RES: [UA] What Archetype would this guy be?

[Frank Lohmann]

"DL" <haroudo at terra.com.br> wrote:

> Btw, thanks god i never heard about any incidents in LARPs. Imagine if one
> of those crazies crash into a LARP and start to shoot ppl, thinking they are
> really armed/they are really vampires/ they are lunies/ etc. ...or better,
> dont imagine that, is too terrible.

A friend of mine tells the story of a Vampire LARP he participated in, where 
some Austrians brought *real*, *loaded* handguns and machine pistols to the 
event. They did not intend to use them, but they thought it would be nice for 
the "atmosphere" of the event to have real, functioning props (and that's Europe 
for you, where handguns or anything bigger are not easy to get at all - those 
Austrians bought the weapons in Czecheslowakia (before it spilt up, IIRC) and 
smuggled them over the border themselves. They had *no* permit at all! And it 
was all done just to look cool!).

I've personally saw a couple of times that people bring long knives (of the 
bowie and similar kind) to Fantasy LARPs and carry them during the event, and 
I've been witness to one incident where a rules argument between two LARPers at 
a Con turned *so* bad that one of the participants drew a knife (*real*, not 
boffer) on the other and had to be - violently - stopped from stabbing that guy.

We don't need misguided, heavily-armed psychos - they're already among us... 8(

And people ask me how I came to hate LARPing... 8(
	Frank

...who's well aware that the above examples were just unfortunate incidents and 
that most LARP folk are decent people, but who also just returned from the last 
LARP of his life (honest!), where a knife with a 15cm blade was found lying 
around at the site of one of the bigger boffer battles - one of the players had 
dropped it - and *that's* something which makes me feel uneasy and unsafe...

...oh yeah, and about that archetype thingie - I dunno, maybe a spectacularly 
unsuccessful avatar of the Masterless Man?	
-- 
Frank Cord Lohmann           
GEOMAR - Forschungszentrum fuer marine Geowissenschaften 
Wischhofstr. 1-3   24148 Kiel   Germany 
Phone : +49 431 600 2336



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