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When it comes to immersive gameplay, some people just have to get off the couch. They are live-action role-players - Larpers - a catch-all term for the World War II reenactors, medieval militiamen, anime imitators, and other impassioned souls who dress up as characters (fictional or historical) and embrace a new reality. Meet a few of the faithful, wearing costumes of their own design.
- Sonia Zjawinski
Lord General Keldar Vinnerex
aka Kenyon Wells
Game: Darkon, a medieval battlegame
Day job: Manager, IT consulting firm
Age: 36
Years role-playing: 23
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When it comes to immersive gameplay, some people just have to get off the couch. They are live-action role-players - Larpers - a catch-all term for the World War II reenactors, medieval militiamen, anime imitators, and other impassioned souls who dress up as characters (fictional or historical) and embrace a new reality. Meet a few of the faithful, wearing costumes of their own design.
- Sonia Zjawinski
Lord General Keldar Vinnerex
aka Kenyon Wells
Game: Darkon, a medieval battlegame
Day job: Manager, IT consulting firm
Age: 36
Years role-playing: 23
Alter ego: Lord General Keldar Vinnerex, cofounder of Mordom, a kingdom within Darkon
The diversion: Started in 1985 in the Baltimore-Washington area, Darkon pits up to 300 players armed with padded weapons against one another in full-contact skirmishes.
Star power: Wells was featured in a documentary about Darkon that premiered at SXSW in March.
On career building: "My first exposure to public speaking was through Darkon," Wells says. "If you can stand in front of 250 people and get them to listen to you, when you actually lecture at work or a trade show, it's a lot easier."
