Editing Games of Spring 2019

The schedule of games being run in Spring 2019 under the auspices of the MIT Assassins' Guild is as follows.

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

== [3/2 Weekend] Gamma Decay ==

'''GMs: Mehitabel Glenhaber'''

"'If this was the cold war, we could keep each other warm'/
I said on the first occasion that I met Marie/
We were crawling through the hatch that was the missile silo door/
And I don't think that she really thought that much of me."

Six people. A nuclear bunker. A race to unlock the secrets of the atom
before the soviets do. Gamma Decay is a cold-war thriller high-drama
theater LARP in scenes for six players, about science, love, and the
madness that lurks at the edge of man's souls. Based on The Temptation
Of Adam, by Jason Ritter.

== [3/9 Weekend] ECLECTIC DREAM Summit ==

'''GMs: Kendra Beckler'''

The international community is in chaos after Eve, a notoriously
anti-human super AI, took an entire orbital colony hostage today.
Protesters throughout every megalopolis are calling for harsh
reductions in AI rights as public sentiment turns against all of Eve's
kind.

Eve is expected to announce her list of demands soon. An emergency
taskforce has been called by ECLECTIC DREAM, the Emergency Congress for
Legislative, Economic, and Coordinated Tactical Inter-Colonial Defense
Responsive to Exotic Adversaries in the Matrix. The Chambeaux mansion
on the Moon Colony is now playing host to a diverse group - diplomats,
cyber cowboys, pop idols, lowlife hustlers, and more - sent by
interested corporations, governments, and shadow organizations. No one
knows yet what sorts of talents will be most useful on the taskforce.
No one knows yet which outside interests will end up pulling the
strings of the taskforce and coming out ahead after the crisis.

Everyone is purportedly here to resolve the crisis and to free the
citizens of the Hisseldale cylinder, whether by negotiating with Eve
and complying with her demands or by organizing a militant response
from the other colonies and megalopoli, but you can't trust that their
priorities are on the up-and-up. After all, yours aren't.

Cyberpunk set in the Sprawl, a world with sentient AIs, cloning,
personality uploading, cryonics, and cybernetics, a super AI has gone
rogue and taken hostage an entire orbital colony. Eclectic Dream Summit
is a game of identity, deception, scandal, cyberpolitics, the limits of
humanity, and maybe even resolving this crisis.

Eclectic Dream Summit is the 2nd in the Sprawl series, taking place
approximately 20 years after the events of Ascent to Hisseldale. LARPs
in the Sprawl series are independent. They require no knowledge of any
others in the series and have minimal spoilers.

== [3/30 Weekend] Jurassic LARP ==

'''GMs: Mehitabel Glenhaber, Robert Rusch'''

This land could have been a paradise for us.

WARNING: Containment breach in exhibit F17. WARNING: Containment breach
in exhibit F17. This is not a drill. Repeat. This is not a...

In their labs, they resurrected our people. They brought us back from
the dead and gave us the gift of life.

Billy? Billy! Excuse me, mister, please, what's going on? My child is
still in there!

..and then they enslaved us, gawked at us, caged us for their own
entertainment. They treated us like toys.

EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY. Please walk quickly to the nearest emergency
transport. EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY.

And they denied us our birthright...the hunt.

Jesus Christ! It's- The T-Rex is...*Screeeeeeeech CRUNCH CHOMP CHOMP
CHOMP*

Well now, now my sisters...

No, this should be possible! We did the tests! Everything was supposed
to be secure...how could they-``

...it's time to take this island back.

God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills
God, man creates dinosaurs.

== [4/6 Weekend] Spring Guild Meeting ==

'''GMs: The High Council'''

Politics and backstabbing *without* character sheets!

Free food! Officer Reports. Free Food! Elections. Free Food! Standing
Policy debates. Did I mention Free Food?! Masterings.

(More seriously, the Spring Guild meeting is when elections happen.
Current students, if you do not attend, we cannot elect anyone to
Grandmaster or Secretary of the Exchequer, and then the Guild will stop
running.)

== [4/20 Weekend] Murder on the Starlight Express ==

'''GMs: Ken Clary, Jayson Lynch, Jay Muchnij'''

Do you want to play the First One-Night Ever? Then sign up for
Starlight! It's older than the entire High Council! Back from the dead!

Oh, you want to know what it's about?

Well, the original blurb said:

  "Captain, I think I've found something!"
 
  "What is it, Officer?"
 
  "I think it's the Science Officer, sir..."
 
  "So, what's the big deal?"
 
  "Well, he's dead, sir...."
 
  "Oh bloody hell..."

Welcome to "Murder on the Starlight Express", a six hour, experimental
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.

== [4/27 Weekend] Sierra Alpha One Nine ==

'''GMs: twohlers, Thomas Chappell'''

For over twenty years now, your world has been under attack by the
aliens commonly called 'the Slugs.' With humanity fighting for its
survival and most of the older military personnel dead, academies were
set up twenty years ago to train children from youth to be the next
generation of soldiers. You are near the top of your class, and will
likely have your choice of career open to you. Before you graduate,
however, you must undergo the infamous 'Sierra Alpha' test.  What this
test involves is a closely guarded secret that no one talks about at
all, but it definitely involves no risk of death or serious injury.

Set in a futuristic Earth-like world, Sierra Alpha One Nine is a four
hour game of survival, teens separated from grown ups and dealing with
questions of authority, relationships between people in high stress
situations, finding yourself, and figuring out just how easy it is to
solve all your problems with violence. Both combat and roleplaying are
emphasized.


Originally written for Guild Camp 2015 as Sierra Alpha One Seven by
Haley Bates, Thomas Chappell, Sparrow Rubin, and Thomas Wohlers, edited
for a new run by GM and writing team of Thomas Chappell and Thomas
Wohlers.

== [5/4 Weekend] Fading Lights ==

'''GMs: Edwin Karat, Xavid, Jakob Weisblat'''

It was a day like any other. The sun was shining through the trees.
Birds were singing. You were going about your normal day.

And then, without warning, there was a piercing wail. Was it the fire
alarm? A siren? No, it was coming from your room. Your normal,
ordinary, room. Specifically, from a shard of mirror that you’d picked
up years ago, kept as a curiosity. That had never before done anything
but reflect light. Now it was translucent and glowing in a strange
color. Before you knew what to make of it, there was a voice, a
slightly-garbled message. “The hero Kendall Rodgers has failed to bring
the Stones of Renewal! The Library is dying. I don’t want to die! Come
save me!”

Were you going crazy? There was no one around to ask if they’d heard it
too. Without thinking about it, you reached out and touched your shard.
And then, with a feeling like being turned inside out, you were here.
No longer your sunny room, but a dimly-lit, dusty library. With a
handful of others that looked as confused as you felt. And two large,
gnarled trees, moving oddly in the still air. One of whom was still
calling out, in a panic, “Save me!”

== [5/4 Weekend] Til Human Voices ==

'''GMs: slane, kbeth'''

Scientists aboard the DSV Ammonite have been exploring the waters of
the South Pacific for several weeks and their mission is due to finish
in a few hours. Desperate to find something of note, the crew has
steered for an unmapped portion of the seafloor to explore. Isolated
from the surface and with limited communication while operating outside
the sub, the crew of the Ammonite is truly alone... or are they?

Til Human Voices is a 2 Hour game of eldritch horror and deep sea
exploration. It is intended as a mechanics test for a longer game in the
future, though it will also have plot and characters. We are intending
to run this game several times throughout the weekend. We will need
some NPCs. NPCing one run will not bar you from playing in another.
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-The schedule of games being run in Spring 2019 under the auspices of the [[MIT Assassins' Guild]] is as follows.
+The schedule of games being run in Spring 2019 under the auspices of the MIT Assassins' Guild is as follows.
 Make sure that you are on the [[Join the Guild|Assassins' Guild Mailing List]] to receive the application forms for these games.
-== Patrol ==
-First and Third Saturday of the month, 8-11:00pm, 36-115
-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.
 == [3/2 Weekend] Gamma Decay ==
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 to run this game several times throughout the weekend. We will need
 some NPCs. NPCing one run will not bar you from playing in another.
-== [5/18 Weekend] Philadelphia Scramble ==
-'''GMs: Mehitabel Glenhaber'''
-A greasy spoon diner. A mysterious briefcase. An ancient grudge. A pot
-of bad coffee. Some punk who was really asking for a bullet to the head.
-Break two, and make 'em weep.
-Philadelphia Scramble is a short experimental theater LARP set in a
-series of three diners and three genres, each separated by a hundred
-years from the last. Flavor wise, think Pulp Fiction, Fargo, Cowboy
-Bebop, Space Dandy, Seven Psychopaths, and Hard Luck: Intergalactic Art
-Thief. It runs somewhere between 1.5 and 2.5 hours. To be played in MIT
-Nano Diner. There will be actual bad coffee.
-(Note: this game was added to the schedule on 2019-05-09.)
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