In Jokes 12/9 '18
Did you ever notice that life increasingly becomes filled with in-jokes and other inside references? I have friends who I can have coded conversations with. We wont speak pig latin or any foreign language, but in english our conversation can be indecipherable to anyone listening in who lacks our context.
I suppose any subset of humaity is like that. I am not a Christian, Muslim or Jewish, so many of the reference members of those faiths might make, to each other, could be obscure to me.
I am a larper. I Have been for more than 20 years. If I talk about a stick jock, a backpack healer, or jumpy stones then my larper pals will know what I am talking about. I am pretty sure no one else will without an internet search.
I find myself wondering if in my 60's or 70's I will be so indecipherable that it will be like that Star Trek The Next Generation episode with the race that communicates with context.
"At Arinth, with the Irregulars, when the Emperor fell."
At least I now know that a stick jock is the opposite of a flurb.
Backpack healers are a peculiar phenomenon of being able to touch cast spells to someone instantly. A backpack healer would stand slightly behind a fighter type and call out healing spells as the fighter type is hit with stuff, keeping them going in the fight.
Both are larping terms.