Games of Spring 2025

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The schedule of games being run in Spring 2025 under the auspices of the MIT Assassins' Guild is as follows.

Make sure that you are on the Assassins' Guild Mailing List to receive the application forms for these games.

[2/15 Weekend] An Aquarium Auction[edit]

GM: Silk Yu

Tonight, in an aquarium: a cocktail party of the rich and influential. You work for a clandestine global organization whose job is to keep the following secret: paranormal artifacts are real, dangerous, and expensive. Everyone on the guestlist, you included, is a spy. The question is: who for?

Tonight, on auction: a painting, a statue, and a bottle of wine. A billionaire recluse dies and leaves behind three items. You suspect there is more to them than meets the eye, and so does everyone else. The question is: what?

Tonight, at stake: an underground economy, a tenuous peace, and a fragile masquerade. Representatives of the world's largest powers gather, for the first time in decades. Something is bound to happen. The question is: when?

An Aquarium Auction is a two-hour, nine-player game about espionage, allegiance, and value, set in a modern-day magical realist world. Players will bid, negotiate, sneak, lie, eavesdrop, steal, and spy to achieve their goals. Originally authored by CJ Quines.

[2/22 Weekend] Sunset Imperium[edit]

GMs: Thomas Brewitt, Thomas Costa

The Lazax Empire has ruled the galaxy for millenia, enforcing a tenuous peace between the Great Races that has brought with it untold prosperity. Its fall would seem impossible, if not for Quann. The conflict at Quann seventy three years ago ushered in a new age, an age of nationalism, militarization, and war that now threatens to shatter the carefully cultivated Lazax hegemony, and with it, galactic civilization itself. Only now has the lumbering bureaucracy of the Lazax finally called for a meeting of the Imperial Council to address the Quann Conflict, but at this point, all of the other Great Races have moved well beyond Quann, and are interested only in ensuring their domination in the wake of imperial collapse. Meanwhile, as the politicians squabble over the decaying Empire, other forces are at work in the shadows, with agendas that pose even more of a danger than anyone could imagine.

Sunset Imperium is a four hour game set in Fantasy Flight’s Twilight Imperium universe during the fall of the Lazax Empire focusing on negotiation, politics, and treaty writing, with a healthy dose of puzzles and notebooks for those less interested in debating galactic law. Of course, should negotiation fail, there is also a fully-fledged system for waging war against your rivals, or to simply do a bit of saber-rattling. If you’ve always wanted to represent an interstellar empire vying for galactic domination, engage in war profiteering, invent a weapon of mass destruction, or have the opportunity to fight a six-front war (not recommended), Sunset Imperium is the game for you!

[3/8 Weekend] [insert name here][edit]

GMs: Nine Morch, Jack Lewis

About a month ago, one of the scientists working in suddenly revealed the existence of to the world. Now, tensions are rising between me>? world powers Greece as everyone wants a piece of the action, and is willing to do anything to get their hands on the it. You’re a member of one of, but hidden agenda friends enemies. Get in, get out, get out, and complete your goals before time is up. , get out, You are in a top secret group that You didn’t know about Area 51 until You’re. Game,

Presented by Jack Lewis and Nine Morch, this is [insert name here], a high-action, high-death*, high-LARP LARP that you’ll certainly… remember.

[3/15 Weekend] Tales of Dirtwater[edit]

GMs: Bianca Hanly, Emily Liu

Welcome to the land of dirt water, a land of dirt and water. Here there is magic, llamas, dragons, and even French people. Usually nothing much happens here.

But something strange is going on…

People and non people from all over are gathered together in this bum of a town called Hort each for their own reasons.

Join us for Tales of Dirtwater, a high fantasy fever dream (emphasis on the high) of a game. In this world where anything is possible and many things don't make sense.

[3/29 Weekend] Infinity Train LARP[edit]

GMs: Izzy Rose, Kim Eppling

[4/5 Weekend] Insidia[edit]

GMs: Diana Shklover, Dominic Perno, Silk Yu

Welcome to Insidia, a riveting live action roleplaying experience where intrigue and magic collide! Step into a fantastical world shrouded in ancient secrets and powerful factions, each vying for control and influence. As a player, you’ll craft your character’s journey, forging alliances and confronting rival forces while uncovering hidden truths that could alter the balance of power. Will you become a legendary hero, harnessing otherworldly abilities to safeguard your realm, or will you embrace the darker side of magic in your quest for dominance? In Insidia, every decision shapes your destiny in a dynamic narrative woven by your choices and interactions. Embrace the adventure—your quest awaits!

WORKS CITED ChatGPT. “Write me a one-paragraph blurb for a LARP named Insidia.” OpenAI, 1 Apr. 2025. https://chat.chatbotapp.ai/.

Insidia is a completely serious, extremely well-written 2 to 3-hour LARP authored and run by Silk Yu, Dominic Perno, and Diana Shklover (a perfectly random set of inspired individuals) under the auspices of the MIT Assassins’ Guild on the entirely unspecific weekend of April 5th.

[4/12 Weekend] Ocean's Bounty[edit]

GMs: Diana Shklover, Bella Xu

You’re on a cruise… You’re having so much fun… Until… suddenly… you’re not… You’re dazed… The tropical sun beams down on you. Parched, you stagger across the hot sand, seeing your fellow passengers writhe awake. In the horizon, you spy movement—massive orange crustaceans sidestepping and sashaying by the foamy waves. Is it just a delirious mirage of your mind? Your stomach growls in hunger.

click clack click clack click clack click clack click clack click clack click clack…

It’s real. How did your trip go so wrong? Where did the ship go? Weren’t there more passengers? How will you survive on this ancient island?

Ocean’s Bounty is a 4-hour survival game set in a remote tropical island inhabited only by giant crustaceans and ancient runes. Band together with your fellow passengers to survive the harsh environment. Will you forage the forest, search the seas, or catch the creatures around you?

[4/26 Weekend] Virusphere Outbreak[edit]

GMs: Iselle Barrios, Eugeniya Artemova

Virusphere III - the island that's home to the best viral research center in the world. Those working there - both scientists and staff - lock themselves in for year-long research stints, supplied by deliveries from the outside. Last night, a massive storm hit the island, completely destroying all boats and external communication equipment. And, in the chaos, an experimental virus strain seems to have escaped…

Now the virus is running wild. All semblance of order has disappeared. Really, all that matters is that you get out without being infected. Unless you’re the virus, in which case you want to – honestly who knows what the virus wants. Or the scientists…

[5/3 Weekend] Bullet Train 2 - Subtitle (2077)[edit]

GMs: Thomas Costa, Dominic Perno, Yaniel Xu

CASTING CALL!

Looking for improvisational human actors Bullet Train 2 (Subtitle TBD), an experimental film, under renowned director Thomas P. L. Costa (the director of Jaws 13). Unlike prior films, actors will not follow a script. Instead, actors will be provided a character sheet and real props, and the entire filming process will take place over the span of TODO hours. Due to the nature of this revolutionary filmmaking technique, this film will feature real deaths instead of makeup or CGI. As such, the director will provide each cast member up to two Theranos ResPods.

Similar to the original Bullet Train, the film will take place on a train to Tokyo. It follows the stories of the original Bullet Train characters, 55 years later, as well as some original additional characters brilliantly conceived by renowned director Thomas P. L. Costa. Assassins, gangs, cops, a CEO, a therapist, and maybe even some normal people see their paths collide in this dramatic future-Oscar-winner. Can they survive the rivalries and greed that brought them all here? Or, will the train explode long before it can enter Tokyo?

We are going for a retro sequel, so the film takes place in 2077. Actors will be asked to remove all Insta-Heal and iPain Interceptor Implants, as well as any personal items which may interfere with proprietary Tachyon Cinema methods, for the duration of filming.

Requirements: Human Willing to die up to twice Age 18 or older Willing to work without a script Publically enjoys Jaws 13 or any of Thomas P. L. Costa’s other works.

To be considered for our cast, please submit an application at TODO LINK.

Disclaimer: Costa Films Co. is not responsible for cast members who misplace, misuse, or overuse their allotment of ResPods. Individual cast members may bring personal resurrection pods for their own use.


Bullet Train 2; Subtitle (2077) is a 3-hour light-hearted high-action game where each player plays a character (actor) who plays a character (in a movie). This game features a special combat mechanic based on Ninja.

[5/10 Weekend] Time Crunch[edit]

GMs: Jesse Ashcraft-Johnson, Dexter Chan

You are research staff at the Delta Facility, a secretive subsidiary of the Khronodyne Corporation. Two hours ago, a terrible accident happened deep in the basement labs, where the most unstable experiments are conducted. The lockdown alarms sounded and the external blast doors slammed shut just before a wave of spatiotemporal distortion ripped through the building, destroying equipment and knocking half your lab unconscious. Chaos erupted as anomalous creatures and rogue spacetime rifts escaped containment and ran rampant through the labs and corridors. You saw dozens of your coworkers be killed by escaped experiments, sucked into strange holes in reality, or warped beyond recognition by forces beyond your understanding.

Finally, a Code Violet alarm went out. You knew what that meant. The self-destruct failsafe had been triggered. You had only moments before the Delta Facility would be utterly destroyed, along with everything and everyone inside it. You braced for the coming explosion, making your last prayers to whatever gods you still believed in as the blinding wave of searing pain blasted you into the wall--

--and you were suddenly whole, on your feet, unharmed, two hours in the past. The first alarm was just going off, the shutters were slamming shut. You remembered this. You ducked for cover before the chemistry experiment you were working on could explode. There it went. Everything was happening again, exactly the same. Or, almost exactly the same. At least this time, you didn’t have a head wound.

This was going to be a longer day at work than you'd expected.


Time Crunch is a combat-focused time-loop game focused on fighting your way through a dangerous facility full of unknown enemies with unnatural powers. The game will be a physically-active experience featuring high-action combat using Nerf weaponry and similar toy guns.

This game is built to be played multiple times, with players learning how to quickly defeat the various enemies and challenges, in order to make it to the deepest areas of the facility and solve the underlying crisis before time starts over again.

[5/17 Weekend] Die Osingverlosung[edit]

GMs: Bianca Hanly, Matthew Cox

!!!POTATOES!!!

In the Osing region of Bavaria, farmland is redistributed every 10 years by lottery. In the morning, a name is drawn out of a hat for each plot of land. But some plots are better than others — sandy soil for potatoes and corn, loamy soil for wheat, and of course, everyone wants to get plots that are closer to home. So after the lottery, the trading begins.

Now it’s up to you to negotiate (or connive) your way into getting the optimal tracts of land. Time to embrace your inner German farmer.