Dragaera

In Regards to LaRPs

Kenneth Gorelick pulmon at comcast.net
Sat Oct 11 05:04:33 PDT 2003

I have one question. What is a "LARP"? Is it the same as a "LaRP"?
On Saturday, October 11, 2003, at 12:13 AM, GibelMaria at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 10/10/2003 9:21:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> jjnichol at MIT.EDU writes:
>
>> I orignally read Brust because my college ran a LARP based
>> on the Vlad series.
>
>
> (Warning... Geek moment abut to happen...)
>
> Well, Funny thing you mentioned LaRPs... Cause my friend and I.. 
> perhaps in a
> state of Steven-Brust-Enduced-Euphoria, after reading LoCB ... where 
> Throwing
> around ideas regarding sponsoring a Dragerea Based LaRP at next years 
> I-Con
> convention in the North East... We planned to perhaps do a 
> Party/Murder/Mystery
> show... Now I am not sure how many of you live in the North East but 
> what do
> we all think about a Dragerea inspired LaRP and would it Succeed at a
> convention ... we really do want to sponsor, and heck, run the Event, 
> I know my friend
> is itching to write up the murder mystery...
>
> The Rules would be...: No one can play Vlad.. Except SKZB himself, (if 
> he
> wished to that is)....if he deems to show himself, in the case he does 
> not, well
> ... it would be assumed it is taking place around the time Vlad is 
> very young
> ... just after meeting Kiera, and still works for his father as a 
> delivery
> boy... One must be in a costume ... must have a name and house, and be 
> wearing
> appropriate house colors...
>
> Heck, we might even put in a contest for the best public 
> discussion/argument
> in the "Paarafi-style-Dialogue" For which I mean that the sentences 
> will be
> elongated as to describe in an ridiculous mount of words and an almost
> Exhausting number of sentences, the same phrase.
>
> I am highly interested in your opinions on whether this might work 
> out, and
> also in finding out how many of us North Easterners (Heheheh I made a 
> Funny)
> might be interested...
>
> GB-in-the-midst-of-insomnia
>
> Ps...  Sorry f I am using too many punctuation marks and or not 
> enough.  I
> haven't slept in the Gods know how long and it don't look like I will 
> any time
> soon.
>
> PPs... Wow... I think this is the longest mail I've written for this 
> site...
> I am almost impressed with myself... (Yawn)... Almost