Once Drew was done telling the story, we were told that we would be divided into three groups. Two of the groups would hold off the gecko assault while the third would march through the center to destroy the siege equipment that the geckos were bringing in. I joined the group of Commander Leonidas.
The guy who was role playing Leonidas was nothing short of a bad ass. He sported REAL chain mail and had a chin that put Jay Leno to shame. To put it lightly, this guy had moxy and as long as this mother fucker was alive, nothing could possibly go wrong.
After some small talk within the groups, we got in our caravan and headed out to battle. That is to say everyone got in their cars and drove to the park. Once we got to the parking lot of the park, everyone gathered around for the battle plan. During this time, Leonidas assigned me to be apart of the shield wall. Not having a shield of my own, he grabbed one from the pile of staff weapons and threw me in front. Normally I'd be nervous with such responsibility, but god damn that chin invokes courage in people.
When everyone was ready, we all gathered around the camp fire to hear the awe inspiring war speech from Drew's character (I'm really bad with the names). It was at this point that we all discovered Drew's magic powers. During the speech, he spoke about the winds of battle changing. Once he finished that sentence, a massive gust came past us. This wind was so loud that Drew had to stop talking for several seconds. It was kind of awesome.
Once Drew finished his speech, the two other groups went into the forest to "scout". My group was left to wait until the "scouts" have returned. After about 5-10 minutes of waiting, one of the scouts returned with the location of the enemy. We marched for a few minutes and we encountered the geckos.
Now, at this point 20,000 thoughts are running through my head. A lot of it consisting of questions of confusion. In case you don't know or didn't figure it out, the geckos were played by the groups that were scouting. Because most LARPS are under staffed, they like to temporally recruit the players to play as NPCs. There are benefits to this like getting extra gold or exp when playing an NPC. I was unaware of this fact, so when I saw my player character allies as non-player character enemies, I thought that they were killed in battle and raised as gecko zombies...I'm not kidding. This is what happened when people forget to tell me things, I come up with my own solutions and reasons. However, I didn't have too much time to think about it cause these gecko zombie nerds are about to hit me with foam weapons and I need to make sure they don't hit the peeps behind me.
Remember how I said Leonidas was a bad ass and that if he was alive everything would be hunky dory? Yeah about that...he died...a lot. It wasn't till later that I found out that Leonidas' has been around for years and has ONLY spent points into HP. That's right, his ENTIRE strategy for battle is to run into the enemy's line, take out 5-10 of em, die, wait for the line to move forward so the healers can revive him so he can repeat the process all over again. Once again, I was not informed of this, so when I saw Leonidas die after pulling a Leeroy, my moral took a pretty big hit.
After about 5 minutes of battle, my character got hit enough that I started to bleed out, meaning I was at no HP and needed a healer to heal me within 30 seconds if I were to continue to fight. After 15 seconds of lying on the ground playing dead, a global "TIMEOUT" was called. Usually this happens when someone loses their glasses and needs to pick them up. Unfortunately, the timeout was called for something a little more serious.
to be continued...
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