freaking the mundanes

[solipsistnation]

This is the best story of the most thoroughly freaked mundanes I have ever read or heard.

Comments

[ninjarat.livejournal.com]

That's an awesome story.

[dredpiratebunny.livejournal.com]

fekking great!

i wish i was that good at larping...heh.

[keshwyn]

OH, brilliant.

I believe I will be reposting, just to spread that further, because dang.

[zonereyrie.livejournal.com]

That's fantastic!

[kadath.livejournal.com]

I've seen that story before, and I still think it was frightfully cruel of the LARPers.

[sauergeek.livejournal.com]

How is it cruel if the LARPers don't think the mundanes are, in fact, mundanes? The interpretation of them given in the story is "a couple of characters (possibly actors) were playing guests from the wedding, and trying to get people to break character". Wedding guests were not expected in the LARP space; why should anyone there have believed that they were actually what they claimed to be?

[kadath.livejournal.com]

I will always break character in a heartbeat if it looks like someone's in honest distress. Gamespace my ass; if people are wandering around for two hours getting more and more hysterical, you fucking break character to make sure they're all right. Where the fuck were the GMs?

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

I've seen some really great roleplayers. I've seen roleplayers who made me nervous. And for that matter, you know some of the tricks we've played that I'm not going to discuss here.

I think it was a confluence of events that made it seem like everyone involved was really involved, and that it wasn't the players being assholes.

[sirroxton.livejournal.com]

Even if that were true, which I don't believe for a second, the way the narrator handled the situation even after he knew they were legit was pretty fucking asinine. Terrific story, though. :)