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wyldcard

Remembering Aliens LARPs

Nov 08, 2011 15:03

Thinking about a Warhammer 40k LARP got me thinking about the other Sci-Fi LARP’s I had been involved with in the past.

During the 90’s Mr_orgue (and co) ran a trilogy of very successful Aliens weekends ( Read more... )

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grandexperiment November 8 2011, 02:22:01 UTC

Unfortunately, I missed out on these, though I was invited to the last one and went to the Aliens screening at the Embassy that Morgue arranged.

mr_orgue November 8 2011, 03:14:47 UTC

Somewhere or other I have electronic versions of the illustrations Steve Leon made for Gametime. Still have the hard copies regardless. Where are they? hmm.

mr_orgue November 8 2011, 03:35:23 UTC

Here we go:

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wyldcard November 8 2011, 04:37:23 UTC

I guess that means 20 characters. And I think that was Washington at the back, the big muscley looking guy with the flat top.

mr_orgue November 8 2011, 05:41:28 UTC

Yep, that's Washington! He's the only one I remember! I think it was... 21 characters in the end? Hmm.

Will dig out the other info later, it's all in my archive cupboard...

exiledinpn November 8 2011, 08:25:47 UTC

Rerun!

smwll November 8 2011, 07:13:49 UTC

2 survivors as I recall. Myself the dropship pilot (the one wearing the helmet in the pic) and a dancing girl :)

mr_orgue November 8 2011, 08:40:38 UTC

Yep, that's right - that was Sarah M's character wasn't it?

The ending Jon's remembering was from the second weekend in Dec '97.

Gametime was Dec '95. Blimey. 16 years ago.

wyldcard November 8 2011, 09:23:02 UTC

Ah, okay. Makes more sense now! I think Scott Common was one of the survivors from Fury then...

More tomorrow!

smwll November 9 2011, 09:11:02 UTC

It was, and she was ghost-played through the final arc as she was asleep at the time...

Quite nice having a squad of mercenaries dedicated to protecting ones character out of naked self interest. Pity none of them survived :)

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smwll November 9 2011, 09:14:30 UTC

Who was it that got seriously injured and succesfully rolled a 6-6-6 just to stay alive, only to be killed by their mate since they didn't want to be slowed down? Was that a Steve-Kieran moment?

mr_orgue November 10 2011, 07:58:32 UTC

Jesus, I have no idea...

mr_orgue November 10 2011, 08:25:11 UTC

Posting that list above reminds me - that was Dan Robinson and Steve, I'm pretty sure.

And I recall that Rosemary was the first to die, mid-afternoon on the Saturday.

jarratt_gray November 10 2011, 23:29:44 UTC

Didn't everyone die in this?

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