Sunday, June 24, 2007

my EFP4 experience

yeah so this weekend was the larp I have been talking about, Elencalion Formen 4. As far as I know it is still going on. Why I am sitting in bed with an headache that tells me I have slept too much is quite simple, but here's the story.
I played Sigrund, a young hunter from around Bree, she's the oldest of her 5 siblings and has an alcoholic father. She's a part of the traveling group. We had been in character five minutes when the first orc attack came, and my character got hurt, badly, they almost cut her leg of by the knee. But some medicine and elven healing worked, which means that we had an elf with us, pretty damned cool. Of course my character did not recognise the language as elven, but I did. Anyway, I faked an limp for the next 4 km. We walked untill it was so dark we couldn't see where we were going, made camp and sleept a maximum of 5 hours. We were out walking again before dawn came. And sleeping outside only rolled up in you cloak and a blanket is really interesting, can really be described. But yeah we were in the village long before we were supposed to so we played that the villagers were just asleep. We made a nice big fire, chilled, shared nuts and fruit, and one of out bards told a story. Then the person the orc had taken captive came back all 'bloody' and nice. In RL it was that the player couldn't walk that far because of a broken back. And them some of the villagers came, but they wanted us to be away from the camp for and hour or so while they got all ready. Making it looked like they had lived there the entire time. So we decided to go orc hunting, all ten of us against one orc.I was just taking a trip to the toilet before we went out, and on my way up there I hear something move in the forest, I turn and see an ugly orc head (he was in full make up and really hard to spot.). I had left all my weapons in the camp so I turned to run down to the others when I turned and tripped over something and landed on my elbow. I had to break game and asked to go see a doctor. One of the guys drove me and the organiser came with us. The first check didn't yeild anything but the doctor said I needed x-raying. So we drove to the hospital to get that fixed, by this time I had called my parents so they came. First x-ray said the elbow was dislocated, porperly, with the two bones that should make up the joint laying next to eachother in stead, and by the time I got to see a doctor so much time had passed that the mucles around it was really tense and nasty (that was five hours or so after it happened, five hours without anything to kill the pain I might add), so they had to really drug me down. First they put me on the standard stuff to keep me from dehydrating, and since it is really hard to find my blood vessels they put it in my wrist, looked really creepy let me tell you. Then they gave me something that made me go borderline under (they had two nurses just checking my breathing and pulse the entire time) and something to relax my mucules. Then they fixed it, I don't really remember that, I knew where I was and sort of what they were doing but Huang, Rande, Beets, Silver and Deads standing around me telling me how good I was. These are all rpg characters. Comming out of it was just like sobering up from a big bottle of vodka, minus the head ache of course. They took one more x-ray to make sure everything was ok and sent us home. In a week or so I am going down to remove the plaster. Now my arm hurts, it feels very tender. But anyway. If there is time I want to come as well when we are picking up my brother just to tell them I am fine.

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