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Stephanie
Joined: 23 Jan 2006 Posts: 401 Location: Wellington
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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 12:29 am Post subject: Al Shir Ma |
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Thank you, Ellen, Sophie and Dale! That was a totally awesome game.
A few of my favourite moments:
- the bit a little after the Sultan had been recognised when the entire court was instructed to avert our eyes so that he could become fittingly attired.
- Ephraim/Thomas' sterling efforts in leveling up in the romance stakes, particularly his totally non-faked fight with a desert shikh that demonstrated how brave and staunch he was.
- getting to wear almost all the jewellery I own at the same time, and still not feeling overdressed
- Cat's mourning over her husband. (Not at all happy, but very intense and sad.)
- And, of course, Hannah. Seriously, I spent the whole game being scared of her, and then right at the end we had this awesome reconciliation with tears streaming down her face. Waaaaaaaaaaaah....
G'night! |
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artemis
Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 718 Location: Wellington
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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 7:51 am Post subject: |
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Thanks everyone for an awesome game!!!!!!!!
Ellen, Sophie and Dale you guys did an amazing job.
Thank you especially to all my follow merchants and other assorted family- you guys were awesome.
Hugs
Nasia |
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Giffy
Joined: 25 Jan 2006 Posts: 55
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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 3:48 pm Post subject: |
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I had so much fun Thank you to everyone involved, it was a great "first post baby rpg".
The game was great and I really think the set dressing deserves a special mention.
Also had so much fun with my BFF Princess Mumtaz (things are going crazy around us with conspiracies and magic and returned family members etc and we were totally focused on our own little romance plots). |
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Thorog the Slasher

Joined: 16 Mar 2006 Posts: 69 Location: President of SAGA Inc.
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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 10:51 pm Post subject: |
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Wow, a bunch of plot that I simply didn't catch, being one of the merchants and more involved with making sure that my business ventures ran as planned.
I have to say it was a bit of a downer to be poisoned right as I was in the middle of a number of deals, and not being able to find anyone willing to give up an antidote (or cure poison) for love nor money. But then I got the fun job of trying to run the guild from beyond the grave, so it wasn't all bad. |
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Jenni

Joined: 24 Jan 2006 Posts: 378
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Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 8:58 am Post subject: |
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wow. What can I say?
Blair + Naomi you were amazing to play the emo love triangle with and it was so intense I had to leave the game so that I could stop crying and remind myself it wasn't real.
Thanks to Frank for being kind to me in character around then, and of course to Sophie for writing these characters. I thought everything was cut and dry and then BAM! Badi had lied to me OMG.
I'm pleased I got my ridiculously happy ending threesome, but I think I may be cured of that particular story line in LARPs. _________________ read more of my daring adventures at http://jennitalula.wordpress.com/ |
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Highwayman

Joined: 24 Jan 2006 Posts: 787 Location: Wellington
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Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 9:26 am Post subject: Re: Al Shir Ma |
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Stephanie wrote: |
- Ephraim/Thomas' sterling efforts in leveling up in the romance stakes, particularly his totally non-faked fight with a desert shikh that demonstrated how brave and staunch he was.
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Totally non-faked.
Have to say, the hardest part of the fight was getting Ephraim to face me, he was totally shocked to have a desert warrior approach, accusing him of insulting his parents.
He also thought he was totally going to die
And then everything turned out better than expected!
Cheers
Grant _________________ -=Mon Canard est en feu!=- |
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sophmelc
Joined: 10 Jan 2008 Posts: 782
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Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 11:26 am Post subject: |
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Hi all,
I just wanted to pop in and say, once again, a big thanks to everyone who played on Saturday night.
It was amazing to watch it all unfold and you all did sterling jobs. Thanks for bringing it to life!
Sophie _________________ Planning: A pulp/steampunk LARP, a sci fi short run
Reading: not much
Playing: Fall: A BtVS game, Reverie
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Adrexia

Joined: 19 Jan 2006 Posts: 2117 Location: Wellington
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Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 4:13 pm Post subject: |
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Jenni wrote: |
Blair + Naomi you were amazing to play the emo love triangle with and it was so intense I had to leave the game so that I could stop crying and remind myself it wasn't real.
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Yes, that was intense. I thought from the start that there was no good way to resolve that relationship once the ex was back in the picture, and I was just waiting for all my lies to come crashing down on me. I was so so sure you were going to pick him. I would have agreed to pretty much anything you asked of me. Talk about angst.
Very immersive Larp.  |
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nishatalitha
Joined: 25 Jan 2006 Posts: 99
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Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks heaps to the organisers - I had an amazing time, and the doubled character concept was lots of fun to play with (even if Karima never really got a chance due to Karen having a very strong anchor for the future).
Thanks also to Hamish - who was playing the strong anchor to the future, and the other WAGs of the Djinni group - you guys were great and very supportive of us all.
The marketplace scene right at the beginning was very intense and set the scene amazingly.
Everyone's costumes were amazing and the set dressing was absolutely fantastic. Big kudos to you all for the time and work that was spent on it all.
I'll post an actual write up at some point on my livejournal. |
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Jenni

Joined: 24 Jan 2006 Posts: 378
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Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 9:39 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | I would have agreed to pretty much anything you asked of me. |
Oh really? Heh...
seriously though, I just kept thinking about how much I'd loved the last 7 years we'd spent together and I wasn't at all willing to give you up  _________________ read more of my daring adventures at http://jennitalula.wordpress.com/ |
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Thimble
Joined: 30 Dec 2007 Posts: 8 Location: Palmerston North
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Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 11:02 am Post subject: Re: Al Shir Ma |
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Highwayman wrote: | Stephanie wrote: |
- Ephraim/Thomas' sterling efforts in leveling up in the romance stakes, particularly his totally non-faked fight with a desert shikh that demonstrated how brave and staunch he was.
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Totally non-faked.
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Thanks again for your assistance
How did your thing with the Sheikh of the Zaab go, by the way?
I tried really hard to scotch his marriage proposal to the Princess from Mumtaz's end* but I didn't really find out how it ended up. Still, I really enjoyed having you as a longlost best friend.
Other highlights were mourning for my beloved husband, even if he did take bribes, and regretting that I hadn't given him a son. And then a passing necromancer brought him back as a freebie. Wow. So I got to end the game happily married!
And I have to say, the Court was amazing. So elegant and graceful. Everyone pulled finger on their costuming and it was lovely.
* Uh, Princess, the peach he gave you was symbolic. He likes peaches. Juicy ones.
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If he married you, he'd be visiting your brother a lot.
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He likes going swimming! With his bodyguard! Alone.
Oooooh... |
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tog42
Joined: 24 Jan 2006 Posts: 316 Location: Londinium
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Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 1:33 pm Post subject: |
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My thanks to Dale, Ellen, and Sophie for engineering such a great evening. I had a lot of fun playing such an arrogant jerk. Everyone I interacted with was amazing but special mention to Katrina, Hamish, and Ants whom I was most involved with. _________________ Playing: Doomstones (Warhammer Fantasy Roleplaying)
Running: Dresden Files
Planning: Kapcon XXI LARP
Interested in Playing: Cortex Plus, Shadowrun, Any Supers Game |
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Joker
Joined: 25 Jan 2006 Posts: 110 Location: Wellington
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Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 2:00 pm Post subject: |
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To add more kudos, I had a great time.
I went in being quite unsure about what I would be able to do... Because my character had lost all his powers. (Which everyone and their dog seemed to know... Talk about busking like mad!)
I was vaguely expecting a big "save the town" plot line but whether by design or happenstance, my story wound up being very intimate and personal and family oriented. Quite sweet, with sadness at the same time.
I wasn't thinking it consciously, but I suspect that feeling of the passing of the torch was what motivated my big "The apprentice is now the master" speech at the end.
So it wound up being REALLY different to what I was expecting, but if anything, even more awesome...
Thank Nick, Daphne and, um, I regret that I forget that name of the player who played my father.
Thanks Dale, Ellen and Sophie for your hard work and intricate story lines. I'm really looking forward to reading the full writeup blog... |
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Dale
Joined: 23 Jan 2006 Posts: 286 Location: Wellington
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Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 2:08 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks so much for all the kind words folks. We really appreciate hearing how things panned out for your characters because we obviously weren't able to follow everything on the night and many of you advanced plots in directions we never really considered (and, of course, we love people saying nice things about us too ).
I'm putting together the full Al Shir Ma document now, and hope to be able to make it available soon as a PDF for interested parties, although beware, the character section alone weighs in at almost 200 pages! _________________ Playing: Delta Green
Running: BASH: Reverie
Planning: Rogue Trader |
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Highwayman

Joined: 24 Jan 2006 Posts: 787 Location: Wellington
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Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 5:51 pm Post subject: Re: Al Shir Ma |
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Thimble wrote: |
Thanks again for your assistance
How did your thing with the Sheikh of the Zaab go, by the way? |
My pleasure. It turned out better than expected, I didn't have the heart to meddle with his attempts to get married too much, but for some reason the princess turned him down At that point he was going to marry the daughter of the other Sheikh, but he'd left it too late, and she married someone else, so everything turned out well.
I felt very conflicted, but the conflict was almost entirely internal during this LARP.
Having you as a long lost friend was great as well, and may have reduced some of the rumours about the Sheikh as a bonus!
Cheers
Grant _________________ -=Mon Canard est en feu!=- |
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