Orkpiraten

After a hia­tus of two years, I’ve actually mana­ged once again to be somehow part of the Nord­con. Just as gene­ric hel­ping hand, but active nonethe­l­ess. To those who don’t know, the Nord­con is one of the big­gest fan­tasy con­ven­ti­ons in Ger­many (Roughly 7000 visi­tors last year). This years con star­ted for me on fri­day, when I was hel­ping set­ting up tents, tables and other stuff.

Ever tried to erect a medi­eval style tent in strea­ming rain? You don’t want to, trust me, these things can get very heavy when wet…

In brea­king a 10 year old tra­di­tion, this years Nord­con stayed wet. Utterly, mise­r­a­bly, drip­ping and hea­vily rai­ning wet. Those activi­ties and mer­chant stalls that were outs­ide (and there are quite a few of these) were con­stantly bat­te­red by eit­her a mild drizzle, or by full-blown heavy rain. All of which, to my ama­ze­ment, didn’t bother the hor­des of LAR­Pers in the very least. While the grounds weren’t as full as usual, I saw happy faces everywhere.

And what kind of faces! Get­ting into fan­tasy garb defi­ni­tely got a new mea­ning lately: I saw a girl dres­sed up as a cow, various pseudo-historical garbs, Sci-Fi gar­ments, Klin­gons, French Aristo­crats, lots of Pira­tes, three mon­keys from Nurem­burg, the usual assort­ment of Orcs, Trolls, Elves and Vam­pi­res, Knights, sur­pri­sin­gly few mages, a gay jester…

Seriously: The qua­lity and obvious love that went to these cos­tu­mes was out­stan­ding in many parts. Alt­hough there was also one wea­ring a „Authen­tic Medi­eval Garb“ T-Shirt.

Let’s see how the party con­ti­nues tomor­row… Hope­fully I can also post pic­tures then