Flagships 2012 and 2013

Flagship 2012
The flagship team for 2012 will be headed up by Rowena Knill, to write a flagship on the theme of fairy tales. The larp will be 70 players, with an optional 10 character, and will be run twice simultaneously, giving us a flagship capacity of 140-160 people. If you are interested in joining her team to write the larp, or if you are interested in forming a set dressing team, please contact Rowena directly on rowena dot anastriel at g mail dotcom. Work has started but is in its early stages and there is need of 2-3 more writers to join the effort.

Flagship 2013
Chimera will start taking bids for the Chimera 2013 flagship spot in February 2012. If you are interested in taking the job on for Chimera 2013, please keep the following things in mind:

  • The Saturday night will need to accommodate no less than 140 people, preferrably closer to 160. We will not be running any one larp that big, but rather, we will run a 70-80 person larp twice at once, or one original 80 person larp and something from the archives.
  • The writing team will probably need to consist of no less than seven people to accommodate for attrition.
  • The writing team will also have partial responsibility towards the setting dressing of the event.
  • The writing team will need to have the game finished by July 1st 2013.
  • The writing team will need to work closely with the Chimera organisational team, more so than the GMs for the other games, as the Big Larp is a pivotal part of the convention.
  • The writing team will need to provide a set dressing brief that is within the reasonable budget provided by the convention.
  • The game needs to be mainstream in tone. While Chimera is R16 in general, the content needs to be suitable for as wide a variety of people as possble.
  • You will need to have excellent, prompt and friendly communication with players regarding their queries.
  • You will need to remember that quality needs to be high because this is the larp that we market the convention on and this is the larp that people could be trying for the first time. Also, I’m an absolute tyrant. Just warning you.

Expressions of interest/bids can be sent to chimera@nzlarps.org from the beginning of February until the end of March 2012. The more information you can include on who your writing team is, the description of the game, ideas for set dressing on a limited budget and if you have a set dressing team arranged. Basically, I’m looking for a head writer and team that have demonstrated that they have put a lot of thought into how to make their great idea a reality and have an understanding of the volume of work involved. It is time Chimera moved away from inducing nervous breakdowns in its flagship writers :slight_smile:

Looking forward to hearing what people want to see for The Big Chimera Larp 2013 :slight_smile:

[quote=“Anna K”]Flagship 2012
The flagship team for 2012 will be headed up by Rowena Knill, to write a flagship on the theme of fairy tales. The larp will be 70 players, with an optional 10 character, and will be run twice simultaneously, giving us a flagship capacity of 140-160 people. If you are interested in joining her team to write the larp, or if you are interested in forming a set dressing team, please contact Rowena directly on anastriel at g mail dotcom. Work has started but is in its early stages and there is need of 2-3 more writers to join the effort.[/quote]

I was thinking of a small Fairy Tale based larp - similar to shrek where there are several fairy tales all intertwined. So I would love to put my name down to help writting / organising etc for this LARP. This will be a first foray into writting, if you’ll have me. I am based in Wellington :slight_smile:

as for a character idea for the fairy tale larp id love to play one of the grim brothers in the style of the movie with Matt Damon and Heath Leadger

Does it come complete with semi clad Monica Belucci? :open_mouth:

Chimera 2013… It is a dark and stormy night at motu moana scout camp. The rain is pouring down and lightning flashes. In the hall a curtain is pulled aside and a blonde with blue eyes looks out. Barbie laughs and drop the curtain.

Inside the music rages and the Tom’s toys are going wild. It is the party of a lifetime, their lifetime. Lego men wander ago with lego cones on their heads, Cindy is flirting with Ken much to Barbie’s disgust and Winnie the Pooh is looking for his hunny. Balls bounce madly around the room and a troll dolls lurks near the edge of the bed pulling in the pretty dolls tat wander past to try to steal a kiss, while Indiana Jones goes on one last quest to retrieve the lost marble of the temple of Unda-Dressa.

The toys here know that this is their last night of freedom, tomorrow they will be packed into boxes and put into storage as their owner leaves to attend Uni. They are partying tonight like there is no tomorrow, because for them there won’t be…

I would love to run A Toy Story LARP as a flagship larp for Chimera 2013, but I can’t do it alone. Does anyone want to volunteer to help put one together with me?

Also does this genre as a game appeal to people?

Cheers,

Zara

(Edited to correct year)

I’ve love a Toy Story larp. I’d rather play in it though (wouldn’t we all!)
I’ll see how my bid goes for the Fairy Tale one & if I don’t help 2012, i’ll help 2013!

Erratum: Turns out that’s actually rowena dot anastriel at g mail dotcom - or PM Anastriel on Diatribe.

I would be interested Zara - although 2013 is a LONG way away… but at this juncture, it would be fun to kick around ideas and brainstorm up a pitch of some sort with other people. I am interested in the process - never having written a LARP… I know you have.

Tanya

At this point in time all we would be really doing is meeting up to brain strom,. kick around Ideas and make up a proposal bid. :slight_smile:

A night at the museum Larp would also be fun, similar to the Ben Stiller movie, with many chars down through history, with the ultimate goal of keeping the museum open. There would be some much more wild moments than the movie though, as the museum would cover a lot more genres, and types.

I love the idea of a flagship larp where everyone is a toy, it could be a really joyful kinda game. Especially if the set-dressing managed to get across the feel of being tiny. Doesn’t need to the “Toy Story” brand to work, the concept is generic.

Could be a costume & makeup challenge for some people, there would need to be some simple human-like options.

While it has plenty of scope to be the flagship (think of all the different toys 80 people could be), it could also work very well as a smaller regular game.

I think it would work as both - but the scope for set dressing is so much better if it is a flagship. Could really go to town on it. Fun!

Tanya

Fairy Tales, awesome!

This would definitely be a completely seperate and 'generi’c you are a toy game. It will not be following any of the toy story plot. :slight_smile:

There are definitely options for this availaable, you only have to look at the huge range of actions figures and barbie available to see that. We could have any toy form the action figure of Leonard from the Big Bang theory to Captin Hammer to Malibu Barbie and her friends as characters. It will definitely be able to provide scope of a range of costuming interests and skills.

It would certainly work in both cases but the reason I would like to see this run as a flagship is that it allows a huge range of potential characters to choose from without be as heavy on the background world info as Gordian Knot was (not that it was necessarily a bad thing). :smiley:

I second this!

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I third this.

Also - cast Ants D as the big bad wolf. It’s maybe a bit of type casting but… man he can turn on the greaze.

i fourth? this, who cares I WANT I WANT I WANT!!! clapping hands while jumping up and down at the very idea of this

AGREEEEEEEEEEEEEE