Oh my gosh, how to sum up everything that has happened?!?!
My busy summer I've told you about just keeps continuing. I thought you were supposed to take it easy during the summer, right? When you're off from work and everything? For me, not so much.
Although, I've had A LOT of fun to!
Let's start with the Fallout LARP in this post. :-)
And let me start with saying: It was AMAZING! :-D I had so much fun! It seems to be how it works with that LARP. *lol*
Only sad thing really was that J, my sweet friend, had told me he wouldn’t come to the LARP. Which was sad really, since his character has been very important to the LARP and this was the last time we’d be at this area.
The military training area we’ve been at for six years now is going to be demolished. It’s a perfect place to LARP at, especially a post-apocalyptic LARP.
So it was a bit sad that he wasn’t going to be there for the last LARP in the area…
But… He was. X-D Only briefly, but he scared the crap out of me! Damn him!
My character, Katya, has had one hell of a character-development! First year I played her she was the hooker everyone payed to get to beat up… The BDSM-hooker she was called. Next year she still was, and also an alcoholic since she’d seen her ex-husband get infected by nuclear waste and get killed. During that LARP however, she got better and ended up in a relationship with J’s character, the sheriff of the little village.
Then there was two years when I couldn’t come, since I was pregnant and then they had the LARP right on Alexandra’s first birthday. *lol*
But during those years I had Katya write love letters to J’s character Alexander. And, with the GM’s blessing, I had her go on a journey to find a cure for J’s character (there’s A LOT of weird shit going on with that character…).
When she returned to the village (and I could join the LARP again last year), she’d ended up knowledgable in healing herbs and now lived openly with J’s character Alexander. She ended up helping to stop a disease spread in the village and asking for Alexander’s hand in marriage that year and they traded rings that she bought for what little cap she’d managed to save up. Katya also befriended the woman running the bar/brothel, a business she’d once helped start up with the previous owner. Said woman ended up infected with nuclear waste and started to turn into a ghoul…
Which brings us to this year!
This year Katya had ended up the owner of the bar/brothel The Lucky Shot! In other words, she was the richest woman in the village! Only one richer than her was the owner of the barbecue/grill/foodstation.
Katya doesn’t ‘work’ in the brothel as such, but she has given a better deal to the hookers under her care than the deal she worked under once when she’d been at the bottom. When the LARP started there were no hookers at all. The first one that asked for a job at the brothel was a young man (it was the guys first LARP to!), and after a trial run from Katya, he got the job. Softspoken, a tease and a fun guy, he soon got popular. Then a woman came as well, asking for a job while she was looking for a man when only knowing his first name. Katya and her employees became pretty good friends. And they thought she was a fair employer as well.
There was A LOT going on during the LARP, HOLY HELL!!! I could write a novel (and did, in swedish, to remember for next year).
But to sum up what affected Katya the most was that…
Alexander, who had both started to turn violent against her and started to withdraw from her, was on a mission to look for mindless ghouls and beta-creatures around the village. He did come to visit her on occasion and acted very creepy and strange one minute and then was the sweetest thing the next (damn you, J!!! scared the CRAP out of me!!! you’re too good a LARPer!!!). Talked in riddles and made Katya really worried about him.
Her male hooker ended up in trouble with the Children of the Night Cathedral that had taken over the law, and she tried to help him to the best of her ability. It made them closer friends, especially after he ended up finding out his brother was a traitor and a cannibal… Said brother was later executed (it was that guys first LARP to!!!). Very dramatic.
She also helped her other hooker, the woman. She did find the man she was looking for. Her son, it turned out. AFTER he’d paid to have sex with her. Oops! As it were though, Katya had nearly done the same thing, years and years ago, when she found her own adult son. A son now traveling on caravans to find supplies for the village. They both bonded over their situation, and became closer friends to.
Alexander eventually disappeared out in the woods again, to Katya’s sadness. The village ended up under a great treat. King Carl, an immortal cannibal (a ghoul with his wits still with him?) and his HORDE of cannibals were coming for the village. Over 300 men. The village is small and does not have protection enough for that. So it was decided to abandon the village. Katya had tried to talk Alexander into coming, but he was determined to stay, that he WAS the village… (creepy much…).
There were two fractions of small armed forces that was leaving the village and offered the villagers a place with them for protection. Children of the Night Cathedral, a group of fanatic believers that shunned all light and loved darkness (pretty much twisting christianity into something seriously perverted) and The University, which was a group of armed scholars pretty much.
Alexander had told Katya in no uncertain terms to go with the men from the University. Katya, however, did not want to abandoned Alexander. Her two friends were leaving, though. The young guy with the men from the Cathedral, which saddened and surprised Katya since he’d told her he did not believe in them at all and was secretly a christian, which Katya is as well (it’s a crime punishable by death). He reassured her he’d just stay with them long enough until he’d learned more from them and until he could join another group of fierce survivors. And hoped they’d see each other again one day. The woman was going to go with the men from the University, since she figured even they needed to relax at times and planned to start anew.
Katya didn’t know what to do, but her decision was taken from her. Since King Carl and his hordes attacked the village and everyone ran to their houses and camps and grabbed what they could. Katya did to, leaving a note for Alexander on her bed which he’d shared with her more than once, before fleeing with everyone else, choosing in the panic to run with the men from the University…
And there endedt the LARP this year!
It was AMAZINGLY fun!!!! The young guy playing Katya’s male hooker and his friend who played his brother impressed THE HELL out of me! It was the first LARP they’d been to, and they were SO GOOD!!! MY GAWD! They said they were returning next year again, since they’d had SO MUCH FUN! I most certainly hope so!
There were a lot of new LARPers this year, in fact. We were about 50 people in total. The oldest two, a couple, who usually only went to Wild West LARPs were really nice and were between 45 and 50 years old. COOL! They were really impressed by us in the bar and brothel! J however deserves a good spanking. Holy HELL, he scared the CRAP out of me showing up right out of the blue without warning, since he’d assured me he was not coming this year. DAMN THE MAN! X-D
All in all, this LARP remains my favorite. I keep having these amazing experiences there, having me scream and shout at a whole village… or cry in a corner… or stumble around drunk… or quite literally throw out drunks… or threaten people… or being threatened by people… or pretend to sex people up… or being a supportive shoulder to cry on... or… or… There’s no end to the list.
I hope this LARP survive despite the area being demolished. The GM’s assured us they were going to try and find an alternative area to be at. I most certainly hope so.
So with that in mind… To be continued next year! :-D
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