Don’t let a quiet end to the year fool you into thinking 2006 is a quiet one for the local LARPing scene!
Indeed the relative silence of December can mean only one thing… PLOTTING! Plotting for a February and March-ful of not-to-be-missed events in Auckland.
This is the third monthly newsletter for members of LARPS and Diatribe.co.nz
January 2006
What’s in it:
- Quick-Dates for the calendar (lots)
- Mordavia pre-LARP and nzLARPS special meeting
- How to join nzLARPS and get free pizza
- Coming soon games
- Mordavia X 2
- Exodus
- OG
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Other places to be seen
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Editors note
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DATES FOR CALENDAR
These’ll be explained later, but block out all these days for the full nzLARPS experience:
22 Jan - Gear workshop at Mike the gear guy’s place
01 Feb - Mordavia PreLARP and nzLARPS SGM (see below)
12 Feb - Mordavia game at BATTLECRY
17 - 19 Feb: MORDAVIA: Reckonings
05 Mar - OG: Smelly!! Light-hearted caveman LARP fun
- Mordavia pre-LARP and nzLARPS special meeting
The pre-LARP meet-and-greet-and-hype-and-plot is on Wednesday 1 Feb. Arrive any time from 6, special event at 7.
It’s at the Kiwi Music Cafe Upstairs/ 332 Queen St above Brooklyn Bar (across the road from the picture theatre)
You can bet your life there’ll be dramatic speeches from the writers, dramatic theatresportsy activities, and dramatic laughter from hand-wringing vampires, plotting in the corner.
Plus there’s free pizza, and the meeting holds another purpose:
nzLARPS SGM AND CONSTITUTION RATIFICATION
This will be as exciting as it sounds! Shortly after 7pm there will be a reading of the constitution document, followed by thunderous applause and frenzied votes of approval. We need this approved by the membership in order to become an incorporated society (and that comes with a stamp), so it’s very important to get it passed.
You can view the constitution and make comments here:
Ratification will be followed by more merrymaking and hype.
And there’s free pizza! What? Not a member?
HOW TO JOIN nzLARPS AND GET FREE PIZZA
And other benefits.
Membership costs $20.00 for one year, expiring in September.
$10.00 to students at any time running from September to September.
To join e-mail rdayking@yahoo.co.nz (NZLARPS Secretary) with your:
=> Name
=> Address
=> Phone number
=> Mobile Number
=> E-mail
=> Occupation (required by the society constitution)
=> Over 18?
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GAMES COMING SOON
—Mordavia: Reckonings—
17th to 19th February
(Mordavia needs no introduction)
There’s still a day or two to get the early bird discount for the game:
Cost for Crew $30
Cost for Players $80 base cost.
Discounts:
- $10 off for students
- $10 off if paid before Jan 13th
- $5 off for members of NZLARPS
Start Friday 17th February 2006. Crew to arrive at 5pm, players at 7pm.
End Sunday 19th February 2006, 3pm.
Venue Motu Moana Scout Camp, Connaught St,
Blockhouse Bay, Auckland
Notice the sizable nzLARPS members’ discount.
More details: mordavia.com/event_18.htm
--Mordavia: The week before Berium--
There’s another Mordavia game on, too, on 12 February (the weekend before). It’s an introductory game being held at the BATTLECRY weekend thanks to AMERICA, the Auckland University role playing peeps. There’ll also be an nzLARPS stall where we’ll be making costume, selling Paddywhack LARP weaponry, and signing up members. Visitors and helpers welcome at Freemans Bay Convention Centre 11-12 December. If you’re into table-top and card gaming as well, this’ll be quite a weekend!
They’re also running this intriguing LARP game on the Saturday night:
--Exodus--
(Details are their secret.)
Links for all this Battlecry stuff:
theamericaclub.net.nz/battlecry2006
theamericaclub.net.nz/
paddywhack.co.nz/
theamericaclub.net.nz/node/23 (Exodus)
profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=12
(Organiser Karen on Diatribe)
And finally,
---Og: Smelly!!---
Oh, gee! It’s OG! Steve Shipway is running a lighthearted game of club-weilding, vocabularily-challenged cavemen on Sunday March 5.
Details at nzlarps.org/ogpage/og.html and discussion at Og game scheduled! to arrange costume and mini-bussing and stuff.
More hype in the weeks to come.
- OTHER PLACES TO BE SEEN
GEAR WORKSHOP 22 JANUARY
Mikes sez:
We are holding a Workshop on Sunday 22nd,
10am till 4pm(ish)
The address is:
26 Malvern Road,
Morningside
The focus will be on building gear for
Og and Mordavia.
We need to do some maintenance on existing
gear (monster weapons), and also build some
new gear (orc armour, tentacles,
clubs for OG etc).
Read the rest here:
- ED’S NOTE
You can send your friends to nzlarps.org/ to at least prove that we exist. Volunteers still wanted for help with proper website.
Keep the recruiting up and we’ll have more people to play with. See you at Diatribe, then the gear workshop, the prelarp, Battlecry, Reckonings, and Og.
