Event Review - Worse things Happen at Sea

[Doyly]

Pros
- As a new player and first time larper I didn't feel left out or an outcast not knowing really anyone. Everyone was very nice and helped me out where I didn't know what I was doing.
- The NPCs were awesome! They didn't feel like cardboard cutouts like with some RPG type games
- Talking with the PCs. Like I said I'm a first time larper so I've never experienced storylines that weren't made by the people running the game but they people playing it!
- The Goblin! That little goblin that was running around for what seemed like only to drop bombs, be skittish, and be neat!
- The puzzle! While Doyly in no way could have helped with the puzzle, the idea that if you fail it explodes, but if you succeed YOU FIGHT A MONSTER was a kinda lose-lose situation which was cool!
- That murder. When those 2 people got attacked it was a real curve ball! Some people saying it was the Ice Elf, some saying it was the Wood Fae, some saying one was framing the other, and the whole time having people hunt them down! I still don't know who did it!
- My inner conflict! Some many times Doyly did not want to kill anything but his friends kept either dragging him into fighting or they were in danger and he had to help! Doyly felt bad about killing a lot of things all day
- Having that scout. I was really nervous how we were going to start. I thought almost for sure it was going to be us getting off the boat and than just wondering in hopes of finding things. But having the Scout Daniel as a starting point was great.
- The tribes. Having the snake people The Rain Vines, the Wood Elves The Two Feathers, a mysterious Blood Moons and the seemingly evil mountain ocrs.. I love it all.

Cons
- Having to carry those bags all the time... I thought we'd be able to have a fire at some point some I brought pots and pans along with a bunch of food. Only learned that I couldn't with 2 hours left, and only then was I able to put it down in a safe place.
- I DIED! Haha but no really. I was killed in the fight to get the stones and laid there for a while before someone lifted me up and brought me to the healers, only for them to remember I am a Gargylen and need a blacksmith. Like i said I died. But when i got up to walk away we had a bunch of people who weren't healers back with them. If one of them came and picked me up in time... It was still fun dying i must say. But I was only 8 second into my death counter.

Overall it was one of the most enjoyable experiences of my life! Getting to BE a character, if only for a few hours, was awesome. Everyone who had done it before talked about all these other characters and other larps very casually. But to someone who had never done anything like that before... I'm sold on being a larper for life now!