Games of IAP 2024
The schedule of games being run in IAP 2024 under the auspices of the MIT Assassins' Guild is as follows.
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[1/26 Weekend] The Price of Progress[edit]
GMs: Izzy Rose, Talar Berberian
Piltover, the city of progress. A technological revolution has just begun! In just the past few years, Piltover's leading scientists have discovered what they call hextech, a technology that can harness the power of magic through science. This is a feat previously thought impossible. Travel by airship that used to take days, now takes mere minutes. Machines that are too large to be fuelled by fire can now be realized with hextech crystals as their fuel. It is the dawn of a new age.
However, not all welcome this change. South of the river, called the Undercity both for its verticality and its status, the populace fear that the introduction of hextech will only increase the disparity between them and topside. Each day, more and more of the undercity find themselves left with no choice, the only way to survive is to work for the man who promises them salvation. A kingpin with a drug empire, who as of late has been mostly ignored by the council that governs Piltover, promises independence and prosperity to those who will join him. He seeks for the Undercity to become its own proper nation of Zaun, and it is known that his methods are violent and ruthless. Piltover, having no army, may find themselves unprepared for a rebellion.
And there are more problems still. Noxus, the ever-expanding empire, lies directly to Piltover's North. If the wrong people take too much of an interest in Piltover's new discoveries and technologies, there is a very real risk of invasion. Piltover was founded by refugees and has always prided itself on its pacifism, but is it willing to fall for its principles?
In these times where the council has the reputation of being myopic and impotent, individuals have taken it upon themselves to become armed and the protectors of their loved ones. Some seek out survival alone, some have greater ambitions of overturning the status quo.
In 3 days it will be Progress Day. Some hope, perhaps naïvely, that this year the city will have as much to celebrate as the last. Others fear that the city has reached a boiling point, and something terrible is lying in wait.
The Price of Progress is a 10-day Live Action Roleplaying (LARP) game of political intrigue, interpersonal conflicts, and personal discovery based off of the first season of the TV show Arcane, written and run by Izzy Rose and Talar Berberian from January 26 to February 4, 2024 this IAP under the auspices of Assassins’ Guild.
