Vampires Ball

I want to dress in a suave black dress and dance around for an evening. Why not have a Vampires Ball?

Though if I wanted to make this my undertaking I would want it to be entirely free (i.e. at the cost of the society) if you are an nzLARPs member. We can charge what we like to the rest of 'em.

If you’re not too fussed about the fangs, you could run it as a Ravenholme game.

I’m not sure what the nzlarps policy is, but typically most clubs try to blow money on assets that can be used for the future rather than events.

[quote]If you’re not too fussed about the fangs, you could run it as a Ravenholme game.
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More fussed about the victorian. It’s a bitch for girls to dress Victorian.

And I’m not saying “Lets spend two grand on getting trolleyed” I’m saying, “Lets spend a hundred on giving our members a treat”

Ravenholme isn’t strictly Victorian. Few games will take place in the same period. Go nuts with the chronological setting.

…or you could look at a nightmare circle masquerade ball, that’d be scary!

Or, you could just have a generic ball, not set in a particular game.

Not that I’ll be going, I’m not a member

It would be a lot of fun actually. I would be interested in somehting like that, I could see it being held at the whim of Hastur, so Theatrics would be a must. the more flamboyant the better.

R

I’ll be getting a corset in the next month or so, so I’d love an opportunity to show it off! It’s not Victorian style, but certainly vampire goth.

Yeah, that describes it pretty well.

You’ve got to think about where the money in the NZLARPS account comes from. Only a small amount is from the membership fees, and those fees are balanced out by discounts at events. Most of the cash came from event overruns. All NZLARPS project events are intended to run at a profit, because the alternative is running at a loss. And because having cash in a account is useful for lending to projects, buying re-usable assets, etc.

Those event profits are paid for by everyone at events, not just NZLARPS members. So taking money from the NZLARPS accounts and spending it on social events for NZLARPS members is basically taking money off non-members and funnelling it to members. Not fair, really. A bit like throwing a party where half the attendees are paying for the other half.

A ball for larpers sounds like a fun idea, and I’m sure NZLARPS will support it in whatever way it can without losing money over it. I think attendees would be happy to pay for themselves and it shouldn’t seem exclusive to members.

Now if insted of hiring a venue you could make a donation and try to negotiate future use rights that may be a better idea (we have done this with the engineering sociotey before with the piha camp ground but they had more money to throw around) but it would have to be a venue that we would use on multiple future occassions

Adam noted at the last society meeting that local councils may be willing to pay for venue hire in their area if the society is running “community events”, which this would be.

There are actually plans afoot for running an NZLARPs ball organised by Anna, Nikki and myself. We started organising it just before Christmas.
Stay tuned.