'cos one or two more smiles from you and I don't need anything else

[enthusiastick]

The amusing results of my attempting to comply with a coworker's request to explain the term LARP in ten words or less:

Acronym: Live Action Roleplay. Make-believe for teenagers and adults.

(Yes, this is my third post today. Yes, I am a total LJ-whore. That last one didn't count, remember? Because I said it didn't, that's why!)

Comments

[loopygirl.livejournal.com]

My answer to that same question is usually:

"It's very much like a how-to-host-a-murder game." That seems more familiar and "legitimate" to people, somehow.

[pooka-madness.livejournal.com]

I've used that one before. Rather a lot actually. Being President of Dead City is on my resume, after all, so it was my stock answer when someone asked me what Dead City actually did. At some point a recruiter actually told me to switch over to "How to Host A Mystery" because people have negative associations with the word "murder." Seriously.

The trouble is that the LARP in question is Prophet's Fall, a boffer LARP that in my mind has more in common with camping than anything having to do with MET (and thus HtHAM). I mean, sure, people still talk, but many of them don't come to solve problems and mysteries so much as to hit people with padded sticks.

From Ali at that place that sounds like Jail in New Haven

[(Anonymous)]

Hi Eb-bob,

Yeah, it sucks that Halloween's on a Monday. Still, this is an action-packed week at the Forestry school- tomorrow, the Halloween dance where last year the Christian Right won Scariest Costume, and Sunday, the Storytelling party where I get to tell spooky tales from Obiwan's UFO-Free True Ghost story site (just google it- some of the stories are fantastic). I am going as a Freudian Slip (wearing a slip with a picture of Freud with a cigar on the front). You?

Love,
Ali

PS- I love reading your posts- gives me a completely different worldview from that of soil nutrients and the Basel Convention.