Here’s the email I sent to the first 50 registered users.
State of the union from NZ LARP society
There couldn’t be a better time to introduce the NZ Live Action Role Playing society. The month of October is packed with goodies for all, and indications are it’ll be a busy summer for local LARPers!
This is the bumper first edition newsletter in what’s to be a long line of 'em. Let me know by way of reply if you want to opt out.
What’s in this newsletter:
- There is now a NZ LARP society
- What that means
- Join us.
- What’s on in October and early November (heaps)
- DIATRIBE growth and plans
- Other stuff
THERE IS NOW A NZ LARP SOCIETY
There is!
WHAT THIS MEANS
It means a whole lot of things, most of which are covered here:
It’s soon to become an incorporated society with all the legal bells and whistles. There is a core committee made up of (no particular order) Adam, Rhiannon, Steve, Hans, Mike, Lucy, AJ, Nikki, and Craig.
Largely what it means is that there’ll be a support group to get LARP ideas off the ground and happening with funding, infrastructural support, gear sharing and other such community happy clapping. It’s a good thing - read on!
JOIN US
To promote membership to existing supporters (like you lot on this list), we’re giving away the first year’s membership for the crazy supa-LO-LO once-time-only megaprice of $5 during the month of October. Membership prices will usually be $20/year (cheap) or $10 for unwaged/student types. The benefits of membership go without saying, but I’ll say some anyway:
Discounts on LARP events like Mordavia
Access to our elite parties, LAN nights, tree planting workshops etc
This funky newsletter
Friends on Diatribe
Opportunities galore for GMing or starting your own games
You’ll be supporting a bright future for local LARPs, and that’s a good thing.
To join, pipe up on adamww@ihug.co.nz
Oh, and
We’re gunna make you all nifty little membership cards. LARPTASTIC!
WHAT’S ON IN OCTOBER AND EARLY NOVEMBER
Jeez, there’s heaps! Being a good little webmonkey slave I’ve laid it all out in the DIATRIBE calendar, which should pretty much be your new homepage: calendar.php
For those of you without a left mouse button, here are some details:
4 October: the much hyped IMPROV/CHARACTER WORKSHOP
6pm-9pm October 4th at Guides Auckland Hall, 132 Grange Rd, Mt Eden.
The organiser is Lucy Telford, LARPS community officer. Book with her on 6384332, 021532370 and lucyfur@gmail.com. This is $10 well spent, so sign up quick!
8 October: Mordavia: The Black Woods
Part III in the three part adventure ‘Perilous Paths’ which is a series of high risk excursions. Sign up at your character’s own risk 'cos Dareen’s forests are teeming with nasty NPCs in nasty masks.
22-24 October: This is a stonkin’ long weekend for the scene with NAAMA, Armageddon and an AMERICA run LARP event. AMERICA, as in, the Auckland University RPG club, is running a 1930’s LARP set in a bar (Gailbraiths). This one’s primarily for AMERICA members but I’ve bribed their LARP officer to give me a wink and a nod at the last minute and get some of our people through the door. Keep an eye on the forums.
NAAMA is in the same place as last time, let the folk know on DIATRIBE if you’re keen to join in this year,
ARMAGEDDON is the pulp culture expo that is, of course, bigger and better than ever.
That Monday is Labour day.
29 October: Tentatively, this date could be a community workshop where a bunch of people TALK ABOUT NAAMA and tidy up the mass of costuming mess underneath Ryan’s house. No doubting people will want to TALK ABOUT NAAMA and stuff too.
That night is a Hallowe’en walkthrough environment thing at 1a Ponsonby Rd. It’s a Unitarian Church thing, but if scary environments are your bag, this may be worthwhile.
31 October: Hallowe’en.
2 November: We’ll have the second core committee meeting and brag about our fast-growing membership rate
4-6 November: Nightmare Circle: Jack be Quick.
Raoul hypes: The game is rushing up to greet us. It looks like being a very good game this time. we will be trying out a few experimental things, as well as some tried an true old friends. The game will be played at our usual venue, in Albany, and we will be starting at 8:00 on Friday night.
Join the discussion on the DIATRIBE forums.
How’s that for a rip snortin’ four months of all-LARP action? Very good, I say!
DIATRIBE GROWTH AND PLANS
DIATRIBE is the NZ LARP Community forum you signed up for and why you’re getting this email. We want to grow it BIG so we can show it off to our parents and friends overseas and start doing things like getting funding grants and exchange programs and stuff. We implore you to get all known LARPers there, and introduce people you’d like to play with. If you know what we mean.
Now that it’s set up, the forum is cheap, robust and sexy with a calendar, secret forums for organisers (make some noise and we’ll give you one), and all sorts of other features in the works. You can encourage this growth of the community by your activity at diatribe.co.nz, so we hope to see you there more often!
OTHER STUFF
We’re planning a logo design competition with prizes and stuff.
We’re also planning other stuff, but we don’t want to tell you about it yet. So keep your ear to the ground at DIATRIBE.co.nz and be the first to know.
