Halifax to Fredericton

Well, we said goodbye to Nova Scotia. But we got to see Ewan again. He's awesome, and he arranged to get us two games to film. In our eternal struggle to find unique people across the country, we are now going to film and interview gamers. And not just any gamers, these guys are into LARP (live action role playing). This will be new for me, I've only been around the table-top type.

But first a day to regroup and repack (our extra stuff was sitting right where we'd left it - I think I was kinda hoping it would vanish. Well, maybe not the tapes, but really, I don't think we're gonna need snow pants anymore. I hope.)

I also got the chance to finally update a bunch of these posts, though it will probably be a bit before this one makes it on the blog. It'll be nice when it's finally all up to date.

Friday night we got to hang out with some Werewolf gamers and film them playing. We left the mic adapter behind, so interviews were out of the question, but people were fairly busy playing anyway. I still have a hard time interrupting people if they're doing something to bug them for an interview.

And Saturday we got all we could hope for. NERO runs a fantasy LARP game over the Easter long weekend at an acreage. They were having tournament type jousting when we arrived, and we filmed a bit of that, and interviews with some of the players. We also got an interview with the reverend who put the game on and owns the land. Then Neil decided he's gone through enough withdrawals, and headed over to the NPC (non-player character) shed to get a costume and weapon. If people show up and want to play just for a session, they can be NPCs, usually minions of a villain or other lesser enemies that get killed off in a fight. Which is what happened to Neil, he played a mummy and got killed off in the battle. But it was fun, and when 25 people step out of the forest like it's the 15th century where they came from is awesome. Actually, I think I'd like to see something like this set up back home. And we also got a group interview with a couple of paladins, a few dark elves, and a bunch of assorted fighters.

And Ewan got some more awesome interviews for us. We spoke to two women who'd been living on the streets in Vancouver, and their perceptions of the cops and the situation. And we got to interview another friend, Sarah, who was really cool. She also makes a mean cheesecake. She came over for dinner, and then we had desert, and then we got drunk and made a huge giraffe/pig creature out of pink balloons. It was a lot of fun, really great night. And there were a bunch of other people who ended up coming over, but I totally can't remember their names now. Ewan, help me out :)