Choose Your Own Adventure: Tuesday, 3rd Period (5/17)

[drumsticksandd20s]

Everybody was back at the Community Center today, and this time there were spiral notebooks laid out at the tables for everyone along with an assortment of pencils, pens, and colored pencils. Steph was once again sitting on the front table and kicking her feet back and forth, this week in a sleeveless black t-shirt that said "Roll for Panic Attack" on it.

"Soooooooooooo, it looks like the high fantasy setting just edged out the nautical one," she said, looking slightly apologetic. She'd kind of wanted to bust out that pirate costume again. "But it is a classic choice for reasons. We're talking unicorns, giants, and dragons here, people. Swords and magic and epic adventure, courtly intrigue, the works."

She had a feeling at least a couple of people on the roster would feel right at home there, too.

"With that in mind, everybody grab a notebook because we're going to get into character creation this week," she went on, clapping her hands once for emphasis and grinning her infectious, not-quite-maniacal grin of excitement. "For starters, what's your character's name? What's their background -- a simple farmer, maybe, or a knight, or the village healer? What kinds of skills have they learned from their life experience? What's their social status? Then start thinking about what really drives them. Revenge? Riches? Doesn't have to be anything huge. Maybe they just want to make it to this one shop in the kingdom's capital to get their grandmother the perfect birthday present. Not everybody has to be a hero, but if that's what's gonna make you happy here? Go for it, dude. We're here to have fun."

She held her hands out in a reassuring gesture. "I know that might seem like a lot, but that's just for starters. We can dig deeper into character details over the next couple of weeks, as we build out the world and get a sense of what kind of adventure we're going on. Bounce ideas off each other if you want to here, or ask me for help if that's more comfortable. And once I have a better sense of what kind of characters you all are going to give me to work with, we can start planning out the kind of adventure we're gonna go on."

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Sign In (LARP Project, Week 2)

[drumsticksandd20s]

Getting into character.

Re: Sign In (LARP Project, Week 2)

[furrybluefreak]

Kurt Wagner

Re: Sign In (LARP Project, Week 2)

[outofthequiver]

Liberty Hazlett

Listen to Steph (LARP Project, Week 2)

[drumsticksandd20s]

Or talk. You do you.

Character Creation/Brainstorming! (LARP Project, Week 2)

[drumsticksandd20s]

Work on your ideas individually, or together, or ask Steph for help. Got any ideas or suggestions for what to do? A quest, a mystery, a day at the market rudely interrupted by miscreants? Put 'em here too.

Re: Character Creation/Brainstorming! (LARP Project, Week 2)

[outofthequiver]

The moment Libby heard 'village healer,' she was latched in, and, after a moment to think about it, and to pull up on all the resources that had recently been added to her otherwise tiny pool of influences, her pencil was flying across the paper as she jotted down all her ideas and thoughts, sometimes crossing out a few things and going back over some altered details, filling whole pages with ease of backstory for her little village healer who wanted to leave her quiet town to learn more about her trade and help more people and see the big wide world and go on adventures and what do you mean, she was just making a fantasy version of herself? She liked herself! And this way, she could still be herself but also be an elf!

She was having trouble with a name, though; everything she thought of sounded much too hobbit halfling-like, not like a fancy elf name at all, which made her wonder if she should not be an elf, she did like hobbits halflings an awful lot, especially the ones in the King of the Bracelets world, but....elves!!

She frowned a little in concentration, the urge to go back and restart entirely strong, but she tried to remind herself that it was always best to stick with your gut, and if her gut was telling her halfling-like elf, then that was what she was going to do, it was her character, after all....

Re: Character Creation/Brainstorming! (LARP Project, Week 2)

[drumsticksandd20s]

"Looks like you've got a lot of ideas," Steph observed with an approving grin.

Re: Character Creation/Brainstorming! (LARP Project, Week 2)

[pun_king]

Oh, this was easy! Graham already had a character that he'd been playing among all of his own private LARPing sessions (even if he didn't know that that's what they were) with the woodland creatures and his pets for years.

He was going to be a knight! Sir Graham of Daventry! Rescuer of maidens, defeater of dragons, bane of evil wizards and enchanters everywhere!

So with that part easily settled, he was sort of wondering what he could do to make improvements on the character. Like maybe if he could add wings or something. Maybe he could breathe fire! Maybe he spent years in the underground infiltrating the Goblin Kingdom and learning their ways and their methods, before his brain started to wonder if maybe they could do an adventure with goblins! Or maybe a magician turning people into goblins! Or a goblin turning people into magicians! Yeah, that might work! Oh, oh, or he could...

Most of this was entirely going on in Graham's head, though, as he nodded along as if agreeing with himself and jotting down at least a few ideas, which was probably a good thing, because once they figured out how to move from his brain and out of his mouth, there was a good chance it wouldn't be stopping.

Re: Character Creation/Brainstorming! (LARP Project, Week 2)

[drumsticksandd20s]

"I am loving all this creative energy," Steph told him. "Looking forward to having you on board at the store, dude."

Re: Character Creation/Brainstorming! (LARP Project, Week 2)

[good_for_six]

Isabela was going to play a pirate. Fantasy worlds (which honestly sounded a lot like Thedas and therefore not very fantastic at all) presumably still had oceans.

No, wait, she could be a pirate with a magic ship that sailed through the air and nowhere could be safe from her dashing and rakish pirate queen.

Re: Character Creation/Brainstorming! (LARP Project, Week 2)

[drumsticksandd20s]

"How's the process coming along?"

Steph, no, you did not need any more insight into Isabela's creative process.

Re: Character Creation/Brainstorming! (LARP Project, Week 2)

[furrybluefreak]

So Kurt, being the total geek he was, had tried at least once to get something resembling a LARP or at least table game going with the team.... And that went as well as could be expected when you had the likes of Logan and Scott to work with. But Kurt had plenty of ideas and had several basic character ideas already in his mind, so he was super excited to be in class this week and to get to finally work on flushing something out a bit more fully.

So he started writing things down, getting all the basic details he already knew down and then started expanding on them, an excited grin on his face the whole time. When he finally stopped writing he looked down at his paper to read what he had so far:


Name: Kentaro

Age: Young (???)

Race: Wolfen , soul bonded with a feline companion

Companion: A large wild mountain cat (lynx like)

Family: Small nomadic tribe. About a dozen or so. Mother, Father, brother, and a few other of their kind.

Appearance: Small for his kind, dark black fur where there is fur, skin is golden eyes,

Backstory: The small tribe lived in the woods where a couple of villages lay scattered among the trees. When Kentaro was still young, the villages banded together to drive the peaceful yet intimidating looking ‘cat-demon’ out of their woods. Not wanting to fight, the tribe tried to flee, but the villagers got worked into a frenzy and ended up killing everyone but Kentaro. He escaped but lived on his own in the woods for the rest of his life, being rejected by every village he came to due to his ‘savage’ wild cat appearance, and not trusting people much at all himself. Kentaro traveled a lot and has been many places and seen many things. People in villages sometimes whisper about the mysterious shadow that is seen in the woods at times. This mysterious entity is rarely seen though there are stories that they often coms to the aid of the innocent and yet are just as likely to rob those deemed ‘wicked’ in some way. A Robin Hood of sorts.

Social Status: Outcast, wanderer, rogue

That didn't seem like too bad of a start....

Re: Character Creation/Brainstorming! (LARP Project, Week 2)

[outofthequiver]

"Kurt!" Libby leaned toward him a little, her voice a bit lowered to not disturb anyone too much while they worked, but she couldn't just sit there an not acknowledge the obvious with a smile. "You're back to yourself again!"

Re: Character Creation/Brainstorming! (LARP Project, Week 2)

[guillermothegreat]

Guillermo considered using the character that he played when he and Jeremy did LARPing but he decided to change things up a bit and start with a brand new character.

He absolutely decided to base his character around being a vampire and decided that he was going to be a vampire called ‘Guillermo the Great’ and that he lived in a castle outside the village. He hadn’t made much progress beyond that but he figured that was a pretty good start to work with.

Re: Character Creation/Brainstorming! (LARP Project, Week 2)

[drumsticksandd20s]

Steph was wandering around checking in on how everyone was doing. "Hey dude, how's it going?"

Re: Character Creation/Brainstorming! (LARP Project, Week 2)

[ohvalleyofpenis]

Oh, Jaskier was just going to have some fun in creating his wandering, frustratingly non-verbal paladin named 'Gerald' and aggressively putting in the ridiculous details about his white hair and gold eyes.

But, since this was Jaskier, it was a lot of purple prose mixed with passive aggressive digs about his character flaws.

Look, you had to let him heal in his own way.

Re: Character Creation/Brainstorming! (LARP Project, Week 2)

[drumsticksandd20s]

Steph had strongarmed half of Haven Springs into being characters in a LARP just to help a boy process his grief. Like she was going to judge you for this, Jaskier.

"You look like you have Ideas," she noted. Yes, the capital I was practically audible.

Re: Character Creation/Brainstorming! (LARP Project, Week 2)

[giveittoyoursister]

Vi was...staring at her blank character sheet. This had been a lot easier for the game she and Steph had played yesterday.

Re: Character Creation/Brainstorming! (LARP Project, Week 2)

[myfifthrodeo]

Rosa scooped up a bunch of colored pencils and immediately started doodling. She was totally paying attention too, Steph, she promised! You could tell because her doodle featured a tiny alien riding a tiny dragon!

. . . Look. Aliens were pretty inescapable with Rosa, okay?

As for her character . . . maybe a gnome that rode a dragon? Gnomes were tiny, right? Like in that cartoon with the fox that had made Liz cry for three weeks when she watched the ending. She could use a toothpick for a sword and a bottle cap for a shield. And for motivation. . . .

Why the hell was "blood feud" the only thing she could think of?

Re: Character Creation/Brainstorming! (LARP Project, Week 2)

[noonedecidesmyfate]

Belle was very excited at the idea of pretending to be an adventurer. Obviously she needed to be some sort of Lady Knight out being brave.

She wrote that down, along with the word magic with a very large question mark after it. A magic knight sounded terribly exciting.

Re: Character Creation/Brainstorming! (LARP Project, Week 2)

[misshapen_spark]

Yang hummed thoughtfully, tapping her pencil against her notebook.

On one hand? Smashing was what she KNEW.

On the other? Being a hero hadn't turned out great for her IRL.

So far, all she had was dad-joke bartender/entertainer? as a concept, but she'd probably come up with something more concrete eventually.

Re: Character Creation/Brainstorming! (LARP Project, Week 2)

[sharp_man]

Hm. The Yuan-ti or the Dragonborn sounded interesting - something reptilian. Call it a theme. And something magical...maybe a wizard or sorcerer?

He was definitely going to end up an agent of chaos, one way or another.

Re: Character Creation/Brainstorming! (LARP Project, Week 2)

[mylandmyrules]

So Nell wasn't sure how she should feel about this whole pretending to be someone else thing, but well, it was a class, so it must be okay. She was amused to read about characters called druids and thought it would be funny to make one who could control plants - and maybe had a big wolf with her as a companion.

Talk to Steph (LARP Project, Week 2)

[drumsticksandd20s]

Who is, once again, far too hyped about this.

OOC (LARP Project, Week 2)

[drumsticksandd20s]

Okay but why is this week, y'all. Also why I have not yet gotten that Roll for Panic Attack shirt when I may in fact have rarely ever needed something as much in my entire life is a mystery. Man, I'm so overdue for a Fantasy High rewatch (PS the entire first season's on YouTube and you should watch it).