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Champion
 
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Marcus
If you can't drink ale, you're a poor excuse for a human being
Seconded. However, sometimes, one can get away with other things. Anyone who has experienced the "Melon of Death" at Maelstrom knows what I mean........
Mikey
It’s not the liquid that gets me mostly… it’s what it’s carried in.
I think this is the crux of the matter. However, I'd find it hard to take a bunch of pious Teacherite monks seriously if they were drinking something bright blue and sticky.
Fundamentally, what you drink must be:
1) Approriate to your character and if possible the setting. (Out of respect for immersion, the settting and other players)
2) In an IC drinking vessel. (As above, and how hard is it to pour your drink into a tankard and put the OC container in a bin out of sight?)
I think those two are uncontraversial enough of even argumentative LARPers to agree on.
Ias
Maelstrom: Then: Regimental Sergeant Major Mdjai, Havocstan Army
Now: "?"
DUTT: Then: Commander J.W. Cranstan, Durholme City Guard
Now: Justice
RL: Ias
I was going to run for parliament, because I want to make the world a better place, but I ran into some old friends and went out for a beer instead.
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I drink water out of a plastic bottle with a bit of camo netting draped round it, because I have never encountered an IC water container which didn't make the water taste of yuck, and I have enough trouble drinking enough water without being discouraged because of the taste.
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Heroic Knight
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Iasus (7/28/2006)
Fundamentally, what you drink must be:
1) Approriate to your character and if possible the setting. (Out of respect for immersion, the settting and other players)
2) In an IC drinking vessel. (As above, and how hard is it to pour your drink into a tankard and put the OC container in a bin out of sight?)
I think those two are uncontraversial enough of even argumentative LARPers to agree on.You've seen the thread that spawned this one, haven't you?
You're entitled to your opinion as long as you realise it's wrong.
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Prodigal
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| Drinks definitely need to be appropriate to the character, which is why one Waypoint I drank so much bloody tea I could hardly move - I was playing a military officer who didnt drink on duty... I'm surprised no-one has mentioned mead yet.
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Heroic Knight
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ChessyPig (7/28/2006)
I drink water out of a plastic bottle with a bit of camo netting draped round it, because I have never encountered an IC water container which didn't make the water taste of yuck, and I have enough trouble drinking enough water without being discouraged because of the taste.
The best work-arounds I've found for this are getting a leather bottle-carrier which will hold a standard 2 litre plastic bottle (Darkblade used to sell them but sadly they weren't at Maelstrom this time, thus scuppering my plans to buy one), or alternatively getting some old scraps/cut-offs of leather and sticking them around a plastic bottle to cover it.
Camo netting is a good plan for a dryad drinking vessel! Wish I'd thought of a leather-and-camo-netting cover back when I played a dryad
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Heroic Knight
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I think red wine should be banned, as it tastes of piss and vinegar.
Awful, awful stuff.
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Sugarpuff Sandwich (7/29/2006)
I think red wine should be banned, as it tastes of piss and vinegar.
Awful, awful stuff.Sarah here... Thats only cheap crap red wine. Proper red wine does not. Cheap crap red wine should be banned because it gives proper red wine a bad name. Blended 'whisky' should be banned, as should 'whiskey', Welsh 'whisky' and bourbon. There is only one country that makes whisky and it isn't Ireland, Wales or the US.
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Champion
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Whilst I agree with a lot of you, I think we're getting off topic into drinks snobbery.
Ias
Maelstrom: Then: Regimental Sergeant Major Mdjai, Havocstan Army
Now: "?"
DUTT: Then: Commander J.W. Cranstan, Durholme City Guard
Now: Justice
RL: Ias
I was going to run for parliament, because I want to make the world a better place, but I ran into some old friends and went out for a beer instead.
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Champion
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| Sticking out to me is the pre-conception that fantasy has a requirement to some historical authenticity standard. A more accurate idea might be that a players phys reps and actions should be relevant to the setting and theme intended for the event. Stick your can in a sock. Or get some other form of drinks container. I also need to get a large leather sack for my ice pops. But maybe we should also look at it as a warm up exercise for our imaginations? I mean its not like we got refs with stinger missiles to ward off errant 747's that insist on flying across our sky and ruin our suspension of disbelief? But socks. We all have them. And we could use them to cover the dread words of heineken. Otherwise, we may wear out our imaginations  (As an aside, we is getting fat and mentally lazy, cheap latex masks and prosthetics are spoiling us - We must learn to larp Nude and gain the ability to clothe our fellow players in | | | |