you mean like http://www.diatribe.co.nz/viewtopic.php?t=2911
To be honest, I’m not hugely keen on a straight Victoriana larp, mostly because I played in one a few years ago at one of the KapCons. I think Discworld would be cool, Shakespeare would be cool, and Limbo would be just fantastic. 
For budding writers out there, I wrote up notes based on running Sanctuary in January, stephanie-pegg.livejournal.com/11858.html, which has got some info on free internet things that make life easier, comments about storylines that worked, and a statistics breakdown of our player base. (Some of that last won’t always apply - about a third of our players were women, at Hindenberg it was more like half.)
I’d welcome someone to write a Limbo larp for one of the other slots.
Personally I think the Limbo idea might be a bit out-there for the big larp. I can’t see it having the feeling of a solid setting or milieu. I think that can be good for something experimental, but the big larp should be a little more mainstream.
It does sound like Victoria Regina game at Kapcon had a similar theme though, there would likely be some overlapping characters. I wonder how many of the Wellington crowd that’d be an issue for, given that it’s a different scenario. The good news is that people might have costume handy for it. 
I think the Hindenberg rules were perfect for this sort of thing, particularly now I know the significance of the various badge symbols.
Also, a victorian theme works well because its a genre people are familiar with enough to be able to get on board quickly. Steampunk is all very well and there can be steampunk characters i nthere, but I dont think the whole game should revolve around it. Even if Kapcon has run a victorian game in the past, that doesnt mean we cant - after all, we’re running a different game, just the same genre. And Hindenburg was a complete re-use and that worked. Also, as Ryan pointed out, people may already have Victorian costumes which will help get players…
More character suggestions - Fagin and the Artful Dodger. Jack the Ripper (but with a secret identity of course…) Peter Pan or Wendy. The traveller from Wells’ Time Machine (I cant remember his name). I have many books from this era with fictional characters in them…
For writing, some sort of online document repository would be good - but I’d probably prefer to use the (existing) Wiki to do it - one page per character, and so on. We could set up a separate user group with access to just the appropriate pages easily.
You could probably organise this by first getting a list of characters, and settling on this. Then writing up plot cross-links on the various character sheets, and making sure that each character was involved in at least X plot lines, and Y goals and Z motivations.
The Hindenburg character sheets were excellently done. The authors should package them up into a book with a GM’s howto and market it.
Re the idea of using the Wiki to collaborate - if people are interested, let me know and I’ll set up a trial area and pages and accounts for you. PM me.
I agree with most of what Ryan has said on this thread.
I think that discworld would be a cool game for Chimera but not as the big larp. Not everyone reads the books and it would probably contain lots of in-jokes that only fans would understand. It would be a good game for fans of Pratchett’s work.
In my opinion a limbo game would work best for smaller numbers and be more roleplaying/emotionally intensive and less plot/intrigue based. A game about characters coming to terms with their own deaths and the effect their lives have had on their eternal souls and whether they go to heaven or hell. Not the sort of game for everyone though. Well, thats my ideas on it anyway.
A shakespeare larp could work really well, as long as it doesn’t require speaking in shakespearian language, at least as far as I am concerned as I would suck at that (other than just saying thees and thous which I could cope with ).
I am obviously interested in the Victorian era game that me and Rowena are working on. It could have some similiarities with the kapcon victorian game, I don’t know much about it, but I’m sure it will lots of differences too. At any rate we are continuing to work on it, if it is chosen as the Chimera Larp or not. If it is not the Chimera Larp we will be running it some other time. I’m happy either way.
Actually you remember correctly here, He doen’t have one. At least, in the book he is unnamed, in different movie versions he has different names.
I’d love a steam punk game because it’s such a fantastic genre. But I think it’s a hard one to do for a one off game. Hindenburg was relatively easy to costume for because you can buy or rent costumes reasonably easily. Or just look in your wardrobe.
Victorian is harder. The rental option is probably still on for the guys (wedding outfits haven’t changed much it seems…)
Limbo has the up side that it pretty much allows costuming from any era. You can come in your normal clothing if you want with blood soaking your front and say you just died in a car crash after getting drunk at a party (or being killed by a drunk driver coming the other way ).
Also, you probably wouldn’t need a combat system, because you’re already dead.
It is just a bit gimmicky though, and I’m not sure how well it’d play out…
Maybe we should brainstorm some more ideas to let the ideamongering run its full course?
An idea off the top of my head - pulp space-future
Enter Buck Rogers, Star wars, Trek, Galactica, Danger Will Robinson, etc. etc Character interactions based on trade operation, romances, aliens disguised as people, robots disguised as people, add in Speilberg and Lucus for the film theme … A bit like Hinderburg in terms of character interactions, except people wearing shiny lycra and mixed with robots.
How about Arthurian romance? It’s a rich source of pseudo-historical drama with magical bits.
Medieval is a little harder than 1930s to costume, but a lot of people have suitable costumes already.
Would be set in Camelot, naturally.
The Doctor! If there are time travellers, like in Hindenburg, there has to be the Doctor 
(and a companion, of course)
Ooh, Arthurian romance would be awesome! As would the Doctor
Oooh! Mary Poppins
I’ve loved that Arthurian era ever since I read The Once and Future King, and been mulling writing a one-off larp set there for a while. I wouldn’t want to drive a group for the big larp (too much to commit to), but I may consider doing it as a 20-person one for the next Chimera.
[quote=“Hannah”]An idea off the top of my head - pulp space-future
Enter Buck Rogers, Star wars, Trek, Galactica, Danger Will Robinson, etc. etc Character interactions based on trade operation, romances, aliens disguised as people, robots disguised as people, add in Speilberg and Lucus for the film theme … A bit like Hinderburg in terms of character interactions, except people wearing shiny lycra and mixed with robots.[/quote]
Pulp science fiction sounds good to me.
[quote=“Derek”][quote=“Hannah”]An idea off the top of my head - pulp space-future
Enter Buck Rogers, Star wars, Trek, Galactica, Danger Will Robinson, etc. etc Character interactions based on trade operation, romances, aliens disguised as people, robots disguised as people, add in Speilberg and Lucus for the film theme … A bit like Hinderburg in terms of character interactions, except people wearing shiny lycra and mixed with robots.[/quote]
Pulp science fiction sounds good to me.[/quote]
sounds good to me 
Pulp sci-fi: I’d turn up for this. Nothing like shedding my human skin for something more exotic.
Would the pulp SF concept use the named characters from those sources (like a cross-over), or just similar characters? Presumably there wouldn’t be any historical characters, given that it’s in the future, so not like Hindenburg in that respect?