Real larp making? (Timo)

Dragonbane Diary
Monday, March 6th, 2006
Souhern Finland

Sunday morning. I'm woken up too early. Kids deciding to play 'wounded lamb game' or something similar in the adjoining room. This needs a liter of tea to get my sore throat going and myself behind the wheel. I pick up another Timo. 2 hours later, we arrive in Turku for a meeting with Heiko about practical Dragonbane matters. The bootcamp is now defined and rather well planned. We also have a game time schedule, cool. Maybe we can get that published soon ;)

The evening passed as I was going through Dragonbane bills and financials. By 03:00 it's time to sleep.

Monday. 09:30 the alarm clock wakes me to a new day of Dragonbane. I wake up our SFX trainee who bunked also at Heikos, get some tea again and 20 mins later the guys start to arrive. It's time for our morning brief. Today is partners' day. Heiko had made a list of nine things to accomplish for a day. I had some more myself. It looked like a tough, but doable day.

We agreed on how to share the work and left for other meetings.At ~16:00 my phone died. It had recharged through the night, but maybe talking 3 hours on the phone was just too much for it. Too bad.

Back to the Dragonbane workshop; packing posters, flyers and other stuff. Recapping the results. The list shows that 8/9 tickers are done. Rather a good day, but it could have been better. Tomorrow is then the steel purchase day.

Evening darkens when I start driving back to Espoo. By 21:00 back at HQ. Only 27 mails since ~17:00, could we have broken e-mail server? *sarcastic smile* I'll take a bit some painkillers, get myself two liters of tea and start going through the e-mails.

Now, at 02:00 mails, the tasks and such are done. This is the last Dragonbane task for the day. A productive two days. And made much better by the knowledge that several dozen from our team all around the world were doing their share. I'll share one SMS from Esa with you "I'm in pitch black darkness boiling some cow horns. Stinks. The vaporised water clouds my vision. This is real larp-making. I'd need to document this somehow..."

Timo Multamäki