So, who is going to write the next flagship larp for Chimera and what is it going to be??
I’ll help write it/help organize it if you guys need bodies to do so…
As for a story, may I suggest a Débutante Ball, held by the British Royal Family for Princess Elizabeth who has just turned 18?
Rowena and I were talking about running one.
The debutante ball sounds like all kinds of dressy prettiness, but might be a little too similar to the Great Exhibition.
Maybe something with pirates? I know there was talk of a pirate game for this year but apparently it didn’t happen.
I’d love to run a Chinese period drama LARP based around ‘Monkey’ (‘Journey to the west’) using costumes from here:
stylishcn.com/Man-ancient-co … index.html (about US$100-200 for a decent one) but given my lack of time over the last year I have a nasty feeling I may not be able to meet the responsibilities 
Steampunk?
It’s interesting how last year we had 1930’s New York pulp, and this year we had 1850’s London pulp. There isn’t any necessity to continue the historical pulp trend, although it does work very nicely. It has the advantage that everyone can dress up nice and there’s room for some curious costumes without it being a special-effects-makeup-fest, and the familiar historical and literary characters are easy to get one’s head around.
If we were going to continue in the historical pulp vein, then perhaps we could delve even further back in time? Renaissance Europe or something.
If we move away from historical pulp next time, then it’s wide open. A space opera set on a space station might be nice, perhaps with characters that are homages to SF properties, rather than using original names and so forth. Or a time traveller’s ball… although this isn’t the first time I’ve suggested that.
I prefer the term “mashup”.
Shakespere is the other common mashup theme.
Well, Hindenburg and Great Exhibition happen to be both mashup and pulp. 
I suggested “legendary medieval” mashup (Robin Hood meets King Arthur etc) for 2009, but I may have pulled the rug out from the Arthurian aspect of that now.
I think a labels-sanded-off science fiction mashup could work though. Dunno if playing someone who resembles a SF character is quite the same buzz as playing the character themself, though.
How about 1950s Rock’n’Roll mashup/pulp? Think - The Fonz, Happy Days, Grease (of course), Back2theFutureII,Rocky Horror, … Set at an American highschool dance…
Still lots of literature and pop culture to draw on, the music, start of drugs scene and the sixties, communism hysteria, all sorts of things.
Also easy to costume, dance classes available in Auckland, possibly could even get a band hired for the event?
That’s a pretty awesome idea.
EDIT: you wouldn’t need to hire a band either, there are enough larper musicians that we could form a band of player characters. 60’s rock is a piece of cake, it was the age of three-chord songs.
What about a Raymond E Feist style hall of worlds? In the various “Magician” books there was a large Inn or pub that existed in a space between worlds, were travellers from all imaginable worlds came to rest, meet, trade, gamble. I forgets the name. Honest Johns or something like it.
Covers everything from fantasy to sci-fi.
Ive started writing a larp set in 2009 for about 80+ people. set currently at the academy awards but i was thinking of perhaps changing it to the Nobel awards or a major film opening.
I was thinking about writing a Geoffrey Chaucer Larp, sometime, with the characters from the Canterbury pilgrimage mixing in with the characters from the actual tales and Troilus and Criseyda and that. Might work better for a 30 person game, though.
Drool.
And if Chimerais getting bigger next year, then one option is also to run some larger games alongside the 12 - 20 player standard. The big hall could certainly support them.
I was just about to start this thread! I’m going to be in Dunedin next year, but I’m totally on board for writing (as much as I can, anyway).
The SF space opera larp sounds good - 2010 is a futuristic sounding year. Plus we can have some time travelling mashup (I’m thinking Dr Who - I’ve wanted to write him into a larp like this for ages!)
Perhaps set on a space station?
[quote=“Jared”]What about a Raymond E Feist style hall of worlds? In the various “Magician” books there was a large Inn or pub that existed in a space between worlds, were travellers from all imaginable worlds came to rest, meet, trade, gamble. I forgets the name. Honest Johns or something like it.
Covers everything from fantasy to sci-fi.[/quote]
Sounds like Callahan’s Cross-Time Saloon…
As mentioned this time last year - Restuaruant at the End of the Universe - with mash-up of all sc fi characters. But perhaps this idea is being used at Battlecry 2010?
Either way it would be seven shades of awesome…
Plus David Harrop could break out his space marine power armour…