Not the worst larp idea we've had

[learnedax]

Idea by dkapell, embellished by me.

Death by Letters Patent
OR
Fess Up

Someone's been tampering with the records. The whole College of Heralds could have sworn that 'Quarterly, argent and sable' was a long-held device, but no one can find it on the rolls... And when Gerold Blanders, gules a couped stein or, the loudest antagonist of this new submission, turns up ashen in a pool sanguine, palewise a dirk proper, it uncovers a heraldic stain that counterchanges every expectation!

I doubt we would actually run such a thing, but a lot of you would play it, wouldn't you?

Comments

[bkdelong.livejournal.com]

Sounds almost like a submission for "10 Bad Larps". ;) Just for the shear knowledge of heraldic terns needed. Definitely something that could be run as an event during a camping weekend.

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

I don't know, heraldic terns seem to look pretty much like terns. Much more recognizable than some beasts.

[bkdelong.livejournal.com]

African or European? ;P

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

Well, South Africa has a heraldic history, and they should have terns, but I don't know that the latter shows up much in the former. Maybe a few times. A springbuck would be much more likely.

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

I believe it should be called "Black and White with Red All Over".

Or "The Couped, Deadgra".

I'd like to stop now.

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

Ok, I'll bite: what's deadgra mean?

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

Wacky phonetic misspelling of Coup De Grace. I was abusing the common American mispronunciation of the term. (Playing with the coupe on arms.)

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

Ah! All becomes clear.

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

Alas, explaining kills funny.

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

D'accord.

[matildalucet.livejournal.com]

It made me make an anguished noise, so it was not for naught.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Looks like you need a straight man.
I'd play it.

[dsrtao]

This serves as notification that I hate you with the passion of a sun in splendor proper.

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

Oh, pellets.

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

PS Please phrase your notice in the form of a submission. We'll get back to you in a year or so. Unless we forget. You won't understand our answer.

[dsrtao]

...so you received the submission and cashed the check, but the submitted references for the device are missing even though they are on the same sheet as the references for the name which you accepted? And now you can't find either of these references, and somehow this is my fault?

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

Indubitably.

Meanwhile, Brigantia is sunning himself in Bermuda.

Makes one murderous, yes?

[dsrtao]

Only in a game. In RL, I shrug and say "I don't actually recommend registering anything until there's an advantage to doing so."

[liamstliam.livejournal.com]

I would love to play. but alas, I cant.

[peregrinning.livejournal.com]

Why is it that this, of all the replies, made me smile and laugh?

Looking for a relevant song, I found the acceptance letter for:
----
Baldwin of Erebor. Badge. A dove displayed upon a billet chequy Or and gules between a pair of cockatrices clad in motley like a fool's, their feathers are dimidiated with a tree eradicated, limbed and fructed countercompony.

Note: Fields and tinctures of charges need not all be specified in a badge. This is a special exception to the rule against complexity and does not constitute a precedent. Please see the drawing and story appended at the end of this letter.
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And then, of course, there's my song, "Sable a pile or, rondelly gules, a chief invected argent." :-)

[cristovau.livejournal.com]

I'd be there with six guns emblazoned.

[laurion]

Oh goodness yes. Or if not, a modestly entertaining novella.

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

With such a checkered past it's no wonder that device causes trouble.

...yeah, I'd play it.