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Basically I thought I'd write up some more about the Live Game because I had a ball and mostly just explained my character in the previous post. Here goes:
I entered the jubilee party with my friends Chastity Moonlight and Simon Quimby (really Ned O'Toole) and Eliza Doolittle. These were my only friends to know my secret life as a pirate because they were all pirates too. Awesome.
Over the course of the night I was relentlessly pursued by Lieutenant Wedderburn, whom I had refused marriage to a few seasons back. He had decided it was because he didn't have a high enough rank in the navy and had returned to pursue my suit after obtaining Lieutenant. I on the other hand had no interest whatsoever. It became even more annoying when he began to suspect my piratical secret, I especially remember panicking when he insisted on kissing my hand only to examine my palm and declare:
"Your palms are much rougher than one might expect from a lady at finishing school" I told him off for being so personal and fled the conversation.
Other highlights include bargaining with Moriarty (Paul said I did a fantastic 'deer in the headlights' when he casually mentioned my ship), watching the divine Savoy Opera Ladies and the hilarious poetry competition. Dracula's BLOOD! poem was side-splitting.
I also enjoyed talking to Mr Ingram and was quite pleased that he was hired onto my crew at the end of the night (not that he knew whose crew it was) and that he would write a novel of my heroic escapades. Mash was very convincing as an annoying American.
Mad props have to go Dorian Grey (not sure of the real name there, sorry!) Who was very charming indeed and quite caught Artemisia's eye and interest. I was slightly annoyed at his continuing laughter at Chastity's name but I imagine I could have put it aside. Suffice to say: if Dorian had asked Artemisia to marry him she would have said yes. No one else at the Larp can claim that! Of course, all that is moot since he would never have asked, being too busy being evil. We would have made such a wonderfully evil couple.
Aside from heaping praise upon my pirate crew (heap! Heap!) the only other thing to say is that Eliza Doolittle and I were very miffed that after we asked H.G. Wells to find out for us what the puzzle piece was, he gave it away. We'd been hoping to fetch a nice price for it, but had made up a story about an anonymous delivery to hide the true discovery of it (found it on a German ship I sank 9 days earlier) so he'd innocently given it away to the rightful owner. Curses!
Finally, I was most impressed with those in attendance for whom it was the first ever Larp. I was most impressed with all of you!
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