Introduction Not too long ago, I ran a one-shot LARP set in White Wolf’s Changeling the Dreaming, using a Nordic-LARP inspired bespoke system. The premise of the LARP, which was titled Highsummer Wedding, was a wedding that would solidify the alliance between two noble Sidhe houses in the Southern USA. Literally, I wanted to write a[…]
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Nordic-LARP Techniques in the MES
One of the things I’ve been asked the most to write on is how well the integration of Nordic-style LARP techniques has fared inside one of the massive behemoths of American LARPing: the Mind’s Eye Society (previously The Camarilla). After attending my first few LARPs that embraced Nordic techniques (brief shout-out to Planetfall by Matthew Webb,[…]
Epilogue: Jackson Flynn
“It was an honor and a privilege.” The Brujah, his purple headband whipping back and forth in the wind of the approaching death, clasped hands with Dust, the Rogue Tremere that San Marcos had helped to harbor since the Free City was founded. He felt the sorrow in sharp pangs as he accepted that Dust—Alabaster[…]
Liminal Statement: Jackson Flynn
I was Jackson Flynn. Childe of Smiling Jack. Anarch. Revolutionary. I was angry, lost, and addicted to anything that would give me a moment’s reprise from the anger and the pain. I was a simple man consumed by politics of equality and civil rights, then thrust into a world of demons and greater powers. I[…]
Nordic-style in One-Shots vs Campaigns
Inspired by a facebook post, I decided to write a post here where I can be as verbose as I’d like. The question asked was how the use of nordic-style techniques differs from a one-shot LARP vs one that is run in an recurring episode (campaign-style) game. The short version is that negotiated negative consequences,[…]
Verk’s Log #122: Sara
I was born Raphael Vercelli, UEA Citizen 131-099-13676 on Station 131 in Geosynchronous orbit over Zone Dallas. I was born Verk, in the colony New Unity, on the hostile alien world of Medina. Sara told me that the whispers would haunt me until the day I died. She was wrong. So much to say. Who am[…]
End of the Line – Part Two: What I Expected; What You Might Expect
Introduction This is part two of my write-up on the End of the Line, a nordic-style LARP held at the Grand Masquerade in New Orleans this past weekend; I had the honor of being able to attend the game, and wanted to take some time to get as many thoughts down as possible. During Part[…]
End of the Line – Part One: Introduction, Liminality, and Mechanics
Introduction End of the Line is a nordic-style LARP held at the Grand Masquerade in New Orleans this past weekend; I had the honor of being able to attend the game, and wanted to take some time to get as many thoughts down as possible. During the ride home to Texas the day after, I[…]
The Journals of Jackson Flynn: On Kasserine Powell
ON KASSERINE POWELL Nosferatu– connection to Goodman Goring, aka Mad Morgan. Mad Morgan connected to June connected to Justicar Cole. Another on Cole’s side? Or Pieterzoons? Not sure if she even knows there’s a war there. No record if she voted in the Conclave, or which sides she took. No record of opinion on the[…]
The Journals of Jackson Flynn: On the Social Contract
It has been asked whether or not Man has a right to his own free actions at all times, or if it is more morally correct to be bound by the Social Contract he has signed in order to protect himself from Hobbes’ famed state of man, being “nasty, brutish, and short.” When considering the[…]