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[henshinyo]

I have learned that LARP uses beanbags for lightning bolts. We are wizards.. and you are throwing beanbags at each other?

[Individually Warded to: Anuhea, Ivy, Tabitha, and Zoey]
So it is only halfway through October and it is already a very wild year. I just wanted to check in with you privately to see how you are doing with classes, the senior project, rules changes, dance dates, etc.

As always, anything you tell me remains 100% confidential.

[Warded to Rafael]

You need to ban cute girls from wearing snakes in their hair. It is very important.

[Warded to Ravi]

I hope you are thinking very hard about who you are going to ask to the dance. And I will be very disappointed if it is just a friend.

Also you still have to tell me about your big adventure last weekend. I am so very proud of you.

[Aaand.. ward added later that really should have been added in the first place, but Sun-mi was too busy thinking about girls.]

[Warded to Rosy]

It has been a couple days now.. how are you feeling? Is there anything I can help with? Is there still a problem with Chloe?

Comments

[gdilevi]

We're soft nerds. So delicate. Beanbags hurt less than real lightning bolts.

[knightly]

It's how LARP works, Sun-mi. Weapons are made of foam, magic takes the form of spell packets. Which, yes I know, is ridiculous when we're all wizards, but we can't actually be letting people use offensive spells against each other. Someone could get really hurt.

[Sun-mi]
You know if I'm not allowed to ask a friend, I won't be asking anyone, right?

It was... nice. Very nice. At least, until Wes disappeared on the last morning and scared everyone half to death. Mr. Thorn seemed to think it was a prank, but... I don't know. The night before that [...]

Do you ever feel scared when you're out in the woods, Sun-mi?

[peanutbuttercup]

What, we should actually be shooting each other with lightning bolts?

[indiefolk]

Haha, LARPers are adorable. Every time I learn something about how LARP works, I'm delighted.

[henshinyo]

Poor babies. I can throw a beanbag very hard.

[indiefolk]

Please don't hurt Levi. After all these years, I'm kind of attached to him.

[lfmkarapst.insanejournal.com]

....foam? Shit.

[lfmkarapst.insanejournal.com]

I don't. I have minions for that.

[henshinyo]

It would be much more dramatic! Or at least some wand sparkles.

[knightly]

Foam. Maybe with a latex coating, or a fibreglass core that's well-padded. Or anything else that isn't going to hurt people when you hit them.

I know you're not implying anything, since we inspect all weapons in LARP. ;)

[lfmkarapst.insanejournal.com]

Oh no, my staff is real but I'm not swinging it around. My minions do most of my killing...attempted killing. I just look pretty. Wings axes are foam, promise.

What good warlock does the killing with her staff? Really.

[henshinyo]

If you are just wanting to learn how it works, you are missing the best parts.

But I know you already have learned what a heartthrob certain LARPers can be.

[indiefolk]

What are the best parts?

[...] Yeah, he's something, isn't he? He must be a pretty big hit in LARP.

[henshinyo]

I am more confused now. It is a beanbag... but what is a spell packet? I thought you would at least have nice big foam lightning bolts that I could borrow.

[Ravi]
Come, come, there must be someone in the school more interesting for you to ask. If you must, then a friend you wouldn't mind getting ~complicated~ with?

Hm... I usually feel curious in the woods.. but yes, there is something strange about the woods here sometimes. You clearly recovered Wes.. but what happened the night before?

[henshinyo]

Do not worry. I am banned for life from LARP.

It is a self-imposed ban.

[lfmkarapst.insanejournal.com]

I could make you those.

[knightly]

Oh! A spell packet is what we call the beanbags. Sometimes we made them ourselves out of biodegradable cloth and some bird seed, so if you lose a spell packet in the woods after throwing a bunch at people, they're not litter. I do have a few hardier beanbags, colour-coded for spell type, and there's tracking charms on them so I don't lose them.

[Sun-mi]
Ah, "complicated" sounds exactly like what I don't want in a relationship, if I wanted a relationship at all, which I don't. I'm already behind enough in Hermeticism.

It's... hard to describe. We were closer to the mountains, so it was very cold that night and I felt like... I was afraid of being alone, in case something bad happened. I don't know why I was worried about that at all. I've never felt like the "strangeness" in the woods wanted to hurt me, you know?

Ivy&Sun-mi

[duelled]

CLASSES: A+ with the exception of animagus studies which gets a solid C-
SENIOR PROJECT: A+
RULES CHANGES: B (finding buddies is hard!)
DANCE DATES: D
ETC. (HALLOWEEN COSTUME): A+!! We're gonna be so cute

How are you doing??

[peanutbuttercup]

The lack of combat drama is part of the charm. We have to make our own drama to compensate.

[henshinyo]

The story, of course! It is like the telenovelas back home.

Ah, yes, I think so. Though I do not think he is our only closet casanova.

[gdilevi]

Diego, save me! The beanbags, Diego, the BEANBAGS.

[indiefolk]

I'd let you hide behind me but you're so freakishly tall.

[gdilevi]

I can bend my knees and turn sideways. She'll never find me.

[indiefolk]

Oh, right! Ravi kind of explained some of that to me. Very briefly. Only for about seven minutes.

Levi? He's not a closet anything. He is a flirt though, that rakish cad.

[indiefolk]

Foolproof plan. I can't see this ever going wrong.