Live Action Roleplay

I've been a little quiet these past few days, and that's principally because I've been in a field doing another of my main hobbies, live action roleplay, often abbreviated to LARP or LRP (for the traditionalists). LARP is a somewhat nerdy hobby full of fantasy and adventure, and I've met a distressingly large proportion of my friends there.

Photo credit Steve "The Flasher" Mitchell

The system I go to runs four main events per year in the summer, and any number of smaller events through the winter months. It's a fantasy LARP, meaning you might be interacting with goblins, ogres, fae, deamons and various other fantasy races.

Photo credit Tom Hughes

Incidentally, that shawl is Baskerville (link to my project) by Beth Kling. I must get a better picture of it sometime soon.

This past event there was a tea party, there was a rigged election, and my character nearly died. Only the once, though, and that isn't bad going for me.

I'm looking forward to the next event in six weeks time.

In the meantime, I need to get on with the socks I'm knitting, and try not to give in to my tendency towards startitus.