Day 25 - LARP!

Ok, so it was a couple of days, but it counts as one day's post.  I'm making up the rules here people!

Years ago when the boy child was little and life was different, I had an awesome friend who did LARP (live action role play, go google).  We chatted and I was going to take the kids and go crew for her.  Life got in the way (I think chicken pox??) and I never got there, then life changed and it got forgotten in the chaos.

I then met Furball, and one of our first conversations was about how he did LARP.  I couldn't go to his usual one for various reasons, but last year he bounced at me saying a brand new system (think story/world being created) was starting and that we should go.

I'm still trying to get to grips with the actual role play side of it, but 3 (4?) events in, and I love it.  I get to go away, be in the open, not worry about money, or real life, and just be for a couple of days.

This time was even better as we were camping in a big tent in the trees, so we just stumbled into bed at night, and woke where we needed to be for the rest of the day.

Day Two! This is why we can't have nice things...

Go me, this is like two whole days before I forgot!

No formatting or pictures etc as I'm on a phone app.

Today has been an awesome day actually,  lots of positive happy moments.   I think the highlight was probably shooting arrows with Astra.

She's been bullied into LARP.  I can't mock too much as I caved on that subject last year but still... Anyway,  she's going armed with a bow therefore weapons practice was necessary!

All was going well, I was hitting (I have no clue how... uh I mean obviously) and she was missing the target.  Then we decided enough with these poncey larp arrows,  let's use real ones!

Turns out I am used to shooting poncey larp arrows.  Real ones fly further...  I heard it go into the tree but not land.  I hunted.  Stray hunted.  I hunted some more.  Just as I'd decided that all was lost and I was buying more arrows, I remembered that I have wasted far too much of my life lately playing Hidden Shadows on Facebook.   I'm trained in finding random crap in trees dammit!  And lo, the arrow was found.  Some branches shaken later and it was back where it belonged!

P.S.  Oh... I also broke her bow string

P.P.S  I don't think I'm going to be allowed to play again.