Hahahaha just pretend I never wrote that thing about continuing "tomorrow". Or I could pretend that it's not almost an entire month later and instead just the 18.07.26 but how much of a cringelord would I be if I were to lie on my personal website about something that really doesn't matter in the grand scheme?

So yeah, my wife wanted to obtain alchemic ingredients and not only did I want to find the ingredients for her but also to maybe sell some so I could repay my debt. How hard would it be to find some weird glowing toads and mushrooms in the forest, hm? Turns out, plenty diff! But even then, one of the Game Masters opened up an opportunity to quite a bit of coin by requesting me to...acquiesce the wax seal of the court council. She didn't want to send me off with no lead whatsoever, so she told me I should keep an eyes out on the market. She definitely had hired the right crow-person!

The rest of that day was spent mostly with the two of us visiting the sacred forest, where we found jakob-darn-shite except for the sacred tree and a spooky path with a warning sign about how we'd meet our doom if we ventured further. After that — because the switch from Out-Time arriving and tent-building to In-Time happened pretty late around 1800 and thus our first workshops also started just as late — I made food. We bought wayyy too much. On our drive there, we looked up all kinds of easy-to-cook LARP recipes but of course the best the local REWE could offer was a sack of potatoes, a pack of apples, carrots, radish, turnips and a loaf of bread (which I stupidly pre-cut instead of keeping it as a loaf and cutting it as we go because that would have retained so much more moisture). We also brought a little bit of cheese from home, a bottle of olive oil, half a salami and a block of Schwarzwälder Schinken. We easily had enough for three days, but it wasn't the most varied. I can only remember that I made us grilled potatoe-apple-carrot...stuff with fire-roasted bacon on the second day. We also gave some of our food and mead to our neighbours after helping them figure out how they would best do the cooking in their fire pan. In return, we received a jar of homemade pickles!

Bosco looking cute as fuck

Our lovely tent

The second day was very exciting; we began the day with me starting the fire and cooking food (the kobold next to our tent asked if I were a hobbit for how often I feast hah!). After breakfast, my wife went off to a workshop for roleplay newcomers and those who aren't yet quite sure what their character should (or could) be. After the food was done and the fire burned far enough that a light water sprinkle would extinguish it, I joined the roleplay workshop, which was about 60% over by that time. The tutor was great in really bringing out some pizzaz from all of us and sharing her personal experiences with us. I hope she'll continue offering these types of workshops/classes in the future!

After that, we split up. Albrun (my wife's character) went to a workshop for ring-smithing by the famed Tholondrilsomethingandanother last of his Elven tribe's ringsmiths.

Record scratch

Fuuuuuck me, I just now had the thought of "Where did I put the ring she made me?" It's super cool and cute and I already forgot it once at work on the toilet when I washed my hands. After that, I definitely brought it home but fuck me I have no clue where I put it for safekeeping. This happens so often to me that I go "Yeah, I'll put it there because it's such an obvious spot and I won't lose it that way" and then I forgot what truly sensible spot it was. Anyway, we cleaned our flat the past days so now it's probably somewhere completely different because both of us struggle to find shit the first two weeks after cleaning.

All the while, I tried figuring out where those darned ingredients could be and I still kept my eyes and ears open for the court council's wax seal.

While I didn't find the court council's seal, I accidentally thefted the Baron's seal and presented it to the GM. She was a bit flustered, commended me for my skills and kindly asked me to better return it to where I had it from because it's not what she was looking for. I had a similar kind of weird luck with the ingredients. Couldn't find a single damn thing, only heard a lot of hints of where to get them and who already has some and such. The local crow-tribe (shamans that have a corvid god, if I understood correctly), helped me (since I also was a "korpi") to acquiesce some glowing toads from the alchemist's hut. The same then, later that day, also sold me another glowing toad and two(?) blue salts. Before that had happened, I made four(?) copper not by performing for a band of wandering lady's from the farfaraway-lands, but instead for teaching the basics of the hurdy gurdy to one of them. Coins in hand, I wanted to clear my debt, but that man was so lovely and just forgave the entire debt because I was such a poor little crow with no coin besides those four pieces I had made. Oh and I showed off my Speech 100 by bartering with two amulet-selling kids and got two amulets for one copper coin whereas they usually were two copper each! Clearly there's nothing morally wrong to see here, move along, citizen! In the evening, shortly before the start of the dance ball, it was so late in the event that we saw no chance of getting enough ingredients to brew a potion ourselves, that I was cleared to sell them to another player and was given a silver coin, which we still have now and it looks so pretty!

More will follow, but it's 0102 and I'm too tired and too employed at a job that requires me to sleep, so I'll have to stop here for now.

We're back from our first LARP in ten years. It's my wife's first LARP ever and I've only been on three or four others before; one as Player Character, two as NPC and one as helping hand to the GMs. That particular Con was organised by the people from Schwert & Magie and I can really recommend at least this specific one. It's an Ambiance Con, but in lieu of not really having quests, there are In-Time Workshops which players can freely join (well, as freely as they feel like it would fit their character). Schwert & Magie have other Adventure/Combat Cons they organise, as well, and they now have two very large areas which the main organisers actually fully own. That massively helps to keep the cost of the tickets down (I think around 50€ per person for the early-birds and 80€ for the non-earlies

My wife went as Albrun, a hermit herb lady who lost her alchemy book. I went as Quendel, a crow that had been transformed into a human against his will by a sorcerer when he stole a ring for Albrun and is now using his fingers for music while on his way to get himself transformed back. We also brought our Eurasian Bosco, who played Albrun's and Quendel's black bear cub Bosco! It's crazy how many workshops there were, actually! A few of the ones we were interested in happened to be at the same time. Sad and pressed for time, I joined Mr. Pfeyffer's Small Knot Class and immediately put myself into in-game debt by borrowing copper from another player to buy the knot handbook. My wife and our bear went to the Alchemy Basics Class, from which she brought back my main objective for that and the next day. She was looking to get a hold of glowing toads, bright golden mushrooms and blue salt which could only be obtained by thievery or trade.