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The schedule of games being run in Fall 2019 under the auspices of the [[MIT Assassins' Guild]] is as follows.
 
The schedule of games being run in Fall 2019 under the auspices of the [[MIT Assassins' Guild]] is as follows.
  
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Travel to strange new classrooms. Meet interesting, unusual people, and kill them! [[Patrol Rules|Patrol]] is a high-action game of live combat with rubber-dart guns. Shoot your friends, then watch out as they try to take their revenge.
 
Travel to strange new classrooms. Meet interesting, unusual people, and kill them! [[Patrol Rules|Patrol]] is a high-action game of live combat with rubber-dart guns. Shoot your friends, then watch out as they try to take their revenge.
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== [9/21 Weekend] Ghost Court ==
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Zampolit status: EXEMPT
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Weekend confirmed? NO
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'''GMs: run by Cel Skeggs, written by Jason Morningstar'''
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What you are about to witness is real. The participants are not actors. They are the living people and ghosts who have already either filed suit or been served a summons to appear in municipal court. Both parties in the suit have agreed to dismiss their court cases and have their disputes settled here, in our forum:
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Ghost Court.
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Ghost Court is a ridiculous, casual, mechanics-free LARP about ghosts
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and the people who sue them. It's a published game by Jason
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Morningstar being run by Cel Skeggs.
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== [12/7 Weekend] I Say A Little Prayer ==
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Zampolit status: EXEMPT
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Weekend confirmed? NO
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'''GMs: Laura Boylan'''
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I Say a Little Prayer follows the lives of 5 young gay men during the early years of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. We will play out their sexual and romantic adventures as well as the story of how their friendship evolves over the course of several years in a community hard hit by the epidemic. Through the lottery of death mechanic we find out who of these friends will die before the story is over and how this shapes the lives of the survivors who live on. This is a respectful and intimate LARP for those who enjoy playing stories about many-faceted relationships between people and would like to play out emotional storylines in a fearless way. Players of any gender identity can play the LARP irrespective of all the characters in the LARP being men. Players whose characters die will still be involved with the LARP for the remaining run time through meta-techniques.
  
 
== [9/7 Weekend] Persephone's Gift ==
 
== [9/7 Weekend] Persephone's Gift ==
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Zampolit status: EXEMPT
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Weekend confirmed? NO
  
 
'''GMs: kkb'''
 
'''GMs: kkb'''
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novels. Expect to see scheming, politics and robots.
 
novels. Expect to see scheming, politics and robots.
  
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== [9/21 Weekend] Ghost Court ==
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== [10/19 Weekend] Refuge, The Boat ==
  
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'''GMs: run by Cel Skeggs, written by Jason Morningstar'''
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Zampolit status: EXEMPT
  
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What you are about to witness is real. The participants are not actors. They are the living people and ghosts who have already either filed suit or been served a summons to appear in municipal court. Both parties in the suit have agreed to dismiss their court cases and have their disputes settled here, in our forum:
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Weekend confirmed? NO
  
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Ghost Court.
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'''GMs: twohlers'''
  
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Ghost Court is a ridiculous, casual, mechanics-free LARP about ghosts
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War. Oppression. Disaster.
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and the people who sue them. It's a published game by Jason
 
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Morningstar being run by Cel Skeggs.
 
  
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== [9/28 Weekend] Murder at Elm Hall ==
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Throughout history, these things have plagued humanity, driving untold numbers of refugees from their homes in search of respite from their suffering.
  
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'''GMs: twohlers'''
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You are one of that great countless number. And you are fortunate, for you have found a way out.
  
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You and five others have been invited to spend the weekend at Elm Hall by the wealthy Lord Black, a famous socialite renowned for his parties. You were delighted to be invited -- but now he seems to be dead! To make matters worse, a storm has cut off all communication with the outside world -- you are on your own, with the killer among you. With no help from the outside world, it is up to you to be judge, jury, and executioner of one of your own peers.
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There is a ship, a ship which exists outside of time and space, which travels by its own mysterious will for one purpose: to save the fortunate few it selects as passengers from the dire fates that await them in their own time and place, and bring them to a new home, where they can be safe.
  
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Murder at Elm Hall is a murder mystery where the answer to the question 'who did it' is less important than how six suspects who can't rule each other out deal with being trapped with each other.
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And so it is that the group of you, most having never met, from many different times and place, fleeing from all manner of nightmares, became its latest batch of passengers. And as it approaches its destination, you try to think what your new home might be like, and how you will live there.
  
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== [10/5 Weekend] Fractional Games Writing Kickoff ==
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But as you all struggle to come to terms with the prospect of your new life, with what has happened to you, and with each other, there is one inescapable fact with which you must also deal with: the good ship Refuge is dying.
  
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'''Organizers: Cel Skeggs'''
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And soon there will not be enough room left aboard her for all.
  
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Do you want to write a LARP? Is writing a full one night and bidding it too much work to fit in your schedule? Or are you worried that your writing isn't going to be good enough? Or have you never written a game before? Or do you just want a low-pressure chance to write a game? Come write a game for the Fractional Games event!
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Content warning: all characters are refugees from horrible situations. They've all had trauma inflicted upon them, several have inflicted trauma upon others. Specific content warnings include torture, sexual humiliation, forced prostitution, being a passive participant in sexual assault, child soldiers, suicide, genocide, forced drug use, extreme violence, persecution by literal Nazis, collaboration with literal Nazis (this is not an exhaustive list, but covers the more extreme of the content that characters have in their backstories).
  
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Over the course of the semester, gamewriters in the Fractional Games event will write a short (30min-1hr) game aimed at a small number of players, and then run their games in sequence on the weekend of 11/16. Come to the kickoff on this weekend of 10/5, and we'll go over the parameters of the event, help teams form for those who want to write in a team, and get started with writing.
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Game will involve about a third of the characters dying, beginning about halfway into game, with musical chairs being used as a mechanic to determine which characters will die (players of dead characters are welcome to remain to observe game OOC). Game is vaguely Nordic- esque in style, with no plot and revolving around the characters simply talking about their relationships, past, and feelings. 18+ or with permission.
  
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Writing a game is encouraged for anyone who has played at least one game with the Guild. You don't need to have been around the Guild for a long time, nor have any previous experience with gamewriting.
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== [11/2 Weekend] Murder on the Starlight Express ==
  
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== [10/12 Weekend] Refuge, The Boat ==
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Zampolit status: EXEMPT
  
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'''GMs: twohlers'''
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Weekend confirmed? NO
  
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War. Oppression. Disaster.
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'''GMs: Ken Clary, Jayson Lynch, Jay Muchnij'''
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Welcome to "Murder on the Starlight Express", a six hour, experimental [for its time] murder mystery assassin game. You can be one of ten crewmen trapped onboard the Freighter Gabriel, on course from Ceti Alpha 6 to Epsilon Eridani 4, with a murderer (or two) trapped on board. It's the classic whodonit, but in assassin style, where the criminals can shoot back, and maybe even shoot first.
  
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Throughout history, these things have plagued humanity, driving untold numbers of refugees from their homes in search of respite from their suffering.
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== [9/28 Weekend] Murder at Elm Hall ==
  
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You are one of that great countless number. And you are fortunate, for you have found a way out.
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Zampolit status: EXEMPT
  
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There is a ship, a ship which exists outside of time and space, which travels by its own mysterious will for one purpose: to save the fortunate few it selects as passengers from the dire fates that await them in their own time and place, and bring them to a new home, where they can be safe.
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Weekend confirmed? NO
  
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And so it is that the group of you, most having never met, from many different times and place, fleeing from all manner of nightmares, became its latest batch of passengers. And as it approaches its destination, you try to think what your new home might be like, and how you will live there.
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'''GMs: twohlers'''
  
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But as you all struggle to come to terms with the prospect of your new life, with what has happened to you, and with each other, there is one inescapable fact with which you must also deal with: the good ship Refuge is dying.
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You and five others have been invited to spend the weekend at Elm Hall by the wealthy Lord Black, a famous socialite renowned for his parties. You were delighted to be invited -- but now he seems to be dead! To make matters worse, a storm has cut off all communication with the outside world -- you are on your own, with the killer among you. With no help from the outside world, it is up to you to be judge, jury, and executioner of one of your own peers.
  
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And soon there will not be enough room left aboard her for all.
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Murder at Elm Hall is a murder mystery where the answer to the question 'who did it' is less important than how six suspects who can't rule each other out deal with being trapped with each other.
  
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Content warning: all characters are refugees from horrible situations. They've all had trauma inflicted upon them, several have inflicted trauma upon others. Specific content warnings include torture, sexual humiliation, forced prostitution, being a passive participant in sexual assault, child soldiers, suicide, genocide, forced drug use, extreme violence, persecution by literal Nazis, collaboration with literal Nazis (this is not an exhaustive list, but covers the more extreme of the content that characters have in their backstories).
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== [11/9 Weekend] Castilian Kings: Intrigue and Inquisition ==
  
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Game will involve about a third of the characters dying, beginning about halfway into game, with musical chairs being used as a mechanic to determine which characters will die (players of dead characters are welcome to remain to observe game OOC). Game is vaguely Nordic- esque in style, with no plot and revolving around the characters simply talking about their relationships, past, and feelings. 18+ or with permission.
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Zampolit status: EXEMPT
  
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== [10/19 Weekend] Castilian Kings: Intrigue and Inquisition ==
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Weekend confirmed? NO
  
 
'''GMs: Kendra Beckler, Bram Sterling'''
 
'''GMs: Kendra Beckler, Bram Sterling'''
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This game features real historical characters and political issues in 1328 but no prior knowledge of history is required to enjoy playing.
 
This game features real historical characters and political issues in 1328 but no prior knowledge of history is required to enjoy playing.
  
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== [11/2 Weekend] Fall Guild Meeting ==
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== [10/12 Weekend] Fractional Games Writing Kickoff ==
  
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'''GMs: The High Council'''
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Zampolit status: EXEMPT
  
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The Guild's semesterly meeting. There will be free food, some policy discussions, possibly some mastering, and free food. If you want the Guild to continue to exist and make good choices about how it works, you should show up to this meeting! And you should eat the free food.
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Weekend confirmed? NO
  
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== [11/9 Weekend] Murder on the Starlight Express ==
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'''Organizers: Cel Skeggs'''
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'''GMs: Ken Clary, Jayson Lynch, Jay Muchnij'''
 
  
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Welcome to "Murder on the Starlight Express", a six hour, experimental [for its time] murder mystery assassin game. You can be one of ten crewmen trapped onboard the Freighter Gabriel, on course from Ceti Alpha 6 to Epsilon Eridani 4, with a murderer (or two) trapped on board.  It's the classic whodonit, but in assassin style, where the criminals can shoot back, and maybe even shoot first.
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will get this in later
  
 
== [11/16 Weekend] Fractional Games ==
 
== [11/16 Weekend] Fractional Games ==
  
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'''GMs: You! (Organized by Cel Skeggs)'''
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Zampolit status: EXEMPT
  
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Earlier this semester, gamewriters started writing a collection of short 30min-1hr games. Now, they're going to run, ready or not, and we need you to play them! Signing up ahead of time is encouraged but not mandatory.
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Weekend confirmed? NO
  
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The final blurbs will be sent out at the start of November.
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'''GMs: You! (Organized by Cel Skeggs)'''
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== [12/7 Weekend] Laura Boylan and twohlers write a LARP ==
 
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'''GMs: Laura Boylan, twohlers'''
 
  
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Laura47 and twohlers are writing a new LARP this semester.  What will it be like?  We'll find out!
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will get this in later
  
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