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[Lairosiel]

damn, I don't know if I'm able to make a video
I'm visiting my parents-in-law this week ..
Maybe there is a wood nearby

[Chance]

I switched my LARPing persona as soon as I saw the word video.


Because my friend has a Sonic Screwdriver, and I can not have to drive to the woods to be a Doctor knockoff.

[Stæld]

This is going to be interesting. I may have to get a friend or two with me on this. Good thing I have a cape. I'll have to invert it, though, there's lotsa stuff on the outside. Hm..

[Lystella]

This will be fun; I'm probably going to have to do all the LARPing and video-taking by myself since no one nearby would be willing to associate themselves with LARPing. Go go solo LARPing!

[Caffiend]

Im out
sorry guys last saturday morning i woke up groggy and knocked a half empty glass of soda over, just enough got to my machine to fry it.
I guess its cool since i dont own a video camcorder, nor do i video tape myself. ever...
anyway ill lurk on as much as i can and talk there too but i wont be doing any thing major i guess

it always seems like i have this luck .

[FSURobbie]

[Karija]

I'm interested to see what the scoring will be like for the forum challenge and being active on the boards (they haven't been put up yet) and see if that can compete in any way with the first recruitment challenge. I might be optimistic, but that combined with getting a token from a founder must be an alternate route to getting the 500 points for those unable to take part in video challenges?

[Lystella]

That's a good point, Karija! The way the LARP Hard site is set up, it looks like basic participation outside of the challenges would be an important part of the point system. Discussion boards, photo uploads, blog posting...if you want to show how "hard you LARP" as they say, video doesn't seem like the only option. After all, we all were supposedly kicked from a LARPing community at some point for unconventional/extreme LARPing. Who says you need a video to show your hard LARPing abilities?

On that note, perhaps we could use the discussion board as an alternate LARPing place. I was thinking that one could modify basic forum roleplay into semi-live roleplay by adding a photo of us "in character" doing something in the post we wrote.

Example: I'm a fairy bard, and I'm singing to you, a bartender, a story of one of my adventures. I'd write a post describing the story and how I would tell it as well as post a picture of me in my fairy costume playing a guitar or recorder. You could post your reaction to my story as your character would and add a picture of you in a suitable outfit by a counter/table with a mug.

The concept of character interaction and being in character is still there, but you don't need a video to do it.

[SituationNoir]

Well, I have a webcam, possibly a digital camera that also takes video and absolutely no shame. I thought I might have had some left after PT, but now I realize that's impossible. O.o

There's more than one way to do a video as well. Slide shows and the like can be put up on youtube/[insert whichever video sharing site you desire here]!

[Karija]

I totally second that there are lots of ways to do videos.

New sticky itchers vid is up!

edit: tehe, my thread got a shout-out!

[Stæld]

I have a friend who could want to join even though he missed the two initial point-giving activities (names, mud people challenge). He'll assist me and Ozhu filming and larping, if we can manage to even find the time to do the challenge.. School's quite busy atm, and the deadline was short.

[lovetick]

Fare thee well

[Lystella]

Thanks for joining in this far, lovetick!

Eliza responded to my request for information about Sophia and asks what kind of information pertaining to Sophia I would be interested in. Are there any particular questions on your mind when it comes to her relationship between Sophia? I'm not the best with coming up with good questions, but I can probably weave your suggestions into an in-character response.

Random edit: Does having exactly 42 posts have its own rank? If so, that is awesome!

[Karija]

(1) How did she die - in other words, how was that she came to be fighting the dragon?

Probably could sum it up somehow in that you want to end your epic tale of her adventures with the tragedy of her demise, so need more information on how that happened?

(2) Who were her friends and enemies?

(3) What was her LARP story? Although most of the founders have different LARP universes, their story lines seem to merge here and there in relation to each other, so figuring out who she was would probably be helpful.

(4) Maybe favorite memory of her or something, that might spark something with clues.

I haven't had another messages from Eliza, but I have been in contact with Preening Fox. Don't know if I should be spoiling private messages or not?

[Lystella]

Good questions and thank you for the suggestion when it comes to the first question! I'll start working on my reply with those thoughts in mind, but I'll refrain from posting for a little (until the end of the day or tomorrow morning perhaps) to see if anyone else had questions they would want answered.

As for spoilering PMs, I think it would make sense to do so. After all, they are sending those particular replies to you. They might not trust us all to that extent (when it comes to Preening Fox, for example), and so the rest of us would not always come to know that knowledge sent to you. I'm not sure how it works for other ARGs, but from a roleplay background and LARP Hard being a semi-roleplay environment, the spoilers make sense.