At one point, Ewalt embarked on a live-action role-playing weekend in which he and his team members participated in an adventure. Like D&D, the story was prepped in advance by the people who ran the LARPing event, and Ewalt says the staff members also had to contend with the difficulties of playing various roles in the story 鈥� a process he found fascinating. "They have to make quick changes and move rapidly from one area of the camp to another," he writes. "In the staff area of the main lodge there's a massive spreadsheet hung on the walls, stretching from floor to ceiling, easily sixty feet long. It describes where each and every person needs to be at each moment, and in which costume, over the course of the entire weekend. It looks like something you might have found in George Patton's command center during the North African campaigns."
