DON KIHOT COMES BACK

PERSON AND HUMAN NATURE

Past XX century was turning – point in the human culture. Three world wars (the last - informational – as somebody said – is in full swing) made something irreversible with mentality: human understood that he is infinitely alone and anything can be happened to him. “Two existences don’t intersect” – stated Sarthr. People not only don’t understand each other – they even stopped to want it. Notorious “aspiration to mutual understanding” transformed long ago to commercial term – even in policy - using as means of escape from fear to be duped. There is no confidence because everything can be happened. There is no mutual understanding and amount of means using for its achievement is puzzling. The world seems the same as later but informational streams due to their unprecedented width and opening implicit involuntary urge: the world became more rigid and worse. The money becomes cheaper, the houses are destroying, people are divorcing – even those who seemed to be created for each other, men and women are absolutely alien, their locked universes are reflecting by glossy magazines such as “Penthouse” and “Cosmo”. We are flooding with the water as Atlantida and pouring with the flame as Pompeii, mountain avalanches are burring us as ancient civilizations, we are losing our lives due to forces–lost Nature.

We are attacking by encephalic ticks, and spring forest may to become our grave. The airplanes carrying only “extremals” and “Aeroflot” staff falls to us constantly, trains here, there and everywhere goes out of railways, the ships are going down. The permanent war surround us. Our main occupation – repairing of braked. We are shooting and seen this Grate Movie in genre “Film – disaster” for aim to become accustomed at least for apocalyptic week-days and everyday violence. To stop wonder of self blood color.

Lonely human of XXI century may lean only on something within him – external world is not a guarantor but is the source of irritation long ago. The universe of nowadays intellectual is restricted sometimes by the screen of his PC where he is the King and the Lord of personal reality – may play interactive games round the clock or visit pornosites. PC is the door to the Big World but of the customer’s format. It is not the “permittor” for information but more the “restrictor”. Ten pen-friends, couple of sites with anecdotes and couple of open chats where is allowing to scandal – that’s all the news. Kill the information if you don’t want it to kill you.

Once upon a time all of us – living and languishing now on the five oceans shores – were little and not lone. We were loved. We loved too – parents and apples or hide-and-seek games. The world was little - and very big, free, full of sense. The war imagined as impassible foolishness because it is clear that nothing can be obtained with fists, only bruises will ads. The money was something abstract, peripheral, but adventures and trips – in turn – important and necessary. We were reading good books about knights, honest vagrants and beauty Love – and wanted to be resembled with main heroes. Because in good books the main hero is always kind and honest. Why we forget it with ages? Our solitude and restlessness and fear of tomorrow – only retribution for treachery. We wanted the one but did quite the contrary. Money became the main thing, the wars – unavoidable, the kindness – suspicious, adventures and Love – romantic foolishness. Who treat us to think so for this time?

Rebellion, merciless rebellion. Escape without right of correspondence. I don’t want to live in the world where machines and faceless technologies are ruling, where is no shoulder for maintenance and no hand that is seeking support in me. I don’t want to live behind the iron cartoon that was erecting by indifference and fear. I don’t want to die before haven seen one time the knight on the white horse.

Three attributes are featuring the humanity were extracted by Phoma Aquinate after Aristotle (and they are placing now to common European Christian dogmatic) - ethics, logic and poetry. Action, Knowledge and Creativity. No one part of this triad can’t be thinking without Freedom. No one can’t be existed without Love.

May be single “pure” branch remained in such a state still from childhood where all mentioned human qualities are appeared – is Game. For all over the world people are playing for saving from senseless and horror of usual existence.

Are playing for creativity and self discovering – as it is happening in theatre and cinema. Are playing for to become clever – there is a set of intellectual games for this purpose. Are playing for feeling themselves alive because the human is always more real than game’s rules. The game is such a thing that can’t be falcificated or imaged – it is like poetry: it or is or it isn’t. At least people are playing to remember as Koks said: “Productive labor isn’t finishing deal of human. The human wasn’t created only for changing the world but also for enjoying them, not only born to burn incense for Lord but eternally be lucky with Him.”

The game is natural. Consequently there is no surprise that it was XX-Th. Century that born world’s role’s games Movement that even successful adults take part.

ROLES GAMES. HISTORY OF ITEM

There are a lot of books written about role’s games formed to the movement in 1990 in our country. The main opus for this phenomena analysis is Heyzingi book “Homo Ludens”. It is exponent that first Russian role’s games were leaded by Tolkien books played in Europe in 60-th (equally with hippie apogee). Amount and topics of those games is hardly to analyze now. But as before Russia mainly played “Europe” (history and literature). If you can’t go to Paris – you‘ll build own Paris at 40 km from the city with wood, polyethylene and cloth.

And when the life will boil in it, heretic flames will burn and the former golden Latin will murmuring, when you over-live the scholars sabotages, arrests, treachery, escape, when you personally will defend suzerain’s gates – it’s not known what Paris will be more real if God let see it even once.

As it is known games divides on four types – sporting (games-competitions, games goes on the level: player – player), games of chance (player – destiny), games – performances (theatre, level: player – viewer) and games – dreams (games of changed mind/ consciousness). Namely only the last mentioned are role’s. Their main goal – not winning, not role initiation, but game’s process itself, process of deepening to Another. Player totally accept the Person created by literature or imagination and acts from his will. The player lives accordingly with imagined destiny with strangers name in some strange reality.

Analytics says that role’s games has many fathers – psychodrama, learning games, sociological games, theatre’s studios, author’s song clubs, tourism, hippie movement, fantasy amateurs clubs. However all above listed even taking together borne nothing for a long years. Because no one social institution can’t give life to unsociable phenomena such as game. Our role’s movement as all humans role’s games has one father and one mother – Time and Book. And one purpose – to shift the Time and to embodiment the Book. To take own from life NOW.

Nobody can’t count Russian “role’s players”. It is clear that quantity comes to many thousands. They has own press, Internet sites, own clubs, festivals and Сonvents. They present in every big city and there will be no settle soon haven’t them. The State doesn’t see them – and they are grateful for this.
It is obviously that the State and playing people has no mutual debts.

Three years ago in the media of playing youth (their self-calling in Russian is “roleviki” – role’s players) began discussions: quantity of involving people counts on tens thousands, games are sort of social activity needing money attraction and vise versa movement can maintain itself by “purchasing” games – it will be necessary to found and register the party or social organization. Then may wait State’s rendering. Hot disputes conducted on the role’s games festivals till the last year. Overwhelming majority expressed definitely – socialization is death. The game is unsociable due to its nature as a creativity. It is totally unknown what will have to do in change on State’s gifts. Similar situation was not once happened with State’s Unions of painters, writers, with different free ideas that in process of transformation forget all their goals for those they namely raised. The thing is lying in the base of role’s games – Freedom – has too much cost for sail.

It is curiously that our State has absolutely nothing to offer the Youth exept miphes about richening and leadership. Russian role’s games partly came close to deathless soul’s problem and over-State ideas influence. They touch with mystics and theology, they do “another side of life” the subject of investigation and game and they show the policy as one of forms of decreasing of spiritual values (New Testament’s in its basis). All this is the regard for society but not the thing for purchasing. Of course, it will be pity for State to lose the growing generation. But artificial power’s attempts to involve the youth to state’s management (the most alive and real deal to its opinion) on the base of reconstructed “Comsomol” or political youth unions are simply funny: all this structures are the machines for money making, not really the method to influence on social life. No revolution’s impact our country doesn’t over-lives. All the social ideas are taking on rent abroad, the only place where active growing is going is area of informational technologies. Where the main part of our playing youth have a warm place.

MODERN ROLE’S MOVEMENT AS REFLECTION OF EUROPEAN HISTORY

Every cultural phenomena has own antique and middle centuries, own renaissains and own New Time. Our role’s Game Movement came throw all this stages and continues to move. But everybody himself can think about continuation.

It is 1990 that is official date of Russian role’s movement birth when by fantasy amateur’s club was conducted first planar role’s game by “The Lord of Rings” on Mana river.

Before this time teenagers companies of course played all they wanted: Three musketeers, Star Wars, Zorro, but it wasn’t more than private hobby. From 1990 this free time occupation became popular and for nowadays does unsuccessful attempts to represent itself as one of serious and professional sorts of activity.

So, antique

It is individual for every players group – it is that time when between the player and text is a little distance, when game coincides with reading or remembering. It is that time, when company plays don’t know about existence of role’s movement. In our case this is those idyllic times, when three human on the kitchen sloping upon the bad copy of Middle-Earth map, feeling themselves real Keepers (state forever losing), when the cloak made from curtain dressed immediately on jeans wear transformed human to elf and this was obvious for all surrounded. It was time of pure simplicity, master’s, fighting, economics and rules are absent. The time when Gods were near (professor and his volumes). The mythology was one – professors, community – narrow and selected, understanding about intellectual property and labor distribution didn’t existed, game time didn’t confirmed and didn’t defined. The game was natural state. Leading type – Homo-feeling.

Early middle centuries

...are forming in antique media after its “barbarization” (new human came from side). The dominate idea is extracting (claiming) and barbarous structurally suppressed to it. Many new people disappeared in 1991 – 1993, attracted by role’s project. Overwhelming text was by Tolkien, that was thinking like a Testament (Old – “Silmarillion”, New – the “Lord of Rings”), explained, reading in any editions, over-said by hart (it is remarkable for early middle centuries – inaccessibility of texts and absence of knowledge – in our case – not familiarity with English), appeared own theologizes and heretics-makers (Natalie Vasilieva – nickname “Nienna”), nobody straggle against heretics, because of there is no dogmatic opinion and forces of suppression doesn’t formed. Flag’s idea – role’s games are astonishingly “cool” and beautiful, our circle is little, we discovered new universe. That’s time main literature – remakes of Testament (“Elf’s been”) and primitive but pure heroic songs. Main role’s type – poet (Homo-emotional). First labor distribution appears – somebody sings, somebody makes something (by hands), somebody makes clever face, but this division is very conditional: the world is whole and everybody is trying to do everything. Role’s media is chaotic, single center or centers are absent, every city has some leaders and leaders has dependent people (feud system). That’s period games – only by Tolkien, they are large (are EVENTS) and very rare. Little games are finishing this period were made by fantasy (presence of mentioned professor is feeling) and D&D technique is testing (table games).

1993 – 1996 are High Middle Centuries

Flowering of feudalism. Big playing territories are appearing (States) – Moscow, St.Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Kazan. Role’s convents are arising: ZilantCon (Kazan), VerCon (Ekaterinburg) and SibCon (Tomsk). Clubs, lieges, unions, orders, and another team communities are forming in every city (some of them are alive and now). It is obvious to all that role’s games are the universe needing in radical exploration and all must to do everything to reach success in it. The movement is widening to external world - it is self presentation to social community that continues to be busy with finances and policy. Press releases are making – look how beautiful we are! The press response is – what a fun. Disappointments doesn’t put out of countenances.

The main principle of games building is teams using. Game’s master – absolute Monarch. Master’s institution is shifting from players, communication is conducting by mediators. Club leaders playing parts of seniors are inviting for the games, they are obliged to gather their liegemans to the war. The vassal hasn’t right to refuse because he exists in role’s movement informational area due to senior. The disobedience is equalizing to treachery and is punishing by word’s badgering.

The time’s feature – clubs-feuds (examples – “Inheritance of ancestors”, “The union of mercenaries”, “Griffin’s Order”, “Dragon’s Hart Order”) aggressively compete with each other – who is better, more martial, more practical, more entourage and more disciplined. They has own symbols and ideology. Baronial wars are conducting for authority, shouts and outcries of offended and injured are carrying to the neutral media that quickly looses it’s neutrality.