Glorf.Blog

I’ve been a rabid consumer of in-character publications and documents in the fest larp, Empire. From newspapers to magical periodicals, to ‘serious’ papers like The Moon, I’ve been spending a decent amount of IC currency every event on paper goods. Some people go to IC bars, some people gamble it, and I buy papers. I mean I do the other two as well but that’s not the question at hand.

I’d been heavily inspired by papers like The Moon, who are a frankly deranged Marcher publication written by octogenarians, who have never been to the in-character area of the game (the place where the player characters, all the movers and shakers of the setting go). I decided to take a run at an IC paper for E3 this year, but printing issues meant I got onsite with about 5 copies, and sold three of them all weekend.

This time I took more time to work on it, and had them printed professionally (which turned out cheaper than all the printer ink I had to buy to make this work the first time around!). My goal was to make a paper that came off as trying to tell actual news stories, but that was a bit of a shitshow internally, with odd stories creeping in. There’s some useful IC information there for folks who buy it in the field, but also some utterly mad stuff in there, with a healthy dose of good-nature snark.

I also bought a glass-fronted box with a coin slot, so people could self-serve rather than me having to sell the paper- This meant I could just leave the box out and have it ‘sell itself’ while I went and played the game. If I made my whole weekend about it I’d probably be able to make more money, but the self-service box was a good enough vending machine that I’ll definitely do another issue next summit. You can find a copy of the paper below.

Mended Wheel Autumn 387E, Anvil Edition (PDF Link)

I don’t want to do one of those ‘been a while, haven’t posted, intend to post more’ posts like I’m some youtuber who used to upload regularly and hasn’t been around for years. But I have been doing stuff, most of it for LARPs. I most recently broke out a crappy DSLR for Five Oaths' 2nd event here in Ireland, which you can find below:

[https://photos.app.goo.gl/pDerPcfZnkwfT5Mo9](Five Oaths- Game 1 2025 Misc Photos (Digital, these will stay up as long as I have the space to spare))

I also went through a couple rolls of film at Empire LRP’s Summer Equinox. I’m more leery of sharing those widely, as I don’t personally know most of the people in them, so I’ll just post a few highlights here. The black really let me explore texture in ways I didn’t think previously possible, so I’ll definitely be grabbing more Ilford XP2 for future larp photography.

I’ve also been working on a bunch of misc props and costume pieces as they take my fancy. I’ve recently come into a whole bunch of furniture foam, and along with some Flex paint I’ve been trying to make things of them- Mostly masks, or padding that would alter the shape of the person wearing it to make some good monster kit.