Red Sisters, Black Skies
It's funny how different but no less affecting my experience of this game was to other players. As the captain I deliberately kept myself aloof from everyone including my own section. I would walk through the base fretting about keeping our planes in the sky with so few resources and hear the others singing happy birthday to their comrades or scratching up a soccer game to keep their spirits up. I tore strips off Section C commander, R for allowing her section to take so much risks that they crashed a plan and nearly killed two of their best and secretly applauded her for inspiring Section C to carry on and complete all their missions without a full compliment of aircraft. I arranged missions and repairs, flew into the night, delivered good news and bad but I was never fully one of them. Still I ended up with tears streaming down my cheeks as I welcomed them all at the end of the game, I felt tied to their fates and responsible for their lives. I've been thinking about the game a lot over the last two day and I know it was the best LARP I have ever played in. I rarely experience bleed, something I attribute to my theatre background but I cannot stop considering what I might have done differently so that Section C weren't down a plane, so that my heartbreaking. brilliant and brave women didn't have to take to the skies during daylight, so that Regina wasn't lost, so that my Senior Lieutenants would never be burdens with the list of names I kept in my top drawer... To be honest I'm still thinking about it now.
I desperately want the game to run again and I want to die earlier. The interactions I had with players after my death when you are only a memory and can't directly answer questions only respond with a "scene" still play in my head. I want more time with that mechanic and I want to know how the game would go if the situation got more darker and desperate and haunted.
The Fall of House Atreus.
GREEK TRAGEDY! I love it. Staring into Elektra's eyes not knowing if she still loved me, if she forgave me for marrying her sister and going to the front lines but desperately hoping she'd ask me for something, anything that I could do for her, anything that would keep us close for one moment more and being crushed when she asked for my sanity. Well really for Andromache who was helping me keep my sanity with haunting of my father Achilles getting worse everyday but you know in general still my sanity. But how could I refuse her? So tragic, so tingly! Still I was determined to make my wife happy and so had decided that with my... issues I would encourage her to take a lover or perhaps because GREEK TRAGEDY I could trick her into sleeping with a man she thought was me and so she could be fulfilled with children and happiness in this way. Perhaps my old friends Orestes or Aegisthus could be so persuaded. That was the plan until I arrived home and my lovely wife began begging me to be more like Orestes and my dour Father-in-Law began demanding that I please her. Wasn't it enough that I was the manliest of men? Wasn't it enough that I lead my father's Myrmidons to countless victories? Wasn't it enough that I couldn't have the women I loved? When could I ever have what I wanted? When could I ever be whom I wanted?! But how could I betray that family that raised me? The man who avenged my Father's shade (probably)? Electra would never forgive me if I ruined her sister by putting her aside! So tragic, so tingly! Gods! And when the GMs start circling you as the ghost of Achilles when you are trying to have a pleasant conversation with your Mother-in-law...
Such a good game. I had a wonderful time playing with everyone, being manipulated and learning to do it myself, (At one point after I'd agreed to kill Menelaus, I was conversing with him and when I told him of something that could make his lady wife happy he asked me to do whatever I could, poor man couldn't know that he'd given me his permission to kill him!) and finally in the end somehow still a man and still trapped and still tragically alone. Brilliance! The fact that I keep replaying some of the conversations from this game and being thrilled by them is a total testament to the GMs and players.
I played other games this weekend and enjoyed myself in all of them but these two have really stayed with me.
The Fall of House Atreus.
GREEK TRAGEDY! I love it. Staring into Elektra's eyes not knowing if she still loved me, if she forgave me for marrying her sister and going to the front lines but desperately hoping she'd ask me for something, anything that I could do for her, anything that would keep us close for one moment more and being crushed when she asked for my sanity. Well really for Andromache who was helping me keep my sanity with haunting of my father Achilles getting worse everyday but you know in general still my sanity. But how could I refuse her? So tragic, so tingly! Still I was determined to make my wife happy and so had decided that with my... issues I would encourage her to take a lover or perhaps because GREEK TRAGEDY I could trick her into sleeping with a man she thought was me and so she could be fulfilled with children and happiness in this way. Perhaps my old friends Orestes or Aegisthus could be so persuaded. That was the plan until I arrived home and my lovely wife began begging me to be more like Orestes and my dour Father-in-Law began demanding that I please her. Wasn't it enough that I was the manliest of men? Wasn't it enough that I lead my father's Myrmidons to countless victories? Wasn't it enough that I couldn't have the women I loved? When could I ever have what I wanted? When could I ever be whom I wanted?! But how could I betray that family that raised me? The man who avenged my Father's shade (probably)? Electra would never forgive me if I ruined her sister by putting her aside! So tragic, so tingly! Gods! And when the GMs start circling you as the ghost of Achilles when you are trying to have a pleasant conversation with your Mother-in-law...
Such a good game. I had a wonderful time playing with everyone, being manipulated and learning to do it myself, (At one point after I'd agreed to kill Menelaus, I was conversing with him and when I told him of something that could make his lady wife happy he asked me to do whatever I could, poor man couldn't know that he'd given me his permission to kill him!) and finally in the end somehow still a man and still trapped and still tragically alone. Brilliance! The fact that I keep replaying some of the conversations from this game and being thrilled by them is a total testament to the GMs and players.
I played other games this weekend and enjoyed myself in all of them but these two have really stayed with me.
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