Hey guys,
A number of you attended Kapcon this year (unfortunately I couldn’t make it myself 
) - it’d be super-awesome to hear what your favourite moments were from the weekend. Whether it be challenging plots, quirky characters or epic costumes let us know by posting below.
We’ll be including your comments in March issue of the nzLARPS newsletter!
My favourite moment at Kapcon was in Diamond Geezers where one of the props we had was cap guns. It was in the middle of this intense scene with everyone blaming each other for a murder when the girl standing next to me started playing with her gun OOC. The next thing you know the gun accidentally went off and I ended up being shot for the rest of the game. It was just so funny because of the expression on her face.
In the game I ran, most players had stories that were fairly independent of each other, but there was an issue involving two of the characters which everybody had a shared interest in. They all took sides. Oh man, people were thumping on the tables, they were that invested.
It was sort of in character. I got told to check for empty caps, and… erm… yeah you know the rest. 
[quote=“Stephanie”]In the game I ran, most players had stories that were fairly independent of each other, but there was an issue involving two of the characters which everybody had a shared interest in. They all took sides. Oh man, people were thumping on the tables, they were that invested.
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I loved that too. I think it was my favourite game of the con.
So favourite moments…
I loved the whole thing!
Al Shir Ma was just wonderful; being made from magic to destroy Sinbad but falling in love with him instead (and have him married to a princess) and having to judge how angry/emotional I could get since I would “destroy” him if I did get too wound up- having Sinbad laugh at the rumour that we were sleeping together (bastard!), getting irritated by the djinn who kept asking for more information gathered before he would turn me into a human (which never happened), panicking after someone came up and asked me about Jamal (my evil maker) and that he was there that night (was he?!?), making me paranoid. Near the end having a gaggle of dead ghost merchants trying to recruit me to be their full-time translator which would mean more pay but as a result take me away from Sinbad (never!), almost making me snap, then being drawn away by Sinbad’s wife and told to calm down and talk to her which put me in a scene where I was waiting for her to throttle me after figuring out I loved her husband … argh!.. luckily she was very calm about it. 
It was great being able to larp with both Sinbad and Princess Shayla (and everyone else too!)
A stiff one: Awesome game, most emotional one I’ve been in that wasn’t a weekend larp. People taking sides (as mentioned already) and just the intense backgrounds that came out and the arguing going back and forth! Awesome idea having 2 cell phones on hand so we could call the other two characters we all knew and the drama that result from those calls!
GOD: Best friends: Care bears.
A game about a group of girls and the cattiness and rivalry between them all but we were all care bears or care cousins (a moose and a dog);
Must remember it is not a good idea to offer to blind a kid with sunlight once her glasses have been magically altered into “cool” sunglasses in the hope to stop her running away. Bad bear. Bad. The madness that was: a child being flogged so he would keep running and get fit and then lectured about eating vegetables instead of a warm fluffy good-bye, a dramatic chase scene involving a swarm of bees that almost had a child drown while trying to hide from the bees in a river, cattiness between care bears and care cousins and that the game ended with a talent contest involving racially tense poetry, opera singing, a rap about how much cooler a character was over the rest of the group (who then ended up trying to have a lesbian threesome at the end with friendship “with benefits” bear and another NPC), someone spiking the punch with hug-drugs and my character trying to drug some others since they sucked with “special” muffins (since there is no such thing as laxatives in the world…)
Also at one point on Sunday I was adopted for a game of Dixit with a group of guys who were waiting for the next round to start (and I was reading)… such a pretty game… Thank you again if you are out there!
Al Shir Ma was super fantastic. My character was open enough that I was able to talk to nearly everyone around and my goals kept me busy and the outcomes really interesting. I stood silent thinking a bunch of times from things like ‘You are half genie’ ‘…What?’ it was great.
It was indeed awesome - 48something hours of hilarious madcap fun. I had many best moments:
-trying to seduce a magician into teaching me magic, only to find out later that he was my long-lost son that I had been searching for since he was a baby
-outrageous accents as an evil german hamster mastermind (fire ze missiles!) and as a french pirate of ambiguous sexuality
-playing a crazy artist in a lovecraft game who had just broken into the Dr’s office at the insane asylum, and stealing everything in the office EXCEPT the keys that were sitting really obviously on the desk
Good times!
My highlights:
(but failing miserably this year)
Non-Larp Highlights:
I also won Best Costume for the larp! My veil-train was 3m long
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(I made both me and Judit’s costumes. She’s got a really awesome pair of bright fuschia harem pants under that skirt. Why do we not wear harem pants more often? They’re comfy.)
They really are! I like my white ones for my guard costume. Also the tunic turned out far too pretty for a guard, even one who’s at her boss’s birthday party :mrgreen: , but it’ll make a really nice every day dress.