Game companies have you on a string. They rewrite the rules and usually make the game better but the cost is that you now have to learn these new updated rules and buy MORE BOOKS. It's a trick. It's a scam. It's very expensive.
(or how to play dress up/cowboys and indians even when you're 30.)
And she's British. Accents really help make the character in this game. And not just nationality-wise, but all aspects of the accents. When Kyle talks like a gangster, he's totally in character. Change in inflection, tone, tempo, even the way you place words in a sentence makes a character's speech patterns different than yours.
Another cool thing about my revenent was the fact that she would wear things that even the trashy Toreador I play now wouldn't dream of stepping out the door in. She was just so beyond. She was totally bizarre in the area of wardrobe. She would wear vinyl maid's costume on the street. She never went out without her dog collar.
The best thing was that she was attached to Mike's infiltrator. Not literally, (except when he had her wearing her leash) but in spirit. Always put the submissives with the biggest dominants around and everyone is happy. And a husband and wife can be wilder than strangers. You know you can get away with it.
Kathy, who runs the game now is a good sport. She really wants to make things fun. We keep trying to think of what we can do to get ourselves more into the game.
But it always seems like something gets in the way.
Mike also has some adult Larps that I view with mixed excitement and trepidation. One of those - could be a lot of fun, could be really creepy things.
But in the end, there's very little I wouldn't do gaming wise.
Of course the big brag up right now is that Mike is a published Larp author. Hopefully he can get more work of the same sort. I don't know if it's ever be a huge gig, but he's tickled, and I'm a beaming with pride - heck, everyone is.
So we tried it. It took a year to get off the ground and didn't develop into the full fledged lifestyle that it threatens to be until we had been playing the game for 2 years. I ran our chronicle for a little over a year. I did okay with it. I've seen it done better.
The important thing was that people were having fun. That's always the main emphasis. I've gone through some burn out there, so has Mike, and I'm sure so have a lot of the old timers who have been playing this game for awhile.
The final analysis still shows that it's fun. I've tried newer and different things with the game and I'm always looking to try more.
We went to the 5th anniversery one recently even though we haven't been really active in the game - and it was nice to see that they've kept the tradition going. For a club or a game or any type of social group to stay alive, tradtions and rituals help. Hot young girls help too, but that's a given.