It’s the week before E1. For the first time ever, PD have had to cancel an event and it is going to be weird.
So, I just wanted to open up this thread so we can share our sadness. There’s positive things that we could take away, or look forward to using the holiday for something else, or be glad we have slightly more time to prepare for another event, but ultimately we’d all rather be in a field with our mates and it is absolutely normal to be sad when sad things happen.
What am I sad about?
Singing. I want to sing around a fire with my Chapter, share stories and songs and port and blankets, warming ourselves by the glowing embers.
I am sad that I will miss an opportunity to see the controversial, thought-provoking, game-changing, defiant, appeasing, devious and heart-warming Judgements submitted by priests, as well as the opportunity to announce the voting results and see player’s hard work pay off!
I want to take the time off work to go camping with my family.
I want to dress up and swan around with the rest of the shiny and pretentious Dawnish
I want to drink, and sing, and catch-up IC and OOC, and tell long dramatic stories…
I want to take my son peddling cakes and pastries across the national camps, and see how much cash he gets just for being cute at people
I want to charge screaming across a battlefield in a grand melee! Twice! (And because it’s LARP, meet up with the other side afterwards to swap stories and bruises)
…I want a weekend off from this world, to spend some time in another one, where I know I can and am making a difference…
I want my much-awaited huge draught of the most potent and glorious escapism I have ever encountered…
…that is what I am sad about missing.
(Additionally, I missed E4 as well, for the birth of my daughter. First missed main Empire event. So I was really looking forwards to this one…)
(And being so flippin’ frustrated that even with not being able to do squat on the weekend, I can’t keep building kit ‘cause every accessible sewing machine is either down South with one partner, down South with my gran who’s under a 12 week protection letter, or literally the next town over with my other partner’s parents.
…and I can’t drive by get any of them due to lack of driving ability/car/not fancying dealing with ‘reasonable excuse’ questioning)
Attending my first event and actually getting rid of all the hype that been building up inside me since my best friend told me about it and convinced me to join the week after E4 2019.
That and spending some time around a campfire and experiencing Songs and Stories, going into battle for the first time. Perhaps going to conclave once or twice, buying some nice things. Roleplaying. Just experiencing LARP for the first time ever. Thats what I’m missing.
But I know it will all be back soon. And we can all get through this Longest Dark together.
Yes, was gutted about E1and getting back into larp…So when the news came through it was off, and the Super moon came out, I adorned my costume id been making, set up a fire pit in the garden and got into character in my head while puffing on my pipe with my sword by my side…I suppose now i need a hot weather costume, something else to ponder on while we wait.
