List-making & planning

[oloriel]

With only three months to go until Rohan LARP IV, I figured I should start preparing. Three months in advance may be a bit early, but if I wait until there's only two weeks left, I'll doubtlessly be bogged down by term papers and building (March is a cruel month), I may as well start now and be less stressed and perhaps then I can relax in the usually stressful last two weeks, or do other things. (Procrastinating procrastination is an interesting policy.)

(I can't wait to LARP right now. I should have gone to Nögge after all, no matter the cost. >_>)

Anyway.
Stuff I ought to do:

Garb stuff: Theoretically my old garb should do, but an aditional shift would be good. And I should pimp my hood and cloak. They're both obviously Leonardo Carbone (a company who makes relatively affordable pseudo-medieval clothing), and while the quality is good, they're, well, obviously bought off the shelf. I'd like to trim and embroider the hems.
If I find the time, making new boots would be good; the old ones always have been a kind of make-shift solution, and after eight years one should be able to go beyond that. It's not that hard, and def. cheaper than buying.
Considering the weather we had last time, pattens might also be a good idea. (Incidentally, I was the only one in the Medieval Literature seminar who knew what pattens are. All I need to know for life I learned from geekdom, seriously.)

Char stuff: I already have collected and dried various herbs throughout the summer, so I have a good collection now. I do, however, have to memorise a lot of stuff about herbs, especially the healing variant, as my character can't read or write (although the Gondorian rangers tried to convince her that reading and writing is totally awesome and necessary, and perhaps in time they'll manage to teach her, but until then...) So I'll have to read up on wild herbs, and try to keep part of it in mind.

Spare time stuff: Actually I could do part of the embroidering at the LARP itself; handcrafts are a good IC occupation for moments when there's no plot, or when you need rest but want to be present, after all. But we'll also need to make wreaths and such in our "spare time" - the King is getting married, after all - and with cooking and dishwashing and awesome GMs, it's not all that likely that I'll have much time for embroidery.
But coming up with ideas for symbolic wreaths (somehow we have to make them suitable for a union between Rohan and Harad (this is the Fourth Age; we have overcome past hostilities)), and collecting appropriate plantstuff, goes on the list.

Music stuff: Our bard already warned us that she'd prefer if she didn't have to make all the dancing music all by her onesies so I've already begun practicing some historic dances on the recorder. So far I can play (In alphabetical order, with LARP-compatible names where extant):

-Allemande ("Rohanesque")
-Belle qui tiens ma vie
-Black Almaine
-Chapelloise
-Gallopede
-Gathering Peascods
-Hole in the Wall ("Calacirya")
-Indian Queen ("Sindarin Queen")
-Jamaico
-New new nothing
-Parson's Farewell
-Sellenger's Round
-Siebensprung
-Siege of St Malo
-Tourdion
-Traubentritt
-Upon a Summer's Day

If at all possible, I want to be able to play those fairly hitch-free, and with perhaps a few variations, and repeated often enough for a proper dance. Also I'd like to additionally get the hang of:

-All together, one after another
-Emperor of the Moon
-Pavane La Bataille
-Queen's Jig
-Siege of Limerick

(If anyone happens to have, by some weird coincidene, sheet notes of these, I'd be grateful if you could share them! Will make icons, art or even drabbles for notes. I can always use the scans of the original Playford ones if I must (except for the Bataille, obviously), but something more readable with, like, consistent tone length and variations and such would be awesome.
And I should be able to explain all those dances, too, because it's not certain whether Bella comes along or not and anyway it's always good when more than one person knows how it's done...

Our bard definitely knows how to play

-Bransle des Chevaux
-Bransle des Rats
-Chapelloise
-Folia
-Maître de la Maison
-Tourdion

and she likely used the time since then to learn further dances, too, so that gives us a varied repertoire (and probably waaay more than we can teach people to dance anyway).
Now we just need a harpist or someone who can play the lute and we can start making our own medieval historic dancing team.

- - -
And more is unrealistic anyway, so I'll leave it at that.
Unless I think of something vitally important, of course.

[/geek]

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/macalla_/]

Enlo ist diesmal mit dabei, gell? Sie hat mal sowas erwähnt. Oder war das LARP schon?

Und MUSSTEST du das jetzt schreiben? Jetzt muss ich dringend einen Artikel über unseren ersten Markt verfassen ... wie gemein ... wo ich mich doch um die Wäsche kümmern sollte ...

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Was soll ich hier alleine leiden? :D

Genau, Enlo kommt im April mit. Wir heizen uns die ganze Zeit gegenseitig in der Vorfreude an...

[lainvess.livejournal.com]

Ack. Ich hab Noten für den Siege of Limerick - zumindest auf Papier. Ich könnte sie also einscannen. Aber da ich sie aus dem Internet geklaut hatte, müsste ich sie eigentlich auch noch irgendwo digital haben. Fragt sich nur, auf welchem Computer. *hüstel*

...also, dieser hier schonmal ziemlich sicher nicht. Ich denke, die Wahrscheinlichkeit ist recht groß, dass es auf dem Laptop meiner Mutter herumliegt. Wenn ich damit richtig liege, soll ich sie dir dann zumailen?

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Das wär super! ^____^

[lainvess.livejournal.com]

Ich hab's gefunden! :D
Soll ich's an die Adresse in deinem Profil schicken?

Ach, und wo ich grad dabei bin. Vor Urzeiten hattest du mich mal gefragt, ob ich dir... öh, irgendeine Pavane, ich glaube, es war die Pavane d'Honneur; jedenfalls sollte ich dir die schicken. Und hab's nicth gemacht. (Wie überraschend, wo ich doch sonst immer alles mache, was ich ankündige... onyl not. *hust*)
a) War's die?
b) Brauchst du sie noch? Soll ich sie mitschicken?
c) Ich hatte bei der Gelegenheit eine Liste meines Tanzmusikrepertoires gemacht. Du wollen haben?

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Ja, ja, ja und ja :)

[lainvess.livejournal.com]

Wunderbar. Du hast Post :)

[chili-das-schaf.livejournal.com]

I don't have any of those but I've got a Schandmaul songbook. And my offer with the recorder lessons still stands, especially after Monday xD

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

This is going to sound ridiculous, but I'm terrified of shocking you with how bad a recorder player I am... >_>
(Yeah, yeah, I know, the point of recorder lessons is to get better, but still...)

[chili-das-schaf.livejournal.com]

Well, I taught children who started with one note (it was A). If you are better than them, you can't really shock me xD (really, just meant as a neutral always-open offer, you don't HAVE to take it :) it's not as selfless as it sounds, because I have nobody to play the recorder with and they gather dust)

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

But "playing the recorder with" someone sounds like someone who's on your level would be far more fun than just using your recorder to show me how it's done ;)

Actually I'd love to have someone else to annoy with my piping. Jörg sadly doesn't play any musical instrument (yet >:D). But I'm such a coward!

[chili-das-schaf.livejournal.com]

As there is nobody who plays it on my level, I'd rather do this than not playing at all ;)

Whenever you can brush up the courage, just leave me a note. I have tons of scores lying around just waiting to be used.

[mirien.livejournal.com]

Pattens saved many a wet weekend when I did Wars of the Roses reenactment! It's amazing how miserable constantly wet feet can make you feel and how smug and comfortable you are with dry ones! Saves on the shoe leather too. Mine were definitely one of my favourite pieces of kit.

My recipe for medieval happy was always a comfortable shift, a properly fitting (and fashionable! *grin*) kirtle, a decently warm hood, pattens and a warm (and again, fashionable!) gown. Bliss.

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

I have to admit that I only learned about pattens a year ago myself - one girl at the last LARP had a pair, and when the whole weekend was full of rain and later snow, I really got to admire them! (I had totally un-period boots with rubber soles, so I was ok, but I want proper boots, and pattens to go with them, too.)

[http://users.livejournal.com/macalla_/]

Und: hachja ... Trippen. Die will ich auch schon eine Weile. Beim letzten Markt hatte eine Dame welche mit roten Lederriemen.
Wir haben die dann immer 'Fetischtrippen' genannt *G*

[barbardin.livejournal.com]

Ooooh yes, you really should have come. It was magic and fun all over, despite the icy weather. I swear I well never ever forget the first sight of our Georgenhof buried under myriads of tiny diamond crystals..
Report to follow later this day/week/whatever. :)