elfenmaid who’s being sold a potion that can turn objects and people into gold for a few hours. She let her snake try it out and Et Voila! we had a golden snake(with which she teased me as Boris dislikes snakes).
The potion came from the Guild of Alchemists who had discovered the potion during an Alchemist-battle. Boris was (one of) the protector of the guild and as such I have chatted a lot with them, seen them try out awesome drinks on others, prepare funny drink(how about a forget-all potion?) and then use those drink to find out the anatomy of a Vampire and make him forget it(silly vampire had a debt with the guild).

It was also a blast to lend my trusty hammer out to little kids to ‘share Boris’ culture’ with them, which basically came down to giving them the hammer so they could bash the living daylights out of their bigger adversaries knees(which didn’t like me doing that 😛 )

There were some downsides this event as well. For our group the saturday was a day where not much happened. it was quiet and deadish in the village at times. But other then that I am rather happy about this weekend, not in the last place because of the aforementioned Elven Maiden.

The other week I had a Quest on a sunday. It was my first Quest(one day event) and my third overall LARP experience and I rather liked it. I was forgetting I played a Warmage and not a normal warrior and as such I had forgotten all about my runes before I fell.  at that point Dimitri from the Brethren of Malice operated me(FYI, he is the sadistic, pain loving kind of doctor) who replaced the bone in my upper right arm. the bone was one ‘borrowed’ from a dead guard. So now that bastard makes me having to play out that my one arm is slightly longer then the other… I love it for now I have a potential nickname: Egul Longarm.
Other then that I also loved the fact that for once we had ordinary bandits against us instead of the (for me) standard Undead(or Returned as they are called in this particular setting).

Asides all this awesome LARPing I am looking into picking up Mapmaking as both an IC and OC skill and helping out the KoD organization with that. not saying their map is ugly, but is basic at the very least. Unfortunately I cannot upload the pieces I made until I get them approved by them, but when they are I will show them where they came from and where they went. So keep an eye on the gallery.