An autistic man whose love for live-action roleplay is eclipsed only by his complete lack of situational awareness has spent the last several hours totally unaware of the fact that he’s been wandering around an open-air BDSM market, according to eyewitnesses.

Graeme Hart, 36, has reportedly enjoyed many happy weekends spent on campsites dressed as his character, 215-year-old battlemage Springthorn the Elf. However, Hart’s complete desensitisation to exotic characters in flamboyant costumes – coupled with his bone-deep inability to read the room – recently led to an afternoon of oblivious wandering around Madame Belial’s Passion Bazaar, which caters to an entirely different kind of fantasy roleplay.

“It really is quite amazing,” Alix Gardner, 40, professional businesspervert, told reporters. “He has no idea. I’ve been watching him for a while, and he genuinely seems to think that everyone here is in character. And, like, I mean, we are, but not in a way that needs us to check our stats sheet before joining an encounter.”

Aidan Michaels, 55 and dressed in a full leather dog costume, added: “Graeme wandered over and asked me if I knew why that poor peasant had been put in the stocks. I didn’t have the heart to tell him, and as a service dog people aren’t really meant to talk to me while I’m working.”

Hart was last spotted looking utterly unfazed after being handed a flyer offering lessons on how to plan an “orgy tent”.

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