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The greatest LARPing story ever told?Summary
A group of mages retreat to the wilderness to play a secret, magically enhanced live-action roleplaying game -- only to find more magic than they expected as their characters start dying one by one ...Author
BaxilDragonRelease date
2003-11-09Word Count
3,150Author Comments
Out of all the stories I've ever written, this is still one of myfavorites -- and enough people agreed with me to earn it a
BaMoTTuSto Reader's Choice award. Not only did it
introduce CharacterKiasu, it's also a gaming story that makes me
wish I'd been there.
Story Data
Major Characters
- Gerry
- CharacterKiasu
Minor Characters
- Nex, CharacterRandall, CharacterBenJacobs, Anna and Moon, Tayek, Red, Duncan, Sarah, and 13 unnamed Seattle-area mages
Dates
- EraFromCausesToCrusades - a weekend two weeks after April Fool's 1997
Locations
- Wallace Falls State Park (near Seattle, WA, USA)
TTU Events
- none
Significant Cameos and References
- The group is playing live-action AgeOfAscension.
- The live-action AOA rules require the players to use ThaumoMeters.
Trivia
- The hand signals used in the game (crossed fingers over head for character death, "L" shape for out-of-character speak) were all made up for AOA; I don't think any real-world system uses them.
Read it at
http://www.tomorrowlands.org/nov2003.html#11092003
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