LIVE. ACTION. ROLE. PLAY.

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The Kingdom of Blackspire is the local division of Ampt Guard—comprised of roughly twenty adventurers (including HHS students Zachary Hines and Harrison Bardwell) that meet weekly at Orchards Park. They come armed with their own foam weapons and amazing imaginations to try to overthrow Clayton, a sixteen-year-old Champion Over All.

LARPing began around 1970, and was inspired by tabletop live action games and other fantasy-genre fiction. For an hour or two people get to be somebody else, doing stuff that they usually wouldn’t (or couldn’t) do. Most of the weapons are made by the LARPers themselves and are recognizable as daggers, swords, shields and arrows…though made reasonably harmless by foam padding. LARPing is a sport that brings people together, it helps them learn skills like problem solving, memorization (spells), team building, physical development, leadership, self motivation, creative and quick thinking.

IN THE SHADOWS – Jessica Proulx

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When I was a kid, I used to run from my shadow. At night in my room, the only thing a shadow could make was something that scared me. It takes imagination to turn something into something it really isn’t. To me shadows are like finding shapes in the clouds.
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FAST TIMES AT HERITAGE HIGH – Jay Ulrich

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Mr. Strong meets Mr. Hand. The similarity is uncanny.

Fast Times at Ridgemont High is a 1982 American coming-of-age teen comedy film written by Cameron Crowe and adapted from his 1981 book of the same name. As a freelance writer for Rolling Stone magazine, Crowe went undercover at Clairemont High School in San Diego, California, and wrote about his experiences.

In 2005, Fast Times at Ridgemont High was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.