Time for another crazy idea.
PAC MAN.
But gritty and hyper-real.
Somehow a larp!
Thinking Friday 30th of November, but I haven’t booked or anything. The venue will be the Southdown, which AJ and I visited with Kham today:
Let’s say it’s happening on Friday 30 November for $12, who’d be keen?
I don’t know what the hell you think you’re doing.
But it’s wonderful. I’ll come.
Erm… assuming it doesn’t clash with anything else I would be keen just to see what the fuck you manage to think up. Pac Man…
I’ll come, just for the street-cred of being able to say I’ve been at a Pac Man larp. 
If only it were a bit earlier…
I imagine it would be something like this: youtube.com/watch?v=3UhPNUxqaOU
[quote=“Exquire”]Time for another crazy idea.
PAC MAN.[/quote]
I think you’ve been eating too many pills already 
If this was a regular thing the electronics to support it is quite doable.
The ghosts have a beeper then goes off when they become edible.
Energizers would transmit their status.
Pills could be a basic $2 shop, battery powered light
trademe.co.nz/Home-living/La … 678629.htm
Costs?
The beepers could be cell phones even.
With a call from a particular number, don’t answer and it’s free, indicating energizer status.
Energizers, wireless transmitters, $40 a pop
Lights, pills, say $2, use rechargeable batteries 
Once you have the wireless network in place it could also be reprogrammed for other LARPs.
As you were people 
waddles back to lab
my dad was mentioning something he’d seen somewhere - pac man goggles. you put them on and it shows you your surroundings as normal but with added pills, ghosts etc superimposed over the top so you can run around in your own little world playing pac man while everyone looks at you weirdly.
OM NOM NOM NOM
I think it’ll be a combination of everything here. On one hand, Pac Man is a politically radical justice-dealin’ everyman with nothing left to lose, sent by a long forgotten religious sect on a deadly mission to infiltrate the nation’s deepest underground technology storage bunkers. There, he’ll fight “the Ghosts” - a dirty-fightin’ mercenary army who’ll stop at nothing to secure the area.
On the other, I plan to use cheap flashy glowy shit from $2 shops to represent pretty much everything.
The mechanics will be a combination of tiggy, spotlight, hide and seek, and so on. The main characters are the ghosts - think Blackwater USA - hired to guard a top-secret facility they don’t really know anything about. There’ll be a wide scattering of glowing/lights and a few special powered ones, but other than that the area will be wide, dark and spooky as all hell. When we join Pac Man, she has already infiltrated 100 levels of security… now in this climactic stage she finally be stealing the mysterious glowy technology bits and exit the building without being caught (touch-rugby style “tackle”) by the ghosts.
There are some norms in this society we are not familiar with in ours - but Pac Man has freed his/her mind and is not effected. Thus, Ghosts can not move without their flashlights on, and may not break in to a run - only walk.
Helmets required.
I’m still in, for serious.
That’s not as crazy as it sounds lol.
Barring baby delivery I could be in.
How’s the date, Mr. Westie? Reckon we could get the place on that Friday?
Probably not safe for babies. Or anyone who missed their last tetanus shot.
[quote=“Exquire”]How’s the date, Mr. Westie? Reckon we could get the place on that Friday?
Probably not safe for babies. Or anyone who missed their last tetanus shot.[/quote]
Not one of the normal days for any of my groups so should be good.
I would definitely recommend lighting the danger areas.
Might as well add elbow and knee pads for anyone foolish/game enough to wander around in the dark 
edit:
Some video from the site, care of NZTGA (RAM)
youtube.com/watch?v=n4_Ed6Zs6qQ
Mark your calendar, folks - we’re booked!
PAC MAN
Auckland
30 November 2007.
I’m in, depending on time: I have an orchestra concert in the evening.
So what’s the plot? I reckon the dots are tabs of E, and the fruit is LSD - pacman’s a junkie and all of this is going on inside his head at rehab. We get plunged into his subconcious to rescue him from a bad trip! And the ‘ghosts’ are really people trying to help him, but he thinks they’re evil and want to kill him!
Actually - you could get all the old games in on this one. Pong paddles attacking players, having to defeat Duke Nukem, Commander Keen saves the day, a giant snake that gets bigger with every person it eats…
Invaders! From SPACE!
[quote=“No Rectangulars”], a giant snake that gets bigger with every person it eats…
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Who gets to wear the fruit hat in this conga line? 
Hey man, my PONG larp comes later! So deep! So meaningful!
And Nibelungen is already the Space Invaders larp.
With regards to the plot, Pac Man is a politically radical justice-dealin’ everyman with nothing left to lose, sent by a long forgotten religious sect on a deadly mission to infiltrate the nation’s deepest underground technology storage bunkers. There, he’ll fight “the Ghosts” - a dirty-fightin’ mercenary army who’ll stop at nothing to secure the area.
