Trails and tribulations

Seriously, there is nothing more aggravating and irritating than an event which is almost impossible to reach where communication is poor. Not only did said event stream a lot of darkness and empty space the event itself did not utilize twitch properly to actually save any highlights at all. Then a random fellow comes to pester my channel about how I need written permission and it’s not a trans formative work. Which it’s not, but more a backup of the event, due to how hard it is to reach them in the first place and their refusal to archive their content. The biggest reason I saved the content was because I had to see for myself how my performance on stage was compared to the other participants and to find out where to improve. The whole mail thing is especially silly, I contacted them on their mail several months earlier to tell them that I want to help with the cosplay part. About a week before said event, they have the gall to say that I should have taken contact earlier. I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned this before in here somewhere. To top it of, it’s just now they have notified me of the nature of the video and copyright, more than a year later. On the flip side the main page information this time around is most satisfactory and have the required information needed. While I love a good show and a decent cosplay competition, I’m not entirely sure if the schedule adds up to something I want to spend time on, even if someone is expecting me, luckily if I preregister there is no entrance fee for me.

Aside from this, I have a plan. It’s a great plan, a good plan, in fact it’s the best plan. It includes the monkey king, the emperor of heaven itself, a horse and a creampie.

I’ve also finally found out how to do the #masseffect armor, without sacrificing mobility and being able to sit on a chair or in a sofa. Now I have to achieve the same with the leg armor and all the other pieces and make a gun, and quite possibly an omnitool. Though to do that feat of cosplay engineering I’ll have to figure out how to make it out of something orange and transparent. I suppose a transparent sheath lined with something orange that can bee seen through and strategic led lights.

Eventually I will start cutting out the dang samurai armor and punch it full of thread holes. I also need to write more on my stories, a couple of decent reviews and make more videos, with better content and quality. Which is very tricky, but doable. Unfortunatly for me I’m not capable of being a terrible enough of a human to exploit the worst sides of humanity and children. Oh the horrors of having a decent moral compass.

A more definite plan aside from working this season I have begun larping a lot more and there are several great ones lined up. Living roleplaying can be very, very rewarding and is a perfect place to practice acting skills and to become a different character for a while, something we all could use a year or two of. 

See you on the flip side
Zaceron

Cosplay plans and so much more

Practical plans, probable plans, perfect plans being planned and practiced. I could probably put in more phrases that starts with p, but m I've had my fun.

Essentially I'm a man with a plan, several in fact, thus I feel that I must inform whom ever follows me about them. It feels ingenious to not to that.

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Firstly I'm dabbling with archery, since I at long last got my replacement arrows. I have a fairly decent long bow, that's just about powerful enough to hit a target about 50 meters away, which depends entirely on my technique and strenght. So far I miss a lot and you're more than welcome to follow my process on YouTube. After all I do try to record every session. I also use it as a tool to practice editing, manual focus and setting up cinematic shots. If nothing else I can hit the broadside of a barn and fire one arrow roughly every three seconds it seems.
However my target leaves a lot to be desired, not to mention the arrow eating environment surrounding the straw bunt. Because that is exactly what it is, long grass I got from the other side of the  road, I wrapped in rope and twisted into a spiral.


My second plan is to craft a magic staff, the kind which is seen in the awesome game dragons dogma. This magical foci is a long gnarly staff, with a hand on top,  covered in red veins, with a shiny crystal in the palm. I will mostly be using foam for that.





Thirdly I will make myself a red mage costume. The most awesome looking and possible most iconic Final Fantasy archetype out there. Dressed in red, with a snazzy feathered hat, wielding both rapier and wand with ease. The style will also fit within the parameters set by a larp I'm participating in. Where I will be the ghost of a dead 1800 Swedish noble.



My forth plan is to finish Wu Kong, yes I'm still working on it and just finished the tail. Which I hand knitted from furry  brown yarn and forced a metal wire into.  As usual I find much of the minor materials online, since I live far from town and very few of any local business within Norway sells what I seek.


My fifth plan is to write a book that takes place within a game I've designed and one that covers the eventsn of a magical school. Instead of it being from the angle of a starry eyed students, it will be seen from a teachers perspective. Not even I know how the plot will go, but I have started to write it. Which is by far more healthy than skimming the internet all day. Plus it gives me a break from my enthusiastic way of absorbing games all day and is by far better than YouTube drama.

A sixth plan is taking shape as well. I will compose a song about a conspiracy. But that is all the details I will divulge.

As usual I have a perverted patron for more lewd works of art and if you need anything drawn, be it a fantasy, twitch panels, a logo or a thumb nail. Just give me a heads up, I'm a professional artist after all.

Better NERF it

Better NERF it, both kids and adults enjoy practically harmless foam darts. If not, it's because they've yet to try one. I have never paid a dine in my life for one and now I have an armory of at least thirty ones. Some consider them a waste of space and resources. I see it as a business adventure, two Mondays this summer I was hired to host a small NERF war for around fifteen trigger happy kids.

If you have no idea what a NERF gun is. Either do an internet search or read my short explanation. Because redundant, redundancy is how I roll.

Its a spring loaded or electronic plastic gun that fires small harmless foam darts at low speeds and at stupidly short ranges. They also comes with a slew of useless accessories. The guns ranges from revolvers to rifles and many, many weird ones in between. Its perfectly safe and simple to use and due to being brightly coloured, they will not trigger the police. Unless your neighbor is a total and utterly social reject. Every neighborhood has one of those pesky people, full of hate and spite. Whom gladly spoil everyone's fun, because they are anger and bitter.

I took over responsibility for a cosplay club known as black, because fun with acronyms. Anyhow, earlier this year we had to pack up and move to a new and improved location. Thusly I took over responsibility to store the armory at my place. The previous person who had the club used a big part of the budget to buy a big bulk of NERF guns. The company behind the product line has some very odd ones that's for sure.

NERF guns can be nodded to heck and back, painted, decorated and customized in any imaginable way. Usually it's possible to dismantle them also. I gleefully threw away the junk parts and the problematic extension pieces through. As an example, here is my Warhammer 40k bolt pistol. Which can still shoot and look snazzy at the same time.

Never the less, my plan is to host various events and rent my services to various arrangements. Such as bachelor parties. Hell even the county employees enjoy it every now and then, when they host an office party.

So yeah, two happy  hours of chaos. Split the children into two groups send them to each side of the map and watch the team death match unfold. To spice it up, when shot, you retreat and count to fifteen. Some would say this is a terrible idea. What I say is, it works and everyone gets behind it. After all two hours is a very, very short time and it's an easy rule to follow.
Ironically and annoyingly enough, there was one accident, a child shot another one by accident in the eye at close range when we were done. All fun and games until someone loses an eye.

Carrying a big bag of guns is an interesting experience for sure, have a good one.

Zaceron