RPGs and LARPs

Scream Into The Void

Empress Emily the Fair has done…enough.

The Rat Plague is gone, the Covens of Void Witches have fallen and the Usurper has fallen for the rightful Empress of the isles. As clockwork soldiers fall apart and coven sanctuaries wither and die…The Eyeless are scattered across the four isles and every witch has lost their power.

Now we scrabble for the secrets of the void and existence as the world quivers, as if something essential were missing.

One of us will venture into the void.

One will become our leader.

For we shall discover the meaning from the Outsider himself!

Content warnings: Eldritch Horror, Inter-PC Conflict, Drug Use

Dreams and Demons

Wremsey is a successful city, bustling with trade and opportunities. Merchants from everywhere come here looking for fortune. Adventurers meet in the taverns looking for quests. Anyone looking to make a name for themself knows Wremsey is a good place to start, some even call it the City of Dreams. But something is brewing in the gutters. Someone, or something, wants to hurt this city, and bring it crumbling down. Someone, or something, wants to steal this place of opportunity from the world. A group of young adventurers gathers in a tavern, looking for a shot at greatness. Well, here’s your chance. It’s up to you to save the City of Dreams.

Dreams and Demons is level 3 oneshot, aimed at those who don’t have much experience with D&D 5e (though veteran players are also welcome). It is a game of mystery solving, exploration and combat in an urban setting.

Content warnings: General fantasy violence, Cults, Darkness, Small spaces, Rats

Last Night Under the Stars

The planet of Nausicaa VII is an odd place to grow up. Orbiting the stable Red Supergiant of the same name, and a longstanding Forgeworld of the Sol Imperium, it’s the one planet in the system large and warm enough to support life easily, although “warm” is a bit of a misnomer. With an average temperature band between -15 and 10 Celcius, you tend to get used to the cold.

Maybe your parents were one of the thousands of miners that swarmed over the ore-rich planets I through VI, hauling back material to be pressed into the mighty orbital forges of your homeworld. Maybe they were engineers, floating in zero gee and welding plates onto the great leviathan framework of the ships produced here, fitted up and then sent with skeleton crews about the galaxy. Except, of course, for the Bi-Centennial Muster Every 50 years, a portion of the military would board a Jormungandr class Superdreadnought, pushing through cheering crowds and falling confetti to roam the stars. It was an honor to be picked, and indeed, for some folks, a way out that they could not otherwise readily afford. But traveling at the speed of C is a blessing and a curse, the hand of relativity twisting the clock in damnable ways. By the time a soldier retires, it could be decades or centuries on their homeworld.

It’s time for the Muster. You, and your unit, the 34th Nausicaan Guard, have been selected as one of those assigned to the latest Jormungandr class ship, The Spear of Terra . Time passed quickly, and now you sit in the barracks with your squad. At 9 AM tomorrow, you report to the shuttle docks to head into orbit and board the ship. You have been given the evening off, to celebrate as you will. Most of the city is certainly doing so, with various parties around the city of Empyrean taking place tonight. One of the older soldiers suggested that rather than just get wasted or try to hook up, tonight would be a good time to settle matters before you leave your homeworld behind. Now you sit in your bunks, a list in front of you, as your squad decides how best to spend your last night under the stars.

Content warnings: Potential Alcoholic Consumption, Violence, Vague themes of Imperialism

Salvage Recovery Mission: The Alexia

“In the wilds of Rimspace, a distress beacon quietly chirps through the void, calling for help that never arrived in time. The ones to hear it first, are you, a salvage team working the grind of picking the carcasses of old mining ships, crusiers from the Corpo Wars, and the hollowed out husks of lost colony ships, barely meeting ends meet. Now, your fortunes have changed. You have picked up the distress beacon of the Alexis, a science ship recently declared lost by its corporate masters in a hyperspace incident. Now all you need to do is get to the ship, asses what is worth taking, and get paid. Easy enough.”

Content warnings: Cosmic Horror, Body Horror, Loss of Sanity, Gore, Violence, Existentialism of Space Travel, Self-Harm

A Clean Slate

You wake in an unfamiliar room, others stirring around you. What is this place and who are these people? Come to think of it… who are you?

Content warnings: themes of mental illness and unhealthy/abusive relationships

A Shrieking Violet

Chicago 1927, the Windy City can be a hard place to live for a detective like you. Whether its Capone bootlegging empire, the common scum on the street, or your boss at the station giving you grief, there always seems to be something to cause trouble. A call has been made about some poor fella who fell to his death outside his apartment in Little Italy. Seems like a low calibre case, but you don’t get to pick the messes, you just clean them up.

A Noir style investigative game where you untangle the connections between the mob, the occult, and a broken life.

Content warnings: Violence, Blood, Crime Scene Gore, Abuse, and Mental Trauma

Bleakhaven

A seedy looking rat-folk is on the corner clutching a cylinder of what used to contain air. You see him tremble and fall dead as he drops the empty cannister. The guard passes by your encampment and sweeps rat and cylinder into a nearby furnace used for disposing garbage. A putrid blast of heat washes over the party.

The door behind opens up and a grim woman issues you in. This is Flora Descot, your friendly neighborhood mafia messenger. In her spare time she hunts rats, or rat folk, or anyone that looks like they should have a bounty. Her quiver is never quite full.

Content warnings: Pervasive disease, general adult content

The Eye of the Champion – A Combat LARP Exhibition Special Event

“Word has it that he is seen on the moors once again, Súil Dubh the Wanderer. Once he was mortal like you or I, but at the Battle of Hurdleford he became something more. Now he seeks another worthy to take up his blade and fight for the glory of the gods.”

Leprecon calls valiant warriors together in a tournament to name a champion worthy of an ancient legacy!

Fighters will take pre-generated characters using the LARP system used in Five Oaths and participate in a bracketed elimination tourney until one fighter reigns supreme. Spectators will take on the roles of distinguished guests: merchants, warlords, or sinister schemers. All of them have an interest in making sure the next fighter to hold the blade of Súil Dubh owes them for their greatness, and will be able to aid their favoured fighter.

This is a special event, requiring a separate signup form with specific requirements (insurance etc).

Armour Astir: Choir of the Lonely Universe

The universe was not always lonely. It once had hundreds of billions of trillions of stars. Now, it has a little more than ten. No one knows what happened. A huge burst of energy from Earth, and then the sky was silent, and dark, and cold. Panic followed, and for decades people isolated. Then came the United Alliance of Stars, purporting to unite the tragic few stars left in the Lonely Universe…

But what they brought was not unity, nor peace, but subjugation and conformity. Only you stand against it. The holdouts of Cocoon, the new name of humanity’s cradle. You, the members of the The Ladder, ever climbing towards freedom, have spent too long fighting a defensive war.

It is time to strike back.

Content warnings: War, gore, body horror, transformations of humans into robots

Hearth Without a Home

The Festival of Three Villages is an event that comes around only once a lifetime; When fireworks light the sky over your little town of Loft, calling its much loftier sisters home — the drifting city of Crux and the underground folk of Rotterdamne, called up by the lights and noise for a night of mingling and celebration.

Everyone is anxious to make a good impression and show off your town’s best side. Only the fireworks haven’t arrived, and the Artisan hasn’t called, and the day of the festival is closing in fast. As a small group of seasoned travellers, you are your town’s best and only hope of a successful festival — taking off onto the road before the chance passes by once and for all.

Content warnings: Fire

Things From The Flood: Teenage Mutant Binge At Thurles

It’s time for The Trip to Tipp! There’s Iggy Pop for when you want to dance, the Manic Street Preachers for when you want a good mope, and The Sultans of Ping FC are asking everyone “Where’s Me Jumper?”. There’s something for everyone at Feile ‘93!

If you believe the rumours, there’s also an interdimensional portal to the Aztec land of the dead…or a cult of dinosaurs who worship Richey Edwards… or a robot who drinks pints! Sure, anything can happen in the next three days at Semple Stadium!!

A THINGS FROM THE FLOOD RPG (The 90s version of TALES FROM THE LOOP, only with a better soundtrack. Fight me) for a bunch of teenagers headed to where the craic will be mighty!!!

Content warnings: Alcohol, drugs, Chris De Burgh.

Tales of Toholon: Lost And Found In Kaiju Park

There was a plan, an idea, a vision, to create a place which would revolutionise kaiju science, weapons testing, and corporate hunting trips. A new facility on an isolated island, without government interference on the commercialisation of serious kaiju science and casual kaiju tourism.

It…didn’t go well.

But in the few weeks it was operational, before The Incident, the Sollgell Island facility was already collecting vital scientific samples and developing new technology, and both corporate and government interests want them secured from the ruin. So get in there, and pack light: There’s a lot of stuff to carry back.

Content warnings: Giant Insects

Last Stand of the Fianna

Ireland has fallen.

The Emerald Isle, once home to the Garou of the Fianna, is poisoned by Wyrmtaint. Across the world, Irish Werewolves can feel the slow eradication of everything they once were. Their connection to the spirits diminishes. Their Fae allies are gone. The other Garou abandon them in fear that their homelands are next. Only their Rage remains, and it burns hotter than ever.

You are Fianna, proud and defiant against the Apocalypse. The Wyrm will soon devour everything you remember: your home, your family, your very spirit and memories. But if you are going to die, then by Gaia you are going to make your enemies pay for it.

It is time to Rage.

Content warnings: Hopelessness, gore, suicide

Hostile Work Environment

Congratulations on your promotion! As Conflict Management Solutions’ newest Lancers, you’ll be able to pilot your mechs in all kinds of exciting and unfamiliar enviroments. You’ll take on all-new challenges as you help to bring the galaxy closer to CMS’s vision: A place where everyone can feel safe and secure.

One of our esteemed clients has let us know that one of their old research stations has been found again. The place is in need of repairs, and we think YOU would be perfect for the job. Repair work might not sound like a job for a Lancer, but trust us – this isn’t like any job you’ve seen before.

(Lancer is a combat-focused mecha RPG. This session will consist mainly of combat, and lean more toward the “board game” end of RPG play.)

Content warnings: Body horror, gore, claustrophobia

Frenemies of the Night

In Chicago the Lasombra joined the Camarilla. Apparently in Madrid they signed up with the Anarchs. Well a trio of the Keepers have arrived in town, all neonates but with some big time clout behind them and they’re here to find a faction to join.

Suddenly the two Sects of Dublin, The Camarilla and The Anarchs, are falling over one another to win their approval and, of course, the Lasombra will arrange the sit down – another power play, just to see who will scurry out of the dark to beg their aid.

But then again – who needs whom more?

Who really is doing the scurrying in the shadows?

Content warnings: Inter PC Conflict, blood, vampires, mind-control

Blood on the Clocktower

In the quiet village of Ravenswood Bluff, ‌a demon walks amongst you…

During a hellish thunderstorm, on the stroke of midnight, there echoes a bone-chilling scream.

The townsfolk rush to investigate and find the town storyteller murdered, their body impaled on the hands of the clocktower, blood dripping onto the cobblestones below.

A Demon is on the loose, murdering by night and disguised in human form

by day. Some have scraps of information. Others have abilities that fight the evil or protect the innocent. But the Demon and its evil minions are spreading lies to confuse and breed suspicion.

In the quiet village of Ravenswood Bluff, ‌a demon walks amongst you…

Will the good townsfolk put the puzzle together in time to execute the true demon and save themselves? Or will evil overrun this once peaceful village?

Content warnings: The storyteller needs to tap you while your eyes are closed to signal to you when to open your eyes.

Sepulcher of the Swamp Witch

East of Lake Onda in the Slithering Swamp

is the Swamp Witch’s ancient sepulchre and an altar of dead roots covered in lost symbols. They say if certain forbidden words are chanted at it, any wish is fulfilled. Even stopping the approaching Doom is not outside the powers of the Swamp Witch’s altar.

You stumbled on these forbidden words on a murdered messenger wearing mad King Fathmu IX’s crest in a ditch. You just need to get past the Strange Serpent Drug Cult lairing in the ancient tomb and reach the altar.

(Mork Borg is what your mum thinks Dungeon and Dragons is and is not suitable for those under 18 years of age.)

Content warnings: General dark adult content including disease, cults, drug taking, dismemberment, mass graves, restraint, bear traps, screaming, acid, mutations, helpless animals…

Incarnate

The Weaver has trapped the Wyrm. The Wyld is lashing out at those trying to help it. Gaia is missing. I fear the worst for her. I ask you now cousins to come together in her name and help foster the children she left behind. You are the great forces of the world. The Incarnae. And Earth needs your help.

A game of esoteric politics, and world shaping speed-friending against overwhelming odds set loosely in Werewolf the Apocalypse

Content warnings: Inter-PC conflict, spiders, minor body horror in the form of transformations

The Mad King of the Forest

Aemas is a land at peace. Thanks to the army of heroes that recently defeated the Queen of the Deep, large threats to the safety of the people have faded. Most requests that come to the Kings of Odath, the capital, are simple. Minor incidents of monsters and trade disputes. Things that can be handled by amateurs. Except one. The sleepy town of Moonwood keeps sending requests for help, even though many adventurers have already been sent. With each letter becoming increasingly desperate, the Kings have decided it’s time to solve this problem once and for all. They have summoned you, a group of skilled heroes, to put an end to this situation. After all, it’s just a silly request, based on superstition, isn’t it? Or are ancient legends not as imaginary as they seem…

The Mad King of the Forest is a level 14 game that takes place in the small town of Moonwood and the surrounding forest. It is partially mystery solving, with some exploration, and heavy combat. The story centres around a local legend and its echoes in reality.

WARNING – it is meant to be a darker game, please see content warnings

Content warnings: descriptions of gore, extreme violence, undead, animals, undead animals, horror-esque elements, themes of insanity, death, reference to trauma, betrayal, overall darker game

Escape from the Red Star

Since the Time Before Time, you Matoran have laboured in the service of Mata Nui, the Great spirit; guarded by selected Matoran heroes, the Toa, and lead by Turaga, all under the remit of the three Virtues: Unity, Duty, Destiny. As long as you can remember, that is how things worked.

But now you remember dying, and you don’t remember how you ended up in that pod.

But here you are, in some abandoned facility being chased by the unnatural and the unliving; have you been thrown into the infernal pits of hellish Karzahni or has even Artakha fallen into the vile hands of the Makuta?

All you know is the last you remember you were Matoran, and now you’re Toa heroes.

Game set in the Bionicle universe using the RWBY fan system for 3-6 players.

Content warnings: Mechanical Body horror

Bog Down in the Valley-O

Ireland‘a history is both rich and deep. Sometime literally. Beneath the surface, uncountable treasures of ages past have been unearthed. But recently something altogether older has surfaced.

In the wake of a freak earthquake no one could have predicted or planned for, a series of man-made caverns and tombs have been exposed in the Bog of Allen. No only are they astonishingly well-preserved for their age, they are also far larger than any previously found prehistoric site in Europe. The government of Ireland, under the scrutinising eye of UNESCO, has locked the area down until the site can be preserved and protected.

Chronicle of Darkness game set in the ancient boglands of Ireland (6 players)

Content warnings: Claustrophobia