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Return to the Mothership... April 1 2002, Volume 2, Issue 1.1
"Yugo" GMs Vow More Successful Run
on Release By Archie Poltroon Reference:
In an important announcement for the LARP community upon their release, the GM staff of "Shot into Space in a Yugo" announced yesterday that they would continue to seek a new venue for a similar game. "We have served our time, and have nothing to apologize to anyone for. We made that apology by serving eighteen months in minimum security prison." The GM team announced that they were seeking citizenship in Costa Rica, prior to publishing details about their bid, however sources close to the GMs indicated that negotiations with the Government of the former Soviet Republic of Belarus were underway. It was widely believed that the GM team would rent the Soviet MIR space station for a game tentatively titled "trapped in orbit in a trashbag," however that is clearly an impossibility. "The station fell back to earth in fiery pieces before we could get our players onto it. That was a disappointment, but we are going to go on with life." Potential sequel games hang in the air. "Shot Into Space in a Yugo" was the sequel to the relatively unpretentious successor to "Bureid Alive in a Pinto," a game whose low production values and poor orthography were offset by "an experience that was, in all but a few cases, the culminating experience of the player's lives." The GMs brought experience from games such as "Home Surgery," and "Locked in an Elevator with Vanna White," to the original production. Rumors of working titles included "20,000 Leagues Beneath the Sea in a Leaky Oil Drum," and some different concepts, including "What's in my Nasal Passage!" Critics in LARP circles have derided talk of a flashier production. "What are you going to have next - 'flung into the sun in a Civic.'" The former Yugo GMs stated unanimously that "yeah, that's a pretty cool idea." With lawsuits from the survivors of players looming it is unclear where funding may come from for the next game. "Players were willing to pay the insanely high price of the previous game," said Attorney Donald J. Houke, who represents the estates of two players, "because they were under the belief that they actually stood some chance, however remote, of being flown into space." An Attorney for the GMs refuted the accusation. "I think my clients made it pretty clear that players stood a strong chance of turning into an enhancement to the color of sunset without ever reaching space. They made no pretenses that there was going to be an 'up' side to this game scenario." Officials from
Belarus refused to comment.
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