Boredom...thats what started this topic. I was sitting around looking at all the people that play this game, and there is alot, and it made me start to wonder what kind of people play this game. I know we all come from different walks of life but I was wondering exactly which roads us people have taken. Sooooooo let me be the frist one. (Reminds me of a myspace survey....sorry)

Name: Richard Thomas Duchesneau Junior
Character Name: Willum Gryswald
Years Larping: 6 (this Novemeber)
Sex: Male
Age: 24
Birthday: July 28th, 1982
Status: Taken (Girlfriend)
Occupation: Employment Specialist (Job Coach for the mentally handicapp)
Location: Hampton, Connecitcut
Favorite Music: Country/Classic Rock
Favorite Movie: Action/Fantasy (but my favorite movie is Chasing Amy or Boondock Saints)

Think Ill stop there. Just basics. Wondering about everyone else.




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Name: Erica-Ann Berger
Character Name: Ilsa mer Noche
Years Larping: 12 total, 3 boffer/12 r-p-s
Sex: Female
Age: 26
Birthday: October 8, 1980
Status: engaged to be married (may 5th!)
Occupation: Gaming Store Co-Owner (RPG!)
Location: Spencer, MA
Birthplace: Waltham, MA
Favorite Music: Everything. Celtic, Rock, pop (shoot me now)
Favorite Movie: Movie type? Anything beautifully done. Between my fiancee and I we own over a thousand DVDs. But out of all of them, three musketeers,, disney version.

I'll bite

Name: Warren Derek Herrera
Character Name: Vanyasule Varthahin Mactoron
Years Larping: 20 (Fall 1988)
Sex: Male
Age: 38
Status: Taken (Girlfriend)
Occupation: Software Engineer / Mechanical Engineer / LARP Manager
Location: Cambridge, MA
Favorite Music: Techno/Electronica, Swing
Favorite Movie: Classics (To Catch a Thief, Philadephia Story, Casablanca)

Derek



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Name: Monique Ducas
Character Name: Kialli! Um, no, ok. Petunia, Chione, Galea, Mother Munificent, um... some others...
Years Larping: Some. 5? 6? I'm no good with time.
Sex: Female
Age: Old
Birthday: October 3 (I'm going to regret telling you this come CTRF, aren't I?)
Status: Taken (but open for discussion, heh)
Occupation: Harpy. Also Call Center Sys. Admin. @ Foxwoods
Location: Canterbury, CT
Birthplace: Norwich, CT (hey, at least I got out of SECT)
Favorite Music: Metallica
Favorite Movie: Dune (the old one, coz I'm OLD!)

Name: Donald Grant Lower
Character Name: Jurgen Ferre and others as needed
Years Larping: Some. 8 now (But I played DnD back in 76 before the 1st ed hardbound)
Sex: Male
Age: 42
Status: Married
Occupation: Telecom network engineer
Location: Waterbury CT.
Favorite Music: Dark Rock/Metal
Favorite Movie: Star Wars (the original)




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Name: Rob Johnson
Character Name: Tierden Falconhand
Years Larping: uh... I don't know, at least 10
Sex: Male
Birthday: December 17 <<I'm in ur boards, thieven your identites>>
Status: Single
Occupation: Software Engineer, Turbine, Inc.
Location: Taunton, MA
Birthplace: <<I'm in ur boards, thieven ur identites>> MA
Favorite Music: Almost any
Favorite Movie: Fifth Element.... Cheee-kan goood!

Most of my 10 years larping, I spent running World of Darkness larps, until about six months ago, when someone brought me to MJ... I don't know if I can go back to RPS, it seems so silly now... well, it always did...



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You know...why the heck not.

Name: Elizabeth "Bizzy" Jacobs
Character Name: Brienne, Thamesa, etc...
Years Larping: starting up year #5 in May.. oh double dear
Sex: Female
Age: 20
Birthday: September 11, 1986
Status: Happily taken (boyfriend)
Occupation: Student at good ol' UNH
Birthplace: Scottsbluff, Nebraska
Favorite Music: Showtunes and classical stuffs. I know...laaaaaamme
Favorite Movie: This is tough... let's just say I watched LotR a lot... but I can't say it's my favorite... I have a lot of favorites



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Name: Christopher John Metivier
Character Name: Seldodis Gryswald
Years Larping: 6 Years
Sex: Male
Age: 25
Birthday: March 16, 1982
Status: Single and looking
Occupation: Job Coach (Working with mentally handicap)
Location: Hampton, Ct
Birthplace: Dunedin, Florida
Favorite Music: I listen to just about anything, but what i listen to most is Weird Al Yankovich and any kind of funny music i can find. Other than that, I would say Modern and Classic Rock.
Favorite Movie: Not possible to choose, Im a huge movie buff, but i will give my top 5, and not in any particular order: The Star Wars Trilogy, LOTR Trilogy, Fight Club, Interveiw with a Vampire, and the Back to the Future Trilogy

Name: James Timothy Ryan-Henry
Character Name: Mabmoro Deventio
Years Larping: Less than 1, been playing RPGs since I was ten.
Sex: Male
Age: 20
Birthday: February 10, 1987
Status: Single, not looking
Occupation: Cashier.
Location: Rumford, RI
Birthplace: Glendale, California.
Favorite Music: Videogame soundtracks
Favorite Movie: ATM, 300. Overall, the LotR trilogy.

Name: Fox (Ohhh alright. Aimee Lynn Gabrielle Bouchard)
Character Name: Syssa
Years Larping: 11
Sex: Female
Age: 24
Birthday: April 19th, 1982
Status: To be wed July 4th!!
Occupation: 3. Full time Grad Student, Student Teacher, and Teaching Tech Ed to Adults
Location: Dartmouth, MA
Birthplace: Warwick, RI
Favorite Music: Metal/Rock/Hard Rock tho I much like anything
Favorite Movie: Oi. Depends on the mood!!!



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Name: Jonathan Dale
Character Name: Kaltros Tienen Sephilian, Berion, others as needed...
Years Larping: ~13 (RPGs since '78... Grant has me beat, though...)
Sex: Male
Age: 36
Status: Engaged
Occupation: Field sales engineer
Birthplace: Seattle, Washington
Favorite Music: Delirium. Miscellaneous alt rock, ambient, new age, etc.
Favorite Movie: Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind. Anything else I can rip off plot ideas from.

LARPs LARPed: The Fantasy Alternative, Mythical Journeys, Legends, Atlas Agenda, After The Fall, Tales of Valor, Prophecy.




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Hi, I'm Doug, i'm a scorpio, my turn ons are long walks on the beach.... oops wrong site,
(i had to do it)

Name: Douglas Kozlowski
Character name: Corvus T. Kruk
Years Larping: about 3 I think
Sex: When she lets me
Age: 32
Birthday: for privacy sake i will only say that it rhmyes with "ovember enth"
Status: Married
Occupation: Therapist by trade and Lic. (mental health kind), now a regional manager for behavioral health insur. co., sold out to the man and now manage psych. hospitals
Location: Salem, Ma
Favorite music: Really varies, blues this morn. on the ipod, country (prefer classic, but ok with new as well), rock, punk, heck just about anything
Favorite movie: no questions Cool Hand Luke and Highlander



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Name: Michael Walter Walsh
Character Names: Malthis Barton, Thadeth Baelenri, Ennyr Noseren, High Lord Tempestdancer, Eothain, Draagar, Salandrith Mandrake, Tobyranon, Reginald Grimhorn, Aeryn Lanstrom, Nightfox, Lir GreyWolf, Arkus Khellon, Kaineus Oreias, Bastian Fiodoir, Seth Brooks. Okay...so I just wanted to see if I could actually remember all of the substantial characters I've played over the years. Only one I can't remember is my ATF character.
Years Larping: 11
Sex: Male
Age: 29
Birthday: July 5th, 1977
Status: Single (Woefully)
Occupation: Shipping Clerk for largest yarn store in America
Location: Sunderland, Massachusetts
Birthplace: Greenfield, Massachusetts
Favorite Music: Most anything
Favorite Movie: Moulin Rouge

Name: Jeffrey Leung
Character name: Fei
Years Larping: About 3-4 (RPG's since I had my hands on a SNES)
Sex: Male
Age: 21
Birthday: April 28
Status: Single =\
Occupation: Universal Tech Support for local cable monopoly.
Location: Cranston, RI
Birthplace: Baltimore, Maryland
Favorite music: Anything except rap. Usually power metal, Delerium, Enigma, Sarah Brightman, J-pop, and whatever perks my interest.
Favorite movie: most current is 300 just can't think of others at the moment...

Name: Scott Alexander Gladstein
Character Name: Valimose (won't bother with the version)
Years Larping: 2 1/2 years (All at MJ.. came in green telling everyone I was a thief... I ment class...)
Sex: Male
Age: 18 1/2
Birthday: July 23th, 1988
Status: Taken (Girlfriend)
Occupation: Waiter/Student
Location: Avon, Connecitcut
Birthplace: Little Rock, Arkansas
Favorite Music: Techno, Retro-Remixs (Wiseguys), Rock
Favorite Movie: hmm... god... Serenity? A lot of ones up there...

Name: Tobias Lyon Seltsam
Character Name: Taridore, Quor Ahawleway u nichin Harr, Pike
Years Larping: 15.5
Sex: Male
Age: 30.5
Birthday: August 20, 1976
Status: Separated
Occuptation: Computer Game Developer
Location: Waltham, MA
Favorite Music: Celtic Folk, New Age, Orchestral
Favorite Movie: AI, LotR, Star Wars (original trilogy), Ladyhawke, Conan the Barbarian




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Name: Anthony Louis Viola Jr
Character Name: Murori Mika, Dr. Poppyseed, D'andres Rimvulkin, Magic Wielding Crunchy # 3
Years Larping: 3
Sex: Male
Age: 19
Status: It comes and goes
Occupation: Multi-Media Promotions Representative
Location: Oakville, Connecitcut
Birthplace: Waterbury, Connecticut
Favorite Music: Weepy emo stuff ...and Showtunes
Favorite Movie: Retardedly funny (Mel Brooks, Leslie Neilson, the "Movie"movies) , Langoliers



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Name: Danielle Rosvally (or RoseValley depending on if you're talking about real-person name or the name I use when I get tired of telling people how to spell it)
Character Name: Benjyameehna Aladahreeal VI ..... who are we kidding, it's Meehna
Years Larping: 1.5
Sex: Female
Age: 20
Birthday: December 11- I am three months to the day younger than miss Bizzy
Status: Single
Occuptation: Full-time college student at NYU/computer technition/actor
Location: Manhattan, NY
Birthplace: Westchester, NY
Favorite Music: Anything I can sing to
Favorite Movie: Anything I can knit to. I am particularly partial to Kenneth Branagh's Love's Labour's Lost.



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Name: Jeff Hyland
Character Name: Valasere Tano
Years Larping: roughly a year...still wet behind the ears
Sex: Male
Age: 23
Birthday: June 11, 1983
Status: Single
Occuptation: Ace Hardware Management
Location: Pepperell, MA
Birthplace: Tewksbury, MA
Favorite Music: Most anything except rap.
Favorite Movie: Almost anything- there isnt much I don't like. LOTR ranks high though, very high.



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It's been pointed out that name + date of birth + place of birth is the sort of information that can be abused for identity theft. Happy birthday posts give birthday, but not in a convenient sort of package like this. This board can still be read by non-MJ people. It might be wise to omit some of this info.

On the other hand, I don't think posting your favorite movie and number of years LARPing is going to get anyone in trouble, so by all means on with the thread.

June 11, 1893?

Todd P Wrote:
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> June 11, 1893?

That's funny, you don't look a day over 80.

Oh boy....

1893....1983......How much of a difference can 90 years be? haha.

Someday I'll learn to read before I post!


~Jeff

Name: Ashley Rabon
Character Name: Morwen Tinuviel, Hoshino Hikari, Alythia "Ly" Gryswald
Years Larping: 2.5
Sex: of a female persuasion
Age: 20 (for another month!)
Birthday: April 20th
Status: halfway engaged (don't ask)
Occuptation: Childcare, don't ask
Location: Preston, CT
Birthplace: about a town away...(on my defense I moved to mass for a year)
Favorite Music: Within Temptation and Hikaru Utada, Loreena Mckennitt, Blackmore's night, etc...
Favorite Movie: Clue.....though LOTR, The Last Unicorn, Mononoke-hime, From Hell, and Kill Bill are up there. Oh and any Mel Brooks or Gene Wilder films

Oh why not...

Name: Jonathan Cox
Character Name: Tomino Colas
Years Larping: 6
Sex: Male
Age: 22
Birthday: August 4, 1984
Status: Single
Occuptation: Music Education student at Rhode Island College, Office Assistant in the Music Theater and Dance Office (RIC), Tenor Section Leader at St. Mary's in Providence... Oh! And Backroom Team Member at Target
Location: Providence, RI
Birthplace: Woonsocket, RI
Favorite Music: Music.
Favorite Movie: South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut!

Heres a 1st...

Name: James Anthony Hoffman
Character Name: Washu Seisan Gryswald
Years LARPing: 15 or so, maybe more
Sex: Male
Age:35 almost, will be soon
Status: Happily Married
Occupation: Geek Squad Agent/Data Analyst
Location: Coventry CT
Birthplace: Thompson CT
Favorite Music: Any/All
Favorite Movie: Serenity, GO BROWNCOATS !

Though Ive only been to a few different LARPS MJII is by far my favorite ! Adventure Quest, Fantasy Quest, and Mythical Journeys I & II, and like 25 years of Gaming, i started DnD when i was like 10 or so with a few friends and the original red boxed set, lol. wow that was a long time ago. (hmm i was 11 abouts it seems)

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~Washu

Guardian of Felnar
Citizen of Eldyrwood
Seeker of that which is Lost
Second Eldest Gryswald Son ? ...
"Wo shang mei er, mei xin, bian shi tou"



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> and like 25 years of
> Gaming, i started DnD when i was like 10 or so
> with a few friends and the original red boxed set,
> lol. wow that was a long time ago.

This is kind of fun.... date your edition.... www.acaeum.com

Mine had the second printing cover (1978).

Name: Carmella Debra Rigoli
Character Name: Charandra Windweaver
Years Larping: I think this would be year 8?
Sex: Female
Age: 31
Birthday: A year and 4 days after Doug
Status: Handfasting 10/30/07, wedding 10/31/08
Occupation: pusher of candy, or Receptionist same thing at my company
Location: Webster MA
Birthplace: Waltham MA yeah I know I actually gradeated w' an edumication
Favorite Music: lets just say I sing showtunes and leave it at that
Favorite Movie: Ah what's a favorite?

Ok, here goes....

Name: Amber Loomis
Character Name: Lady Cecily Drakomyr, Astrea Eslyn
Years Larping: something like 3 or 4, can't really remember
Sex: Female
Age: 27
Birthday: February 10, 1980
Status: Happily Taken (Boyfriend)
Occupation: Student
Location: Lexington, MA
Birthplace: Colorado Springs, CO
Favorite Music: World, Classical, Movie Soundtracks
Favorite Movie: Labrynth, Dirty Dancing

Name: Adrienne Vanessa Kennick
Character Name: Parsley Tamarisk
Years Larping: ‘bout a year and a half now
Sex: female
Age: 23
Birthday: Tuesday. …oh, right. February 7th.
Status: happily single
Occupation: Day Manager (& Etc.) for my mom’s B&B, some-time stage manager
Location: New York, NY
Birthplace: three hundred some miles more southerly
Favorite Music: Rush, Sting, various Faire groups, select folk/country (Pat Wictor & Jonathan Byrd)…
Favorite Movie: ...Labyrinth and Scaramouch. (but The Cat From Outer Space and The Man from Snowy River get points for playing.)

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“Maybe I could change it to parsley. Is parsley scarier than nutmeg?”

Name: Melissa M. Metcalfe Maguire
Character Name: Reiko, Aubrielle, Ilsa and others yet to come....
Years Larping: 12 years
Sex: All woman!
Age: For me to know, and you not to find out.
Birthday: I am Taurus.
Status: Married
Occupation: Software Engineer/Developer
Location: Charlton, MA
Birthplace: Poughkeepsie, who do you know in Poughkeepsie!
Favorite Music: 80's alternative, Techno, Rush, Police and many others.
Favorite Movie: That's tough, it depends on my mood, but I would have to say Serenity, Under the Tuscan Sun.

Larps participated in MJ, FQ and Legends.

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Cheers!
Melissa

JD wrote

>his is kind of fun.... date your edition.... www.acaeum.com

>Mine had the second printing cover (1978).

Man I dont feel so old now 8-P
Mine is the 1st red box printed in (1983) 12th printing i believe, lol. My buddy an I bought it at the huge warehouse that had tons of games and STUFF lots of stuff. Choose your own adventure books and all...btw i still have most of those d&d choose your own adventure books, lol

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~Washu

Guardian of Felnar
Citizen of Eldyrwood
Seeker of that which is Lost
Second Eldest Gryswald Son ? ...
"Wo shang mei er, mei xin, bian shi tou"

Name: Annette LaMountain
Character Name: Brianna Riley
Years Larping: 1 year
Sex: Female
Age: Over 21
Birthday: June
Status: Happily taken (boyfriend)
Occupation: Work at a Daycare
Location: Webster, MA
Birthplace: Becourt, North Dakota
Favorite Music: Rock/Metal
Favorite Movie: Braveheart

Name: Vance Walsh
Character Name: Kylanos "Kyle" D'Duathan
Years Larping: 16
Sex: Male
Age: 30
Birthday: October 15, 1976
Status: Married
Occupation: Senior Systems Administrator at an MMORPG company
Location: North Attleboro, MA
Birthplace: Waltham, MA
Favorite Music: Metallica black alblum and back, Hard Rock, Showtunes, Southern Rock, Kenny Rogers, The Eagles.
Favorite Movie: I love tons but #1 is forever Hudson Hawk, followed by the Disney 3 Musketeers. I want to run a module that is timed by "Side by Side"

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Sir Kylanos D'Duathan
Deputy Marshal and Knight of Felnar
Archmage of Kaerramos Tower
Master of War - Eldyrwood Mages Conclave
Mystic of the Stars, accepted by Maia

Name: Seth Bender
Character Name: Cobb
Years Larping: Seven, which is kinda terrifying
Sex: I'm not a machine, here!
Age: 24
Birthday: Pi
Status: Wicked single
Occupation: Freelance Film Editor, currently at WGBH
Location: Brawlston (Brighton/Allston) MA
Birthplace: Simsbury, CT
Favorite Music: Rush, Morphine, Gorilla Biscuits, Bad Religion, but mostly Prog and Power Metal.
Favorite Movie: Let's not get into this....

"Bunny! Ball-Ball!"

-D

Name: Brian Swedis
Character Name: Arphenion Bellrauthien (Ari)
Years Larping: Counts on fingers 13.5 or something like that
Sex: Please god Please!
Age: 27
Birthday: meh I'm a damn leo
Status: Single, but I'm good with it(somebody hold me!)
Occupation: Call center Tech
Location: Danielson Ct
Birthplace: Woosta
Favorite Music: DKM
Favorite Movie: Angus (it's about a fat kid), 100 girls

Name: Janice Walsh
Character Name: Emmeline Jena Quinn
Years Larping: 10
Sex: Female
Age: 30+
Birthday: June 8th
Status: Happily Single once again
Occupation: QA for D&D Online at Turbine Inc
Location: North Attleboro, MA
Birthplace: Waltham, MA
Favorite Music: It's all about variety and whatever suits the mood at the time... Tori Amos, Blackmore's Night, Metalica, Destiny's Child, Shania Twain, Kenny Rogers, Santana, Bon Jovi, Linkin Park, Eminem, Garth Brooks, classical and 'period' music, & showtunes... just to name a few off the top of my head
Favorite Movie: Serenity, Starwars Trilogy(original 3), Indiana Jones, PrincessBride, 3 Musketeers, Spaceballs, The LOTR Trilogy, The Skeleton Key, and 300 ...to name a few



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As to What edition of DnD was was speeking of playing.

I'm talking the 1/2 sized booklets that came out 74.

Aww heck, fine.

Name: Stephanie Marie Tyll
Character Name: Rowena "Ma" Crane, Saeünn Kollsdottir, Fate, and let's see MJ1... Nachta Bloodheart, Toolrah Willowsong, Kesia Brightblood; ToV, Althea d'Seraphina, Legends, Zahnarabai Sheridan, various NPCs; etc.
Years Larping: 5, I started at an 18+ game
Sex: Female
Age: 23
Birthday: The day before the day of gunpowder, treason, and blood.
Status: Single
Occupation: Marketing at an architectural firm, and another job that's more fun. ;-)
Location: Arlington, MA
Birthplace: Dallas, TX (HAH! That's a move for you!)
Favorite Music: A pretty wide span; some metal, some chick-rock, some alternative, eh, whatever.
Favorite Movie: Big Fish, and Moulin Rouge.

LARPs: Legends, Aralis, MJ1, MJ2, Hexe (once), Tales of Valor

Also, I'm a wine snob, I mean lover.