I had a great weekend. I had been looking forward to a larp workshop, but a week ago the workshop was cancelled, due to too few participants. However, this didn't matter too much, I had time to do some chores at home instead. It was good to finally get some of these things done, after postponing them too many times.
Saturday night a very good friend of mine had a Birthday party. As usual, it was great. We had some serious discussions and many not so serious ones. And the second most delicious chocolate cake I've ever tasted. And a very unexpected suggestion that I had to consider seriously. And we briefly discussed our upcoming Hilastherion photo shoot next weekend. And we also babbled a bit about some Renaissance music concerts, if I remember correctly, I think they will take place in April 2013.
Yesterday was rather fun. Just before noon I sat with my laptop, waiting to register for next year's upcoming anniversary LARP*. In 2 minutes and 28 seconds after they opened the registration form, 15 people had already registered! And I got the character I wanted. Or should I say, I got my first choice. We were told to choose three characters. The character we wanted to play, one backup if we didn't get that part, and a third one if the second character was also taken. All this since it might happen that several players want to play the same character. But now, I'm SO ready to rock as this character.
/H
*I've linked to the "Briefly in English"-page about the LARP, but if you understand Swedish and want to know more about it, you can read more here.
Showing posts with label Larp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Larp. Show all posts
Monday, 26 November 2012
Wednesday, 14 November 2012
Band pics and roleplaying
Well, it's been a while since my last post. Work has been pretty crazy lately, which leaves very little time for blogging. At least when I spend a lot of my spare time making new characters for a vampire tabletop role-playing game. And play in a band. And try to have a life somewhere in the middle of all this. However, I'm not so fed up with things anymore. But the vampire characters turned out really great.
Vaguely related to these vampire characters, the two lists of roles for next years anniversary Larp have been published. And the type of character I've been considering for quite some time was on the lists. I did mention my thoughts quite some time ago to one of the game masters, and to another one just a few weeks back. So they knew I was interested in playing this type of character.
On the band front, the mastering for Hilastherions second album is done. Next up: taking new band pictures, we're currently trying to find a time that's ok for everyone in the band. And we need new pictures, two of the members have been replaced since the first album (I'm one of the new members). This, of course, brings us to the eternal and very important question: What to wear...?
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Vaguely related to these vampire characters, the two lists of roles for next years anniversary Larp have been published. And the type of character I've been considering for quite some time was on the lists. I did mention my thoughts quite some time ago to one of the game masters, and to another one just a few weeks back. So they knew I was interested in playing this type of character.
On the band front, the mastering for Hilastherions second album is done. Next up: taking new band pictures, we're currently trying to find a time that's ok for everyone in the band. And we need new pictures, two of the members have been replaced since the first album (I'm one of the new members). This, of course, brings us to the eternal and very important question: What to wear...?
/H
Tuesday, 23 October 2012
Characters
Last weekend was all about different characters. I took part in a Vampire setting tabletop role-playing game with elements of live action role-playing (Larp). Everything started out really well, my character made a lot of new contacts and even established a position in the town he was visiting. But it seems that everything ended in mayhem. I had to leave before everything ended, but I read that other characters were killed.
And at home, I have an alter ego that I call Agnieszka. She is from Poland and takes care of our household. My wife has an alter ego called Viljar. He is from Estonia and works as a gardener and property caretaker. And last weekend we had two new additions to our staff. Our two sons have alter egos as well now. Pedro and Miguel, they are from Mexico and they basically help Viljar with the property.
/H
And at home, I have an alter ego that I call Agnieszka. She is from Poland and takes care of our household. My wife has an alter ego called Viljar. He is from Estonia and works as a gardener and property caretaker. And last weekend we had two new additions to our staff. Our two sons have alter egos as well now. Pedro and Miguel, they are from Mexico and they basically help Viljar with the property.
/H
Monday, 27 August 2012
Batman
Yesterday I went to see The Dark Knight Rises together with my two sons and my brother-in-law. It was a great movie. Not as good as The Dark Knight, but that one's hard to beat, Heath Ledger is so absolutely amazing as the Joker. Anyway, while watching it, I realised that I just have to try making a Bane mask. Yes, I know there are Bane masks out there to buy, but I bet it's a lot cheaper to make one yourself. Not that I think I'll ever be able to use it anywhere, but I want to try anyway.
There was one scene in the movie that I kind of anticipated before it happened. And it wasn't because anyone had told me anything about this movie, it was because I had read a copy of a Batman magazine when I was a kid. You see, reading comics can come in handy later in life. I don't want to spoil for anyone who might read this blog, and hasn't seen the movie yet, but it has to do with Ra's al Ghul.
And of course, we need some music to get through this day. Here's one I must have heard a thousand times, but it suddenly really clicked last week. This song is awesome, it's Action de Grâce by The Hellacopters.
/H
There was one scene in the movie that I kind of anticipated before it happened. And it wasn't because anyone had told me anything about this movie, it was because I had read a copy of a Batman magazine when I was a kid. You see, reading comics can come in handy later in life. I don't want to spoil for anyone who might read this blog, and hasn't seen the movie yet, but it has to do with Ra's al Ghul.
And of course, we need some music to get through this day. Here's one I must have heard a thousand times, but it suddenly really clicked last week. This song is awesome, it's Action de Grâce by The Hellacopters.
/H
Thursday, 23 August 2012
Time for a short update
It's been waaay too long since I posted here. Still enjoying Clockwork Angels. I still haven't been able to print my tickets for Rush' O2 Arena gig in London. I'm not really worried yet, but I'm wondering what the problem is. Well, as long as I can print the tickets before May 2013, I'm ok with that. We still have to find plane tickets and some place to stay, but I'm sure we will. After all, it's not the first time I'll be going to London, and this time I should be able to ask some advice from my TNMS mates.
Almost all the recordings for the upcoming Hilastherion album are done now. I think there are some spoken parts that still need to be recorded, but that should be it. We started practicing again after a summer break, and it went better than I expected. Of course I didn't nail all the parts, but at least I remembered most of them. And some parts I even remembered better than I thought I would. This is going to be a great album.
There's also a pretty big Larp coming up next summer. Dark Paths' End is Eloria's 10th anniversary Larp. Eloria is a Swedish-language Role-playing association, where I'm a member. I'm really looking forward to this Larp, it's not only for one evening or even for one day. It starts on a Thursday with preparations and prebrief, the actual Larp is on Friday and Saturday, and it ends on Sunday with a debrief and disassembling the camp and everything around it. Actually, preparations have already begun, and will go on all the way until the Larp takes place. There will be a lot of different workshops building up to this Larp.
/H
Almost all the recordings for the upcoming Hilastherion album are done now. I think there are some spoken parts that still need to be recorded, but that should be it. We started practicing again after a summer break, and it went better than I expected. Of course I didn't nail all the parts, but at least I remembered most of them. And some parts I even remembered better than I thought I would. This is going to be a great album.
There's also a pretty big Larp coming up next summer. Dark Paths' End is Eloria's 10th anniversary Larp. Eloria is a Swedish-language Role-playing association, where I'm a member. I'm really looking forward to this Larp, it's not only for one evening or even for one day. It starts on a Thursday with preparations and prebrief, the actual Larp is on Friday and Saturday, and it ends on Sunday with a debrief and disassembling the camp and everything around it. Actually, preparations have already begun, and will go on all the way until the Larp takes place. There will be a lot of different workshops building up to this Larp.
/H
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