Malcolm and Sophie have both offered to run LARPs at DoG 2014. Neither game requires costumes and either can be signed up for on the day, although pre-casting is available for Kin is Less Than Kind if players want to costume for it. Here’s the info:
Round 2 (1:30 PM): The Climb (Malcolm Harbrow)
"'We have arrived at Camp III, precariously perched 6,900 meters up on a
cliff-face high above the Tarphel Valley of Bhutan. In an age of
well-trodden paths, no human being has ever been higher on this peak
than we are right now. This is a secret first ascent without the
knowledge of Bhutanese authorities, who have forbidden climbing for
religious reasons since 1994. No one knows we are here. If we descend
into Bhutan we will be arrested. If anything goes wrong, there is no one
to rescue us.
'Two will summit in the morning.
‘For the six of us on the slopes of the Gangkhar Puensum massif,
summiting ensures a place in climbing history. We all want a shot, but
only two of us can make it to the top. Who will it be? And what fate
awaits the “lucky” ones above 7000 meters?’"
5 or 6 players
Round 3 (5:30 PM): Kin is Less Than Kind (Sophie Melchior - talk to me for pre-casting)
"Kin Is Less Than Kind is a game of greed, lust, revenge, infidelity, treachery, incest and all round dubious morality. Not to mention ghosts.
It is Hamlet filtered through the lens of Gossip Girl. No particular knowledge of either is needed to run or play in this game. Significant artistic license has been taken with both.
It takes place at the reading of the will of a hugely successful businessman, Henri Markden. He died suddenly a week ago and all of the characters are either family members, close family friends or associated hangers on."
10 players