Professor Oddlove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Great Old Ones - 2010
Greetings
NERDS...
I'll be honest, I wasn't expecting nearly as good a turn-out as we ended up getting for this game. Last year, we had about 10 participants, and while the game went remarkably well, we were still disappointed that a number of great characters didn't get played. Out of 31 characters this year, we only had one remaining on the table by the time the doors were closed.
The LARP started out quietly and awkwardly, as games of this variety frequently do. All of the players sat at the large square table with their fingers laced before them, scoping out their contacts or frantically thumbing through the contents of their packets.
Within the first twenty minutes of the LARP, words rang out above the bickering that influenced the course of the rest of the game, uttered by our resident insane corn lobbyist, Olaf Reddenbacher.
"CORN IS NOT A WEAPON!"
Despite the childish, tittering laughter erupting from the GM table every time the lobbyist exclaimed something about the sanctity of corn, the game went on with remarkable fluidity. All in all, our players handled the situation thrown at pretty darn professionally. International riots ensued and were promptly quelled, Cthulhu rose and was nuked the crap out, and only a few people didn't live to see the game descend into chaos.
Oh! Most amusingly, magically-resurrected zombie-Hitler was walking around and hanging out like a bro; he survived until the end of the game.
Now that's a good war room.
Later days LARPers,
Dylan a.k.a. Fanc-I-PNT-5
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