What to do next.. help me choose!

Hey hey…

I realise you won’t all come to an AMERICA run game (though you are invited depending on numbers) but it’s nice to have a forum to sort out what kind of games people are interested in going to, so feel free to help me out as I try to decide what game i will be writing next.

I had a few ideas, the first of which was centered around an Edgar Allen Poe story called ‘the Masque of the Red Death’ where the nobles and lords of the populace attempt to party their cares away while outside the poor are succumbing to the plague. It’s a masquerade setting, very decadent and corrupt with that undercurrent of nasty pervasive death (who invited THAT guy?)

i also wanted to run an upstairs downstairs english manor game but that looks like what kapcom is doing this year so I’ll skip that one…

London subway horror
kinda a cross between neil gaiman’s never where and a stephen king short story called crouch end which scared the hell out of me a while back. essentially a subway reroutes down a forgotten subway tunnel and stops at a station no longer on the line-- if anyone leaves the car they find the outside world subtely and scarily different- a world on top of a world, with no forseeable way back. would love to get some people scared with lights out and crazy noises. has anyone seen that music video by aphex twin with the kids with the crazy faces? kinda like that. i was also thinking this would be cool as a tokyo setting, but may be trickier.

retro 50’s!! leather jacket, red vinyl diner seats, poodle skirts and tight sweaters. oh and some characters and roleplaying. not sure what yet just thought 50’s would be cool. even 50’s new zealand… the queens visit! planning the ultimate prank! hooligans!

kay that’s enough braintorming for me. add in your five cents before they get taken out of circulation.

oh that reminds me. i also want to run a bank heist game- this will require a lot of planning and some smart people. hmmm maybe that’s too hard…

x Danielle

The subway one sounds like a blast. I’m up for that. Sounds like the kind of thing you’d want to keep REALLY secret though :wink:

But of those, the one that got me going was the idea of a bank robbery. You’d have to do it under really locked down conditions where the public couldn’t see you at all. When the public sees a gun the game is over on the spot.

But maybe it’s just the crime aspect that gets me going. As a non-criminal, maybe I just like the idea of breaking the law.

What’s Kapcom and the deal with their LARP?

Oh by the way, if you want your own private forum for organising, recording etc, let me know and I’ll hook you up. Call it ‘America one-off LARPS’ or something, and allow people of your choice access to view/read/write/whatever. Happy to set up forums on demand for you guys - especially to see something like the subway LARP happen in secret.

kapcom is the wellington roleplaying convention that happens in january (?) . they have a really good rep for their live games at the convention. this year looks pretty interesting too… you can check out the website… not sure exactly what the link is but if you google wellington and kapcom i’m sure it’ll come up.

the bank one would be cool, i’d love to give people all the info (timetables, security, specs for the vault, personnel… ) and see what kind of plan they can come up with to succeed… course everyone would want to be one of the robbers so maybe there’d have to be some sort of straw drawing… or IQ test…

It’s Kapcon with an N not M. (Might make it hard to search for otherwise.)
Try here.

And the official site is here

You could help out with the Greek game in January.

If you can motivate a group of AMERICAns to make some costumes (Spartans or Macadonians maybe?) then I’m happy to provide patterns.

I’d be interested in this, but more interested if it wasn’t a Vampire game. I have a vision of people lolling around in white wigs and makeup with beauty spots and little lace fans.

believe me, the use of the word ‘masquerade’ in no way related to Vampire. i don’t run systemed games if i can help it! your image of the wigs and fans etc was more along the lines of what I meant.

Ah! Excellent, I get you now. As in masked dances.

Check out the original Venetian masquerades, that’s some cool background. Could be room for high-stakes gambling, commoners pretending to be nobles (like Cassanova), spies from foreign courts spying on whatever industry has made the nobles so rich - like the Venetian glassware spies.

Renaissance kinda setting?

hey hey hey. That I’m interested in too. Masquerade for all! Intrigue is fun. :smiling_imp:

actually it would be really cool to have a workshop before the game where everyone gets together to make their masks (full masks being a definite requirement for the game) course i’d have to have characters organised before then so people would know what masks they would be making,…

would this be something larps would be interested in supporting if this was an open to all game? you guys could keep all the masks made.

Costumes suitable for a Venetian Masquerade are pretty complex.

You’re looking at many metres of velvet, silk, satin and lace. Beads, lacing, buttons, pearls and feathers…

It isn’t just a pretty mask!

i understand that, but i think it’s a little ridiculous to suggest people spend a fortune on one night of roleplaying. if they can make a nice mask on the cheap it goes a long way to establishing mood here. i’d rather have twenty people play than two people who can afford to hire a costume…

it’s the spirit of the thing that’s the most important, surely?

Yep - I was just wondering what level of costuming you were after.

Some of the costume pieces might be suitable for other larps, too.

For example, shirts with frilly bits would go very well in a pirate game, if one ever takes off. Same with brocaded stuff.

I extraed as a villager on Hercules once, and they put brown stuff on my costume to make it look old and dirty. I assume it washes out. That stuff would be great for making a costume multi-purpose between finery and faded finery. Anyone know what the stuff would have been?

You can purchase kids poster paint as a powder (just add water) which washes out of just about anything (even the red).

I think it might have been a brown powder, actually. Will have to try the kiddie paint powder for temporary fabric ageing sometime.

I really like the idea of a LARP based on Neverwhere.
Also the bankrobbery one, but with this one i’d suggest that it starts during the robbery once its gone bad. Customers and tellers held inside by a group of robbers with the police outside… maybe a vigilante type or cop amoung the hostages… a pregnant customer etc…

for 20$ the opera factory will rent you the complete 1700’s outfits that you are talking about - and these are no crappy put together jobbies - they inclue britches, white socks, gorgeous waistcoats, brocade jackets, and for the females, the fullon bodice, (any size) skirts and panier effect…plus i have 3 white wigs at home and a couple of the 1700’s outfits myself…

so… :laughing:

Never heard of the Opera Factory. But $20 is a steal for renting a complex costume like that!

Checking the phonebook… is it “Opera Factory”, at 7 Eden St Newmarket? Can you just wander in and look at costumes?

yip the very one…the 20$ each was for a whole heap of them when i was doing some costume work last year - not sure how much for someone that doesn’t know them and wants just one…but they are always willing to hire their stuff out…

you have to ring them up - there are certain times that penny goes in - so ring and ask her - they are worth it -and if you are hiring a whole heap then maybe they will be 20$ each… :smiley:

i have some character shirts (the white puffy sleved things) if they are extra on top of the waistcoats and britches etc… :smiley: