Favorite/funniest moments for Chimera 2011?

Auckland Chimera
#21

The House on the Haunted Hill
I played “Big Tony” the mob boss for this game. There was an assassin on my tail and I was sure (OOC) that it was my daughter, played by Saskia. This was based on a memory in the back of my brain of some B grade film I could only half remember. I had a big laugh at myself when it turned out she wasn’t. Great game by Zane. Thanks!

One Night in Heaven
Finding a note that said “Zeus, keep it in your pants, signed everyone…”

The Gordian Knot
Best game moment, figuring out that we’d given Anna Cruise a piece of metal that could allow her to find earth and pillage it for base elements, killing everyone. Also, finding out our beautiful alien owner had slipped roofies in out drinks and had her wicked way with us.

Actually, just stopping and looking around at the amazing costumes in this game was awesome!

Corbett and Grimes
This game was silly from start to end. Made me grin a lot.

Jade Empire
My first Chimera game as a GM :slight_smile: I remember being an hour in and thinking “Oh my God, it’s not going to work!” and then the bodies started stacking up and I felt a sense of relief that I’d cast most of my players into the right roles. Highlight of the game was Paul Wilson saying “a short time after I poisoned the drink, I realized I’d targeted the wrong person…” which I took to mean I’d got the difficulty of his task about right :slight_smile:

#22

House on Haunted Hill:

  • great fun being maid and actually doing maid duties
  • interactions with my lovely creepy butler husband
  • punching the police inspector and knocking him down, because I was a Kick Ass
  • walking into the room just in time to witness mafia boss killing one of the guests and being immediately offered ten thousand dollars for my silence
  • interaction with Patrick after he revealed he knew I was a runaway Secret Service agent, I spent a few minutes considering how I can get someone to kill him and then someone actually did kill him.

The Devil’s Brood: it was such a vipers’ nest, everyone smiling to each other and everyone plotting against each other! Basically, what the name says :smiley: Big thanks to Fraser who played my husband, I think we made an awesome couple - and we got lands too!

The Eccumenical matter: hilarious silliness all around, the amount of laughing definitely exceeded healthy limits, but that wasn’t a problem as we had Patrick the Medical Man with us, aka the Drunk Archbishop. Notable moments include holy underwear (it had holes) on a stick waved at the window in a hope that people from other games may see it, everything to do with “Amen!” and Father Amen, confessing my sins to the Vatican accountant to then find out he was also a Vatican Secret Police Agent; Cameron looking at Wong (secret agent) “Wait, you say he was SECRETLY Asian? He’s really bad at that!”; discovering that gay archbishop had actually chosen a satanist to be the new bishop :smiley: ; “Who is Euphemia?” “It’s Mrs O’Toole, she checked her character sheet and found that she is Euphemia”.

Gordian Knot: FANTASTIC. I was fortunate to work with the best team I ever had in larp, 7 trees made a great fun combination, and we were so peaceful too. Protecting the little tree Randy from bad people who followed her by watching out for them (I found out afterwards that a bunch of trees permanently staring at them really freaked them out), talking to people around about how slaves should be free (conversation with Blair was particularly hilarious), a chat with Rowena’s hologram about sex (“we do it same ways as humans, but some parts of us just look different”), and my highlight of the night - talking to my two lovers about how maybe three of us can do “not just work together, but also other things”, Scott couldn’t stop laughing, and Walter’s main concern was apparently that Scott’s character is traditional, which I took as a sign that he himself might be ok with it. They both agreed to think of it and try :smiley:

Knightshade: lotsa fun playing Patrick the Pig Farmer and telling everyone around about my piggies who didn’t grow because they apparently ate bad flowers. Also, being a village girl Nancy and tricking one of the players into marrying me, and then following him around. Later I came back as Patrick again, claiming to be a big friend of Nancy’s dad who “was a butcher and was butchered”, so now Patrick was looking after her, and speaking loudly of how George (the player) will make a great husband, also offering advices for the wedding night. Hilarious ending of this was when he was leaving with other players and I said “Nancy will follow you shortly, oh, there she’s coming, with her daddy’s biggest axe!”, and poor George ran away.

Forgotten Gods: I achieved my goal to become a High Priestess of the Spider God (thanks for being awesome God, Jack) and even sacrificed Michael’s soldier character to my god, it was cool and noisy. Had fun with Ants playing my lover who was told I’m a Spider God priestess and faced me, requesting to admit it, I thought I was gonna die that moment, but seems that my temple girl seduction charms worked on him once again. I was seriously considering after that to replace him with Sigwardr as a potential king, but that silly pirate ran away, deceived by his mate (I really wasn’t going to sacrifice Sigwardr, he was my friend and I thought we could work together to achieve our goals). Special thanks to Steph for cool roleplaying, I think our friendliness to each other provoked a lot of suspicion around me!

OOC: thanks to all people with whom I shared fun and drinks and nibbles in the evenings, it made some good relaxing time. Also, I’m never sharing a room with Jackie again because she is supplying half of NZLARPS members with awesome costumes, and so awesome costumes totally overpopulated the room, leaving little space for people :smiley:

#23

Aiwe - after all our fun together in Knightshade (a definite highlight getting to meet you by the way), I did not catch your real name or contact details :slight_smile: I’m such a slacker but we never got introduced and never got round to doing it out of character.

Be good to stay in touch! Tanya Wheeler (Claudia - or you can call me Princess Claudia now!) :slight_smile:

Tanya

#24

Thanks Tanya, was fun for me too meeting you, looking forward to more interactions! My name is Lucy :smiley: , contact details would be PM here or FB, I’ll PM you a link.

#25

Bad Dreams
I was gutted I’d been killed off so early - some creepy professor had been leering at me all night and as my character had been gangraped by a bunch of professors, none of whom I could actually remember, I was very keen to see if something played out there. Buuut, only minutes after my death, somebody came along with a stethoscope and a funny looking syringe, and I got to come back for a little while as a zombie!

One Night In Heaven
After much discussion, Athena and I decided it should be added to the agenda that Zeus needed to keep it in his pants. It was a unanimous vote.

The Board Of Inquiry
Zane was a wonderful underling and Tk was a wonderful asshole. I just loved the subtlety in the characterisation in this game - there was so much to find out.

The Gordian Knot
I won’t lie; slapping Matrix was awesome. I was a bit of a groupie for both Dj Finn and Cosmo Flynn - and managed to get both their autographs - and both of these characters were a heap of fun. Matrix was tremendously frustrating, but such a smooth talker than I went from holding a gun to his throat to saving his life twice in the space of a half hour. His underling, whose name I forget but who was played by Freddie, was also excellent fun. My interaction with Matrix, though, was probably the highlight of the convention for me, so huge thanks to Anthony for bringing to life such an intense and infuriating character.

Knightshade
My first real larp combat! After carrying swords for a weekend at Teonn, I was pretty keen to get in on some of the action, and was lucky enough to land a character who could do just that. Patrick - my cousin, the ever charming hero - was so much fun, and when I wasn’t trying to beat his bandit headcount I took to poking fun at his ladykilling ways. I think my favourite moment in this game, though, was when I was repairing a certain character’s armour and shield for about the third or fourth time, and I handed him my sword and began to speak, but he cut me off - ‘yes, yes, don’t play with it; it’s a nice sword and it’s yours’. Good to know he’d been listening!

Boffo’s Birthday Bash
I loved how over the top all the characters were! I was masquerading as a romance novellist, and managed to dish out some truly awful romantic advice while spreading rumours about murder plots and sorting out everybody’s love life issues. I loved the boys rushing outside trying to stop Boffo murdering some poor girl - and accidentally ruining his marriage proposal.

#26

Hiya Tanya :slight_smile:

I’m Robbo (Robert Birtles-Crute) … we talked a few times, you scared the snot out of me in Cha’akta (my “wife” punched you iirc). It was, in all, my pleasure to meet you. bows

#27

Ahh I thought that was you but wanted to double check as with character names, user names and real names - it is all starting to go woosh over my head. How on earth did I scare the snot out of you ? I was being totally demure in that game… although I did have a bag of what I told everyone were infant foetus bones :slight_smile:

That would scare me…

I didn’t get opportunity to use any of my magical powers in that game - I missed the boat on all my goals I think. Your wife was a bitch - she tortured me for like a month - didn’t you notice her missing half the night? Every night - down in the basement beating me up, coming back to bed covered in blood and no doubt skin scrapings. I am all about getting the skin scrapings!!

Thanks - I finally found out today that when you marched that guy out to tell him off for cutting duchess’ hair that you took his side - I paid you good money to sort out all my little problems. Ten whole pounds…

Tanya

#28

Forgot to add one more from Circus of the Spectacular: Robza as the nefarious Jack Bungling taking me by the hand and telling me that he only wanted parts of the circus, like me. So serious. But then his eyebrows waggled up and down- which completely broke me.

Then stirring up trouble (these games are all about the conflict, right?) by telling Sebastian (and Dave, I had so much fun RPing with you, too!) my loyal and loving fiance, that Mr Bungling had made a pass at me, knowing he would storm off after Robza, which allowed me to run after him and, having caused the punch up in the first place, play the classic damsel and tell them not to fight over me.

#29

I’m so sad to not have been there but It’s fun hearing other people talk about various games I’ve played in (Cha’akta Peace Accord, Snow White, and Ecumenical Matter)…

#30

Best moment for me at Bad Dreams was playing a cannibal and being told not to go into the kitchen, but then sneaking in anyway only to find my long-lost friend Michelle cooking up various human body parts. I came back later to ask if she wanted to cook up one of my enemies in a pie and feed it to one of the others, only to find her being attacked by the mad nazi scientist, who killed me too.

Asterix and the Council of Carnutes was the coolest-looking larp I’ve ever seen. Just the sheer visual recognition value of the characters was mindblowing, and the roleplay was utterly genre-appropriate and hilarious. Even Bombastix and Antibiotix, who weren’t canon characters, looked totally like they’d just walked out of the pages of the comic. Awesome.

At The Ch’akta Peace Accord, Cheryl did an awesome job as the mother of my deadly alien love-child, the mixture of affection and distrust she had towards me was superb, both when she was alive and as a ghost. Also really enjoyed being attacked by Fraser and making visible the spirit of my dead lover (killed while giving birth to my alien child), only to find that she was Fraser’s character’s ex-lover too so we had this awesome violent combat/sensitive moment combination. Michael’s insane zealot whose actions I kept having to disavow was fun, and I enjoyed playing off Robbo’s leader of the humans who was a great authority figure - once I worked out that he was in charge of many of the people with guns in the room, I made sure to stay on his good side.

The Gordian Knot looked spectacular with the set-dressing and costumes and makeup, and Craig’s soundscape added to the atmosphere immensely, which was really noticable whenever the music stopped. I loved playing Link, I pictured him like an arsehole version of Zaphod Beeblebrox. Apologies to any ladies or men offended OOC by my unwanted attentions, I wanted him to be the rudest, most arrogant and perverted sex-fiend imaginable. Especially enjoyed coming on to Anna Cruise’s character because she looked so kinky, only to find that she was actually the fake System Skurge leader that I had set up but never met. Very disappointing when I found her dead later. My team from Dyson were great to play off, both really useful and untrustworthy at the same time, Glitch especially (not sure of her real name) turned out to be especially helpful in my nefarious plan. My character wanted to stop Sylvestrar and Camford getting married and making peace, so I decided to start a rumour that Camford had developed a “neural worm” that would allow them to mind-control the Sylvestran leaders after they cosied up with the marriage plan, effectively making Sylvestrar their slave planet. I told my minions this as if it was true, so when one of the Sylvestrans used a truth serum on Glitch she said it was true - because she thought it was! It helped that it had also become confused in her mind with the device implanted in her brain, which really was some sort of mind control or communication thing. So my plan ended that marriage, and hopefully might start a war. I also loved the moment when Adam as the security head told me my ship had been stolen, and my ensuring arguments with my people over why I should put up with this.

I didn’t get to see a lot of the acton at Forgotten Gods as I was briefing crew most of the time, but the expression on Eva’s face when she realised that the god she was thinking of becoming a follower of was a bloodthirsty monster, and a human sacrifice happened right in front of her was priceless. :wink:

#31

To be fair, that whole “tracing the metal” thing was intended to be techy-sounding bullshit to throw her off the trail and buy myself time to find a way to get rid of her before she harmed an innocent planet. I just never got the chance to inform the GMs of that :stuck_out_tongue:

#32

Oh another great moment for me was being searched thoroughly and entirely, for telling the security guards i have 2 guns and a pocket blaster…

#33

Remind me how you convinced my character to marry yours? :open_mouth:

#34

It was because he was a hot Pumician from a planet that has lots of free love :slight_smile:

#35

Remind me how you convinced my character to marry yours? :open_mouth:[/quote]

If i remember correctly, he didn’t have to ask too romantically :stuck_out_tongue: It’s not his fault everyone else in the universe is insane!

Well there was that and you were carrying his not baby :stuck_out_tongue:

#36

It was really funny when Jet/Jordan/Helikaon got dragged out of the line to be searched for his ‘pocket blaster’ and then skipped to the front of the queue and got let in before the rest of the Pumice delegation :slight_smile:

Tanya

#37

Cool story bro…needs more dragons

:smiling_imp:

#38

Cool story bro…needs more dragons

:smiling_imp:[/quote]

I laughed at this…

#39

So we murdered her for nothing? :blush:

#40

She was still a really evil woman, just maybe not as evil as the actual System Skurge whom she was posing as. I’m pretty sure that an Alien invasion of two may not get far, but its the threatening to that counts :smiling_imp: