I am the fountain of affection

I NPCed for a second run of thekinginyellow's The Dance and the Dawn LARP (from locke61dv's RPG) and it was just as much fun as the first time, though harder to photograph (because tighter quarters). New pictures and old are up. It's quite possible to scrutinize them for plot points, so if you aren't spoiled for it and might want to play it at Vericon, well, don't scrutinize them like that!

Seeing the same scenario played twice with different players was really interesting. saxikath and I did that with Live-Action Clue once upon at time, but that was partly a way of debugging the rules of the game. Given that some of the characters are heavily based on Utena characters, thekinginyellow noted early on that it was like watching the TV series of Utena and then movie of Utena. Variations on a theme.

The players are mostly trying to find their true loves by the end of the game. Unless they're just trying to screw things up for potential true loves. I am simply fascinated that essentially the same pairings ended up happening this time around, though in some cases for different reasons. Emergent TDaTD behavior? If it happens a third time I'll be inclined to suggest that the GM is wrong about who should end up together. ;-)

Now I dissect the end games some. LARPfic! No, no, not really. That would be truly scary.

( If you want to remain unspoiled for the LARP, go no further. )

I listen to the Slice of Sci-Fi podcast, and it gets so much voicemail that's spawned its own separate episodes of the show. And this is a transcript of a fabulous 6-minute-long voicemail from the April 6 voicemail show (#51). It starts about 4.5 minutes in if you want to listen to yourselves. I would totally credit this or ask permission if I knew who to ask, but there's no attribution given. Forgive the SoSF in-jokes.

( And this is for all the gamers: )
The part I will take away and use repeatedly is "Think carefully about who you'd switch sides for, but really dwell on who you would double back for." Heh.

http://locke61dv.livejournal.com/180162.html

The Dance and the Dawn is an RPG locke61dv wrote, and there's a LARP spinoff running this Saturday (re-running a scenario I'm already familiar with, so I can't play). It's very spiffy, combining courtly manners, ballroom dancing, the occasional swordfight, and the search for Twoo Wuv. Go respond over there if you're interested. I recommend it.

EDIT Thursday: I think it's all cast now.

So, there have been news stories about this giant elephant robot in London, but they typically only have one picture from afar, which really doesn't do the whole occasion justice. Luckily, there are fuchsoid's journal entries to fill in the gaps. Giant robot elephant! Giant puppet little girl! Who arrived in a steampunk wooden space capsule! And apparently the girl then got on a scooter, though there are no pictures of that.

... dude!

Off to enjoy local art now. Probably Mad Oyster and then Union Square today, since we've missed that area the last couple years.

EDIT: Other London pictures made it to Making Light. The official site. BBC galleries.

(fooled some of you with that title, didn't I?)

I'm listening to "Great Big Stuff" from the musical of "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" on the radio ( www.wers.org ). It always gives me the giggles when broadcasts bleep this song, because the lyric "the fashion plate I date'll give me hummers in my Hummer" always becomes "... ******s in my Hummer".

... *gasp* They didn't bleep it! They bleeped "shit" in the next verse instead. ZOMG!

Riffing off of arsmith's entry of a few weeks back:

clauclauclaudia's LiveJournal popularity rating is 4.73/10. clauclauclaudia is more popular than 99.57% of all LiveJournal users. clauclauclaudia is more popular than 78.5% of their mutual friends. How popular are you? LJ Popularity created by thehumangame.

I find this interesting. It's a logarithmic scale. The median popularity rating is 1.25, and, eyeballing, I'm in the top third of the popularity range for my mutual friends list, but all but about four of them are above the median.

Which means we're all freaks (well, almost all). Usual LiveJournal usage is to have a solitary journal or a couple friends, and *not* to have friended anyone you don't personally know. What I think of as the "LiveJournal experience" is to be part of these overlapping webs of acquaintance and shared culture... but it ain't necessarily so. Or if it is, then the essence of LiveJournal is experienced by a relatively small proportion of LiveJournal users. I think that's more likely.

But if you're Boston-ish or Montreal-ish and you'd like to see Wil Wheaton do a signing nearby, he needs to know pretty darn soon. Eventful is a nifty site. If you might want to click to demand anybody else's presence, then I recommend registering there, but you don't have to to register a demand.

Context here, Boston clickable thingy below. See his original post for Montreal clickable thingy.

"Wrath? I gotcher wrath right here!"

Nobody pours out wrath like sgw.

Another lovely Seder. I do so love them.

( nerdiness score )Next post will have non-meme content, I swear. Tonight, I hope.

Courtesy of notashamed in moody_girls.