Just came back from camping and one of the most exciting games that Twin Mask has had; in one mod, we played ourselves three years from now in a nightmare future. The character I played went from good noble trying to build a nation to flawed noble who supported slavery, including enslaving his own allies. When given a role like that, I found that it took only a few adjustments to make a character evil. Not by acting mean or angry to people, but by justifying hurtful actions from being hurt. It was interesting in this future who lost their power, who prospered, who became corrupted, and who resisted corruption. But what made that game for me was the new player (kudos to him for managing to do this in his first LARP ever) who realized that something was wrong with my character and was clever enough to fix it. After being fixed, my imagination filled with all the wrong that happened in the world in the past few years. And I was emotionally overwhelmed. I was weeping. In LARP, there is a concept called bleed where your actions and feelings in your LARP world carry over to your real life one. I was roleplaying weeping. But I was so overcome that I could not control crying so I was bawling. Disgusting, face running, nose dripping, bawling over feeling that I had all the power and money in the world and I caused evil to happen and I could not fix it. I felt all of that in my physical body. When the mod was over, I was emotionally spent. But I would do this all over again; this mod was so good. And many, MANY kudos to Angela Basset who wrote the mod and spent three MONTHS to prep it.
Posted on: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 04:20:00 +0000
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