Darkon: A Larping Documentary
My friend
::Wendy::
has many circles of friends, and several of them converged
at the
Elephant and Castle Pub in Seattle last week
for her send-off party,
resulting in a night-long game of
Venn Diagram
as you tried to work out which groups intersected how.
I got to meet in person some of ::Wendy::'s blogger friends,
including
Jennifer
(aka
"Piehole")
and
LaCroix (not her real name),
the person who
tipped me off to Yaktrax earlier this year.
Jennifer in real life is pretty much exactly like her blog persona:
boistrous and hilariously outrageous.
LaCroix was a surprise:
Although her writing appears methodical and subdued,
in person, she's intensely energetic and charismatic.
Once you start talking with her, you somehow just want to be her friend.
It's no wonder that she has her own
Cafeteria Boyfriends.
At some point during the evening, I mentioned the movie
Darkon,
a documentary on
the
Darkon Wargaming Club,
a band of Live Action Role Playing aficionados,
known perhaps pejoratively as larpers.
We were all fascinated by the idea of the movie
(Grady Hendrix of Slate calls it a "must-see"),
but alas it doesn't appear to be showing in the Seattle area.
We'll just have to wait for it to show up in the video rental stores.
