WC LARPs?

Rami Sihvo

Spaceman
I was just wondering about have you heard about
LARPs wich were based on WC saga? To those who don´t
know what LARP is, it stands for Live Action Role-Playing.
I´m a LARP-nut and actually keeped few WC-based
LARPs couple years ago.
 
What? Really? They had a Live-action for WC? How exactly would they do fighters and enviroments? Probably lack of membership caused it to colapse?
 
That sounds interesting. How were the Kilrathi shown? I have to say, that LARP is nothing for me, I find it hard to keep serious but some guys really have cool costumes. Plus, most of the gadgets are very expensive.
 
Yeah, it was bit much to arrage. Funny that everybody asks
about those fighters, you see they didn´t really exist in
game, but pilots did go to "flight deck" wich was off-game
area and flow simulator there. Place for game was four times
in basement and two time in forest beacuse of ground mission.

No, i didn´t have F/A-18s flying overhead :(

Most major problem was cosume beacuse not everybody
has navy uniform ;) I give premission pilots to be in overalls and
special forces people and marines were in forest green camouflage suits, wich are quite common around here. Special forces used black berets and "space commandos" wich i ripped from SAAB, lilac and green berets.

With Firekkans i decided to dump the "bird people" idea and they were like forest people and clad like medieval.

Kilrathi were quite easy to prop, but i didn´t find any 2,2m tall
players so they were as long as players were. I had one furry-fan frend who had made few masks wich were quite good. Kilrathi
clad mostly in medieval clothes and fur.

Conflicts were usually played with offical games, but handguns
were used as "SHOT! SHOT! BURST!"-style. One time we used
BB-guns.

The games old pages are still in web so here is couple of pictures from larps and one fan film.

http://personal.inet.fi/cool/sipi/rr5/kuvia.htm

Larp serie ended beacuse most of players began study
or had to go in army. I could make another WC-larp
in some day, but thats just dream. You all are of course welcome
here if you afford flight ticket to Finland ;)

I heard there was somewhere in US Battle of Terra-larp where
Confed marines tried to take over Hakaga-battleship. I heard that
marine players were cornered when ships capitan decided to
activate self desctruct... They used laser-taggers in that game.
 
Hehe, looks very strange but not uninteresting. And from what I saw, the KIlrathi mask was indeed not bad for being self-made.
 
If there was one of those near where I lived, I'd be in heaven... aaawh... Damnit, that mask was pretty good for home made too.
 
That mask was largely made from old sofa ;) I´ll pass
your comments to my frend. There was also some plastic masks, but they didn´t were as good.
I think there should be WC-larps in US too. If there is only 5 million people in Finland and 5000 LARP players and enough
WC fans to make several LARPs there should be some of
them in US too...
 
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