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Roleplaying
Jul. 9th, 2006 09:17 amToday I get to spend a couple of hours playing a sniveling coward out to save his own hide by any means possible. Grovelling, begging, lying, cheating - none of these things are below him, a fallen Lord with few if any loyal retainers left. He was a bastard before the peasantry turned against him, now that his keep has been burned to the ground he's a cowardly bastard.
I have to get into character for this.
Done.
This should be interesting. Hopefully there will be some really good roleplaying. I'm mostly concerned about making it fun for the people that are actually paying to do this, but I'd like to have a bit of fun myself. This will probably be one of the most "serious" LARP roles I've ever played that wasn't my own character. I'm pretty psyched, and strangely nervous about my own ability to act this all out.
See, LARP is very different from (most of) theater* in that it's all improv, you're not there for a crowd, and the only people you're entertaining are each other. I don't know why this makes me nervous or how it should make me feel, but the "butterflies" in my stomach haven't died down since late last night.
Considering I expect for the character to end up dead by the end of this no matter what I do you'd think I would be more relaxed. Partly I think the problem is that I'm trying to figure out how to not get dead when in fact it's a foregone conclusion that it's going to happen. I think I'm just overthinking this. I'm in character, mostly, with a template to work with on how to react - I just have to go for it.
Well, here goes nothing. I'm sure I'll write later tonight about how things went. Stay tuned for more.
*-if you LARP you get made fun of more.
-LARPers are expected to pay for their own costumes.
-There are less girls that LARP than do theater.
-It's more likely that you'll be considered homosexual as a LARPer.
-You really don't have to be a good actor to be in a LARP.
-What?
I have to get into character for this.
Done.
This should be interesting. Hopefully there will be some really good roleplaying. I'm mostly concerned about making it fun for the people that are actually paying to do this, but I'd like to have a bit of fun myself. This will probably be one of the most "serious" LARP roles I've ever played that wasn't my own character. I'm pretty psyched, and strangely nervous about my own ability to act this all out.
See, LARP is very different from (most of) theater* in that it's all improv, you're not there for a crowd, and the only people you're entertaining are each other. I don't know why this makes me nervous or how it should make me feel, but the "butterflies" in my stomach haven't died down since late last night.
Considering I expect for the character to end up dead by the end of this no matter what I do you'd think I would be more relaxed. Partly I think the problem is that I'm trying to figure out how to not get dead when in fact it's a foregone conclusion that it's going to happen. I think I'm just overthinking this. I'm in character, mostly, with a template to work with on how to react - I just have to go for it.
Well, here goes nothing. I'm sure I'll write later tonight about how things went. Stay tuned for more.
*-if you LARP you get made fun of more.
-LARPers are expected to pay for their own costumes.
-There are less girls that LARP than do theater.
-It's more likely that you'll be considered homosexual as a LARPer.
-You really don't have to be a good actor to be in a LARP.
-What?
