Current mood:

cheerful

Passing through
Has it really been two months? I am bad. My main excuse is that work has been picking up, starting to get interesting and therefore I’m busier – and more inclined to work in the first place. But that’s not all. Home has been busy too. We have not had a full weekend to ourselves, with birthdays, events, other people’s weddings and the like. Mean while of course we have been continuing on the path to our own wedding – probably slower than we should, but hey.

The wedding was a Larp friend’s, in a wood in Wales – and it was great fun. We scared some of his relatives silly – but most were really up for it, dressed up and queued to shoot bows and arrows or be hit by us. They had stuck to traditions where they wanted and ditched the things that weren’t important to them and it worked really well. I enjoyed the fact that so many stayed on site, so we got to party til the wee hours than get up and chill together the next day. Of course H2B then had to drive all the way home. Oh well – cant have everything.

At the May event, my LARP character died. She was my first one and I have been playing her for nearly six years. I knew I would be gutted when she went, and indeed I was. She committed suicide, so it kind of was my own decision, but it was in response to the one thing she had been designed to never be able to cope with occurring, so to carry on playing afterwards would not have been her. It’s a very strange thing when it happens, more like splitting up from a relationship than someone dieing, as you know no one has actually gone, but you had built up a relationship with this character and it suddenly stops. I was prepared for that bit. The bit I wasn’t prepared for was when you have picked yourself up, dusted yourself down, been to games control for a new character and walk back in to camp, still reeling, but determined to carry on – all your friends ignore you. Of course they do – you are a new character they have never met, but it’s awful, the game is over for your character and it feels like no one cares.
But my friends were lovely and did care really. I got lots of hugs and played something very annoying and frivolous before they proceeded to fight over which clan I joined next. I’m still a little sad about her going, but no worse than if your favorite program had shown it’s last ever episode – it’s fine, but it was harder than I expected at the time.

Since then H2B used the opportunity of me being in between characters so to speak to come to his first event as a character. Given this is my obsession and accounts for a good portion of my leave time, I was more than a little nervous that I was about to have to choose between a life of not having the same holidays as the rest of my family or giving up my social life. Luckily for me he loved it. He is currently working out if he can go to the next one! Hurrah!

Lots of other bits & bobs have occurred, but nothing really important – apart from wedding planning. To see how well we are doing, look at the next post (locked to friends only for obvious reasons).

TTFN and I shall try to keep better correspondence …