An Epic Greek LARP

No, neither.
However, the Ambury Park Stonefields remind me of Stony Batter on Waiheke Island. Theres also a creek nearby, patches of intense and sparse bush and best of all a tunnel system spanning several kilometers…[/quote]

I’d love to play on Stony Batter for a dungeon-delving game. There’s not a huge amount of forest or open area that’s not farm, though, from memory. For this, out in the open is better I reckon.

Also, Stony Batter is even harder to get to.

If we used Motukorea, the Gods could live in the volcano cone. :wink:

A toilet? That’s all we need. Derek’s not suggesting camping.

Can you confirm about the toilet, and whether we can use it? The ARC site says there are no facilities.

I’d be so keen to play on Motukorea if we possibly can. I’m sure someone will have a boat that could take a few more people. And once we’re there - whole island (probably mostly) to ourselves!

It’s 800 meters in diameter. Big enough for a real adventure, not so big you won’t be able to see heaps of other players scattered around the place I reckon.

I’m amping to go over there.[/quote]

I’ve been over there quite a few times, its a nice easy Kayak from Okahu Bay. even easier from St Heliers or Karaka Bay.
You’d have to take a lot of gear, mostly food and lots and lots of water. During summer the island abosrbs the heat and pumps it back out so its VERY hot and you get dehydrated very quickly. It probably wont be as empty as you think. There tends to be lots of day trippers over there. I’ve been about 5-6 time and never once had nobody else on the island.
I agree it would be a great place for a LARP, but getting there is going to be a complete bugger…

Is it possible to take a larger boat over? Does anyone have a larger boat to take?

A few tourists don’t worry me. Can’t be as much as playing on North Head. :wink:

Mt Olympus…

I’m not sure if the adventure would stretch to an overnight one…

But it’s worth considering :smiley:

The shed is very small. It’s boarded up and locked, I had a look in through a loose shutter board. I’m about 80% sure that there’s a toilet. I might be able to head over and take a better look sometime between now and the end of the year.
There are hardly any tourists there. The island has a few cows, a small jetty, a broken stone wall in a rectangular shape, a fenced off concrete water resevoir, that shed I mentioned and a trig point at the top.
A bigger boat would need to be wary of tides.

Sorry - I don’t quite follow. Are you talking about the Stony Batter tunnels or does Ambury Park have tunnels as well?

If we can get permission to camp overnight, I’m thinking the 14th and 15th of January could be good.

Sorry - I don’t quite follow. Are you talking about the Stony Batter tunnels or does Ambury Park have tunnels as well?[/quote]

Sorry, I was talking about Stony Batter

I’m sorry, you’re right. :frowning: I don’t condone child killing.[/quote]

There’s nothing to apologise for. Anyone who would think that about you because of a few jokes about MYTHOLOGICAL CHARACTERS needs their head examined.

Women have sex with swans. People’s mothers are so squeamish about getting their hands wet that they forget to invincibilify the whole foot. It’s an hilarious subject.

I say again unto thee, get the Sara Douglass Troy Game trilogy. The prologue is Ariadne getting dumped on Naxos by Theseus. She summons doomy magical powers and destroys most of the Mediterranean, and indirectly causes the Trojan War.

[quote=“Anna K”]

I’m sorry, you’re right. :frowning: I don’t condone child killing.

I’m just used to treating mythology as something completely and utterly seperate from reality. It’s like a soap opera, it’s too outlandish to be looked at within normal boundaries of ‘horrible’.

Reason I myself like Medea is that I am very impressed that there was at least one female in Greek mythology that didn’t sort of curl up into a ball of suicide when her husband left. (There was also Clytemnestra, but she was a nasty awful husband killer and nobody likes her either)[/quote]

yeah but Clytemnestra kinda had a good reason, being that Agamemnon had sacrificed her much loved daughter in order to guarantee the greeks good weather for the journey to troy, which they needed to do because agamemnon had screwed up in some way i can’t recall at this point. yeah, so clytemnestra was pissed, and when he got home (WITH a slave girl no less, poor cassandra) she gave him what for.

ariadne rocks too, i love the irony in that she helps theseus defeat the minotaur (half man half bull) and then shacks up with dionysus (the bull god) after theseus ditches her.

my personal favourite greek female would have to be atalanta though. she kicks ass.

[quote=“bratnumber3”]my personal favourite greek female would have to be atalanta though. she kicks ass.[/quote]That was the one with the foot race and the golden apples, yes? She ended up being turned into a lion along with whatever chap ended up marrying her.

Here’s a quote from one of my text books: “Sometimes it seems that the worst thing a Greek hero could do was get married and have children.”

But Perseus got to live happily ever after!

Yeah, I know. :slight_smile: I was being sarcastic with my “(There was also Clytemnestra, but she was a nasty awful husband killer and nobody likes her either)”

That doesn’t change the fact that she’s looked on as the Ultimate Monster Wife in Greek mythology (Medea is the Ultimate Monster Mother) while Agamemnon gets to be war hero.

You’re right, he did. How’d that happen? One of the gods must have been sleeping on the job.

I thought he died horribly somehow.

Oh well, the gods were feeling slack, I suppose. I guess they have their off days too…

:bulb:

Ok I’m heading over to Brown’s Island either tomorrow afternoon or Sunday afternoon, when I finish work. I’ll let you guys know about the crapper.
Anything else you want me to do while I’'m there? I’ll check here before I leave.

[quote=“infernalmud”]Ok I’m heading over to Brown’s Island either tomorrow afternoon or Sunday afternoon, when I finish work. I’ll let you guys know about the crapper.
Anything else you want me to do while I’'m there? I’ll check here before I leave.[/quote]

Any warning/restriction signs.
If there are any BBQ areas.

I’m keen for somewhere that can be the River Styx. It doesn’t have to be very long or wide, but if you can float a canoe in it and paddle from one side to another…

Oh … and how long the trip takes!

Will do, you’ll hear from me soon. I’ll try and get a camera over there and post some photos.

Motukorea is a beautiful island. It’s a lot bigger than I remembered, probably because I hadn’t run around the perimeter before.
The trip over there from Halfmoon Bay Marina took about twelve minutes.

There were a couple of signs, just the standard DOC green sign with yellow writing, informing readers that walking, picnicking and bird watching are ok, and camping, lighting fires and dogs are not.

No BBQ areas.

Yes, there is a long pond that could be the river Styx, brown murky water and a rendezvous of ducks. It would work fine.

There must be about fifty pukeko on the island. They were jumping up from the long grass everywhere.

There were no cows, they must have been ferried off the island a while ago. The fences and (dried up)troughs are still there though.

I had a closer look at the buildings, and there definitely is a toilet. It’s not in great condition, and I’m not sure if it works, but it’s white, it has a cistern, a seat and a bowl.
It was inside a locked building, I had a peek through the keyhole and there’s one there.
There was a building next to the outhouse with four beds (two bunks), a sink, a fridge, a stove, a shower and a handbasin. The building was locked and the windows were shuttered but I could see in through a loose shutter.
It’s not a public facility, we’d definitely have to contact DOC and get permission.

I took photos, and will try to get them viewable soon.

LARPing there is a must.

Anyone got a big boat?