One of the many things I love about the game is the inclusive approach. It sucks that there are some that don't want it that way.
I too was the nerdy fat kid that hated sport. In many ways I still am - however Odyssey has shown me for the first time ever that combat can be enormous fun. It's great that being female and playing a soldier isn't in some way considered 'unusual' in the game's setting.
If it helps, despite the incident on Friday night, this Odyssey was probably my best larp event ever, or is at least tying with the previous best larp event ever...
I think an awful lot of us were 'the fat kid' or some version thereof. These days I am 36 years old and have managed to build a version of myself that I'm pretty happy with and can usually project confidence (I also note that role playing in general and live role playing in particular were really big parts of that process), but that is a very long way from where I was at school. Despite which, it doesn't take much to reduce a seemingly confident, happy, capable person to feeling like that geeky kid who everyone is laughing at again.
The greatest thing about larp IMO is that it gives someone the chance to be the hero they wish they were, the person who everyone respects. In my ideal scenario, once someone realises they can play this person, they also realise they can be like that in real life too. It can take the person who never dares speak up because all they expect is for the cool kids to laugh at them and help them see a new side to themself. To a large extent it did that for me
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Agreed, on all counts (speaking as a confident, happy, lean, fit, 41-year-old who used to be a fat, asthmatic, bullied teenager).
It does have to be said that there things that happen in LRP that can leave players feeling emotionally worthless, without that having been anyone's intent. That's not an excuse for the frequently thoughtless actions & words of some players, though -- it should be possible for all LRPers to be at least a little bit sensitive to others' experiences and perceptions, even in a PVP game.
I'm sad you haven't come away from this one with the same sense of achievement I have. In spite of all the flotsam and jetsam I think we knocked it clean out of the park in terms of the core purpose of being in that field.
I also think you'll feel maybe a bit different on the other side of the post-event blue. In spite of very early onset I was wise to it this time and (one irritating lapse of judgement on R7 aside) managed to keep it in a box.
Anyway. Know where I am if you want to talk any stuff through.
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One of the many things I love about the game is the inclusive approach. It sucks that there are some that don't want it that way.
I too was the nerdy fat kid that hated sport. In many ways I still am - however Odyssey has shown me for the first time ever that combat can be enormous fun. It's great that being female and playing a soldier isn't in some way considered 'unusual' in the game's setting.
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The greatest thing about larp IMO is that it gives someone the chance to be the hero they wish they were, the person who everyone respects. In my ideal scenario, once someone realises they can play this person, they also realise they can be like that in real life too. It can take the person who never dares speak up because all they expect is for the cool kids to laugh at them and help them see a new side to themself. To a large extent it did that for me ( ... )
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It does have to be said that there things that happen in LRP that can leave players feeling emotionally worthless, without that having been anyone's intent. That's not an excuse for the frequently thoughtless actions & words of some players, though -- it should be possible for all LRPers to be at least a little bit sensitive to others' experiences and perceptions, even in a PVP game.
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Sorry you didn't have the best event, Simon.
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I also think you'll feel maybe a bit different on the other side of the post-event blue. In spite of very early onset I was wise to it this time and (one irritating lapse of judgement on R7 aside) managed to keep it in a box.
Anyway. Know where I am if you want to talk any stuff through.
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