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KapCon 2010 – the LARP

This year I decided to give the large KapCon LARP another go. My last experience hadn’t been great, mostly due to my inexperience with how LARP worked. This time round however I pestered the GMs a lot more to make sure that I had a very firm grasp of who my character was and how she fit in to the faction she was in.

Briefly (for those reading this who weren’t at KapCon) Reunion was a scifi LARP set 500 years after the catastrophic shut down of the gate system which linked the Union of Planets. Suddenly those same gates have re-opened and now all the players are part of a delegation to the Nexus station to work out where to go from here and re-connect with the other planets. More information can be found here.

While I had a number of goals which revolved mostly around digging up dirt on one of the other delegates, I also had a personal quest to find out what happened to my memories. Then there was the issue of what happened to the gates 500 years ago.

While I wasn’t all that successful in my goals, I had a great time running around digging up secrets and trying to work out who had taken my memories and how I could get them back.

The highlights for me were:

• Having an “oh my god” moment when the station Bartender told me that people were needed to power the gate, moments before the official announcement.
• My genuine feeling of horror when I also realised that unless people volunteered to run the gate, we would all die. Though I did play it rather fatalistic on the inside.
• Holding another member of my faction against a station bulk head, threatening to throw him out an airlock unless he told me why he’d stolen my memories. He didn’t talk.
• Being approached by the high priest of Ecclatisa to assassinate someone, which I agreed to. That same high priest then approached me again to kill on of his faction, which I did while everyone was busy watching the 6 volunteers give themselves to Nexus (the gate system).
• And finally, spilling the beans on the fact that the factions of Arboria and Chapparal actually shared a planet, to the Ambassador to New Berlin. I think that might have set off a chain of events that saw the King of Arboria assassinated and that same Ambassador made Queen… but maybe that was already in the pipeline.

So all in all a great LARP. I think I might be getting the hang of it now, and will always make sure that I tell all my secrets. After all what fun are they if no-one else knows?

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