It's time for a new crazy idea

[michiexile]

The pan-european huge LARP project Dragonbane will have a village bakery. I just emailed their info-adress to find out details. If they build the oven in addition to all other things they've promised, and if the bakery group can be made large enough to facilitate a decent work load, then it might just be worth €125 to participate in that LARP...

And besides. I -am- a master baker by now.

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[thette.livejournal.com]

*thwap*

[michiexile]

Why the thwap?

[thette.livejournal.com]

Ask again in three months, as KJ says.

Don't buy or do anything in one month, you said.

*grin* I want to go, too, but I really think we should wait a while before starting to plan. That's why I wanted to thwap you.

[michiexile]

Yup, I did say that. And all I've done so far is send an email inquiring about what they've been doing and planning for their bakery. It'll be several months until I do anything decent about it... :)

They have a quite radical attitude towards groups (i.e. you don't get to choose one - you talk rôles over with their coordinators and get slotted a place that fits...), so regardless of what happens this won't be a LARP requiring huge group preparations of the sort we had for Kejsartemplet. OTOH, if I go, I will want it to have the family closeness and familiarity we had at KT - so I will more or less demand quite a lot of preparatory contact within the villagers.

And

...

I shouldn't plan for at least a month. Right.

[thette.livejournal.com]

You should lie down and not think about Roy.

I did, and it felt good.

[michiexile]

Roy? Who's Roy? I don't think about him normally - so what's to stop me from dreaming LARP dreams when not thinking about Roy?

[thette.livejournal.com]

Group in-joke.

It started (back in 1993, I think) with someone telling Roy to lie down and not think about Lanfear. It evolved to "lie down and not think about Roy" pretty quickly.

[michiexile]

Ehn.

One of the french co-organizers just got back to me on my questions. Seems that his idea of a LARP bakery is someone who sells bread manufactured or bought before the LARP starts. I am now officially Not Impressed.

Communication is still ongoing, though.

[thette.livejournal.com]

Let's not, then.

Besides, if I'm going to go as responsible again, I'm going to go to a LARP where they let me have a group I can trust. A group of people I've met and gotten to know, so I know they, too, are responsible.

[michiexile]

Hmmmmm. I've gotten a few answers from people more in-the-know now. Not that the new answers do their job enthusing me very well.

According to the finnish co-organizer who has answered me now, they intend to build a fullsize industrial kitchen with 25l and 10l dough kneading machines. Still no info on their oven thoughts, though. Thus, they find, they will be able to keep people fed with bread good enough. Alas, though, that means that baking is an offgame activity.

I sent them some thoughts and extrapolation, claiming that with 20 people running shifts of 10, and five wellheated ovens, a bakery should be able to keep a steady flow of dough into the ovens and thus get a throughput enough to feed a 500-person LARP. This presupposes that each oven can be utilized slightly more than double the number of breads we managed, and that two people working can keep one oven filled for several hours on a row. I wouldn't see this as a very outrageous claim - and such a vision would allow for a LOT more roleplaying than an offgame kitchen will.