LARPs

A Night of Gold and Silver

A Night of Gold and Silver is an Arthurian style fantasy Secrets and Powers LARP.

Every year it seems the winters get worse. The grey skies show up sooner, banishing the fading sun with gently falling snow. The winds blow just a bit harsher, their teeth biting more easily through wool and fur that so easily used to keep them at bay. It takes longer for the icy grip to loosen on the land, letting desperate farmers out into the fields to sow the crops that will keep bellies full and famine at bay.

Or maybe not. Maybe things have always been this way and the quiet grumbling rumors are just the old-folks way of imagining how good everything used to be. After all, the flowers still bloom year after year. The potatoes, wheat, and barley still grow and nourish the land. The sun still shines, making its way undaunted past the clouds when they pass. Maybe the grim tidings mean as little as they always have.

And true or not, tonight is the winter Solstice, the night to celebrate. Tonight is the darkest night before the dawn. When the sun rises above the treetops tomorrow, summer will begin to slowly creep in and claw back the days. Tonight marks another year survived, and the turning of the tide in this season's fight against the cold. What better reason to toast?

What better reason to throw the grandest midwinter party in all the land on the Frell Family's Concerto, a veritable Floating Palace? Guests and representatives from all the most important noble families have shown up to schmooze, gain advantage, find love, and more than anything else enjoy being alive on the longest night of the year. What could possibly go wrong?

Operation B.O.G.U.S.

Project Botanical Operation for Global Storage (BOGUS): The world is a different place after WW2. Nuclear weapons threaten all life on the planet. A generation ago, the League of Nations determined that the world needed a vault to keep seeds and plant lines pure as part of its mission to prevent the ghastly damage that future wars might wreak. The League disbanded before the project was fully implemented, but the United Nations kept its funding intact upon replacing the League. An elite group of scientists, soldiers, and administrators are needed to guard the world's biodiversity.

Led by world-renowned scientist Dr Shankland, this project should be an elite posting, but the United Nations barely remembers this project exists. Problems have plagued this project: is it bad planning or sabotage? Outside interference or internal issues? Juggling competing Projects scattered around the world, the UN has lowered Project BOGUS' status multiple times. From Status: Ultra Priority to Status: Don't Ask is a long way down. Shipped to the middle of nowhere, you are stuck here at Project: BOGUS. It's up to you whether you want to keep your head down, scheme to get sent home, or make your best effort to succeed.

Do not ask what Project: BOGUS can do for you, but what you can do for Project: BOGUS!

Bonanza!: All That Glitters is not Dilithium

Star date: 2263: The survey results are in and this planet in the Neutral Zone is full of heavy minerals and dilithium deposits! As per the treaty, as long as there are no natives on the planet, the first group to build a base gets it! The Federation Starship Endeavor has maintained maximum warp speed to get there first, only to arrive at almost the exact moment the Klingon vessel I.K.S. Charghwi' and the Romulan ship R.I.W. Cestus Pax arrived. Sensors also detect structures on the planet surface, but there is some form of extreme planetary interference with scans, making transporters impossible. Time to take a shuttle down to the surface and open negotiations. A Team Volare' Production.

The Freighter Coralus

You are the crew of the Coralus, a rickety old freighter carrying much-needed relief supplies to a settlement on the planet Ithaca, which has been cut off by ion storms for the past year. Twenty minutes ago an accident occurred, forcing the crew to make a critical decision. This game will include several short improv exercises to enhance enjoyment of the game.

Saints, Sinners, and Socialites

It’s 1910 in San Jose and you have been invited to the house of the reclusive Sarah Winchester for a seance unlike any other. She hasn’t allowed anyone but her servants inside in four years, ever since the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. This party is sure to be the event of the season in this agrarian little town. Your fellow visitors at the mansion will be socialites, members of the press, world renowned spiritualists, and experts in the occult. Are you there to speak with a long lost loved one? To see and be seen by the well to do? To witness the farse? Everyone has their reasons for coming tonight, and when the clock strikes midnight, the spiritual realm will awaken.

Moonglows Hallow: Evening at the Night Market

The mysterious events at the Night Market were solved; all is returning to normal. But can a market for the undead, where the currency is dreams, memories, and the occasional body part, ever be truly normal?
Just outside the city of Pontevedra, an unusual market has been set up by the undead and their (mostly) allies. Here ghosts, ghouls, skeletons, banshees, zombies, and even the occasional vampire share mystical, memorable, and sometimes gruesome wares with each other and with the living who dare to enter the underground bazaar.
But there’s been a murder in Pontevedra, and some want to link it to the market and its unseemly inhabitants. And the wards that were failing during recent disturbances are slow to come back online.
Moonglows Hallow, the most numinous night of the year, is usually a time of celebration – this year there’s a wedding, an auction, an election, and a passing of the proverbial (or is it literal?) torch. But there’s also an investigation, a betrayal, and a sense that change is afoot; change that could save or destroy the market once and for all.
LARPers will play characters from the Night Market or the City of Pontevedra as they “enjoy” this mystical midnight gala. Some characters will be undead. Others, living beings with their fate tied up in the Night Market. Characters will explore various mysteries or opportunities as the regular events of Moonglows Hallow continue through the night.
Will the Night Market survive this Moonglows Hallow? Its entire fate may rest in your hands.

[Note: There may be some contests of wit, but there is little to no player on player violence or fighting – it’s a party after all. There will be a ton of improv and acting in character.]

Simple, suggestive costuming is encouraged as much as elaborate outfits. Choose one or two distinctive pieces that express your character: a merchant's sash, a weathered cloak, unusual jewelry, a ritual mask, a veil, or a striking accessory. Undead characters might hint at their nature through pale makeup, faded clothing, veils, funeral adornments, or otherworldly touches rather than overt horror effects. The market welcomes every style, from ancient spirits and elegant ghosts to scavengers, scholars, smugglers, and curious wanderers. Street clothes for the city locals are also fine!