Chimera 2012 Standouts and Favourites

[Anna_K]

Happily Ever After? White Stream
GM Choice for Outstanding Roleplaying: Gareth Sandford and Hannah Jackson
GM Choice for Outstanding Costuming: Judit Klein and Tigger Brunton
Players’ Favourite Male Costume: Ben Seymour and Shaun Gibson
Players’ Favourite Female Costume: Beth St Claire
Players’ Favourite Female Costume Runners Up: Vivian Fittall and Florence Mitchell
Players’ Memorable Roleplayers: Sam Shaw, Ben Seymour and Frederick Conquer

Happily Ever After? Black Stream
GM Choice for Outstanding Roleplaying: Travis Badenhorst and Robbo Birtles-Crute
GM Choice for Outstanding Costuming: Genevieve Mrost and Bryn Jones
Players’ Favourite Male Costume: Anthony Doornebosch
Players’ Favourite Male Costume: Travis Badenhorst
Players’ Favourite Female Costume: Monica Hill
Players’ Favourite Female Costume Runners Up: Hannah McKie, Leah Gilbert and Naomi Guyer
Players’ Memorable Roleplayers: Sam Blood and Muppet Brown

Round 1, Friday Night
First Night
Standout Roleplayer: Sam Shaw
Standout Costume: Kathrin Marks
Best Pop Culture Reference: Chantelle Gerrard

Bad Dreams
Standout Roleplayer: Steve Dalby
Character Least Like the Player: Nik Crombie

The Governor’s Dinner Party
Standout Roleplayer: Allen Shaw
Standout Costume: Hannah McKie
Best Lie/Cover-Up: Saskia van Well

The Silver Kiss of the Magical Twilight of the Full Moon
Standout Roleplayer: Fraser Peat
Standout Costume: Liz Read
Best Use of a Prop: Stephanie Cybart

The Dance and the Dawn
Standout Roleplayer: Anthony Doornebosch
Standout Costume: Nicole Landers
Worst Betrayal: Anthony Doornebosch

KiL Quest III: Minor Problems
Standout Roleplayer: Chris Evans
Standout Costume: Jared Hansen

Round 2, Saturday Morning
32AR: Gateway to Hell
Standout Roleplayer: Leah Gilbert
Standout Costume: David Harrop
Best Death: David Harrop

The Queen’s Justice
Standout Roleplayer: Hannah McKie
Standout Costume: Hannah McKie
Most Tragic Moment: Bryn Jones

World’s End
Standout Roleplayer: Chris Evans and Michael Carter
Standout Costume: Mila Krstik
Least Deserved Success: Mark Wilson

Stars Over Strangeways
Standout Roleplayer: Rob Shaw
Standout Costume: Lucy Brychkova
Best Invalid: Ben Seymour and Rob Shaw

Quest to the Forest of Darkness
Standout Roleplayer: Jared Hansen
Standout Costume: Tanya Fursseddon
Character Most Likely to have their own spin off movie: Liz McCombe as Jenny Brighteyes the Witch

For Those In Peril
Standout Roleplayer: Malcolm Harbrow
Standout Costume: Kirsten Goodall
Biggest Sacrifice: Frederick Conqeur

Round 3, Saturday Afternoon
Aunt Beatrice Began It
Standout Roleplayer: Saskia van Well
Standout Costume: Daphne Cohen
Most Astonishing Revelation: Matt Swain

Seeker’s Regret
Standout Roleplayer: Sam Shaw
Standout Costume: Ellen Boucher
Unhappiest Ever After: Ryan Paddy

Galaxia 20
Standout Roleplayer: Nick Wolf
Standout Costume: Ben Seymour
Unhappiest Ever After: Nick Wolf

Sacred Lands
Standout Roleplayer: Diane Davenport
Standout Costume: Patch
Most Culturally Insensitive: Hannah McKie and Jon Ball

Tournament of Champions
Winner: Reuben Strom
Standout Costume: Daniel Carleton as the Lich King
Best Manners: Anthony Doornebosch

Round 5, Sunday Morning
Alamo
Standout Roleplayer: Zane Fleming
Standout Costume: Samantha Boston
Biggest Miscalculation: ??

Heart of Darkness
Standout Roleplayer: David Harrop
Standout Costume: Patch
Bravest Act: The Marines

Alpha Alpha Asgard
Standout Roleplayer: Allen Shaw
Standout Costume: Florence Mitchell
The One You’d Never Let A Loved One Date: Jack Benson-Rea

Into the Woods
Standout Roleplayer: Fraser Peat and Daphne Cohen
Standout Costume: Mila Krstik
Most Epic Ever After: Fraser Peat and Daphne Cohen

Sabretooth
Standout Roleplayer: Sam Shaw
Standout Costume: Ellen Boucher
Least Efficient Solution to a Problem (That Still Worked): Shaun Gibson

Quick Bright Things
Standout Roleplayer: Nicole Landers
Standout Costume: Jack Waller
Biggest Prima Donna: Mark Wilson

13 Angry Men With Guns
Standout Roleplayer: Reuben Strom
Standout Costume: Bryn Jones
Crowning Moment of Badass: Reuben Strom

Round 6, Sunday Afternoon
Carry On At Camp David
Standout Roleplayer: Nik Crombie
Standout Costume: Hannah McKie
The Most Bald-Face Lie: Yahn Darkwood

Steampunk Alive! The Great Train Robbery
Standout Roleplayer: ??
Standout Costume: Glenn
Most Mysterious Character Portrayal: Kirsten Goodall

The Working Quarter
Standout Roleplayer: Naomi Guyer
Standout Costume: Kerry Pellet
Worst Luck: Anna Northey

Welcome to Sunny Valley
Standout Roleplayer: Jared Hansen
Standout Costume: Jared Hansen
Best Reaction: Zanni

Pestilence and Petri Dishes
Standout Roleplayer: Chris Hoggins
Standout Costume: Beth St Claire
Most Repellent Achievement: Monica Hill

The Hunger Games
Standout Roleplayer: Adrian Baxter
Standout Costume: Scott Marks
Famous Last Words: Gareth Hawken (“It’ll be fine.”)

People’s Choice Awards

The Chimera 2012 People’s Choice for Outstanding Roleplaying: Hannah McKie
Runner Up: Saskia van Well
Honourable Mention: Bryn Jones and Allen Shaw

The Chimera 2012 People’s Choice for Outstanding Costuming: Hannah McKie
Runner Up: Bryn Jones
Honourable Mention: Ant Doornebosch, Beth St Claire, Cheryl Frederick and Mila Krstik

The Chimera 2012 People’s Choice for Outstanding Game: 13 Angry Men With Guns, by Matt Swain and Jackie Brasfield
Runner Up: Into the Woods, by Stephanie and Catherine Pegg
Honourable Mention: Bad Dreams by Vanya Essin and Porl Bowdler, The Queen’s Justice by Ryan Paddy

The Chimera 2012 People’s Choice for Spirit: Rob Shaw
Honourable Mentions: Stephanie Pegg and Vanya Essin
(thank you very much to everyone that voted for me, but I can’t win my own spirit prize )

[Anna_K]

The People’s Choice votes have been tabulated and the winners announced. Congratulations all!

[Wulfen_David]

Heart of Darkness
Standout Roleplayer: David Harrop
Standout Costume: Patch
Bravest Act: The Marines

we all voted the marines for our game because no one man was any braver than the rest, i saw acts of heroism, team work, courage under fire, and cool heads amongst often conflicting shouts and calls. well done troopers, damn proud to have been your commanding officer, HOORAH!

[Viperion]

[quote=“Anna K”]The Chimera 2012 People’s Choice for Outstanding Game: 13 Angry Men With Guns, by Matt Swain and Jackie Brasfield[/quote]OK so technically I already knew about this (Jackie let me know) but wow. Just wow. Thanks guys’n’gals

[Hanz_Hanz]

OMGoodness. Chimera attendees you have my utter utter utter most thanks. You sincerely do. Thank you to everyone for being so incredibly generous and supportive with your voting. It’s such an incredible privilege getting to act alongside so many wonderful players and wonderful people in every game no matter the game. As has always been said, acting is reacting and being able to react from other people’s incredible in-character player choices made the weekend that much more exceptional and exceptionally fun for me. And everywhere I looked the costumes where just blowing me away! So incredibly impressive! And so encouraging and inspiring! I’ve learnt so much from watching you all this year and last year and I’ve grown so much from your amazing efforts. Thank you.

I don’t know about you guys but there are amazing things happening this week for me. Or there are meant to be: bringing over international film celebrities, Fox film premiers and organizing NZ’s amazing young scriptwriters. There’s so much amazing happening this week. I was absolutely convinced I’d have ample distraction to keep me occupied from the sads that set in after Sunday night. How mistaken I was. Despite the awesome that’s meant to happen this week, if I’m honest, I’d rather be in a scout hall surrounded by old and new friends pretending to be someone (or something) and lining up for plastic cutlery in a different outfit for every trestle tabled meal. I miss you guys: players, GMs, organizers, helpers, transporters, and in all of those groups: friends. Thank you so so much for an incredible weekend of both really memorable and enjoyable experiences. Thank you to anyone who voted for me in whatever capacity. If you did then we were likely playing in the same faction in a game and if so, please accept my sincerest thanks for making my game so enjoyable by your awesome input. Thank you players for making my games what they were and thank you for playing with me. Thank you GMs for writing or finding my characters, for running games, and to the organizers for making the games I played happen and to the helpers and partners that kept Chimera going. Thank you to everyone who’s posted kind words and kind comments on the forums. Thank you for playing with me and dressing up with me and making Chimera the amazing success that it was. I feel honoured to be allowed to attend this event. And so amazingly grateful and humbled to have received any votes at all. You guys are incredible. I love you all. I’m so so honoured to be on that list. You guys are amazing.

Hannah

[Keolyn]

I know I’m a little biased but just wanted to say congrats to Reuben for winning the Tournament, has had been training really hard and had only just started LARPing at the last Teonn so I think he did awesomely

Also, as his lady… swoon

[Mike_Curtis]

[quote]Sabretooth
Standout Roleplayer: Sam Shaw
Standout Costume: Ellen Boucher
Least Efficient Solution to a Problem (That Still Worked): Shaun Gibson[/quote]
Um, Standout Roleplayer should have been Shaun Gibson. Nothing against Sam, I totally would have chosen him, except he didn’t actually play in Sabretööth.

Thanks for doing all the hard yards in compiling the lists, though