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Knight
 
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It should also be noted that it is scarily easy to play a character with a sexuality different to your own. This rather scared me the first time it happened; but I'm fairly sure it doesn't signify any repressed feelings, and I thought about it rather carefully...
----------------------------------------------------Maelstrom: Edward Hanfling of the DNF
Cambridge TT: Vladimir Karchev
LT: yet to be decided
RL: Jake
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Champion
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| Met my wife through the hobby ten years ago... Funny story is that the first time we met it was me screaming err...abuse from one end of the GOD tent to her at the other, resulting in her going off crying. Them were the days of LRP customer care - but don't worry she's had her revenge since then 
PD Head Ref- but as all posts here count as being unofficial, you'll need to email rules@PD for the real deal. And in those oh so rare moments of going IC: Detric of the Bespoke Atelier (and your host for the erotic performance show) whilst my gnoll is on an extended leave of absence in deference to my ex-wife...
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Champion
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People always react strangely when I tell them how I met my girlfriend.
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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| Last few blokes I dated were larpers. My current sweetheart is also a larper. Larp is a good place to meet people for a lot of reasons. You don't have to explain what you do on your weekends to someone who already larps, and in my experience they're usually a lot more sympathetic to any other less than mainstream hobbies you may have. If you play the same systems, you can plot and froth together, and you get Kit for birthday and christmas presents I do have IC relationships, but have never yet been able to larp with my beloved. For some reason we always end up deadly enemies or social opposites in every game we play, so that on the odd occasion that I even see him, I'm usually trying to kill him. I recommend however that you don't flirt IC with anyone that you later intend to flirt OOC with. I have never been comfortable when someone who appeared to be flirting with my character was in fact flirting with me...
Internet Redcap: Don't make me put the hat on
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Wag
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| I've noticed (as I am sure many others have) that LRP is in fact a very... close... community. Almost to the point of incest... I base this on the fact that several people I know, including myself, have dated numerous people in the hobby and, on several occassions, have exes in common. I can name at least two people who post here who have other halves in common with me - either currently or in the past - and there are several others who are not regular posters here who have similar links. At one point, one of my exes was seeing one of Sarah's exes. THAT was confusing As for alternative sexuality IC. Been there, done that, got kudos from someone for actually playing a gay man 'straight' (i.e. not playing it camp...). I do hope that Trevor, the focus of my IC affection of the time and who was mutually interested until his character got turned into an evil warp creature, is aware that my feelings were not OOC. It is true that you need to know someone really well before you can actually get 'close and personal' with them properly IC. I suppose one question should be: How far can you go in flirting IC without knowing the person well? For example, I think it is perfectly acceptable at an event like Maelstrom to 'court' another character. Especially as the courting in that sort of setting usually should never go beyond declaiming poetry at windows and sending of flowers
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Whispering God is your friend... trust the Whispering God... Ruins of Empire 1st - 3rd Feb, 2008, Gladstone scout centre, Chester
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Heroic Knight
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| I've never pulled at a LRP event, but I've dated several LRPers. In every case, I met them at LRP events, got to know them outside of events, and then started dating. I don't think events are a great place to pick people up, but they're certainly a great place to meet people and start new friendships, which can later lead into relationships.
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Wag
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| ... and friendship is a great starting point for a relationship. I mean, actually pulling at an event is a bit... mingy. For a start you have the whole 'bad hygeine due to little or no shower thing' not to mention the make up smeared everywhere thing. Then you have the whole 'sex in a tent' debacle or what may be 'sex in a shared indoor bunkroom'. either is a little... wrong... So, yes, definitely meet and make friends at the event but save the actual courtship for a social life outside of LRP
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Whispering God is your friend... trust the Whispering God... Ruins of Empire 1st - 3rd Feb, 2008, Gladstone scout centre, Chester
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Prodigal
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balor (8/8/2006)
It is true that you need to know someone really well before you can actually get 'close and personal' with them properly IC. I suppose one question should be: How far can you go in flirting IC without knowing the person well? For example, I think it is perfectly acceptable at an event like Maelstrom to 'court' another character. Especially as the courting in that sort of setting usually should never go beyond declaiming poetry at windows and sending of flowers It depends which Maelstrom culture you mean- poetry at windows sounds appropriate for the Flembics, but less so for some other groups. Tritoni females, for instance, have a historical reputation for kidnapping men. I suppose there's nothing actually stopping them from including poetry and flowers in the abduction experience, but it's still a rather different context. I was once vaguely weirded out by an NPC role which involved being involved in a romantic relationship with another character. I totally trusted the other person to keep IC things IC, but the sweet nothings and so on still felt weird in a way that IC sleaziness doesn't. Not sure why. Other than that, the closest I've come to being involved in an IC relationship was telling someone IC that I thought they were the ideal person to help me create my god's new Messiah. I hope it was obvious that this was all IC, since it's not the sort of chat-up line I'd use OOC (usually).
WARNING: the information above may have been subjected to dangerously high levels of ignorance.
OOC (and on Pagga): Carrie
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