The whole daylight savings concept? A laugh a minute for me, today. Screw this sleep jazz. I'm gonna keep pushing myself till I see the dancing penguins and shit, yo.

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So, you wanna hear all about the LARP, right? Right?

Well, no. You probably don't. But I'm pretty sure the penguins do. I am all about penguin satisfaction. I die a little, every time a penguin visits my site and leaves unfulfilled.

I swear, I'll stop babbling about penguins any minute now....

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So. LARP. I think I liked it. I didn't hate it, anyway. I'm willing to try it again.

We got there super early. I thought this was a good thing. The more I thought about it, the more the mechanics behind the LARP made my brain hurt. You want me to get out and talk with people for eight hours, and then I get to meet them? How can this be??

I thought it might be helpful for me to meet the people behind the characters before I met the characters. It seemed all around less funky that way. Trouble is, I'm actually not very good at meeting people. I smiled a lot, I said hi to a bunch of folks, but then I was kind of at a loss. I had no real conversations with anyone. Finally, I gave up and went and hung out with the people I knew till game time.

The game started, and I spent maybe an hour in the grips of paralysing shyness. The only thought in my mind was that this was somehow appropriate, and I should just go with it. I talked softly, and briefly. I became really good at avoiding eye contact. I got myself to the point that I was so nervous, I screwed up my background info talking with BT.

That really wasn't much fun at all. Gradually, I got out of it, but I still didn't accomplish very much. I actively avoided a few scenes because they frightened me, and apparently completely missed a couple dozen others. But, I wasn't really ever bored, either. Very strange. Maybe now that I kind of understand what's going on, I'll do more next time. And there is actually stuff I wanted to do, that I never got to try.

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