=====Stories: Random Encounter=====
//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 ...


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==Author==
BaxilDragon

==Release date==
2003-11-09

==Word Count==
3,150

==Author Comments==
Out of all the stories I've ever written, this is still one of my
favorites -- 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.
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==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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