What? But I can fly in real life. Here, I'll show you.
*climbs up on roof*
"The Hamidon is a what what of what?" - Brian the mission guy.
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Found this little story of what can happen if you take your Roleplaying too seriously:
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No, mate, you found a story about what happens if a sick person is given enough rope. The article says he was being councilled, and the psychiatrist needs to be lynched. Simple as that.
It's a funny story though: man steals lingerie because he thinks he's a female elf... um, since when have elves worn modern lingerie? 
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Since when have RP'd elves bothered wearing ANYTHING, let alone lingerie? 
@FloatingFatMan
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
The game he was playing was Shadowrun, it's a game with elves and dwarves and trolls in a futuristic cyberpunk setting.
They probably have lingerie in the future too. 
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It's a funny story though: man steals lingerie because he thinks he's a female elf... um, since when have elves worn modern lingerie?
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He's male - he probably thought that underwear was the normal dress code for females elves
@Golden Girl
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Found this little story of what can happen if you take your Roleplaying too seriously:
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No, mate, you found a story about what happens if a sick person is given enough rope. The article says he was being councilled, and the psychiatrist needs to be lynched. Simple as that.
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I know, my sentance was written very much tongue in cheek. I'm not a huge fan of smiley's though.
It is an amusing little story though and a nice one to share (as well as allowing me to have a little dig at roleplayers ). *smiley probably needed there*
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The game he was playing was Shadowrun, it's a game with elves and dwarves and trolls in a futuristic cyberpunk setting.
They probably have lingerie in the future too.
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But not tops with low necklines. That'll never happen. 
I love the game Shadowrun, one of my favourites - this story is frankly embarrassing
In my youth, we had the armed response team show up to a live Vampire game we were playing in. Was quite worrying... I kept the newspaper article though. It said we 'claimed we were rehearsing for a play'. Journalistic spin. It also said the weapon was recovered. Um.... What a load of crud.
Incidentally, that wasn't the only time the police turned up to a live Vampire session I was involved in, just the only one they showed up with automatic weapons at.
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The game he was playing was Shadowrun, it's a game with elves and dwarves and trolls in a futuristic cyberpunk setting.
They probably have lingerie in the future too.
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But not tops with low necklines. That'll never happen.
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Your overconfidence is your weakness
@Golden Girl
City of Heroes comics and artwork
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this story is frankly embarrassing
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This story is another example of why I think the BBC news service is going downhill faster than Eddie the Eagle.
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Yes, but if I was going to have to move in on Vampire LAPRers, I'd take guns. Big ones. Maybe some rocket launchers.
PS. I missed the reference to Shadowrun in the article. Persumably, he couldn't find a shop that sold leather lingerie, or rubber. 
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I would take garlic - if they're that involved in their RP, it will work wonders
@Golden Girl
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Surely crosses, garlic and wooden stakes would suffice?
@FloatingFatMan
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Its not the theft of pants thats the danger with RP'ing its the inherent satanism.
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Surely crosses, garlic and wooden stakes would suffice?
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White paint.
Spray a Vampire LARPer white and they'll run away screaming.
Maybe something in a nice pink would be good...
Works on Emo types too.
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This is true, but I've had to lapse. Finding a virgin to sacrifice in Manchester is getting just too hard.
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?!?!? Since when is RPing inherantly satanic?
@FloatingFatMan
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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Its not the theft of pants thats the danger with RP'ing its the inherent satanism.
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?!?!? Since when is RPing inherantly satanic?
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I can't believe you fell for that one, FFM.
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Garlic and crosses don't affect most Vamps from White Wolfs 'the Masquerade' setting. However, having someone shove a lump of wood in my chest would distract me somewhat.
I distinctly remember the female officer that turned up to. She was a might....unstable. Upon finding the cup sized lump of blue foam marked 'stake', one of the other players remarked to her that 'we could really hurt someone with that' (in his best sarcastic tone too), to which she responded 'its not funny, if you had pointed that at me, I'd have shot you without thinking twice about it'. Jeez...
Funniest moment of the night was the when they collected all of our names and addresses - a friend of mine was smoking a joint at the time <tut tut>, and thought it would be suspicious if he quickly threw it away or what have you, so continued to smoke it while she took down his details. Classy
We had some visitors from the Warwick vampire group visiting at the time. They said they'd had a blast, but they couldn't top the armed response team next time we went to visit them
It's been a long week... 
@FloatingFatMan
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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You just have to find the right group FFM
I think at this point I'll draw your attention to this thread on rpg.net. Man, if you've never roleplayed before, this will surely put you off trying it
If you can find it in there, read the 'Brazillian Death Squad' post... Holy cow.
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One thing I learned on my old LARP sections, never RP close to a police station. It is bad business.
One other "funny" (and I lose this on the most dark sense of the word) story, happened about 2 year ago here. Two guys went to the house of a friend. Killed him and his family, but not before clearing the bank accounts and robbing everything they could. Knowing that the guy played RPG, and the fearmongery around it here (blame the family and the christian zealots), they got some of the books (a bunch of GURPS suplements) and threw them around the floor.
The police arrested them, and they alleged that it was a RP session, and the kid they killed were responsible, that he had a devil pact and made they do this. Of course the press came back to RPG bashing. The police, during the investigation did one of the best thing I ever seen they do. After the re-enactment(sp?) of the crime, they put the two on the floor, gave them the books, some dice, and said "Ok, so you three were playing an RPG adventure. Go ahead and play one." Of course the two murderers had no idea what to do, what rules to use. Why the books were there. And their defense went downhill.
My guess, some of the cop's sons, must been players, and it was been bad for their image. So they called the bluff. It was hilarious. Although, of course, the press said nothing afterwards. Since talk good about RPG do not papers sell.
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We had them at our Colonial Marine LRP as well They said they knew it wasn't real when "two of the dead guys went outside to have a cig".
Personally our local preferred the Vampire lot to the regulars as they were better dressed, behaved and mannered.
But, back to the OP, the reason I didn't pay my council tax is that I live in a tree.
What? It's as adequate a line of defence.
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If you can find it in there, read the 'Brazillian Death Squad' post... Holy cow.
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OMG!!!
@FloatingFatMan
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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What? But I can fly in real life. Here, I'll show you.
*climbs up on roof*
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to quote Bill Hicks "if you can fly, take off from the ground"
Found this little story of what can happen if you take your Roleplaying too seriously:
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Have you ever "blurred that line between reality and fantasy"?