The sight you see above is basically all I saw today. The Maryland Renaissance Festival runs for three months every fall here in my area, and this was my first excursion. I was hoping for some LAFL-able material, but alas, all I saw were trashy girls finding an excuse to dress trashier than normal so that their boyfriends (goatees required) could drool all over them. But the food was good.
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26
Sep
09
Maryland Rennaissance Festival
Some guys have a repo show, and they went to go take some guy’s Prius. While he was LARPing in the woods. Awesome.
Best lines:
“You shall not take my steed, sir!”
“Is that any way to treat a princess!!”
Name: Mazlow the Faker
Occupation: Faking Other People’s Occupations
Realm: Ardsayan
It’s been over six months since we’ve seen any activity on the MatchMaker: Love at First LARP front, and for good reason. Number one, I ran out of pictures. Number B, I did such a good job hooking up my LARPing brethren that there just wasn’t any single folks out in the realms any more. Well, spring is in the air, and just like in Bambi, people want to hump again – even nerds. But I’m still having a problem finding good LARP girl pictures, so I will loosen my self-imposed rules and start to use pictures of girls outside of the realm of LARPing. Lord knows, there’s no shortage of LARP guy pictures on the webs. Let’s get to it!
Mazlow the Faker (pictured on the left) has been going through a bit of an identity crisis. He is never happy with who he is, and therefore he tends to pretend to be the people he’s nearest to. You can see him here trying to shadow his good friend Goel as he spends the afternoon hunting some Gelflings in some soft and squishy Saucony trainers. This dude needs a woman, and bad. Someone to whip him into shape, and to make him happy with himself. I think I have the perfect match…
Continue reading ‘The Return of MatchMaker: Love At First LARP! (#17)’
Did your parents used to ship you off to a run-down camp by some stagnant lake each summer when you were a kid? Was it a place where you made naugahyde wallets, slept in a rickety bed and had to play tug-of-war on the team with the kid that had the harelip? Wow, Your parents were bastards.
Well languish no more, hearty squire! Lo! Thou mayst henceforth enter the realm of the Wayfinder Experience!!!
Strap in. Here is camp’s self description:
Imagine a world where heroes and villains engage in a never-ending battle between good and evil, where the laughter of faeries is echoed by the roar of dragons, where powers exist that can raise the dead, heal the wounded, and harm the living, where oracles prophesize and rogues slip quietly into the night…Now imagine yourself, within this world, able to choose where to go, who to help, who to fight, and who to save.
Amazed? Confused? Angry without direction? Let me break it down for you. This is a camp where kids can build self esteem by LARPing their cares away. If your boy or girls feels sad about being a big ol’ nerd then you can just send them off to Wayfinder (called that because they help you find your way, get it?) and they can build confidence by engaging in hallucinatory battles with other like-minded children.
“But, Tyler” you ask, “it can’t possibly be that sad, can it?”
“You’re goddamn right it can”, I answer.
Continue reading ‘The Wayfinder Experience: Why go to normal camp when you can go to LARP camp?!’
Names: The Barking Spider Brothers
Occupations: Really Bad Thieves
Realm: Imhin
The Barking Spider Brothers have a bit of a gas problem – okay, it’s a big problem. They fart wherever they go, and MAN are they stinky. Don’t believe me? Take a look at the picture above; just a few minutes before I snapped this photo, they were standing in a lovely green forest. One huge fart later, and they’re standing in a dead forest.
I mean, just look at the middle brother – he’s about ready to explode again already.
Continue reading ‘MatchMaker: Love at First LARP 16 – Triple Edition #2!!’
If you’re anything like me, you might be a little bored with this one-on-one matchmaking. So let’s spice it up for a bit, by tripling our output!
Names: Polat, Ramos, Tanris (aka The Dough Boys)
Occupations: Comic Mischief
Realm: Ther’eldo
The Dough Boys have made a bit of a name for themselves in Ther’eldo because of their crazy hijinks. These misfits are best known for that time they went cow tipping at a local farm, not knowing that the “cows” were actually just cow-shaped bodybuilding black mages. They got their asses kicked for like 4 hours straight, and videos of them getting drop-kicked by cows circulated in YouTube for quite some time, making them minor internet celebrities.
Mischief aside, these poor guys haven’t been too lucky with the women. The thing is, they’ve grown so close over the years that they refuse to not be in the same room at the same time. This gets a little awkward during two major times – showering and love-making.
Continue reading ‘MatchMaker: Love at First LARP 15 – Triple Edition!!’
Name: Aughkin the Comfortable
Occupation: Warrior
Realm: Asyer
Aughkin the Comfortable like to be comfortable. Just look at the wonderfully fluffy fur cloak he wears. You think he wears it to stay warm? Pshah, he’s suffering for fashion. And that long, wavy hair? He loves the way it flaps against his ears in the wind, deliciously tickling his little lobes.
I could go on and on. I mean, look at his crotch protector – the thing is snugged-up to the max, to give him that comforting “cupped” feel. And a fur-lined belt? Do I need to keep going? Okay, I will – he owns a water bed. There, I said it. It’s the pinnacle of comfort, even in the mystical world of LARPing.
Name: King Sheanrad the Bored
Occupation: Um, King.
Realm: Empol
King Sheanrad is the latest in a long line of kings that were super-bored. You see, many generations ago the then-king of Empol, Felagy, employed the services of a witch to remove some unsightly moles (347, to be exact) from his face and then stiffed her on the payment. She then cast a powerful spell of boredom upon him and his royal court, and since then everyone has been super-bored, all the time. I mean, just take a look at him and his sister, Onll. Suuuper-bored. Even their jester (pictured behind them) isn’t having a good time.
By the way, if there was no curse, King Sheanrad was going to be subtitled “the Babyface” instead of “the Bored”. Poor guy hasn’t shaved a day of his life.
Name: Dratin
Occupation: Fighter
Realm: Sulkin
Okay, I’ll just be out with it: Dratin has a small penis. I know, I didn’t want to go there, but it’s important to my tale. You see, Dratin is a compensator. I mean, look at all those massive, phallic horns sticking out of his armor! And why do you think he has such long hair? It’s to fool people into thinking he has a long…something else. And did you get a look at his sword? The poor idiot went into the armory and bought the biggest sword he could find – paying no attention to the fact that he accidentally bought the cardboard display model instead!!
Name: Oldine (“Fingers McGee”)
Occupation: Rabbit Warrior
Realm: Itusk
Oldine looks like your ordinary rabbit warrior (if there ever was such a thing, but that’s a topic for an entirely different conversation), but his freakishly long fingers make him the laughing stock of his people. Poor guy gets called “Fingers McGee” behind his back all the time.
Hey, did you see Fingers McGee the other day? Sorry sap tried to buy and eat a hot dog – he ended up biting really hard on one of his fingers, and he ran home yowling in pain!!
And we all know what happens when somebody has no friends and locks themselves in their room cursing bejeezus for giving them mutated appendages – they develop weird fetishes. And what Mr. McGee Oldine really wants is a girl with ridiculously long fingers, a dragon’s head and a predilection for leg warmers.
Not a tall order, if you ask me.
Lots of people don’t know this, but dogs are LARPers, too. And sometimes, they need loving just as much as we do. Unless they’re spayed/neutered. Damn you, Bob Barker. (Note to self: Remember to take that line out whenever Mr. Barker kicks the bucket.)
Name: Chompers
Occupation: Dog
Realm: Keltor
Chompers is actually a pug/spider mix. Don’t ask. Anyway, he’s had a hard time finding dates because of all his extra appendages, but the ladies seem to be forgetting something – having a ton of legs in bed can get very interesting.
Continue reading ‘MatchMaker: Love at First LARP 10 – Puppy Dog Edition!!’
Name: Ageran
Occupation: Studio Drummer
Realm: Inausk
Ageran, professional drummer known all throughout Inausk for his use of unconventionally-huge drumsticks (pictured above), has a hard time finding work. Problem is, he has two strikes against him:
1. He’s Middle-Eastern. What, you thought that super-anti-terrorism and xenophobia were only in America? Sheesh, Americans are so self-indulgent!
2. He looks like a tiger, and as we all know, tigers are the most badass of the big cats. People are scared he’s going to gut them the moment he starts to feel a little peckish.
And women-folk? Don’t even ask. He hasn’t been on a date since September 11th.
Name: Angrr the Angry
Occupation: Orc, Dragonslayer
Realm: Tia’ilde
Today’s matchup is pretty simple. Angrr the Angry is the only orc in town that works as a dragonslayer. His “unique” career choice comes from a deep and simple need – he loooves the color green. So much so that he slays dragons just so he can take their skins home and put them on his wall (hell, it’s easier than putting wallpaper up, trust me).
What he really wants is a green wife, but as we all know, only trolls are green, and they HATE orcs. Usually.
Name: Tinen
Occupation: Crowned Prince
Realm: Yeraban
Tinen, heir to the Yeraban throne, is one self-centered bastard. He feels that making a grand entrance is sooo important that he actually has two fire-breathers follow him around and breathe fire every time he enters a new room. Yes, you read right – every new room. That may sound ridiculous now, but imagine when he wants to go to the royal bathroom to take a royal dump, and he’s got fire-breathers all over him!
But this fire-breathing has caused a bit of discomfort for “poor” Tinen. It gets HOT standing under fire all the time. What he needs is someone to cool him off.
Name: Beyt
Occupation: Fighter
Realm: Lonab
Beyt has a nasty habit of killing every man he sees in sight. Raised in the realm of Lonab (which we all know to be populated by only women), he never met a man until he was old enough to wield his trusty duct-tape axe. By the way, you think that being raised by women would have made him a bit better at sewing his own clothes.
I’m dead serious, he kills every man he sees. Just look at the picture – he’s resting his axe on a corpse from just a few second beforehand. And he’s a great warrior, although his only weak spot are his eyes, which he keeps shielded by sacred glasses of protection. His killing has gotten out of hand, and he was recently expelled from Radlor University and forced back home to Lonab.
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