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Symbols 7 - Shadow

Two hectic days of preparation (read: making Matthijs a new costume and collecting and baking camp necessities) surprisingly got me in the mood for this Symbols. The weather was great and I looked forward to stuffing the car, though I was a bit worried that it would never fit, driving to the location and spending a weekend outside in wonderful sunshine.

I did have a bit of a problem with my character though and prepared and brought a backup. I've been playing Halda since the first Symbols and felt that it was coming to an end. She was not really play-able anymore. At the last Nocona meeting I announced that I would probably stop playing Halda, but I came back on that decision shortly after that. I just didn't want to miss the campfire moments and security of the group, even though I thought that the character was "just not my thing". I promised (both myself and the others) that I would try really hard to make it work again, and I did.

On Thursday, after postponing it as long as we could, we painted ourselves grey and went in character. Instead of forcing myself to play a spiritual woman (which I am certainly not OC) I let a lot of myself come through in the character, resulting in quite some cynical remarks and smart-ass comments. I also sought and found a magic teacher to teach me the 'read language' spell, which is quite an easy (level 1) spell, but could come in very handy. It also gave me something to do and interaction with Ae'ria (played by Annelies). I also found Elric willing to teach me to read Guardion. With all the pamflets around the village written in those weird squiggly lines it seemed usefull to learn. So Halda took some lessons, together with Rallin (Matthijs' character, who had to learn the basics of spelling as well).

It was a hard time for Halda and the other "Hoeders" because the pressure of the black entities outside the wall was getting stronger (we pissed them off by saving their dinner), the magical energy was leaving all mages and it was just generally hot outside (gave me a few OC headaches as well). As if that was not enough the pain-thama and children of nature-thama decided to work together and invested the village with spider-like creatures (ixo's) and decided to take over the council hall. There were termites, a thief on the loose and Denomethama decided it would be fun to pester Varaashi and throw his sister Jala outside the village in the middle of the night. That gave us a lot of (emo)play and nearly wiped away the setting because all the Nocona and the better part of the village inhabitants got a "Choke on it, we're leaving" feeling from that.

On Saturday I had a bit of an "I have had it" feeling, both IC and OC. IC because after some things Elana had pulled off and the whole village had decided to leave Runewall, the decision was called back. Halda was just happily packing to leave the place that had directly or indirectly killed or otherwise taken away some 7 of her pack, and then they decided to stay for a while longer.... OC I was very tired, had a headache because of the sun and a too warm costume, was tired of the grey layer of paint on my face and blah. But I kicked myself in the butt and accepted (like a good larper) the play Michael (Shunka) brought me. Now Halda has a goal again: find as much information as possible. Good thing she learned to read Guardion.

Made IC soup on Sunday, I was not going to take all the vegetables back with me again, and had fruit during the Time Out Talk. Checked out quickly and finally washed off the paint and walked around in my undershirt instead of the fleece shirt of my costume. It did take us very long to pack up the camp again, almost half of it going back with Matthijs and me. However, we managed to get everything in the car again and I safely drove us home.

Unfortunately the day that we're celebrating our freedom is not a day off, so I had to get out of bed 'early' this morning. It's a quiet day at work, though I know a huge project is coming up. I can't start building until I've been given the specs....

Next up is Aon 3. I need to get into the mood for it, but it is still a bit scary because I don't really know the group and I seem to have given myself another challenge: play a leader-type. However, the weather will be great and the costume won't be black and the location is familiar and lovely, other friends will be there. It'll be fine.

Written by Brenda :: 05 May 2008 - 16:16 :: Prrrr.. 2 Comments :: Link