Michael Segal

So, E4 completed. Farewell Dadford, hello Steeple Chase. Bourse position won for the 3rd year in a row. 6 months of the long dark to go, miss everyone already.

In other news, off to Japan soon for nearly a month. Busy learning odd phrases that I hope will get us through without embarrassing us.

E3 done. 1 more until the move to Cambridge. At the moment my legs are on strike and my neck won’t move properly thanks to sleeping on the ground. Record attendance- over 4,500 people and I am expecting more at the final event.

…and then I had a partial stroke. 2025 is just turning out great. Oh well, a few weeks until E3. Unless
I come down with bubonic plague or something similar.

Anyway, 2 more events and then we are Cambridge bound next year.

#Stroke #E3 #ProfoundDecisions

Oh look - I have pneumonia. Lucky me. Verdict is in: it bloody sucks - if my blood oxygen level drops from 91% (current level) to 90% then it will be hospital time. Do not pass ‘go’ or collect £200.

#pneumonia

Oh and the topic for E2 is ‘how to kidnap an orc without leaving any evidence’. Purely on a theoretical basis, of course.

#ProfoundDecisions #E2 #Empire

So E1 has been and gone. Think I might have stretched myself too far but managed a lot of things, including: hunt for a lost Varushkan crown, turning 4 people into berserkers, trying to corner the ilium market, told not to make contact with a Sovereign (which I ignored) etc.

#Empire #E1

Less than two weeks to go to #E1 and I am waiting on my latest vyshyvanka to be delivered. Most other things have been packed and a lift procured to get me on site when the gates open.

The WoF have opened up a
new RP opportunity as well.

Keen at maximum level…

#Empire #ProfoundDecisions

IC tent hired (Rent Bell Tents), positioned on the Varushkan plan (if the area gets any smaller we will be living in the same tent). Just waiting for weather predictions now.

#ProfoundDecisions #Empire #E1 #Varushka

Started running - 3 days later shin-splint again. Need to find a running route through one of nearby woods, just running on concrete paths since it is very convenient and doesn’t involve me being taken half a mile to start.

#NoRunningAtEmpire #FirstWorldIssues

Just been thinking… should we be preparing to meet the returning spirits of the Iron Helms at the Feast of the Loom? Last time a thing like this happened people got slightly murdered…

#ProfoundDecisions #Empire #E1 #Varushka #FeastOfTheLoom

Must.Stop.Buying.More.LARP.Kit

*goes off to order more fur*

And so it begins…

Soft kit being assembled for E1 with a few Long Dark additions. Base layers as well as Varushkan kit. Warm items to be packed if the forecast is wet or rainy (or both). Boots at the ready. 3 weeks to go…

#ProfoundDecisions #Empire #E1 #Varushka

My wife is in bed with flu. I phoned up some of her friends to let them know. My conversation went like this: “Hi, Caroline can’t make it tonight she gone down with… (brain said flu, my mouth said)…Leprosy”

My daughters cat (she is staying with us whilst her flat is being refurbished) has bitten and scratched my leg now on 5 occasions. Each bite had got deeper and deeper and we were considering last night going to A&E.

He hates me and the feeling is mutual.

I’ve just done my ‘I have epilepsy post’ on the #Empire ‘Spoonie and disabled Empire Larpers’ Facebook group. Fingers crossed I have had only 2 seizures in 11 years at Empire but they are are getting more frequent.

#LARP #Empire #ProfoundDecisions

I need to stop telling people that my Imperial title is “the butcher of Tolvoli” which open to misinformation. I am the Tolvoli Butcher, (ok probably the same issue as above).

I won with 0 votes despite opposition. Campaigning does work!

www.profounddecisions.co.uk/empire-wiki/...

#Empire #LARP

Well the potential lack of a
London bus this year will mean a drastic slim down of the stuff I take to #Empire

No staff, no 1-h or 2-h weapons,no shields for example. I’m non-combat but I like to have stuff that other members of my sect can use.

#Larp #E1

All pretty selfish but it is going to take me an hour to get to it rather than 5 hours in each direction 🙂

Gym day 1: got flu, in bed. Is this a divine sign? Is this an unwritten 11th commandment which specifically stops me doing any form of exercise? I am giving it a week for me to recover and then try again.

Signed,

Deeply Suspicious

It’s going to get worse next year, unless there is a rethink about camp positioning, as the amount of walking will go up.

In an effort to make the return journey from Varushka to Wintermark in less than 2 days, I have joined a gym to try and raise my cardio fitness. Yes I know it is only 6 weeks to go and I am likely to be a total exhausted wreck but it is the thought that counts. I think.

Where is the toast then?

In other news, Berkshire Blue cheese, sourdough crackers and honey makes the day worthwhile.

Well going up into the loft and then cracking your skull
and potentially your plate (MRI in 2 weeks) by standing up under a cross beam is a great way of spending a month away. Migraines and feeling nauseous every time I move my head is just fine and dandy 😳

Note: having a seizure whilst in the shower is not very clever. Between smacking my head on the wall and water-boarding myself under the shower head it doesn’t have any plus sides.

Note 2: locking the bathroom door, even though you’ve been told multiple times this might happen, is stupid.

In the middle of a disaster area now (that maybe some hyperbole). Floors removed, utility room still not built, electrician seems to have gone on strike, laptop fell between two large boxes of stuff, screen open and now smashed.

Still, Dark Urge run destroying everything
is therapeutic.

#BG3

All my LARP stuff now placed into my own small room in the loft. Clothes on rails, armour on stands, weapons neatly stacked by type and miscellaneous equipment stored in boxes. Really pleased with the result 😀

Ready for Empire!

#Empire #LARP #ProfoundDecisions

Hoping that my custom made lamellar is returned. It gives me bruises all over my body when I wear it (especially with chain mail underneath) but it looks so good.

I took a dip in yesterday and the racism, xenophobia, and general insults and anger left me depressed for the whole day. As more companies leave X the more Musk doubles down. His latest post is trying to launch MEGA - Make Europe Great Again.

Busy building a BG3 alt with the highest AC possible. Currently on AC35 which makes me invulnerable to 99% of all opponents and I am now multi-classed into 5 different classes

Now all I have figure what to do when they use magic. Power Word Kill is proving tricky…