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Below are the 18 most recent journal entries recorded in
Stephanie Pegg's LiveJournal:
| Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 | | 9:06 pm |
LARP: But Nobody Loses An Eye!
(Oops, one more place to post this. Apologies to people who have seen it already.) But Nobody Loses An Eye!
It was supposed to be the greatest day of your life, the pinnacle, you doubted it could ever be cooler than this; you were invited to a birthday party. But now you're here you're not so sure: someone's widdled in their shoe, the little kid next door is hyped on sugar, the birthday boy is crying, and now you all have to play Pass the Parcel. Just pray they don't get round to Charades or Pin the Tail on the Donkey.
Join the horror of a 5 year old's birthday party: the laughs, the tantrums, the food stains. But it's OK - nobody loses an eye!
Introduction
This game is about the magic, chaos and terror of childhood. The characters are children in the 4-7 age bracket, at a fifth birthday party. While there are some competing goals and personality pressures in the game, But Nobody Loses An Eye! is mostly about giving people licence to let loose their inner five year old.
( Read more... ) | | Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 | | 10:08 am |
Tsunami Alert
In case anyone reads LJ but not the news, there is a Tsunami alert. I think they're expecting a wave of about 1m to hit New Zealand, but even so, I recommend staying off the beaches. More details on arrival times here. | | Friday, August 28th, 2009 | | 2:59 pm |
Interested in Live Action Roleplay in Wellington?
(Hoiked from Amphigori.) We're having a meetup on 6 September at 1pm at JJ Murphy's to discuss getting more LARP going in Wellington. All interested parties are welcome to attend - even if (maybe especially if) you've not done much (or any) live action RP before. We're keen to get everyone's input on what kinds of games they'd like to see run and get your feedback, suggestions and ideas. More info can be found here: http://www.diatribe.co.nz/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4041 Hope to see you there! | | Sunday, March 30th, 2008 | | 9:38 am |
Gosh
It turns out that Amazon is bullying small publishers. It seems an odd business decision - most of what I buy from Amazon are the rare and hard to find purchases that small publishers specialise in. | | Monday, January 28th, 2008 | | 1:57 pm |
Sanctuary: The Aftermath (Afterlarp Report)
Introduction Sanctuary was a theatre style live roleplaying event written for up to 66 people, held at the annual KapCon roleplaying convention in Wellington in January 2008, written by myself, Naomi Guyer and Sean Broadley. It had a low fantasy setting inspired somewhat by A Song for Arbonne and The Princess Bride, and was billed to potential participants as a festival held at a religious sanctuary. Also, we said, there might be a certain amount of romantic comedy. This was the largest theatre-style larp I’ve ever helped to organise and I feel it is worthwhile sharing some of the insights I gained as co-organiser. I had a great time organising this larp. My co-organisers brought a lot to the table and I think that we complemented each other’s strengths and weaknesses, which is always a useful thing. I learned a lot, just as much from what didn’t go as well as I would have liked as the things that were great. My general comments to future larp-writes are: don’t be afraid to run romantic and emotionally heavy plotlines; do highlight to players what kind of experience they’ll have; and do what you can to get people comfortable with each other in and out of character before the larp begins. And do what you can to psyche your players out with genuine surprises in the game. Best of luck. Stephanie | | Sunday, September 16th, 2007 | | 6:40 pm |
In which I am tagged...
(Courtesy of Morgue: http://www.additiverich.com/morgue/archi ves/002129.html) 1. You’re stuck inside Fahrenheit 451. Which book do you want to be?
Erm, Freedom and Necessity by Steven Brust and Emma Bull, I guess. It's a very good book with lots of interesting characters, and everytime you think you have a handle on what the book is about it suddenly changes direction on you. And Friedriech Engels is a secondary character, and Karl Marx puts one of the primary characters up for the night, which has got to be a recommendation right there. 2. Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character? Not nearly so interesting a crush as I've had on real living people. :-) I suspect that the fictional characters that I find interesting I probably wouldn't get on with well in real life. All the spiky sparkly things about them that make them exciting to a passive reader would likely make them very annoying to try and get on with. 3. The last book you bought is: The uppermost book in my DCM book sale bag is The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book by, well, Arthur Rackham. But I also got The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham, an omnibus of the original Sherlock Holmes stories, a book called The Unfair Sex (written in the 50s as dating advice to young women and was all about how reprehensible men are, although really it should be The Unfair Sexes because the advice the author gave on how to behave was pretty damn reprehensible to me.) And some fairy stories which ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) repton_infinitykept trying to steal. All hail the Downtown Community Mission! 4. The last book you finished is: Howard's End by E. M. Forster, a love story told in food and furniture and real estate. Part of a university course I'm reading right now on novels. I enjoyed it a lot, although I found the pacing a wee bit odd. It's like Forster got four fifths through and suddenly realised his deadline was two weeks away, so he squished half a novel worth of plot into the last fifth. 5. What are you currently reading? Passage to India, also by E. M. Forster. (See comments on university course above. This would have been a somewhat more varied meme a couple of weeks ago when I was on study break and reading whatever I felt like at the time. type: The secret history of letters by Simon Loxley. It's a slightly racy history of the development of type faces (although it isn't very detailed about the varieties that turned up in the 15th century*), and is actually quite interesting. 6. Five books you would take to a desert island. I am at a loss to answer the question. It would probably depend on what day I was going to be kidnapped. Um. OK, a try. Freedom and Necessity. Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers. Hicksville by Dylan Horrocks. A Civil Contract by Georgette Heyer. Um. Inspiration fails me. The Uplift War by David Brin, I guess, that happened to catch my eye in the bookshelf. 7.Who are you going to pass this stick to (3 persons) and why? elven_alchemistbecause I think she's read a lot of different books to me. allovabecause she's a literature geek like me, and we're always fantastically interesting. And modest, too. :-) clarityburntime because she usually has something insightful to say. You have permission to not answer until February 2010. (Steph adds: Or at all. :->) * Says the girl who recently had to identify a typeface from c1475. It turned out to be from the 'Fere-humanistica' family which was popular for about 25 years in the second half of the 15th century and was developed from the bookhand used for scholastic and theological texts. But not bibles. Back then they used a bookhand that was the inspiration for what's now called 'blackletter' or 'textura' to do religious texts and legal documents. All this came from another book which was of the more boring reference quality, rather than the one that I took home and started reading all the way through. Very likely this is far more information than anyone really wants to know. | | Thursday, June 7th, 2007 | | 11:40 am |
KiwiNoWriMo
Some of you already know about NaNoWriMo (that's when a whole bunch of people take November off to pump out a 50,000 word novel. It's not about quality, it's about getting the words on the page. :->) Anyway, November inconveniently falls in the middle of Uni exams for many Kiwis who would otherwise like to participate, so they're holding a Novel Writing Month of their own over June and July: ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) kiwinowrimo | | Thursday, November 16th, 2006 | | 7:00 am |
Sorry about the hacker
I was in an internet cafe (with a bunch of boys playing shoot em ups) and my hour ran out before I could log off. I'll be a _lot_more careful about that. | | Sunday, October 15th, 2006 | | 9:06 pm |
It turns out...
...that a really nice way to cook chicken is to fry it with ground ginger sprinkled on top. My folio for Monday is finished, printed out, and bound nicely. It looks just lovely. | | Wednesday, September 6th, 2006 | | 10:54 pm |
| | Sunday, September 3rd, 2006 | | 11:12 pm |
Gosh.
I just watched a TV show in which statisticians, mathematicians and data miners are cool, sexy people who help the FBI solve hard cases. Since I know a few, I've got to say I had no idea you guys got involved with police work... Numb3rs | | Thursday, August 17th, 2006 | | 9:11 am |
Wellington Movie Night: Mighty Aphrodite (Classics Fundraiser)
As you might know, mashugenah and I are going to Greece this summer, and are begging, borrowing and (ahem) not stealing as much as we can to help out financially. To that end, we present the Classics Club Fundraiser Movie Night: Mighty AphroditeA Woody Allen movie about a couple whose adopted son Max turns out to be brilliant. Lenny becomes obsessed with finding his birth mother who turns out to be a porn star/prostitute/dumbest but most likeable person in existence. It's based on the structure of a Greek Tragedy complete with a chorus, an appeal to Zeus and a deus ex machina finale, so should be a bit of fun. Check out imdb if you like - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113819/maindetailsFriday 8 September (first week back after the break) Doors open 7pm, movie starts at 8pm. Inverlochy House, 3 Inverlochy Place, off Abel Smith St in Te Aro. Tickets are $20 for adults and $18 for students. The ticket price includes a glass of wine and a small platter of medezes (greek nibbles) for everyone. Contact me or Mash if you'd like to come, cheques should be made out to the Victoria University Classics Club. | | Friday, July 21st, 2006 | | 1:46 pm |
Pseudocide
Have you ever wanted the sympathy and attention of a near death experience, without actually having to nearly die to get it? Apparently, some enterprising LJers have found a way. Reposted from allova. | | 8:36 am |
| | Tuesday, April 4th, 2006 | | 12:55 pm |
My Half Second Of Fame
TV3 just came into my lecture to get a background clip of students for an article about University funding that I think will be screening tonight. For what it's worth, I may be in it. | | Thursday, March 9th, 2006 | | 4:58 pm |
| | Sunday, February 26th, 2006 | | 12:40 pm |
The Sleep of Beauty
I wrote this earlier in the year, and sent it to a friend who'd published stories for feedback, and he gave me some very good advice which I find, on reflection, that I very much don't want to take. So for better or worse, here it is as originally written. ( The Sleep of Beauty ) | | Sunday, February 5th, 2006 | | 12:26 pm |
Is anyone in Wellington looking for firewood?
A friend of Norman's just delivered a trailer load for $80. Will take a couple of weeks to dry, chopped up small enough for a Kent, he helped me stack it around the back, and he even threw in a chopping block. He said there's heaps more and to pass on his phone number if anyone's interested. |
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