Choose Your Own Adventure: Tuesday, 3rd Period (5/10)

[drumsticksandd20s]

The class had been notified to meet at the Community Center today, and for the next five weeks. When they got there, they'd find several long tables set out with chairs and moddable snacks, because if you asked Steph the snacks were a vital part of any gaming experience.

They'd also find Steph there in her usual ensemble of boots, skinny jeans, and beanie, wearing a shirt with the silhouettes of five fantasy adventurers under a d20 sun, and the words "Let's get this party rolling" beneath them. She was perched atop one of the tables, leaning back on her hands and kicking her feet, grinning eagerly at everyone as they showed up.

"What's up, everybody?" she asked once she was fairly satisfied that everyone on the roster appeared to be present. "And welcome to Choose Your Own Adventure: The Fandom LARP Project 1.0. I'm Steph Gingrich, and I'm going to be your totally awesome game master for this quest. What quest is this, you ask? An excellent question, to which I answer: we're going to be creating and running our own mini LARP -- that's short for live action role play, by the way. You all are going to help me decide on what kind of story we're going to be telling together."

She hopped down off the table and started pacing back and forth like her enthusiasm couldn't be contained (it couldn't), gesturing with her hands for emphasis as she continued.

"Once we've got that nailed down, you get to start creating your characters and coming up with costumes for them -- and weapons. Foam weapons, because this is going to have a combat element to it, but it's still a game. There are rules for that, and it's not going to be anything super intense, just to make sure it's fair for everyone since I know not all of you have actual fight training, but we'll get to that in a couple of weeks. But this week?" Steph shrugged and gave them a wry, apologetic smile. "We're going to stick to the basics, just to give me an idea of what we'll be working with. That's right, it's the dreaded first week introduction session. Name, where you're from, whether you have any kind of experience with roleplaying games -- and that's not a requirement, so don't worry if you're a total newbie to this stuff."

There was going to be no gatekeeping bullshit on her watch, thanks.

"And finally?" She gestured toward a small wooden treasure chest with a stack of slips of paper and a jar of pens beside it. "Come up and vote on what setting you want for the game: I've got high fantasy, space western, nautical, cyberpunk, survival, and Earth historical, but I'm open to other suggestions if you have 'em, or questions if you're not sure what any of these mean. But first, let's get to the introductions: I'm Steph, I'm from a version of this world but about two years in the past, and I've been playing tabletop RPGs and LARPing for most of my life."

She pointed to someone at random. "Your turn. Let's go."

Comments

Re: Introductions (LARP Project, Week 1)

[guillermothegreat]

Guillermo was definitely in his element here, he was practically bouncing with how excited he was about getting to take this class, “hey I’m Guillermo de la Cruz,” he said with a wave, “I’m from New York City, the Bronx and it’s 2004 for me back home, I love LARPing, my friend Jeremy and I used to take part in one on the weekends when I was at home before I came here,” he explained.

Re: Introductions (LARP Project, Week 1)

[furrybluefreak]

Were there two furry ears peaking out of the pocket on Guillermo's jacket? Maybe. If you happened to be looking close enough. What? The pocket was so warm and cozy and comfortable, Kurt had fallen asleep quite easily.

Re: Introductions (LARP Project, Week 1)

[guillermothegreat]

Guillermo hadn’t noticed anything unusual about his jacket when he had put in on this morning but he happened to look down and that was when he spotted two furry ears sticking out of his pocket.

“Kurt?” he blinked, “how did you get there?”

Was he expecting an actual response, who knew but now he didn’t know if he should wait out the class before he tried to return Kurt to the dorm room or see if Kurt would stay in his pocket.

Re: Introductions (LARP Project, Week 1)

[furrybluefreak]

It was so cozy and warm. He hadn't meant to fall asleep in there. But, since he was there.... It would be ok to poke his head out and take a look around right? This was fine, right?

Re: Introductions (LARP Project, Week 1)

[guillermothegreat]

"Oh no," Guillermo could see where this was going and the mun was finally finished with work for the day, "don't you want to stay nice and warm in my jacket pocket?" he tried to see if he gently push Kurt's head back in to see if he would stay put.

Re: Introductions (LARP Project, Week 1)

[furrybluefreak]

But there were so many interesting things to see... and smell... and maybe taste as well? Kurt sat in the cozy pocket for a moment, his nose twitching excitedly. Then he poked his head out again, gave a small happy chip and jumped up on Guillermo's shoulder to get a better look around.

Re: Introductions (LARP Project, Week 1)

[guillermothegreat]

Guillermo was not liking the direction this was going and was looking around the classroom nervously to see if anyone else had spotted that he currently had a sugar glider on his shoulder.


“Hey buddy, please go back in my pocket,” Guillermo begged begged, “I’ll take you back to the dorm room as soon as class is over, you can stay in my pocket til then okay?”

It was worth a shot.

Re: Introductions (LARP Project, Week 1)

[drumsticksandd20s]

"Yeah, dude, I think I remember you coming into the store," Steph said with an easy smile. "Awesome to have a veteran on board. We're not doing a full-blown thing here, but depending on how things go I might make a whole weekend event out of it later on."