NERO - An accidental encounter

[Lynette]

My wife and I decided to spend Memorial weekend in Seattle without the kids.  While there, we decided to take in a movie during SIFF (Seattle International Film Festival) and settled on a collection of short movies about Paris.  The hotel concierge gave us directions and we made it just in time.  As the movie was introduced to the vocal theater crowd, we then realized we were at the wrong theater.  Instead of watching a romantic film about Paris, we were going to be seeing a movie about a Fantasy subculture called "Nero," where participants take role playing even further than onling games and play out plots (similar to AD&D) in real life.  The movie is called Monster Camp and features the Seattle chapter of this nationwide cult ( http://nerohq.com/campaign.htm ).

The movie portrayed many of the participants to be unhappy people in real life, many with no real life whatsoever that just live for fantasy.  They also talked about WOW on numerous occasions, as nearly everyone involved in Nero plays WoW regularly.  Certain aspects of it sound intriguing, as folks sign up to be either NPCs or PCs for a weekend, loot drops from NPCs when they are killed, PCs can be killed permanently, boss mobs are part of it all, etc.

Anyone ever heard of Nero before?  I'm curious if the movie portrayed it appropriately, although it isn't anything I'd be interested in experiencing personally.  Playing onling games is as far as I ever plan to take role playing.

[Arcdelad]

sounds intriguiging...course with my kids being so young im still trying to catch up to last years (or the years before) movies...

anyone see that new movie called "SChindler's List" yet?

[JohnnieRat]

I've always wondered... what do people like that do for a job? Like to earn money and pay bills and such

[Lynette]

I've always wondered... what do people like that do for a job? Like to earn money and pay bills and such

In the movie, they featured 2 roomates.  One works at Fred Meyer as a stockboy and the other is unemployed.  The unemployed one plays WoW while the roomate is at work, then moves to the TV video game when the roomate gets home from work and gets on his WoW account.  Both guys have been working on their high school equivalency degree for years now. 

[un4]

anyone see that new movie called "SChindler's List" yet?

I can sing some of the soundtrack for you if you'd like, lol.  Can't write or talk in hebrew, but I can sing it.

Is Nero like LARPing?