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