INTERCON B Announces Games

Intercon B at the Radisson in Chelmsford, MA on 8-10 March 2002, has announced a lineup of LARPs. The Convention website allows signup, and accepts payment via PayPal for registration.

What's coming to Intercon B? Brian Williams presents Cardolani Succession, a game of politics and negotiation set in Tolkein's Middle Earth. Will Wagner's Garwyn's Tavern is high fantasy. R.M.S. Empress of Syrtis, presented by Gordon Olmstead-Dean, presents a game set in the universe of Space: 1889.

Kreg Segall's Shut up and Play Your Guitar is set at a band's emergency auditions for a new guitarist. Andy Kirschbaum brings us Elfwhere II: Heart's Desire, set in dead winter in the land of Faerie. Liberation and the Language Barrier from Peter Mascitelli and the lovingly named What The Puck Productions brings a Star Wars game in which a group of newly liberated Wookie slaves must find their way to freedom before Imperial Forces arrive. Timothy Quinn's Red Hell is a not-for-the-squeamish game set in a Martian penal colony.

Paul Dwyer's Symposium explores a meeting-of-minds type environment where we learn what Theodore Roosevelt might have to say to Cleopatra and Karl Marx about politics and culture in their days and ours. Ben Llewellyn's Faction Island II: Appease the Mummy presents an elaborate scavenger hunt.

Mike Young with Interactivities Ink presents two published games from his RTLB system - the classic Final Voyage of the Mary Celeste and The Marin County New Age Society Cocktail Party, both written by Jim MacDougal. Interactivities Ink also gives us The Uncivilized Guest, a period horror piece, which serves as an introduction to the world of Dark Summonings, a campaign book to be published by Interactivities Ink.

Marc R. Blumberg and Drew's Pants Productions present Ricardo's Union Saloon. This ain't the Wild West you remember, pardner, 'cause it's based loosely on the Deadlands™ universe. In Slave Girls of the Terror Dome Kimberly Pinto-DiGennaro and SEER Productions look at the cheesy world of great old B-movies. Don Ross and "the GMs of Luuuv" bring us Young Wizards In Love, featuring an unusual collection of powerful wizards, mad scientists, strange magical creatures and a few not-so-Average Joes in a magical, romantic comedy

For more information about Intercon B, visit http://www.larpa.org/intercon/xvii/

Knutpunkt 02 Announces Dates

The Scandinavian LARP convention, this year in Stockholm, has announced dates of April 4-7 and has a website operating. Information is still a bit scanty, but work seems to be coming along nicely and site and policy information is available.
For more information about Knutpunkt 02 http://kp02.sverok.net/

New E-mail List for LARPers in Massachusetts

In November 2001, a new E-mail list for LARPers in the New England area was announced. MassLARPers has so far not proven to be a high volume group, but seems a good source for New England area LARPers. You can find out more at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MassLARPers.

Foam Weapon Sparring Class

Guard Up! Inc. is a fitness and training company in Burlington, Massachusetts specializing in martial arts including Boxing, Fencing, and Tai Chi.

Now Executive Director Meghan Gardner tells us that instructor Thomas Rabideau, with almost two decades of Medieval Warfare experience in a variety of Live Action Roleplaying events leads classes in foam weapons sparring. Another example of LARP drifting into the mainstream? You decide. http://www.guardup.com/

Myriad Saga CANCELLED
Myriad Saga announced its indefinite postponement on February 19, 2002, citing budgetary constraints and lack of interest. The group has promised refunds to paid players by the end of March.

Xanodria Productions, Inc. Resets Horror Genre

Pennsylvania based XPI has ended the current run of its Horror Genre, and will be using 2002 to run a finale game, and then reorganize and reset the campaign for reintroduction in 2003. The change does not affect the group's larger Medieval Genre, which recently announced final dates and GMs for the 2002 season. http://www.xanodria.com/

LARP in Norwegian Art Gallery

A major Norwegian art gallery Kunstnernes Hus adds LARP to its repertoire when the winter exhibition StuntClub features a LARP by two well-known Nordic LARP writers. Eirik Fatland and Mike Pohjola originally created the LARP inside:outside to be played five times in the summer of 2001, twice in Sweden, thrice in Norway. In the Swedish SydCon the LARP won an Emmi Award for the Best Convention LARP of the year. The first gallery run of inside:outside is February 20th, 2002. For more about Kunstnernes Hus, go to http://www.kunstnerneshus.no/Information/info.html (in English). For more about inside:outside, go to http://www.fatland.net/io (in English).