I have been playing around in my head with the idea of an alternative history New Zealand LARP for a while, and now I thought I would make it public and see what you guys think of it.
the basic idea is that America was right: Communism spead all over the world in accordance with the “Domino theory”. It spread to New Zealand and the Communist Party of New Zealand won the General elections in 1978. Since then the government has run pretty well really. After winning two decades of elections the Communist Government decided that we didn’t need any more elections.
That was 7 years ago. Now, the world is changing. In Canada their government was overthrown, France is well on its way to overcoming the communists. Will New Zealand be next?
The Game is set at a stage where anti-communist groups have been on the rise and the public and government are starting to get uneasy. The government decides to do a crack down on the uprising. Many groups have been rounded up around the country to be made an example of. The Communists plan to guilt the communists out of their uprising by picking from the public at random, mainly from problem areas. As a player you would a part of one of these groups, selected at random from the general public to be executed. but you are an anti-communist? you Decide.
The game starts with the players being offloaded from a truck and taken into their camp, where they will be executed on live TV on Sunday evening while the masses of New Zealand eat their dinner and shake their heads.
The Game would be one weekend long Starting early Saturday morning (prefibly before sunrise is this was feasable in real life) and run until Sunday afternoon. The players would be about 12 or so in numbers hopefully, with 5 or 6 NPC’s who would be the guards. The game would be mostly non combat, however I did have some ideas of secret communist weapons being used (i.e a device which makes a loud noise that knocks everyone in the room “unconscious”. These would take ammo rings (little gambling token things) of up to about 5. The players would not know how to reload these, only the guards could do that. Of course, they players would have to be pretty deious to get one of these weapons anyway.)
So: What do you all think of the idea? Would you be keen to get involved? suggestions? comments? Criticisms?