"They Fit Just Like an Old Glove..."

Slightly later than intended, but here is my half-Resurgence, half-general gaming post.

After the Resurgence game on Sunday, I was trying to find the best way to write about it; whether I was going to write a letter or a stream of consciousness or a conversation or...something...

And actually, all I could think about was "Awh, it was so easy to get back into character...even after all these months...", which got me thinking.

Update!

Hello everyone, Josée here!

If you're wondering why the site has been somewhat quiet over the past few months, there are several different reasons, but the first and the main one is that the LARP season has sort of ended, and won't pick up again until early April. Resurgence is still running, but (reason #2), I live seven hours away during the term time due to my...interesting...level of geography skill (Universities aren't usually chosen for their extreme distance from home.)

However!!!

I am back home and I know of one Resurgence game occurring while I'm here. So...

Get ready for a Resurgence post tomorrow evening!

Josée
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The End of an Era - Shades

Hello everyone, Josée here.

I haven't been updating this blog recently as...to be honest...my gaming season has pretty much come to an end until April (when there will be lots of froth about one priestess' wedding!) so things have quietened down a lot. However...something has been eating at me for the past day or so, and I thought, "well, it's gaming related..." and so thought I would post it here.

A Reflection

Hello everyone,

Josée here.

I don't usually post publically about things like this, because there are certain aspects of my life I tend to want to keep private from the internet...but...I don't know. I feel like now is as good a time as any to write a piece here about some stuff that...made me who I am today...and lead me to be the gamer I am. So I apologise in advance if this post rambles, because I am writing down exactly what enters my head...as it enters.

Here, I should probably announce that there is minor description of sexual assault on a minor in this post. Consider this something of a trigger warning.

Alixandra "Ali" Greenwood [Resurgence LARP] : "Musings of a Troubled Mind"

[Josée's Note: This is nothing more than a stream of consciousness following the destruction of Smiling Jack. I found Sansa's Hymn by Karliene fitted the feeling of the emotion within it, in tone and tune at least. It's quite regretful and contemplative.] 

I walked away.

I walked away.

I hope, for my own sake, whoever is meant to be observing what I do was indisposed.

Alixandra "Ali" Greenwood [Resurgence LARP] : "Dear Nat..." #4

Dear Nat,

You do not know how relieved I was to receive your letter. I'm glad to hear you are faring well, though I was somewhat sad to hear you have begun to drink again.

"How Characters Were Germinated" : Lunetta [Part Two]

Since posting up my original "How Characters Were Germinated" post, I have had several people ask me "So...if you were in a nation you didn't want to play, why didn't you change nation?" and I thought - while I have explained this to some people in person, I might as well follow it up properly in writing.

Anyone who has read Lunetta's earlier pieces will know that in my first Empire game, Matthias and Reynard (played by my then-partner and a mutual friend) died in battle. To be completely honest, once I as a new LARPer had come to terms with my IC (and OC) support network being pulled from under my feet, I probably should have changed nation. I didn't, due to a number of different things.