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February 8th, 2010
04:34 pm - A Tree Falls in Sterling
Earlier today:
L: Did you hear that cracking sound?
M: No, it was probably just ice falling off the roof.
A few minutes ago:
L: [Explitive]. The peach tree in our back yard fell down and has damaged the fence.
M: Ah, that would explain the cracking noise you heard earlier.
Luckily, it has not both damaged the fence and our house or the neighbor's house.
Unluckily, we will will have to do something about this.
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12:35 pm - Deliberate Continuity Errors
Hey internet larp writing audience,
Have you ever deliberately introduced a continuity error into your LARP? You know, where two -- or more -- different characters remember the same event differently, or character a thinks they are character b's best friend, but a isn't listed in b's sheet at all. That sort of thing?
And I'm talking about a deliberate difference here, not characters misremembering in character. Have you ever put one into game just to see what happens? It's so rare to really experiment with that sort of thing. How did it go?
I have put in misrememberings, and I always make it a point to tell the players out of character that they different memories were deliberate and they need to try to reconsile them in game. But this time I am deliberatly putting in differences in continuity to see how it goes. It's only one minor point and it shouldn't affect plot, but we shall see, won't we?
I'll report back after the game, but I'd like to hear other people's experiences.
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February 4th, 2010
10:39 am
Announcing the First and Last Ever Annual BreaKey Tournament.
This auspicious event will be held on Sunday February 21st at my house. Starts at 1:00 PM. Goes until just before dinner. Light snacks will be served. This is a fundraiser for Lullaby of Broadway. Suggested donation is $5.00, a 2 litre bottle of soda, and a light snack to share. Winner gets $2.00 for each participant. Full rules will be explained at the door.
Let me know if you want to play by leaving a comment below or dropping me an e-mail.
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February 3rd, 2010
07:44 pm - Dammit!
The thumb drive can sometimes be quirky with my computer. And by quirky I mean corrupt files. I lost Xander and Buffy and have to rewrite from scratch.
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12:07 pm - A winner is you!
Or more exactly, a winner is Teem.
( Click to read his NSFW mad lib monstrosity. )
Also, just to note, Slash now needs another player. You can sign up at http://www.interactiveliterature.org/J/index.php The character is female, but I'm ok with cross casting if you are.
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February 2nd, 2010
09:47 pm - Mad Libs time
I have ganked this contest from Topless Robot, so blame them.
I need the following. The best collection in my opinion will be inserted into the horrible slash fan fic I shall present here tomorrow.
Fictional Male Character 1:
Fictional Male Character 2:
Nickname:
Object:
Different Object:
Adjective:
Animal:
Shameful admission:
Liquid:
Beloved Cartoon Character:
Good luck. Contest closes noon on Wednesday.
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05:06 pm - My Wife Sent Me This
Presenting fan fic so bad it made my UPS die and shut off my computer. No, really.
http://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/08/fan_fiction_friday_hogwarts_and_a_giant_squid_in_f.php
I can only aspire to this level of wrong in Slash. Text NSFW.
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February 1st, 2010
09:44 am - You asked for it
You will find below a sample of Severus Snape's character sheet from Slash. It is NOT SAFE FOR WORK.
( It will also make you go 'ew' )
As a bonus, here is a more explicit one from Xander.
( NOT SAFE FOR WORK OR SANITY )
Hope it was good for you.
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January 25th, 2010
11:55 am - Lullaby of Broadway State of the Game
The following letter was sent to all registered and confirmed players of LoB 3. If you think you have been registered or confirmed for LoB 3 and didn't get this e-mail directly, please contact me immediately. Thanks!
Lullaby of Broadway State of the Game
( Long Text Is Long - Summary: LoB 3 is full. )
Cast/NPCs
We still need Cast/NPCs. It costs $25 to cast for the weekend, or $35 to cast on Saturday only. Cast/NPCs will get a series of smaller, less fulfilling characters over the course of the game and will still be able to attend all game functions, such as the dances on Friday and Saturday night.
Fundraising Events
Episode 2 of LoB lost money. Episode 3 will also lose money. Those are the fact. So, to offset that, we will be having a series of fundraising events this year, likely once a month. They will all be held at my house in Sterling, Virginia.
The first event is the “First and Last Annual BreaKey Tournament” which will be held Sunday, February 21 from 1 PM until 6 PM. It will NOT include lunch or dinner, but will have snacks and soda. The suggested donation is $5.00 plus a snack and 2 litre bottle of soda to share. J The winner of the tournament will get $2 for everyone who provides at least the suggested donation. No experience with BreaKey is needed to play. The tournament will be written up as a session report for BoardGameGeek. If you are interested in participating, please drop me an e-mail so I know
For more information about BreaKey, check out: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/18044/breakey
Intercon J Plug
We will still have a plug at Intercon J, but it is taking a back seat to me getting my game written for Intercon J. Unlike LoB, where I can write a 4-8 page character sheet in 3 days, it’s taking me a week to write each character sheet for my Intercon game, mostly because I have to take long breaks while writing to keep from screaming or breaking down and sobbing. It is going to be a *GREAT* game.
Christmas Trees
As you are busy packing up the holiday ornaments, don’t forget that LoB is giving an at the door $5 discount to anyone who brings a tree with stand that we can use during the game to make the woods. You get the discount whether or not we use the tree.
Ok, that’s it. Thanks for signing up for Lullaby of Broadway and I hope to see you all soon!
Mike
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January 20th, 2010
January 15th, 2010
11:03 am - Halfway there
I will be halfway done Slash when I finish Hermione's character sheet tonight or Sunday. To celebrate, here is an excerpt.
“Sigh,” sighed Hermione. “Sigh” she sighed again. When will Harry and Ron learn to trust Professor Dumbledore? “Sigh.” If Professor Dumbledore trusts Professor Snape, then that means that Professor Snape is trustworthy. Period. Why must her friends be so suspicious? “Sigh.”
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January 8th, 2010
11:41 pm - I have been casted
I have received the part of Old Man Strong in Urinetown. I have not heard back from the Producers folks, which is unsurprising since callbacks are this weekend. I expect to hear either that they want me as ensemble or they do not need me next week. Either way, I'll stick with Urinetown.
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January 4th, 2010
03:30 pm - Brains.... Brains....
The Screaming Puppets are rising from the dead and we will have a show Saturday night - January 30 at 8pm at the Laurel Mill Playhouse.
http://www.laurelmillplayhouse.org/
See you there!
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09:53 am - New Free From Interactivities Ink
Now that we have a new year and I again have a backlog of free downloadable games...
Presenting the totally free print and play download for January:
The Books of Magic, a 24 card set fan based expansion for Dominion.
Enjoy!
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January 1st, 2010
11:40 am - Happy New Year!
As a special new years "gift," I present the opening paragraph from Scotty's character sheet from Slash. He's the last of the Star Trek crew. Next up to mangle is Harry Potter!
All was calm in the Engine room. The warp nacelles were purring like kittens who had just ingested a bowl of warm milk. Each. Each engine was its own kitten and each kitten had its own bowl of warm milk. And the kittens were purring, purring like the warp nacelles. In the engine room. There were no kittens in the engine room, just warp nacelles and warm milk. Well, there wasn’t actually warm milk in the warp nacelles. But there would be. If they were kittens. Because the kittens would have eaten the warm milk and then the warm milk would be in the kittens. And then the kittens would purr. Just like the warp nacelles. Purr, that is, not eat warm milk. Warp nacelles don’t eat milk, warm or otherwise. That would just be stupid.
Enjoy!
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December 29th, 2009
11:06 am - The adventures of Sir M in the Jungles of Tikal
There is a website called boardgame geek. I have started a monthly challenge on that website where I will play a game and write a session report in the style requested. This month's game was Tikal and the style was "historical adventure."
Here is the session report: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/477532/the-adventures-of-sir-m-in-the-jungles-of-tikal
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December 28th, 2009
09:43 am - Pithy Observations About Yesterday
I went ice skating for the first time in about twenty years yesterday.
For those of you who have never been, imagine trying to navigate a frictionless surface with a constantly changing obstical course in front of you. I only fell twice!
There are three types of people who ice skate: people who don't know what they're doing and flail around randomly and fall directly in front of you, people who do know what they're doing and show off so that they fall directly in front of you, and little kids*.
It was fun, but I think I need to work on my center of gravity before I try again.
*kids fall everywhere!
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December 26th, 2009
12:15 pm - Lullaby of Broadway News
It's been a while since I updated about LoB, mainly because after settling on the characters and shows, I've taken a break from the game until next year.
Of course, "taking a break" for me means only working on it a few hours a week instead of a few hours a day. Plotting begins in earnest in January, though, so I only have another week of "vacation." (Vacation means working on Slash and my next release for The Game Crafter, oh and playing lots of Dominion online).
First off, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) aries_walker sent me a trio of CDs of pictures from the first game. I've been busy putting them up on the web. You can see the first set here: http://www.interactivitiesink.com/larps/broadway/photos.pl?folder=11
Secondly, we've hit over 50 players. 53 to be exact. This means we have 8 unfilled characters. And I haven't even done the next push for players. If we fill before Intercon J, I'll do some sort of nice bonus for the players. I have no idea what yet, and am open to suggestions. If we overflow, I may be willing to add up to four of the characters who were last on the chopping block; they will likely all be female since we already have more female players than we do female characters.
Thirdly, I have successfully negotiated with Dan Gillespie and we will once again have live musicians at the game for the Friday night ball. The ball will last for about an hour and a half. There will be some sort of instructions before the ball, and possible some rehearsals before the game. That's up to Dan though.
Finally, I have an interesting quandary. I expect LoB 3 to lose about $2,000. This is partially loss carried over from the second episode, and partially loss I estimate for the third episode. The first episode made some money, but that all went into the loss for the second episode; I underestimated the costs of the catered dinner. The third episode will not have a catered dinner. I was thinking of holding small fund raising larplets in my basement to cover the cost. These would mostly be games I have easy access to (the Miskatonic trilogy, Mary Celeste, Marin County, Tempus Frangit, Road Not Taken, Colonel Rawhide, and so forth). Would people be interested in playing these games? They would be on Saturday nights or Sunday afternoons, would be $10-$25 depending on the game, and would not include food. Would people be interested?
Anyway, have a good New Years.
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December 24th, 2009
10:02 am - Merry Slash
I have started on the next character sheet. I really need to pick up on these. I'm gonna try to get three done this weekend and another three next weekend. That should get me back on track.
In any case, here is another paragraph to share. I figure I'll keep posting samples of characters from Slash until my demands are met. Again, this sample is safe for work. I'll see what I can do about posting the NSFW stuff later, but besides being really horrible it contains game spoilers.
Stardate 2258.6 .
Lieutenant Spock was disquieted. He was annoyed at the disquiet, and was unhappy with being annoyed. He should not have to deal with these distracting emotions, and that bothered him. Being a Vulcan, he should not have emotions at all, but his half-human heritage had a horrible way of creeping up on him when he least wanted it. And that was disgruntling. But perhaps there was more at work here which he had not yet realized or admitted to himself. Something was wrong. And that troubled him.
I don't think this one is as wretched as the James Kirk one, but it does get its point across nicely.
Edit: I just had to read the Wikipedia entry for Pon Farr. Shudder. It was enlightening though as it gave more examples from fan fiction than it did from cannon.
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December 21st, 2009
09:54 am - Sigh
Made it to work safe and sound. Had to finish digging out the car this morning. They haven't plowed our court yet, so I had to dig a trench from my already excavated car to the parts of the court tamped down by the other drivers. I'm sure they'll plow the court today, leaving me a wall of snow and ice between the court and my driveway.
Roads were ok in general. Didn't see a lot of abandoned cars.
L was nice enough to make me a sandwich for lunch, but I left my lunch at home so I have have to brave the roads again mid day. I knew I'd have to go out today anyway. We ran out of diet coke at around noon yesterday. That means I went though six litres in a day and a half. Wow.
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