If it makes you feel better, we have no idea how we’d pay for a venue at the moment either
[quote=“Derek”]There are some good roles available for anybody with musical talent with any kind of vaugly Greek instruments (including voice). Music plays an important part of every culture and the Greeks are no exception. … Still looking for one more person to help, mostly with building plot related stuff.[/quote]I can sing and I can help with the sewing part of gear making. I do a good line in banners. Let me know if you’d like help.
Steph
Does anybody have access to an open canoe?
Er, don’t know if I can make it, but I wouldn’t mind being Medusa. I have nice long hair right now, which would braid into snakes easily.
I can also sing
Mordavia has some money that will be going to LARPS. I still need to talk to Steve Shipway about transferring assets.
I can’t be sure that there’ll be enough to cover booking both the next Mordavia camp booking and another game’s deposit outright, but mixed financing from the organisers and LARPS will work.
I’d love to play Hermes, I’d be happy to run errands. Preferably errands under 5km. But to have wings on my sandals and snakes coiling around my sceptre, all good! If not, I would play Charon.
Amazons!
I’m not too keen on being a Greek, but a barbarian on the other hand…
If I could get a few people who are not afraid of hypothermia or sunburn depending on the season with me, I’m thinking a band of barbarians. Biggest and brawniest of us would be the Chieftan surrounded by his guard, his guard consisting of very angry people with axes and spears.
If you are not a Greek, the Greeks would consider you a barbarian. Philip of Macedon (father of Alexander the Great) was considered a barbarian by the Greeks. He went to great pains to educate his son in the Greek fashion so he wouldn’t be snubbed. Of course, it helps having enough cash to be able to hire Aristotle to be your son’s personal tutor…
It will be sunburn in January, unless we are very unlucky.
I would very much like people forming groups (especially based on national identities). However, I’m after historical (and mythological) groups appropriate to the Greeks.
Have a look at this map. It is the area that Alexander the Great conquered (before he turned 33 no less). If you can find a nationality in there that fits your idea of a “barbarian” you can play it. (The Persians were pretty unpopular).
Failing that, one of our Greek students may be able to call to mind some tribes that Jason or Ulysses ran into in their travels.
But you probably won’t get the support of the Greek gods, so you might just be cannon fodder…
[size=75]…unless you can nick a few magic swords early on [/size]
I was considering playing Hermes myself, because I thought it would be an ideal roll for a GM (zapping around the place delivering messages and information). However, I’ve decided to play … someone else.
I also have Charon covered already he he he
If you’re very interested in Hermes, and would be happy to help with some organisation, then the role is yours. Most of the organisation will be making stuff and sorting out borrowing and transporting stuff to the game.
heh. according to the greeks, if you didn’t speak the language, you were a barbarian. that encompasses a lot of different peoples.
I’d never make a convincing Eastern barbarian. I was thinking of a tribe to the west or north of Greece.
Cyclopes. What you want to be is a Cyclops.
They’re big, they care for no gods and they are horribly horribly barbaric. How’s that?
Hmm, I’d be in.
I’d go for playing Cadmus. I like the idea of a relatively “normal” hero. (Do i get some Hydra’s Teeth?)
Or maybe Diomedes? (Could be dangerous if Aphrodite or Ares are playing, but could be good roleplay if Hera was also playing…)
[quote=“Scotty”]Hmm, I’d be in.
I’d go for playing Cadmus. I like the idea of a relatively “normal” hero. (Do i get some Hydra’s Teeth?)[/quote]
If we have a hydra, there is every possibility you can have some hydra teeth
Lets just say, it could be very dangerous then
Even though all these Greek heroes are from different times. And they may have lots of “baggage” from the various stories they were in. I’d like them to start “clean” and without they “history” of the character behind them.
For example:
- Herakles may be part way through his ten labours
- The Medusa/Minotaur/etc will still have their head(s)
Some characters have to be mutually exclusive though. If we have Cadmus, then we can’t have Oedipus. There’s a few hundred year gap between the characters.
Actually, it gets a little more complex because Cadmus is the grandfather of Dionysus - so if we have Cadmus, it has to be AFTER he founds Thebes and has children - which means most of the interesting plot for Cadmus is gone. That’s why I’m sort of avoiding having these founder type characters because they’re so far back in the misty ages that it wipes out a lot of other interesting characters that come after them.
Of course, that being said, there’s always room for argument. It’s mythology, we can probably find some loophole (“Zeus did it.”)
[quote=“Anna K”]Some characters have to be mutually exclusive though. If we have Cadmus, then we can’t have Oedipus. There’s a few hundred year gap between the characters.
Of course, that being said, there’s always room for argument. It’s mythology, we can probably find some loophole (“Zeus did it.”)[/quote]
If we assume that magic and the gods exist, and that people go to the underworld when they die, then there is no reason that someone from a couple of hundred years ago can’t have slipped into the ferry while Charon was on a coffee break and made it out of the underworld.
That’d work very nicely. Albeit they would still be bereft of their main plot and they’d probably have an angry Hades waiting for them in the Underworld. But that’d be fun to work with.
One of the problems with setting a LARP in a very well defined setting (like Greek mythology or Tolkeins Middle Earth) is you need to decide which bits of the story you don’t want.
If you take the whole story, and assume we cannot vary from it, then Herakles gets his twelve labours and knows how to solve them, Medusa gets her head chopped off and Ares kills the queen of the Amazons.
It’s more like a scripted re-enactment than a game where characters have free will.
It’d be much more entertaining if Herakles got turned to stone by the Medusa and Ares fell in love with the queen of the Amazons and they stormed Athens and sacked it causing Athene to send an army against the Amazons! Leaving Perseus to clean out the Augean stables with a shovel.
I favour mixing it up a bit.