Is This Larp? Lightning Bolt! Lightning Bolt!
Added 2017-08-20 03:46:30 +0000 UTCSo it was my sons birthday this week and I started a random conversation about how when you turn 7 you have to defeat a birthday cyclops. I asked him what his plan was, given the size difference, and he said he would probably climb it, so he needed a harness for his sword so his hands would be free. Things kept getting more and more out of hand as his birthday approached, until finally he more or less demanded as his birthday present that a cyclops show up at his birthday for him to slay.
The frame is that grinder rig I wear modified slightly and covered in that black gardening cloth stuff. The arms are made from cardboard and duct tape spraypainted. The eyeball is the best part of it, a beachball covered in vaseline, then covered in two layers of torn up scraps of brown paper bag covered in watered down glue, then the beach ball is deflated and extracted, giving a flimsy cardboard sphere I could use as a piñata head.
I managed to convince him to wear a wooden proxy sword for the battle itself, cause when we practiced he couldn't get the sword out of the harness while midair due to the raw muscular limits of a 7 year old. Good thing too, because once he was atop the beast he forgot to affix the carabiner I especially fitted to the front of his harness...
