Og?

Maybe Strong caveman can lose a word as well.

Maybe a ‘big club’ still only does a single damage (but is a benefit because of the length).

Smart cavemen can pick any new word they want!

I’ve also thought to add that you can have a name, but it must be made up of two or three of your known words. Hence, you could call yourself ‘big-hairy-smelly’ if you wanted to. The chief is ‘big-big’ and the medicine-man/priest is ‘big-sun’.

I need a whole pile of (old) plushies for the game! Lots of old teddies etc would be fine. Also, many old tennis balls to turn into rocks. Anyone know where I can get some?

Here are twenty tennis balls with no reserve
trademe.co.nz/Sports/Ball-sp … 972059.htm

There seemed to be plenty of other tennis balls on Trademe too. Plushies may be a little harder as collectors tend to want to keep them for themselves, for cuddling.

Get some open cell foam (the type the golum is made from) and rip up big chunks. Dunk the foam into brown or grey paint, squeeze most of the paint out and let them dry.

This is what they use in movies to simulate cave-ins and it makes cool rocks.

You may need to add extra weight in the middle so they have good range, but they’re easy to make very rock shaped (you can even get that napped flint look with a pair of scissors).

[quote=“Steve Shipway”]Those pics look good.

So… where is Whatipu then? Near karekare?[/quote]Near Huia, which is pretty much following Ryan’s original directions, “You go to Titirangi and then keep going for a while” (another 15-20 km). Karekare and Piha are quite a bit off that track, and they don’t have much in the way of caves. I think Whatipu is more suitable. Also, Whatipu is generally fairly deserted, while Karekare has gotten a fair bit more popular recently.

You can play Og in Chinese, too. If you want to.

english: chinese pinyin (tone)
water: shui (v)
fire: huo (v)
food: chi (-)
go: qu ()
bang: qiao (-)
big: da ()
you: ni (v)
me: wo (v)
no: bu ()
cave: dong ()
tree: shu ()
sun: yang (/)
hairy: mao (/)
smelly: chou ()
sleep: shui ()
thing: dongxi (–)

Those bits in brackets after the words are tone markers - they tell you what pitch to start the word at, and whether you have to slide up or down.

It would certainly be an excellent way to represent the limited vocabulary, and the struggle to master all the words and that. The tones might be a bit hard for people to remember, though. Leaving them out would only be an issue with ‘sleep’ and ‘water’.

(It reminds me of Firefly, which I suspect is teaching a whole new generation how to swear in Chinese.)

Oops, I forgot about the sleep/water issue. And I already dealt with it once - ‘bang’ is better translated as ‘da (-)’ but it sounds too much like big: da(), so I changed it.

Maybe sleep can be shuijiao(\) instead.

As far as Chinese rude words go, I know lots. For some reason, my vocabulary centres around food and insults. I wonder why.

Today’s lesson:
ni yo da ju toe, dan shi xing-gan de pigou.
“You’re a stupid pig-head, but with a sexy butt”

(not directed at Cath for all sorts of reasons :confused: )

[quote=“Steve Shipway”]Today’s lesson:
ni yo da ju toe, dan shi xing-gan de pigou.
“You’re a stupid pig-head, but with a sexy butt”

(not directed at Cath for all sorts of reasons :confused: )[/quote]
Does your wife call you this, I wonder?

Steph

Well, she gets halfway there.

ANYWAY - Back to Og.

Spoke with Chantal this weekend, she’s going to take a look at making Og costumes and post a LARPS-member price for a simple cossie here.

Suggestion is that the costume be just a simple one-piece thing, and you can wear a bathing cossie underneath unless you want to shock people. No shoes, since we’ll be playing on sand/grass. See if Mike can organise a club-making session.