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Larp pictures and stories

I usually post my larp photos to Tumblr, which mainly consist of outfit and group pictures, but this time was different, partly cause this was a one shot larp so the story is fully finished and I can talk about every part of it, and partly cause we had a photographer there the whole time to snap pictures of the events as they happened! So I’m just gonna talk about everything lol, accompanied by some photos. This one’s gonna be long

So the Larp was called Mörkret Faller (The dark falls, get ready for a bunch of Swedish names lol), and it was basically a tower defense/zombie survival type thing. The lore was that we all lived in a village and had just heard the news that the evil Darkmaster has been defeated, and that the 100 year war is over. Our village was placed in a nation that worshipped the sun, the king, and the seven holy knights.

The first night was just a celebration that the war was over, and also a chance to get to know everyone else’s characters.

The larp did a thing that I’ve done once before and really enjoy, which is that when we signed up, we were given a list of “role types”, or archetypes or whatever, and they all had a little summary about what time of character they would be, and then you know, you could put your own spin on it. The archetypes were like, “The village elder”, “The innkeep”, “the protector”, “the hunter”, “the drunkard”, “the injured”, etc etc.

My role was “The Wellkeeper”, cause our village had a well that had been blessed by the king itself, and I was the one who kept the secret of what exactly that blessing entailed. Basically the water in the well was magic, and if mixed with the right flower it could be used to create a cure for someone who’s been darkclaimed, aka been infected to join the zombie group. Only seven vials could be used per day tho

There’s also a traitor who works for the darkmaster, we all knew it beforehand, so we were also lowkey playing Mafia during all of this lol

Anyways here’s my family!

I was super smart, cause I knew that if one of us were to die then we’d be wearing different clothes as a member of the dark army, so I took pictures before the larp started, which no one else thought of (I think)

So from left to right we have:

My little brother Sares, with the archetype of “The Darkmarked”, aka he was born with the Darkmaster’s symbol on his cheek, so everyone mistreated him his entire life cause they thought he was a curse. The guy who played him is a good friend of mine, he loves these types of roles and he did a really good job

Me :)

My great uncle Solfrid, with the archetype of “The Farmer”, the head of our family. Basically every other family owed him money so we were kinda rich, and he half a fair bit of power over everyone else because of that. Been larping with this guy since I was 13 and he’s genuinely incredible, always commits to his roles and loves to play just truly asshole characters that you love to hate

And finally, my uncle Arthur, “The Veteran”, the brother of my father who died in the war, and was kinda messed up after it. Not my first larp with him, but the first time I got to truly play alongside him and I hade a phenomenal time, he’s so talented

I genuinely could not have asked for a better family, I was so hyped when I saw who I was gonna play with

I also had a romance with another girl who’s gonna show up in some photos, she plays the smith apprentice and is one of my very best friends, our characters had like a Romeo and Juliet type thing cause Solfrid forbade it since she’s poor and I have such an important role, but yeah :)

Anyways, morning comes after the party, we’re all chilling, I was playing a card game with some other people when there were screams and suddenly a bunch of people attacking the guy in the straw hat, Imor.

One of the knights arrive with her squad, and here you can also see Imor struggling to get up after he’s been darkclaimed. Imor was played by one of the guys holding the larp (another guy I’ve known for many years and who’s truly incredible), and his role was to die pretty early so he could help run things backstage and handle the B-Team (Aka the people playing the Dark army), but he truly put everything into his characters death

You can see him here begging in his knees to be saved (After you’ve been darkclaimed you have about 5-20 minutes before you die). This photo has some other highlights, like the corpses strewn around, me chilling by the beam, everyone just kinda staring at this guy pleading for his life, and the guy leaning on the other beam, Nils, the Drunkard.

Nils is apart of the Scadu family, pictured here (Imor was as well, but you know he dead). The guy across from him with the tan pants is his cousin and his husband Hans (They have a bromance irl). There was also Lafard, the guy in dark clothes who’s played by another one of my irl very good friends, and Edefir, the village elder and Nils’ mother, played by someone who I’d never met before but who was really nice and did a great job. Nils and Lafard are the only ones who are kinda important, but I liked their family so yeah :)

Anyways this was a dramatic moments, basically there was another attack (There was one like every hour I swear), but one of the attackers (The lady dressed in white with the sword) played the dead sister of another guy, Octavio. Octavio got darkclaimed here cause he kept on trying to get to his sister, but his other two siblings used the cure to save his life. Apparently the guy playing him really wanted his character to die so he could play darkclaimed, but his siblings just kept on saving him lol

This is just a cool photo, I don’t remember the exact context, but the guy in red is like a commander of the Dark Army, played by the same guy who played Imor. Like I said he did great

Actually I think the context might have been an attack lol. This picture is funny cause there’s a guy who’s just been darkclaimed laying dying on the ground, and I’m just standing above him like You Good? Him and the other person standing above him were the siblings of Octavio, their archetypes were The Hunter and The Gatherer, and like their characters had names but everyone just called the “The Hunter and The Hunters sister”. Also the person who plays The Gatherer is my very best friend who follows me on here, so if ur reading this then Hi!!!! I love you <3

OKAY THIS

So this lady was supposed to die pretty early cause she was supposed to be apart of B-Team, but she forgot that she like, had to die, so after talking with the knight about it (Who was also like kinda B-Team, but also not really), they decided that during the fight she’d sustained an injury that she hadn’t noticed until now, and that she was dying, so she just suddenly collapsed and we all panicked. The knight squad had a mage with them who said that she could transfer the darkclaim from The Hunter over to her since she was beyond saving, which since we didn’t have any more of the flowers needed for the cure, we decided to do.

This action changed the entire larp

Cause like, none of us knew the backstory of why she’d collapsed. All we knew was that Morgana, the character, had been talking to the knight, and then suddenly she was dying. Plus, basically every character who’d met the knight prior to this knew not to trust her. My uncle sat me and my brother down and told us of how our father died, that she’d used him and his troupe as bait without their knowledge, and that she’d basically orchestrated his death. Lafard played the deserter, who’d had his boyfriend killed because of the knights actions as well, which is why he ran from the fight.

In fact, Lafard became the number one conspiracy theorist after this, telling all of us not the trust the knight squad, and that there was something fishy going on with Morganas death.

Which, again, there wasn’t. This was hilarious in hindsight

Lafard playing the deserter was actually a secret but like he told me by accident beforehand cause he didn’t know it was a secret so like oops, but the rest of the village found out halfway throughout the day. He was tortured by knight squad for it, cause they wanted to find out if he was the traitor or not, which he wasn’t, but you know that didn’t reaffirm our knight trust

Anyways here’s just a pic of me protecting my brother from yet another attack (Like I said, they were constant). I’m gonna dedicate this photo to talking a bit about my brother however, cause there was a lot of stuff going on with him that the camera didn’t capture.

Basically there were rumours spreading that he’d been sleepwalking at night down by the graveyard, which was mighty suspicious since he’s got the dark mark on his cheek, and also the Darkarmy would seek out dead bodies so he could revive them into the dark army.

Sares in general was very picked on throughout the larp, like during the party Hans stole The Hunters bow, and Sares slapped him for it, and Hans had to wash off his face ten times while praying while Sares was apologising on his knees for it, cause he’d “contaminated him”. I was like, semi-nice to Sares, like I wasn’t mistreating him and I did try to protect him to the best of my abilities, but I still treated him rather coldly

Then Sares got darkclaimed.

And I don’t think I fully mentioned it, but like the guy who plays Sares can fucking act, he was screaming and crying for someone to help him cause he didn’t want to die, and I’m screaming and crying cause my brother is going to die if we don’t save him, and it’s then that the knight squad decides is the perfect moment to get some last info out of Sares about his visits to the graveyard cause you know, he gon die, so they forced our uncle Arthur to torture the information out of him in the blacksmith shed.

Very dramatic.

The Hunters sister had told me that their family found another flower for the antidote, which they were meaning to keep on the down low cause again, limited supply and she only told me cause I knew about the process of making the cure, which came back to bite them very quick cause now I’m in their faces, yelling and demanding that they give me the cure so I can save Sares, which they’re reluctant about cause you know, he’s darkmarked, and the entire village kinda splits cause some want to save him since he’s still one of the people, while other say we should save the cure for someone more valuable. Eventually I manage to convince Octavio, the head of the Wynd family aka The Hunters brother, to give me the flower, and I speedran making the cure just as Arthur was done with Sares, and the poor guy only has like a minute before he strays, but I get the cure down his throat and hold him in my arms crying and it’s very dramatic, genuinely one of my fave moments from that larp. I genuinely cried at it, partly cause I really like Sares and I wanted to play more with him lol.

After that we sit down as a family and Arthur promises us that he will try to save us, both of us, even if he will die trying, which you know isn’t the most reassuring thing to hear from one of your last remaining family members.

(Also at this point I’ve taken off my poncho cause it was so hot, so now I’m low-key dressed as a hobbit)

I don’t remember what happened in this picture, I can clearly the commander from before but like I dunno what’s happening. I included this photo cause I’m kinda serving a little, even if you can only see my back lol

Also I never mentioned this, but the reason that the Darkmaster was attacking our village is because he’s after the well, cause the magic water used to make the cure, can also be used to make like, evil water. Idk, the stakes were high

My wedding! Arthur managed to convince Solfrid to let us get engaged, and then the priest (guy in yellow hat with the yellow target symbol on his chest) just asked if we wanted to get married straight away, cause then at least we’d die married. Which like, thanks for putting that energy over my marriage Sigfrid, really appreciate it

I wasn’t present for this photo, basically The Hunter and some other people (including my gruncle and wife) went to trade for weapons with some bandits in the woods. The reason I’m including this here is because while they were doing that, we were being attacked down in the village, and both Octavio and cousin Wynd who I don’t remember the name of were darkclaimed. Well actually, the cousin was darkclaimed and succumbed to it, but Octavio slit his throat before he could as well, so he wouldn’t come back. He did it right as The Hunter and The Hunters sister returned with the weapons btw, they had to carry his body away to be buried.

Also apparently they found another flower and placed it on his grave. We held a ritual with the mage to find more flowers, and she said one could be found ‘On top of Octavios chest’, and the Wynd siblings were standing on either side of her and just gave each other the most awkward look. There was a whole debate around this flower, if we should desecrate a dead man’s grave to possibly save someone else’s life.

I just think this photo is funny. Mans devestated

(Fr tho, the remaining Wynd siblings became wildly apathetic after the death of their family members, just sat under a tree beside each other and talked amongst one another)

SO HERES ANOTHER THING IM UPSET WASNT CAPTURED ON CAMERA

Yeah Sares fucking died.

He got darkclaimed again, during probably one of the coolest attacks of the whole larp, like the commander had a smoke bomb thingy that was “dark mist” aka you breathe it in and you’re instantly dark claimed, and they’re so many people cause like, keep in mind, every time someone dies during the larp (and people were dying a lot), the village lost a soldier and the dark army gained one, but like we won cause fucking Nils came out wearing a Dark Tabard, aka the same thing the commander had been wearing, and told them all to leave (which they did), and I thought for sure this is when we find out that Nils was the traitor, but no he just won it at the pub apparently, and it was a whole argument about that

Anyways, dead brother

Yeah we were out of flowers. The Hunter also got claimed, so his sister used it to save him, and I couldn’t save him this time. The commander did actually return to the village with an offer, one of the villagers in exchange for a flower, and my wife, Ygella, tried to do the trade but was stopped because I had told her the secret of the well, and The Hunters Sister knew that she knew, and if she fell into their hand then they’d know all their secrets so you know that’s no good, gonna be honest I wasn’t fully sure what was happening, I was sitting with my dead brother who was dying in my arms.

And then Sares stilled. Before stirring, getting up, and mindlessly limping away. I did a whole thing where I fell to my knees in grief, and I scraped up my hands and it really hurt :(

This is the moment where Sares comes down as a darkclaimed for the first time, and this picture was taken right before he fucking sprinted at me, which every darkclaimed had been like limping and stuff beforehand so that was terrifying, and was only stopped cause he was intercepted by Arthur

As you can see by this picture, things are going really well for me

So yeah. Ygella died. She had a lovely death, I did the Aragorn-Boromir forehead kiss, the knight blessed her body so she wouldn’t come back as a darkclaimed, and they carried away her body.

Also, a lot of fucking people died in that battle, including the priest, which like that’s what you get for putting such a downer on my relationship

(It was funny tho, after Ygella died someone called for the priest to come bless her body, and someone else just responded with “He’s dead!” “….Oh!”)

After that it was dinner, and let me tell you it was depressing as shit. At this point, we were like ten people left in the village, everyone had lost someone, we didn’t know what to do.

My family decided that the best strategy was to flee tho, cause like screw this place, let’s ensure the Helm family name lives on. Also I told them the secret of the well there, because my character was tired.

Before we fled, we actually gathered the remaining vials of magic water, cause even tho it could no longer be used for a cure, it could still drive the darkclaimed away, and one vial was given to The Hunters Sister, one was given to the mage, and one to me.

Except, when me and my uncle and gruncle left, I discovered that I’d accidentally brought the vial with me, which like oops. I told this to Arthur, and he offered to take it for safekeeping, so I gave it to him.

Also, apparently both the remaining Wynd siblings and Hans tried to flee as well, and though Nils managed to stop the Wynd siblings, Hans was gone, which meant that the village were now like, six people plus knight squad.

When we left the village we went to join up with the B-Team in the off house, cause like now that our characters were out of harms way, we’d be playing some nameless darkclaimed. It was also there where I got some bts info, like with Morganas death (The lady who played her found it absolutely hilarious how dramatic the village took it), and more importantly, who the traitor was.

It was Arthur.

MY UNCLE, whom I’d TRUSTED fucking BACKSTABBED ME

Gotta respect it.

Yeah so the entire day I’d just been feeding him information without even realising it, and like most of it I haven’t even been detailing here!

I mentioned to him for example that I’d told Ygella the secret of the well, and then during the next attack, the commander was screaming at the dark army to “get Ygella”, which confused all of us cause what could they want with her? Also apparently, the only reason Arthur convinced Solfrid to let me and Ygella get married in the first place, was so that he could sneak away and leave notes about it to the dark army!

I haven’t spoken about it much, but like I played a bunch with Arthur. We had a whole scene in the beginning of the day where he told me and Sares that the dark army had burnt our family farm down, and he clung to me as I cried (And Sares just stood awkwardly to the side, neglected). We hugged a lot actually, after every traumatic event I went through he was there to hold me, and I really came to trust him, which is why I told him about telling Ygella, and the secret of the well, and why I gave him the magic water, which remember that I did that btw.

I was very mad at the guy who played him, not like actually he did a great job, but like damn I was stabbed in the back there. He also told me that I made it very difficult to be the traitor, cause he did end up caring for my character, which is at least nice

Anyways, final battle time! As you can see, team village are pathetically few, and we were just a whole hoard and it was awesome. I am in this picture, you can see me behind the shield. I’m not playing my character, so I’m wearing a white mask over the bottom half of my face.

I’m not in this one, I just think Sares facial expression is funny.

Also the girl dressed in blue is so funny, her name was Fridolina and played the innkeeper and she did amazing in this battle, mainly cause she’s like 4’8 so small target, but with a fake broomstick as a weapon that was really long and she could use to smack people. All weapons did the same amount of damage, so like she was deadly on that battlefield

So this is the Darkmaster, the one in the silver armour and crown (I’m standing next to him :D). The guy who played him is also someone I’ve larped with for years, and he played this character so exceptionally, like for some reason he went for the most flamboyant route? This was the first time the Darkmaster had shown his face, so none of us were really expecting that, at least not me, but he did such a great job I love him

I’m not in this picture either, but it does show the epic showdown between Arthur (dressed in red now cause evil) and the knight. Arthur’s reasoning for turning to the Darkmaster was because of his brother, my father, and how he was killed because of the knight. So like he hated her, and I think he might have managed to strike her down here? I’m not sure, but I do know he didn’t die here.

Here’s another one of my brother doing a funny face, but also me lowkey serving in the background (Ignore the corpse).

If you look at the balcony you can see The Hunter and The Hunters sister using a bow and crossbow to snipe people, except The Hunter was struck almost immediately, so he was just sitting and reloading the crossbow for his sister.

The funniest thing on the entire larp happened not long after this photo, and it involved Nils, the drunkard. His backstory was that he used to be a commander for the Dark army before deserting, which is why he was constantly drinking, to forget his sins, and also why he had a dark tabard earlier. The guy who plays him is really good at fighting and did amazing in the battle, he’s great.

Previous in the day, Arthur had apparently like, hypnotised him though, so that if he were to start singing then Nils would immediately try to attack the knight.

So I was struck down, which when that happened we would worm our way to either the two commanders there, Arthur, or the Darkmaster so that they could heal us, so I was crawling towards Arthur and got a perfect view of the upcoming events.

Sares had also been struck by Nils, and Arthur bent down to heal him, without a weapon I might add, but then just looked up at Nils with a shit eating grin and started singing. The problem tho was that the guy who plays Nils had completely forgotten about this and was just confused, so he just bonked Arthur with his axe, killing him. Just as Arthur slumped over tho, he exclaimed a little “Oh right!” and started walking towards the knight to kill her, but was hit by another darkclaimed, and died instantly.

I was dying on the ground, holy shit. The comedic timing had been so perfect, it was such a funny end to both of their characters, especially since they’d been narrative opposites, both soldiers messed up from the war, one of them fighting for the king but deserting over to the Darkmaster because he couldn’t protect his closest, the other fighting for the Darkmaster but deserting over the king to protect his closest (I mean at this point his mum was dead, his cousin/husband gone, and his in married cousin dead, but still). They were both such dramatic characters that got sun an underwhelming death, and that’s what I love about larp.

Anyways believe it or not, the village actually won! The Darkmaster was killed, and a lot of the damage dealt to him was because of Fridolina and her fucking broomstick, never underestimate the power of an innkeeper. I think like five or six people were still standing at the end, two members of knight squad, and three or four villagers.

Here’s all of us! I’m standing next to the Darkmaster, with a very dirty face lol.

Here’s the full knight squad, the knight and the soldier made it through, the mage and squire didn’t, rip.

This was the priest family, their name was Lyckshell, at least I think that’s how it was spelt. The priest just kinda adopted three kids from what I understand lol. The guy dressed in brown had a bit of a dramatic story, after Octavio (who played the protector) died, he was appointed as the new protector and wore Octavio’s sash (which was way too big for him, it was a bit pitiful), and then he died in the same battle that my wife did. Guy with short hair dressed in white actually made it, tho his axe broke.

This was the innkeeper family, Hammtorp (My wife was in this family but she had to leave early, part of the reason why she died). The guy in the middle worked in the kitchen and didn’t participate in any of the battles and stuff so I guess he survived, as did good old Fridolina, slayer of the Darkmaster. Morgana is the one sitting down btw, she’s awesome she helped me with my makeup. Guy in blue played her partner I think, they’re together irl and he was devestated when she died so I’m just assuming they played a couple, and he was great too cause he was so panicked the entire time and was constantly yelling lol I love him

The Scadu family, that I’ve already spoken a bit about. Hans technically survived since he left, but I think all other members of them died, their mum a little earlier than the rest. Also Hans played the kleptomaniac and stole that bow I swear like ten times, so it’s only fitting that he got pose with it. The guy who plays him is a good friend of mine, we watch Barbie together and he also has Tumblr so if ur reading this, get better at answering on Discord bro

Good old Wynd family. There were actually supposed to be two more people in their family but they couldn’t make it, so they lost family even before the larp started. Despite that, The Hunter and The Hunters sister made it, despite hiding flowers and trying to desert. Good on them!

The entire dark army, like I said we were a bunch near the end, they started with only like, three. The best part about playing darkclaimed near the end was that it didn’t matter if the village or Darkmaster won, cause I’d be winning no matter what, since I technically had two characters.

And finally, the Helm family. See this is why I took that first photo, cause as you can see none of us are dressed as we should lol. The guy who played Solfrid also played the messenger of the king at the end who basically announced that the village had won. The apple that Arthur is holding is what was left after our farm burned down (he burnt it btw, I don’t think I ever mentioned that, I was fully manipulated that entire day).

This was one of the most fun larps I’ve been to, my character was absolutely miserable the entire time it was awesome :D

I don’t think anyone who participated at the larp is gonna read this (apart from my two friends) cause I don’t think they have tumblr, and if they do I don’t think they follow me, but if you are then thank you for this amazing experience and I hope you had as much fun as I did :)

#sounds so cool!!!#larp

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