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Con Chair Outreach Team ThanksforcomingtoInterconD!HaveyouhadthismuchfunLARPingbefore?Ifso,we’vedoneourjob.Thisyear,Dstands Tim “Teem” Lasko Alex Bradley for Déjà Vu . Our previous conventions have had so many great LARPs that so many people wanted to play that by far the Anna Bradley biggestcommentwegetis“WhenwillXrunLARPYagain?”I’veaskedthatquestionmyselfmorethanonce.So,thisyear, New England Interactive weaskedGMswho’verunfantasticLARPsatpastconventionstoconsiderbringingthembackagainforanencoreatInterconD. Literature Board Hotel Liaison ButtherearealsoplentyofnewLARPsdebutinghereatInterconD!Andwe’resurethattheywillbereceivedwiththesame Chad Bergeron David Clarkson David Clarkson " enthusiasm. Intercon is not only about playing LARPs but also meeting other LARPers. This convention draws players and Jeff Diewald Cheryl Knoepler " LARPs from around the country and even Europe. There are representatives and information from several different LARP Tim “Teem” Lasko Vendor Liaison Chris Amherst groups,ongoingLARPcampaignsandotherconventionsthatyou’llwanttocheckout.We’rehavingbothaFridaynightand Treasurer SaturdaynightsocialeventthisyeartogiveyouthechancetocatchupwithyourfellowLARPersormeetthemforthefirst Michael McAfee T-Shirt & Artwork Design time.IfthisisyourfirstIntercon,orevenyourfirsttimeLARPing,Ihopeyouhavesomuchfunthatyou’llwanttotellyour Susan Giusto friends and bring them next year. Game Bid Chair & Schedule Anita Szostak I want to thank all of the people who’ve done so much for Intercon D: the GMs who created the many fine LARPs running Jeff Diewald Dance Party DJs here,theConventionCommittee(ConCom)whohavegiventheirtimeandeffortsincethelastconvention,theConSuiteteam for their work in the last few weeks and the on-site staff and volunteers who are keeping things running smoothly and Game Bid Committee Stephanie Olmstead-Dean running other events. Thanks to your efforts, this is going to be a great weekend of fun. (And if you have a some time to Alex Bradley Anna Bradley Terilee Edward-Hewitt " help out, drop by the Operations desk to see if any volunteers are needed.) Chad Bergeron David Clarkson " People Whose Help Was Invaluable Josh “blee” Rachlin " Mark Waks Intercon D is the latest of a long line of all-LARP conventions descended from the original SILicon conventions, run by the Lynn Anslow " James Edward-Hewitt SocietyforInteractiveLiterature(SIL),andtheearlyInterconconventions,runbytheInteractiveLiteratureFoundation(ILF). GM Liaison Gordon Olmstead-Dean " Stephanie Olmstead-Dean This is the fourth convention organized by New England Interactive Literature (NEIL), with help from the Live Action Josh “blee” Rachlin Charley Sumner " Conor Walsh Roleplayers Association (LARPA), and one which we hope will the best Intercon yet. NEIL also exists to help promote LARP in this area and we are always interested in what more we can do. Head of Operations, Muse Master of the Cups Susan Giusto Next year, Intercon E comes to Chelmsford. Dave Clarkson, our next Con Chair, is already planning for the next convention Chad Bergeron andwealwaysneedmorevolunteerstoworkduringtheyearleadinguptotheconventionandideastomakeInterconeven Webmaster better. Come talk to Dave, another staff member or myself to find out about how you can help. Barry Tannenbaum Head of Con Suite Thanks for coming to LARP with us this weekend! I hope you’ll have a great time. Noah Abrahams Webminions Tim “Teem” Lasko Con Suite Cooks and Elves Jeff Diewald Con Chair for Intercon D Christine Brown " Mike Galvin Susan Giusto New England Interactive Literature Susan Giusto Troll " Program Book Design Didi Tuttle " Conor Walsh Anita Szostak 2 3 SATUR DAY 3. 13.04 GAME SCHEDULE Time Slot I II III IV V VI VII 09:00 Lost in the - 10:00 Stacks Multiplied Chelmsford, 10:00 Grimm FRIDAY 3. 12.04 - A Murder Three Loyalties: ExecutiveBoardroom, Return to 11:00 Tales Drawing Room Watership Time Slot I II III IV V VI VII Mystery Nations the Vor Heritage Down 11:00 Hawthorne Merrimack Game Humans vs. The King’s - A &B Salon C 12:00 Monsters: Cow 18:00 Unplanned Opening Ceremonies Salon B - Vacation Day! 19:00 12:00 Apollo ’79 Part One Salon B & C - ExecutiveBoardroom Hawthorne 13:00 Salon A 13:00 and 19:00 GET IN TO - Carlisle HAVE LUNCH IN THE CONSUITE... - 14:00 20:00 COSTUME Wretched 14:00 (one hour 20:00 House Grand - lunch break) - Snaf Heimdall’s Road to Hive of 15:00 21:00 on the Hill Barad-Wath Scum and Guignol University Children Impunity Byrne’s Bane The Reality Heritage A & B, Merrimack Villainy Chelmsford 15:00 Tango 21:00 Salon C Concord Hawthorne - Revisited - - Middlesex Salon B, 16:00 Elfwhere Csh’taa METEOR! Chelmsford, 22:00 Drawing Room The Captain’s 16:00 Merrimack Middlesex Heritage A & B Revenge Executive 22:00 - Boardroom, - 17:00 Hawthorne 23:00 Drawing Room 17:00 23:00 - The School for - Note: 18:00 Young Women 00:00 The S.H.A.D.E. Rooms may be Revenge at the Specializing in Drawing Room 18:00 the Arts of 00:00 Asylum subject to change - Broken Nose Bar BUY SOME - Salon B & C at the last minute, 19:00 Merrimack Grace and 01:00 Friday Night Coffeehouse RAFFLE Maidenly EAT DINNER AT THE CONSUITE... check at Ops 19:00 BR EATHE 01:00 Merrimack - TICK ETS Submission - for details 20:00 DEEP 02:00 DR EAM Salon B & C 20:00 (one hour 02:00 OF LARP - - SNO RE 21:00 dinner break) 03:00 21:00 Evermore: GET - Long, Cold, Faerie Tales 22:00 V for Victory Elfwhere OPS NEEDS YOU Night from the READY 22:00 Merrimack Dark Side Merrimack FOR THE Running this convention requires a lot of effort throughout the weekend. If you find yourself with free time, or if you can - Heritage A & B 23:00 Hawthorne DANCE. Divus Ex: helpsetupbeforeyournextgamebegins,pleasestopbytheOpsDesk,atthetopofthemainstairs,nexttoRegistration. Greece 23:00 Many hands make light work! - Middlesex 00:00 00:00 ENJOYING THE CON ? SIGN UP FOR INTERCON E NOW. - Intercon E will be held March 4-6, 2005 in the lovely Chelmsford Radisson (the very same hotel you’re at now) with all 01:00 The S.H.A.D.E. Generation 01:00 The Eclectic Dance Mix Party Salon C theatmosphere,foodandfunyou’reexperiencingthisweekendhereatInterconDandthensome.Whynotsaveyourselfa - Gap 02:00 Merrimack headacheandsignupnowattheRegistrationdesk?InterconEmembershipsarecurrentlyonly$20!Ifyouforgettosignup Heritage A & B this weekend, register online at www.interactiveliterature.org/E /, and keep checking back for games and announcements. 02:00 Note: Rooms may be subject - to change at the last minute, 4 04:00 check at Ops for details SUN DAY 3. 14.04 Time Slot I II III IV V VI VII TABLETOP GAMING 09:00 - HAVE BR EAK FAST... Intercon 10:00 Sunday 10:00 Revenge at the Breakfast - Broken Nose Bar Independence Bar Note: ForarelaxingtimewithfriendswhenyouaretakingabreakbetweenLARPs,InterconDwillhavetabletop 11:00 Merrimack Rooms may be gaming available all weekend in the Con Suite outside of the Hawthorne Foyer. There will be a large col - 11:00 Revenge at the The League of subject to change Broken Nose Bar - City Council of Extraordinary It’s Just a CHECK at the last minute, lection of card and board games that can be signed out. Please feel free to play a game and relax with 12:00 Merrimack OUT OF Hound’s Teeth Breakfast Game check at Ops The King’s YOUR BUY MORE Middlesex Cereals Heritage A & B your friends during down time. Please treat the games well as they are lent to us by members of our Unplanned ROOM RAFFLE for details 12:00 Vacation Merrimack - TICKETS ConCom for your use. 13:00 Part Two DrawingRoom, ExecutiveBoardroom 13:00 Closing Ceremonies and Shameless Plugs - 14:00 Salon A, B & C 14:00 - GO TO THE DEAD DOG... 15:00

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FOOD.. THE EATING CHARACTER SHEET You will be playing the part of a Con Attendee, and as is natural for any attendee, you’ll be getting hungry at certain points in time. Whether or notyouwishtoplaythispartasanomnivoreisentirelyuptoyou.Your plot mostly centers around delicious meals that are prepared for you by other attendees of the con, which you should partake in at appointed times,accordingtoyourattachedbluesheets,andatanyothertimes,as you see fit. You should “be yourself” while eating, unless an additional character sheet says otherwise. The main action in this game should be confinedtotheuppermezzaninediningarea,soasnotto“dribbleonthe mundanes.” There is no combat in this game. 6 HOTEL LAYOUT

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Centered Holistic Bodywork A Murder Mystery Apollo '79 Mar-Vista Enterprises LLC http://www.livecentered.com/ Mark Dobson by Don Ross, Mike Romatelli, Lee Rosenberg http://www.trollbait.com/ [email protected] “AMurderMystery”isagamefor10-20playerswhotake On July 11, 1979, the SKYLAB space station fell to earth, [email protected] Julie Copp, M.Ed., LMT therolesofclichédmurdermysterycharactersinvolvedin after spending over five years in orbit as an abandoned derelict, just another piece of flotsam in space. Cathy Preble 41 North Road Suite 204 a cliché-filled murder mystery. The game is tongue-in- Sellinggamesofalltypes,gamingaccessories,LARPacces - Bedford, MA 01730 cheek, and rules-lite, emphasizing fun role-playing and It didn’t have to. sories including phys reps, dice, pouches and other items, 781-275-3888 witsoverconflict,whileeveryonetriestosolvethemurder mystery before the police can arrive and dig too deeply andtakingreservationsforourLARP,Wayfarer’sRest. Offering Holistic Bodywork, Massage Therapy and Reiki. into secrets they’d rather weren’t revealed. Barad-Wath by Simon Deveau ThefortressofBarad-WathinMordorisnearingcompletion when construction runs into a few snags: theft, murder, By J Asylum sabotage,andlabordisputes.Thehumans,orcsandtrolls that form the construction team must work hard to http://www.woolycat.net/ Margaret Landreth, Anandi Gandalfi resolve the problems before their Nazgul master returns Jeanine Swick The descent into madness is a story that the inmates on or bad things will happen. [email protected] Ward C of the Remsford Mental Health facility can tell, 113 Townsend Harbor Rd. but be forewarned that the language of the insane is Lunenburg, MA 01462 often hard to sort through. Delusions, hallucinations, Byrne’s Bane Revisited - compulsions, multiple personalities and memory loss 978-582-7351 The Captain’s Revenge have a way of shrouding reality. But don’t worry. As the NERO Mass/Ravenholt Staff Selling garb, cloaks, hoods, shirts, pants, harem outfits, inmates of Ward C will tell you, reality is an arguable and accessories. This adventure takes place on the world of Tyrra, of the concept, and fact and fiction are more interwoven than NERO™ International Game System, a high fantasy boffer you might think. LARP. Create a character (fighter, scholar, templar, rogue) Atlas Adventures and join us in solving the mystery of the (un)dead Cap’n Razzor,killedbutoneyearagoontheislandofByrne’sBane. Interactivities Ink http://www.larp.com/atlas [email protected] http://www.interactivitiesink.com/ Atlas Adventures City Council of Hound’s Teeth [email protected] Susan Weiner c/o The Adventurer's Outlet Mike Young The Hound’s Teeth City Council is meeting tonight, and Offering Rules To Live By, ready-to-run LARPs, Video 167 Forbush Mill Road the whole town is there. Between zombies in the fields, Games,andthenow-famousBi-CubicRandomizer.Rules Bolton, MA 01740 adventurerswhowanttheirlaw-breakingparty-member ToLiveByisasystemfordevelopingyourownliveaction Atlas Adventures is a live action role-playing game of returned, a loose mage’s apprentice playing pranks, roleplaying games. high adventure, exploration, and mystery set in 1911 everyone has a complaint. A horde LARP based on every Morocco, in a familiar yet fictional version of our world. tabletop fantasy city council meeting. 10 11 Csh’taa Evermore: Grimm Tales Intercon Sunday Breakfast Suzanne Wayner, Jeannie Whited Faerie Tales From the Dark Side Will Wagner David Clarkson, the Hotel Staff Fairy Tales characters are secretly living in Victorian ComeenjoyabuffetbreakfastwithallyourInterconfriends. Astarasbrightasanyamongtheheavens,theexploration Chad Brinkley, Marc Blumberg ship embodied the dreams of the twin planets’ peoples. London.Withalltherecentmurdersoccurringinthearea, It’s free with the complementary breakfast vouchers that Then it all began. First, lost communication. Then the In the cracks of the world, through which the forgotten could one of them be the killer? Can the Fables solve the come with your room. Costuming is optional; clothing is mutiny. The ship, damaged. Now, pausing for breath, the dreamsandforsakenplacesfall,thelunaticsandoutcasts crimes before the “normals” discover their existence? It’s not. There will be no combat and no mechanics. The buffet little ship waits for the planets and stars to be right have founded the last magical kingdom in the world – a time to draw together, and yet some see this as a way linewillbesimulatedbyabuffetline. before making the last jump home. Evermore. It was once a place of limitless potential, but to bid for power and overthrow the obviously ineffective now the magic seeps away and the monsters prey openly regime of King Henry, the Frog King. Csh’taa is a game of alien politics, intrigue, and mystery on the unwary. Despite this decay, her majesty – the It’s Just a Game inspired by CJ Cherryh’s works, but is not based in them. Queen ofRags–insistsonholdingthetraditionalBeltane Christopher Buck festival.AndsoitisthatthedenizensofEvermoregather Heimdall’s Children Inevery[Millennium]gamesinceeachrepresentativehas foranightofintrigue,romance,andmurderintherealm’s Eric Smith, Scott Mohnkern come with a shopping list: trade agreements, mutual 13th hour. A LARP inspired by the works of Neil Gaiman. Divus Ex: Greece with additions by Brett Bakke protectionpacts,culturalexchanges,technologytransfers, Trey Reilly, Paul Manjourides Heimdall’sChildrenisagameofearlyIcelandintheWorld colonizationarrangements,etc.AteveryGame,thefateof You gaze down upon Greece from your home on Mt. of Darkness. Come join Norsemen, Norsewomen and the the player’s world for the next millennium is driven by Olympus. You alter the destinies of men, control the Blood Chosen of Odin as they try to survive the winter, the arrangements made at the Games. elements, crush empires on a whim. Mortals build altars Generation Gap hunger,bloodfeudsandotherthings.NOTE:Mostcharacters -Robert Civil Dowager from the Introduction to The and temples in your name, lie prostrate before you, and Will Wagner, Andy Kirschbaum are NOT vampires. obey your every word. You are a god. Think it’s all nectar ConvincedbysomeoftherecentlyembracedKindredthat Coming of the Dragons, the First Game, and the End of and ambrosia up here? Think again. theyaremissingoutwiththeirlackofunderstandingand the Grand Diaspora distrust of technology, a few of the leaders in the House on the Hill Camarillahaveconvincedtheotherstoendorsethisproj - Brian Williams, AJ Smith ect. And so this radical experiment has been proposed: A Long, Cold, Night Elfwhere Stranded in a hotel for the evening! How hard can that Alex Newman, Beth Kelly by Andy Kirschbaum small group of young and inexperienced vampires have be? Well that depends on who the other guests are, A weekend at a Utah ski lodge turns into a nightmare been given control of a small town in the midwestern doesn’tit?Playinthe1924or2004versionofthegame. TheperfectionofFaerieLandisshatteredwhenHighKing whenablackout,anunexpectedblizzard,andaman-eating United States. They will be responsible for controlling Theeventsofthepastcaninfluencethefuture,butcanthe Oberon disappears without any warning or explanation. monster come together to trap the guests and staff TheLandcannotbewithoutaruler,soallthePrincesand the mortals in their herd. They will protect the future influence the past? Masquerade. They will keep the Traditions. And if they inside. But is what’s outside worse than the horrors LordsoftheSidhehavecometotheHighKing’sPalaceto inside the lodge? chooseanewruler.ComejoinusForEverAndADay(orat fail, they will die and the town will be wiped from the least for four hours) in that most magical, wondrous, face of the earth. Humans vs. Monsters: Cow Day! treacherous and intrigue-filled land of Faerie. When all by Mike Young Lost in the Stacks yourDreamscometrue,canyourNightmaresbefarbehind? The kingdom of Peternia has developed a unique way of by Mike Young dealingwithcriminals:dressthemuplikecowsandsend Grand Guignol them to run through a forest full of hungry trolls and LostintheStacksisagameofOccultAdventuresetinthe Paul Dwyer goblins. If they can get through the forest without being DarkSummoningsUniverse.Threestudentsareattempting Friday Night Coffeehouse to finish a last minute research project, when suddenly Stephanie Olmstead-Dean Grand Guignol is an extreme recreation of the early 20 th eaten,theyhaveearnedtheirfreedom.Thisgamerecreates centuryParisiantheaterofshockandhorror;playersmust that fateful day. some of them are elsewhere. And there is ...something... Come to the Intercon coffee shop and hang out with your inthelibrarythatshouldn’tbe.Cantheintrepidstudents fellow LARPers, listen to cool music, wear a beret and be responsible for their own mental and emotional well-being to participate. Thiswillbealivecombatgame.Someplayersmustdress put things to right in time to stop a full scale invasion of pretend you’re a beatnik and even have some coffee. as cows. our universe? 13 1 Return to Watership Down The Eclectic Dance Mix Party METEOR! Terilee Edwards-Hewitt The King’s Unplanned Vacation Craig Perko Matthew Ender, Bess Libby Come dance to the music of the 40s and beyond! Let the Sharon MacFarlane Immerse yourself in the world of Watership Down as the NewYork,1987.Perhapsnotasyourememberit,butasit music move you, or pass along a request for your favorite Leprechauns and Fairies hold each other’s treasures rabbits face their greatest challenges since the founding truly was: a place of meteors, ninja, mafia, uncontrolled tune.Cometothedancepartythat’srockedBostonLARPers hostage. Choose a side and let the fun begin. ofthewarren,withouttheirbelovedHazel-rahtorelyon. hackers, cops on the edge, and cyborgs. A place where at every northern Intercon. There’s a reason that there are what you don’t know can most definitely hurt you, or at peoplestilldancingat4AMonSundayatIntercon! least mock you with nasty, villainous laughter! METEOR! isintendedforabout20players,allplayingclassicmovie Revenge at the Broken Nose Bar The League of characters such as Indiana Jones, John Bigboote, Ash, The Reality Tango Extraordinary Breakfast Cereals Robocop and many other unforgettable and historically Sharon MacFarlan, Janet Brennan, Don Walsh John Kammer accurate roles. Being a child of the eighties is not Catherine Preble, Brian Preble Blood would run if we didn’t hammer out some kind of Join Captain Crunch as he leads Quisp, Count Chocula, required: anyone willing to over-act and take chaos in Deery Rosebud tries to make amends for all the trouble ‘treaty,’ the bosses called it... stride will feel at home with METEOR! she caused last year at the Broken Nose Bar. But will Tony the Tiger and a host of others from the League of her solution create more problems for the owners Only we can undo the damage that’s being done here... Extraordinary Breakfast Cereals in search of the missing BrigadierGeneralMillsandultimatelyseekstoapprehend and patrons? We’restaringeachotherdowninthislonelylittleflophouse, a cereal killer. wondering who will speak first, or just pull out a heater Multiplied Loyalties: the Vor Game. and blow someone away... Anna Bradley, Alex Bradley, David Kapell Road to Impunity WhatisthatquoteIreadonce?“Magicandmysteryareso with consultations of Mark Waks closelyinterwoventhatitishardtotellwhereoneleaves The School for Young Women Politics, power games and personal vendettas are the Ken Clary, Peter Litwack, William Lowenthal off, and the other begins.” Specializing in the Arts of Grace and order of the day when visiting dignitaries arrive on The Boss of Springfield is dead. Maidenly Submission Barrayar to celebrate the birth of the royal heir. With the Thedeadlineforaccordstealsominouslycloser,whilethe His final request was to be buried in his birthplace of powerbrokersdealinmorethanmerecriminalenterprise. Kreg Segall, Eric Wirtannen, Don Ross dignitaries arrive the usual (and some not so usual) Impunity, Illinois, now a ghost town. All persons of intrigues and dangers. Whose side are you on? Will you What could they be up to and what will it mean to the It is the night before the finishing school girls are due to importfromSpringfieldhavemadetheirwaytoImpunity future of organized crime, and the world at large? bewedtoabunchofawful,awful,blotchyoldrichguys, side with Imperial security? Will you follow the for the Boss’s wake and funeral, and now many of them Vorkosigan family’s lead? Or will you make your own asismandatoryforallgraduatesofthe“SchoolforYoung have headed back. Goodfellas meets The Shadow and... I could tell you the Women Specializing in the Arts of Grace and Maidenly stand and do what YOU think is right? As usual not rest, but then I’d have to kill you. everything is as it seems and not everyone is who they A few remain to attend to some important business. Submission.”Perhapstheswashbucklersandpiratesfrom say, but if you stay alert you just may come out on top. the two rival fencing schools (The Scarlet Pimpernel’s The S.H.A.D.E. School of Fencing and Fair Play, and the Dead Pirate by Cathy Raymond Roberts’ School of Yar!) can rescue these girls from a fate Snaf University The S.H.A.D.E. (Society for Hardened Adventurers: Daring worse than death. Ops Track Josh Marcus, Nat Budin, Josh Rachlin, Expeditions) is a “dare” organization: see how much you Chad Bergeron Jon Sagotsky, Sam Hariton can get away with before the administration of St. Augustine’s Preparatory School catches you. All semester Like Intercon? Got a few hours to spare? Sign up for the 1996-justsoutheastofInverness,Scotland.Thehighly- you’vefulfilledtheir“missions,”butyouabsolutelymust V for Victory Ops Track at Intercon D, and help make this the best Con regarded technical college Snaf University is hosting a survive the last one of the semester: being locked in the by Ben Llewellyn possible. We need volunteers to help with the prospective students’ summer open house. But a few key “haunted” attic with the other six remaining members. In times of war, we all do things we’ll regret later. Registration Table, ConSuite, GM support and whatever people are mysteriously gone. And what’s with all those Thelastonetoleaveaftertwohoursisthetrue“survivor” exciting and interesting jobs come up. Welcome to later. pigs running around... ? and gets all bragging rights. 14 15 1 Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy Three Nations Charles Leiserson Jr, Ariel Segall, Shaughn Bryant, Mike Galvin, Craig Perko, Brian Sniffen GM AND STAFF BIOS Mike Wixon, Conor Walsh, Noah Abrahams Itistheendofanage.TheGalacticRepublicisfalling,and War. War is Hell. Diplomacy is worse. When the threat of nooneknowswhatwillreplaceit.OnTatooine,havenfor Mutually Assured Destruction becomes dangerously smugglers and crime lords, the uncertain times have Noah “Drakmar” Abrahams probable, Three Nations meet to discuss terms for peace. brought refugees, spies, and secrets to the Mos Eisley Three Nations, Head of ConSuite FromthesamepeoplethatbroughtyouCareBears:Callof spaceport to join the rest of the scum. Noah was born as Zephyl Yardhammer to a family of Cthulhu and FUNKANOMICON comes an elaborate parody oversized Caymans, living in Rhode Island. It wasn’t until of the time honored Peace Summit LARP. Wretched Hive is an old-style Star Wars game set 20 years before Episode IV. thetragic“livingchair”incidentthathebecameknownas Drakmar, and started gaming. That was about 15 years ago, and he’s still going strong. You may remember some ofhisworkfrom“TheRedSunTrilogy,”“HowtoDrowna Man with Chili” at Intercon B, and the feature film “Rabies: Fun but Deadly.” ForthisparticularCon,NoahwillbeChairoftheConSuite (not the Chili Suite) and a contributing writer to “The Three Nations.” If he gets off his butt in time, there may be a surprise or two, for YOU.

Alex Bradley Multiplied Loyalties: the Vor Game, Game Bid Committee, Outreach Team Alex Bradley dislikes writing this sort of miniature Live Action Role Playing in the Year 1911 biography that gets included by tradition but doesn’t really tell you anything. Perhaps if he had run more than fivegameshewouldwaxlyricalabouthisglorioushistory. Join the exploration of the mysterious island Probably not. of Puerto de Maio just of the coast of Africa. Riches and rewards for the brave at heart. He might feel obligated to tell you all about his work on theBidCommittee,OutreachCoordination,Miscellaneous OOG: Atlas is a boffer style live Action Role Playing game ConCom work... no, really, I don’t. If you’re actually that runs 4 weekends a year in Sharon, MA. Minimum Christopher Amherst player age is 18. For more information, stop by our table fascinated by all that, sod off, it’s deathly boring stuff Vendor Liaison at Intercon or visit our website: www.larp.com/atlas. and I’d rather get back to gaming. Anna “TPau” Bradley At Intercon, make sure you stop by and test your skill at Multiplied Loyalties: the Vor Game, our Free shooting gallery and see our wide selection of Saif Ansari LARP guns, boffer weapons and equipment. Game Bid Committee, Outreach Team The S.H.A.D.E. Mu 17 Janet Brennan Chad “Laurion” Bergeron David “Prince0DC” Clarkson Adrienne Amerman The Reality Tango President of LARPA, NEIL Board Member, Apollo ’79 Head of Operations, Game Bid Committee, Janet was raised by French Nuns in a small backwater NEIL Board Member, Ops Track, Master of Cups Game Bid Committee, Hotel Liaison, Intercon-E Adrienne Amerman started gaming in 1992 with the townontheBendInTheRiver.Muchtotheirdismay,even Con Chair, Intercon Sunday Breakfast This bio is a Mad Lib. Fun for you and your friends. If you thestrongestadmonitionsofdoomanddestructioncouldnot beginning of what was to become XPI Productions. After David began LARPing in the “good ole days” before the areunfamiliarwithMadLibs,pleasefindChadandhewill stop her from entering the Gaming World in her sophomore marrying Shane Amerman and moving to Baltimore area advancedindexcardtechnologyoftoday.Hestartedwith beat you over the head with a/an (adj)______year,whenunwittinglyshechoseforherveryfirstbeau... shebecameinvolvedwiththeLARPA(thentheILF)crowd the Society for Interactive Literature at their ReKon-1d (noun)______. a gamer geek. When she came of age and the Nuns could andwaswooedbacktothegamingfoldwhensheplayed game in New Jersey, and he blames them to this day for donomoretosaveordamnhersoulsheventuredforthto in the Full Length Theatre Style game, “Drink Deep” and Chad has been LARPing for (number)____ years. It all misguiding him in his youthful years. Gordon Olmstead-Dean’s “Mersienne Medieval Fantasy started way back when he was a (noun)______in the Great Urban Sprawl at the center of the State, where Campaign.” Her first campaign effort was “Gold Bug” for college. Some friends of his invited him to sign up for a for nigh on to a handful of years she brought a sinister He went on to serve as the stock villain in many other Mike Young’s “Dark Summonings Campaign.” (noun)_____ called All The (title of a leader)______’s and tragically passionate element to the LARP community versionsoftheReKonphenomenonuntilitsfinalconclusion Men. Since then he has (past tense verb)______in or through her “Boston By Night” chronicle... and continued in the misty years of the early ’90s. After that David Herprojectsincludewritingandproductionof“Callahan’s (noun made into a paste tense verb)______way too to court gamer geeks. In time she was elevated by that continuedparticipatinginLARPingamonghisclosegroup Continuum,” with Shane Amerman and “1920s Cocktail many games. community to the highest honor they could bestow, of friends in the Insmouth-haunted North Shore area Party” with Gordon Olmstead-Dean for Intercon. In assuming the mantle of Presidency of the Science Fiction until the demons at Intercon-A reclaimed the mortgage 2002, she ran “Drink Deeper,” a sequel to “Drink Deep,” Withtheadventof(prefix)______conB,hestartedtaking Society and suffering the moniker Princess Muffin to be on his soul. When he is not LARPing David enjoys most withKateBunting,ScottMohnkernandEricSmith.Shewas a/an (adj)______(noun)_____ in the LARP foreverforgedtoherfate.Buttheseyearswerebrief,and forms of tabletop RPGs including products like Vampire, a Co-Chair of Intercon XVII, and has acted as Con-Suite (noun)______. This is due to his tendency to (verb) like all sweet things drew to an end. When the ugly Real Mage, most products by Steve Jackson Games, AD&D Manager for several Intercons. ______too much. This year (name)______can be World came baying at the gates she fled the Great Urban (versions 1-3), Seventh Sea along with many others. found running Ops. Sprawl to seek her fortunes as a rising Alchemist in the From 2000 to 2003 Adrienne worked with Gordon Big City, returning often to the hallowed halls of years As a participant in many LARPing groups and LARPing Olmstead-Dean as the Primary Writer and GM of the If you have any questions, please talk to (nickname) long past where she lent and lends her experienced hand styles, David seeks to “spread the word” and bring the highly successful “1936: Horror Campaign.” She is currently ______@ (organization)______(punctuation to the running of LARPs; “Babylon 5: Turning Tides,” differing organizations together under the hobby that playing and working as a Supporting Writer for the mark)___ (TLD)______. He can be most frequently “Dark Ages: Bulgaria,” “Etherlines: The Morning After,” they all enjoy. As a self-styled Minister of LARP, you’ll successor “1948: Signals Campaign.” found at (geographic location)______. “AllTheKing’sMen,”“YoungWizardsInLove,”“NapTime,” hearhimsay,“BofferorTheater-Style,MindsEyeTheater “ChicagoByNight...”and,tothisveryday,bearsacertain or Home-Brew, Fantasy or Sci-Fi; we are all playing the fond sentiment for gamer geeks. same sort of game, so le t’s learn from each other’s strengths.” You can find David at his place among the Chad Brinkley check-in desk Ops crew when he is not participating in Marc “Jokeboy” Blumberg Evermore: Faerie Tales From the Dark Side Christopher Buck one of the many great games at Intercon-D, stop by and Evermore: Faerie Tales Chad is a full time student in the school of life with a It’s Just a Game give him your thoughts! From the Dark Side, Asylum graduation date no where in sight. On his days off, he Iwasbornsevenweeksearly,and,truthbetold,Iwasborn Marc is thrilled to be back at Intercon representing the devotes his time to railing against humanity, waltzing in naked. Immaturity might have been the sole reason that I Chicago Crew with not one, but two brand new games. graveyards, and furthering the causes of small, dejected was kept back in first grade: I was nearly two months John Brewer Between ”Evermore: Faerie Tales from the Dark Side” animals(likeGoths).Chadhopestoonedayputanendto youngerthanIwas,andcouldnothandleit.That,andwhile (written and run with Chad Brinkley) and “Asylum” (run METEOR! subculture rivalry, cure all mental illness, dull one half of theteacherwasallforsocialpassing,theprincipalwasnot. Craig’s Red Shirt GM #545, otherwise known as pal, with Margaret Landreth), Marc expects very little love’s razor edge, and have time for a tea break each and down-time this weekend. He is never going to see the Extrapolate,ifyouwill,therestofmylifefromthetheme buddy, hey you, Max, John, Bronzite, that guy, Mr. Evil, everyafternoonat3PM.Inthemeantime,hehassettledfor commander, the Admiral, the arrogant one, and several Ben & Jerry’s factory this way... writingmoderngothicfantasynovelsininteractiveform. of these early experiences: nudity, temporal anomalies and ambiguous social expectations. other names not fit to print. 18 19 Rebecca Corrado Shaughn Bryant Jeff “The Vortex of Chaos” Diewald Mark Dobson Grand Guignol Three Nations Game Bid Committee Chair, Con Scheduler, A Murder Mystery, Barad-Wath Shaughn is best known for his masterwork tabletop NEIL Board Member, Webminion I’moriginallyfromNortheasternMassachusetts,andhave game “Care Bears: Call of Cthulhu.” An avid gamer for Kenny Cox in-sti-ga’tor n. [Lat. instigare] 1. One who urges on, lived most of my life in this area, except for four years manyyears,“ThreeNations”ishisfirstLARPforIntercon. Divus Ex: Greece overseas in the Air Force. I’m currently 37 years old, and Nobody will like it, and he’ll be drummed out of town, goads. 2. One who incites. [Example: Jeff Diewald is one Kenny has been gaming for about 4 years. He earned his oftheinstigatorsbehindthescenesofNEILandIntercon.] haveplayedinandGM’dLARPsforover20years.Mostof but he’ll have the last laugh. Oh yes, he will laugh last. nickname of Kenny by starting in a RPG campaign, and in my LARPs have been for a large group of players in the the second session of the game, the character died. Well, JeffstartedLARPingin1986,whenhewastoldhecouldn’t NorthernMassachusetts,SouthernNewHampshire region. Nat Budin everyone thought he would get discouraged and give up, get into a series of weekend murder mysteries. Having I’ve GM’d LARPs in virtually every genre, including horror, seen one character sheet, he made the mistake of saying Snaf University but sure enough next week he had a new character... science fiction (Next Generation Star Trek), western , which died after another 2 sessions. The next character “How hard could it be to write one of these?” Six weeks murder mystery, fantasy medieval, and even superhero. Described by the “New York Post” as “an enigma of later, “Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll” was ready to run - For the group in our region I helped pioneer LARPing questionable character” and by the “Chicago Sun-Times” Kenny made... for the same game... made it 4 games till theendofthestory.Sincetherewasanewstorystarting and it did, successfully. Several more murder mysteries concepts such as decorating the playing space to suit the as “a unique individual, in the worst possible sense”, Nat followed. “TheTreatyofBerlin”rantwiceatIntercon12.5, game, and games that are more about role-playing and Budin has been missing since last November. Some up...Kennyhadtomakeanothercharacter...thischaracter diedafter4sessions.Atthispointitwasobvious...ifyou several times in Chicago and many other times in various less about goal accomplishment. I emphasize games that speculate that he joined a kibbutz in Scranton, places. “The Idol Hands of Death” has also been on the create an immersive environment and a memorable Pennsylvania, whereas others hotly contend that he is killed him, he would just be back for the next episode... and thus Kenny was born. Since then he was been road on several occasions. experience.Inmylastgame,acontemporaryhorrorsetin living with Elvis Presley in a condominium outside alargeVictorianmanoratopahill,IhadaNaziLaboratory involvedinnumerousLARPsandworkswithWildGazebo In1996,cosmicforcesconspiredtogetJefftoInterconXI. Manchester, UK. Before his disappearance, Budin could in a secret room, a Family Mausoleum in a Graveyard in running some of the best cons on the east coast. He hasn’t missed an Intercon since. At Intercon 11.5, Jeff often be found skulking around the backs of seedy dives, behind the house, a giant spider in a web-filled attic, as was named the con-chair for Intercon the Thirteenth, the hawking Ultima Online and Everquest items. well as a fog-filled basement from which the monster John D’Agosta firstofthemodernBostonIntercons.He’sbeenpartofthe issued forth. A Murder Mystery will be my first con game City Council of Hound’s Teeth staff for every Boston Intercon since then. He’s been on for a group of unfamiliar players, but it was chosen Jeremiah Chaplin 47616D696E6720697320746865206D6F7374 the New England Interactive Literature board as well. because based on it’s original run, I’ve determined it METEOR! 20696D706F7274616E742070617274206F66 wouldbebestsuitedforaconenvironmentwithminimal Craig’s Red Shirt GM #546, otherwise known as 20 6D 79 20 6C 69 66 65 2E 00 He’s written more LARPs since then, on his own, in several thug, soldier, man in suit, Russian bad guy, or simply BYOG efforts, and with TNT Productions. You may have alteration to the play space. random mook. played in one of the five runs of “Collision Imminent!” or Stephanie Olmstead-Dean “You’llBeSafeHere,”orthelatest,a“DarkSummonings” Friday Night Coffeehouse, Dance Party DJ episode called “The Stigmata of Thomas Enfield.” There Paul Dwyer Ken Clary are more coming, but he doesn’t say much about them Grand Guignol Road to Impunity Simon “Slippy” Deveau before they’re done. It may take a bit longer for the next Paul considers himself a surviving Pliocene mammal Fact: Ken is a mammal. Barad-Wath, A Murder Mystery production; he’s been distracted by a wonderful and rather than a gaming dinosaur. He has labored at play Kenalsohaswrittenandrunmanygamesofvarioussizes Glub...glub... beautiful woman of late... since the 1980s with vanguard actions such as “BABUL,” under the auspices of the MIT Assassins’ Guild over the “Some Disassembly Required,” “Small Town 1-3,” “Grand Guignol,”“DeadMan’sParty,”“Flog-A-Thon,”“Shakespeare’s past 6+ years. At Intercon, he ran “Airplane 2” (3 years James Edward-Hewitt ago) and helped run “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Matthew Ender LostPlay”(1997Timonium,MD,and1999Buckinghamshire, Dance Roadie Galaxy: B-Ark” (5 years ago). Return to Watership Down England), “GBF,” “Arden” and “Symposium.” Me write games, “RMS Titanic,” “Anno Domini,” “Arrival,” “Queen of the Hudson,” more. Me play long time; me MattwasfirstexposedtoLARPingby“Coronation”inthe John Corrado rememberageofdinosaurs.Heremeroadieforbigdance. earlydaysofArisia,andhasbeenhookedeversince.Why Brian Ellis Grand Guignol Is good. “Watership Down?” Because everyone loves bunnies! METEOR! 120 21 Susan “nikin” Giusto Terilee Edward-Hewitt John “skykam” Kammer Elizabeth Kelly The Eclectic Dance Mix Party, Dance Party DJ The Muse: Inspiration, sanity and The League of Extraordinary Breakfast Cereals Long, Cold, Night Terilee’s DJ experience began at a time when there were stealth artistic fool for Intercon D John Kammer, self-heralded author of the LARPs: “A Beth Kelly has been LARPing since 1995 when her LPs, not CDs, at a radio station in New Paltz, N.Y. Her DJ T-Shirt & Artwork Design, Webminion Good Day to Die” and “Michael Clambino’s Fundraiser” boyfriend’s friends needed a “shiny happy redhead” for a habit continues to keep her in audio geek gear. Over the I’m small furry and different and NOT from this planet. returns to Intercon with “The League of Extraordinary Vampire the Masquerade game (Beth + bottle of hair dye years, she has DJ’d events ranging from company Xmas Someknowmeasnikin...IhavebeenactingastheMusefor Breakfast Cereals.” Kammer has been writing LARPs for = shiny happy redhead). She found LARPing a wonderful parties to LARPs to science-fiction conventions. Terilee Intercon-Dwhichaffordsmethechancetogiveinspiration well over a year and a half and has run them successfully compromise between gaming and theater, where she has written and produced over 20 LARPs, many with orcounseltothecon-chairwhentoomanymembersofthe at the KWEST, Intercon, Origins, and GenCon game con - could make up her own character, instead of submitting historicalthemes.HerfirstLARPexperiencewasthe“Live agentsofchaossurroundhim.But,Ihaveareallifetoo... ventions. Additionally he has joined the writing team for to a director’s casting whims. Since then she’s PC'd, Ring” game in the mid-1970s and she has played many “ARC”(AlternateRealitiesCampaign). NPC’d,GM’d,donepropdesign,costumedesign,andeven gamessincethen!WhensheisnotLARPing,roleplaying,or IwritesecretandbizarreLARPswiththeTNTgangaswell calmed down a few alarmed campus security guards. beingaDJ,Terileeisanarchaeologist,researcher-writerand as on my own. I dance, costume and help execute special Believing that no idea is too silly for a LARP, Kammer is professorintheWashington,D.C.area. effects extraordinaire. Many of you have played in games threatening to write two sequels to “A Good Day to Die” Several years past her VtM college days, Beth’s new that I have tinkered and blown the mysterious aire of including“ABetterDaytoDie”and“TheBestDaytoDie.” favorite LARP outlet is Intercon. She loves the creativity curiosity towards. Look for those in 2005 and 2007 respectively. Michael Galvin of settings and rules systems, and thanks Alex Newman Scary thing is that I have been writing all my life, having forsaying“SoIdothisLARPthing...youwannaGMwith Three Nations When not actually working, writing games, coaching beenpublishedatthetenderageoftwelve.Thepoemstill me?”SheandAlexhaveputtogethersuchhitsas“Battle Mike is, in fact, a robot specifically constructed by the girls’ basketball, serving as commissioner of a basketball haunts me to this day; especially these lines: league,servingasameetstarterforthecommunityswim Beyond Infinity,” “Long Cold Night,” and “Her Majesty’s nefarious Doctor Bryant to help run LARPs. Currently, he Parlor Adventurers.” is on loan to Iron Chef Noah for various “lifting” and “I am the alpha to everyone’s omega, team,doingyardwork,sleeping,eating,etc.Kammeralso “smashing” based tasks. I am the key to all the mysteries. likes playing in such games as the “1948: Signals” Enter into the darkness forever, campaign and the upcoming “Brassy’s Men.” Before me, hold the light to be free.” Margaret “Mags” Landreth Joseph Gee Asylum Three Nations Eve Jones Andrew Kirschbaum Margaret Landreth, part of the “Chicago Crowd” (though Who needs preparation. Not me. I agreed to do this with Grand Guignol Elfwhere, Grimm Tales, Generation Gap technically from Madison, WI) has brought with her free less than two months notice. I figure I haven’t been to a Andy runs a game store in Chelmsford, MA called 3 Trolls samples of cheese! This is her fifth year at Intercon, and Con of any kind in the last ten years. No better way to Games&Puzzles.Hehasspokenonanumberofpanelsat late Friday night, she will be running her game “Asylum.” break back in than helping to run a game. Darius Kazemi various conventions, and some people actually listened. This is Margaret’s second time running her games at METEOR! Intercon (last year she ran “Geraldine’s Birthday Party.”) Not to worry, I am generally considered out of my mind. He has written and run a dozen or so LARPs beginning in An avid designer of both paper and computer games, this This year, in addition to her own, she is also looking In fact, I was institutionalized for 7 years. =) 1998. Does anyone read these things? will be Darius’ very first time as a GM (albeit assistant) forward to helping run Marc Blumberg’s and Chad for a LARP. He suspects that his experience using plastic Brinkley’s game, “Evermore.” David Kapell peanuts to trick squirrels into doing backflips will come Cheryl “Munky” Knoepler Multiplied Loyalties: the Vor Game inhandy.Ifyouseesomethingorange,youmayverywell have found him. NEIL Board Member David is a longstanding tabletop GM, with a fair amount If I tell you, then I’ll have to kill you. William Lowenthal of experience in playing LARPs, both theatre-style and Road to Impunity boff. He appreciates the emotional content and story - Arnis Kletnieks V for Victory William has written a number of games for the MIT telling that is possible in the LARP form, and loves Bess Libby Assassin’sGuildandhasbeenheadandassistantGMtoa watching his ideas play out. “Multiplied Loyalties” is his We’ve replaced one of the “V for Victory” GMs with numberofserialgamesinFlorida.ThisishisfirstIntercon. first real LARP authoring project. Folger’s Crystals. Let’s see if anyone notices. Return to Watership Down 23 Ben Llewellyn Tim “Teem” Lasko Scott Mohnkern Alex Newman V for Victory Intercon-D Con Chair, NEIL Board Member, Apollo ’79, Long, Cold, Night HOTEL LAYOBen LlewellUTyn seems to recall running this game up here, Ocelot, Friday Night Coffeehouse The League of Extraordinary Breakfast Cereals A tabletop gamer since the dawn of tabletop gaming (a Teem has been having fun playing, running and writing before.He’ssureofit.He’srunalotofgamesatBostonarea schoolfriend’solderbrotherwenttocollegewithGygax. moreLARPsduringthelastyearthaneverbefore,meeting Intercons, like “Appalachian Wedding,” “Zombies on Ice,” We played D&D off of photocopies of handwritten rules lotsofgreatpeoplealongthewayandthankingthemfor and “Faction Island.” Games planned for the foreseeable that would ultimately become the Wite set), Alex flyingImagineerium.Hefindsithardtobelievehehasbeen future include a run of (May 2004, England, specifics Shelly ”Evil Twin” Mohnkern Newman’s first LARP was “It Was Better in Real Life” at LARPingforoverfifteenyears.Heisusinghissuperpowers TBD) and “Humans & Offices: The Forbidden Game” Arisia in 1995 (96?), and he’s been hooked since. (probably in Feb. of 2005, in the Baltimore-Washington The League of Extraordinary Breakfast Cereals forgood,aspromised,bychairingthisconvention.Hehas Shelly has been involved in LARP since 1980, which, at also read everyone’s bio. Assuming his brain doesn’t area). He does not have any clear memories of drinking He is author of the jiggle-movie inspired “Cheesecake human blood. the time, mostly involved bashing people with padded andBattleBeyondInfinity!!!!!”–whichheranwithBeth explodewiththeeffortofchairingIntercon-D,heplanson plumbing supplies, while wearing faux-Celtic clothing. continuing to write more LARPs with TNT Productions Kelly. With his writing partner Beth Kelly, he is author of and playing in even more LARPs in the coming year. Since her return to the MD/VA/DC area, Shelly has “Long,ColdNight”and“HerMajesty’sParlourAdventurers Josh Marcus Present an Evening of Indian Intrigue” which ran to great Snaf University branched out into LARP playing, writing and GMing. While she still bashes people with plumbing supplies in acclaim at Intercon–C. Josh Marcus was first entranced by LARPing when he Sue ”Just Sue” Lee XanodriaandDagorhir,shecanmostoftenbefoundplaying played in a run of “The Morning After” during which he campaignLARPslike“1948:Signals”and“Brassy’sMen,”and House on the Hill met the love of his life. He’s also been in a few LARPs castingandwritingfor“ARC”(AlternateRealitiesCampaign). Catherine Preble Frock and Tiara Queen of UK Freeforms. I like nothing sincethen,but“SnafUniversity”isthefirsthehaswritten. Revenge at the Broken Nose Bar, more than telling other people what to do. Should have He is quite eager to share this creation with the rest of Shelly’s LARP writing credits include: “1936: Lithuania” been a professional meddler. theLARPingcommunityandrarelybitesstrangers,except (with Stephanie Olmstead-Dean), “1936: Cuba” (with The King’s Unplanned Vacation when cornered. Scott Mohnkern), “1936: Ireland” (with Hugh Eckert and As her first animal training trick, young Cathy at age 2 I don’t have a beard, but I do have glasses, unless of Sean Butler) and a stand-alone LARP “The End of Sacred decidedtocatchaBostonPigeonbyfallingheadfirstout course I decide to wear my contact lenses. Months” co-authored with her husband, Scott. of her stroller. She has been chasing animals ever since, Michael McAfee ThisismysecondtripafterBriansaidwouldIliketoGM and now happily lives with a Norwegian Elkhound, an “House” last year. I had so much fun I made two more Treasurer Australian Shepherd, 6 cats, 4 ferrets, 2 rabbits, 2 goats people come with me. Michael McAfee has been active in LARPing, both as player andahusbandwhohaswaytoomanyfish.Anavidgamer and GM, since 1989. He chaired Intercon-C, and is Aaron Moshiashwili sincetheearly1970s,shesettheWorldHighScorerecord currently the Treasurer for NEIL. Divus Ex: Greece in the late 1990s for Sega Shooting Master, an obscure Once the darling of the indy stunt golfing scene, Aaron arcade machine. She is a musician and actress, and can be Peter Litwack has spent the years since his well-publicized ‘trouble seenperformingateventsthroughoutNewEngland. Road to Impunity Rachel Morris period’ painting and working out a quick-and-dirty Peter Litwack has run several games under the MIT Byrne’s Bane Revisited - translation system for Linear B. He wishes to thank the Assassins’Guild.ThisishisfirstIntercon.Hefeelslikehe The Captain’s Revenge staff at St. Vitus’ Home for allowing him to once again Jen Raymond should say something here about his unique approach to Rachel Morris owns NERO® Massachusetts/Ravenholt, take his place in the Greek pantheon. Return to Watership Down gamewritingthroughattemptingtoreconcilethestandard (http://www.neromass.com) the founding chapter of tricotomy of gaming, simulation and dramatism except NERO® International (http://www.nerolarp.com). She Hello! My very first LARPing experience was at Intercon, that he realizes that this would be horribly pretentious began LARPing in 1995 as an NPC. Soon hooked, she and since then I’ve LARPed at, well, Intercon. Well, I’ve and probably untrue. So, instead, he will just leave you purchased the game from its founders in 2000, and is Ariel Segall played two games that weren’t at Intercon. And guess what?MyveryfirstGMingexperiencewillbeatIntercon! with these words of wisdom, “Play my game; you can nowonRavenholt’splotteam.Sheearnsmoneytoloseto Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy wear a cool hat.” her NERO addiction as an effectiveness consultant. Please be nice... 295 Trey Reilly Gordon Olmstead-Dean Josh “blee” Rachlin “Uncle Don” Ross Snaf University, Multiplied Loyalties: the Vor Divus Ex: Greece Apollo ’79 Apollo ’79 Gordon Olmstead-Dean began writing and producing Game, GM Liaison, Game Bid Committee Trey Reilly found a D&D boxed set sitting in her mother’s closet when she was 12. It was all downhill from there. UncleDonRosshasbeenwritingandrunningtheatre-style LiveActionRoleplayingGameswiththeadministrationof Weregrettoinformyouthatthetextofthisbiographical Live Action Roleplaying Games since before you were a“Killer”DartPistolLiveGameinspringof1984.Hisfirst summary was lost when the aero-plane carrying it While at a convention in New Jersey, she committed the ultimate sin: volunteerism. She accepted a staff position born.Heck,totalktohim,he’sbeendoingitsincebefore written effort was the minigame now known as “A disappeared somewhere over the Himalayas. We have a he was born. He is most well known for his weekend- Birthday Surprise,” in June of 1986. In January of 1988, searchpartyworkingdayandnighttofindandrescuethe on DexCon ’94, and thus was lost to the normal world forever. In 2000, she co-founded Wild Gazebo longgame“TheMorningAfter”aswellastoomanyother he produced his first full-length work, “Convention I,” data this plane was carrying. If and when the contents of games to count. The personal favorites of his harried , with Ken Brown. Currently Gordon has produced over a this plane are discovered,we assureyou that the missing Productions, and co-wrote WGP’s Svaha LARP, and thus was lost to even the abnormal world forever. underpaidassistantwhoiswritingthisbio(Don?Canwe hundred and ten live action events, and acted as lead text will be personally hand-delivered to you. We are talk about that raise now?) are “FOCUS,” “All The King’s writer on more than seventy five live roleplaying events sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. TreycanusuallybefoundplayingorrunningCallofCthulhu, Men” and “Nap Time.“ But that’s just her. including games in three ongoing campaigns. Mage, Changeling, or Nobilis. She’s been known to write LARPsorGMonnonoticeatallifyoubringhercoffee. YoushouldplayinDon’sgame,orcornerhimandmakehim In 2003, Gordon completed the three season “1936: Catherine Raymond playGowithyou.Otherwisehemightgetcurmudgeonly. Horror” campaign of esoteric adventure, with co-writer The S.H.A.D.E. Mike Romatelli Adrienne Amerman. He is one of several principals for the Founder of the Red Headed League, a consortium of Live Apollo ’79 successor Campaign, “1948: Signals.” ActionRolePlayinggames,Cathyhasbeenactiveinvarious Mike began his live gaming career with the very first run LARP communities since the early ’90s. Having run several Matthew “Reverend” Sachs Gordon is a past President and current CSO of LARPA of the since acclaimed weekend long game “The Morning differentgenresandsystems,sheismostwellknownfor City Council of Hound’s Teeth (formerly the ILF) and, and has served on the Board of After” back in 1990. The primary author, Don Ross, the quirky, conspiratorial and strange. For the last three Matthew Sachs entered the LARP world when he made Directors and in various other capacities supporting Live subsequently drafted Mike to rewrite and rerun the game years, she’s been the lead GM for “Rage Across his bold escape from the circus, grasping a passing radio Roleplay since 1990. twoyearslater.Thusbeganalongcareerofbeingdraftedby Westchester,” a MET LARP set in the World of Darkness. traffic helicopter at the height of his cannon-launched Don to write and run many and various live games, during His current principal goal in LARP is recording and “The S.H.A.D.E” is her first attempt at an Intercon game, trajectory, and plummeting into what would have been whichtimehebecameknownas“Don’sAssociate#1.” consolidating information to make it easier for new GMs so of course this year is themed “Déjà vu.” What she’s his inevitable doom, had his fall not been broken by an tolearnhowtorunLARPeventssuccessfully.Hecompiles hoping is that the game goes so well, you’ll never hear Having followed Don from the deep past of alternate unfortunate NPC. his own notes and data, along with the very valuable the end of it. timelines to cold desolation at the bottom of the Bay of insightsofothergroupexperiencesandsuggestionsfrom Alaska, Mike is now returning to space via the resurrected Hehasanextensivetheatrebackground;mostnotably,he various partners at his LARPwriting.org website. When she’s not LARPing or GMing... she thinks about “Apollo program circa 1979.” played Monsignor Arp in the original Broadway cast of LARPing or GMing. Sometimes she can also be found “TheStoryofPing,”comingstraightfromhistriumphant When he can sneak away from Don, Mike also enjoys When not writing games Gordon relaxes with his wife prancing around in Fishnets shouting at movie theater runasBurgemeesterFnordin“AVeryIlluminatiChristmas.” tabletop and boffer-style live games, but only on weekends Stephanie at their decaying Edwardian manse in screens (usually during “The Omen”) or creating little He is currently writing an autobiographical puppet show that Don doesn’t make him work. Hagerstown, Maryland, and pursues a sybaritic lifestyle. frogs. She just relocated to the DC Metro area, and is detailing his run-ins with America Online’s lawyers, happily looking forward to polluting them with her being stalked by his users, Rich Graves, the Brandeis insanity as well. NY is crazy enough. Suzanne “Zandor” Wayner University Department of Public Safety (it was a grease Craig Perko Csh’taa fire!) and almost getting arrested for indecent exposure METEOR!, Three Nations Suzanne has run LARPs at too many Intercons to remem - at an IHOP. Charley Sumner Craig is addicted to the eighties. He is not as old as this ber, starting with Intercon 9.5. Games she’s helped write makes him sound. Craig thinks of himself as intelligent. ConCom include “City of Light,” “Future’s Hope” and “Little He is exactly as humble as this makes him sound. Craig PetshopofHorrors.”WritingLARPsisatrulycrazyhobby, and it takes up far more time than any non-crazy person Michael Wixon knows several interesting people, and is occasionally an Mark Waks interesting person himself. would spend. It is also pretty fun, so she is back running Three Nations Game Bid Committee “Csh’taa” at Intercon D. 27 Jon “valadil” Sagotsky Kreg Segall Mike “Mikey” Snowden Snaf University The School for Young Women Specializing in House on the Hill Will Wagner “Jon, if that is his real name, is a Brandeis junior from the Arts of Grace and Maidenly Submission This is Mike’s first trip to an Intercon, and he’s looking Grimm Tales, Elfwhere, Generation Gap parts unknown. All we know so far is that he is a licensed Kreg is back, and he’s better than before. With a new job forward to meeting a whole pile of new players. Will was born a child to slaves of the cruel king... archeryinstructorandeitherahighpoweredmutantbent in New York, Kreg has managed to return from his on world domination or a megalomanical robot from the self-imposed exile in South Texas. And what better way WhileMikewasproofing&packinglastyear,heofferedto Well, actually, he wasn’t, but it sounds much better than future bent on world domination. We’ve joined forces tocelebratehistriumphantmovethanwithaLARPabout GMthisyear.Itseemedlikearationalchoiceatthetime. the usual story. withsaidmutant/robotoutofthehopethatwhenworld pirates,swashbucklers,andthemaidenswholovethem? For recognition purposes, neither Anita nor Sue had So,youreallydon’tcareaboutmostofhislife.Willstarted domination ensues we will be spared and given a trivial glasses AND a beard last time he checked. by playing in “Tabula Rasa 2.” After playing in that game, portion of the world to govern, such as Delaware or Kreg Segall has written or had a hand in a dozen or so hedecidedthathetoowouldwritethewonderfulstories Newfoundland.” - The Other “Snaf” GMs LARPs since he began playing in 1994, including “House Meeting,” “Shut up and Play Your Guitar,” “Hell to Pay,” that make players go “OOH!”. He’s still trying. In the “The Morning After,” “Some Time Later that Day,” and of Anita Szostak meantime, he paired up with Andy Kirschbaum to write Rebecca Schoenberg course, “The School for Young Women Specializing in House on the Hill, T-Shirt & Artwork Design, and run several games. “Garwyn’s Tavern” was the first V for Victory Grace and Maidenly Submission.” Program Book Design game that he wrote and he has continued in that vein, writing“GrimmTales”and“GenerationGap”andassisting Rebecca Schoenberg is a very, very boring person. She is Anita may be the only American GM for “House on the with the re-run of “Elfwhere” and the original runs of utterlyundeservingofthespaceforthisbio,andnothing Hill,” but the Brits do need someone local since shipping Andrew “AJ” Smith “Elfwhere 2: Heart’s Desire” and “Those Who Serve.” interesting ever happens around her. Despite what you props across the pond would be silly. Why one American may have heard, she has never made a horse explode, House on the Hill with so many Brits? All I can say is that it’s all Marshall performed CPR on a trained goat, been voted “InQuest This is AJ’s 6th Boston-based Intercon (he thought that Marc and Combat Cow’s fault. Magazine’s”RoleplaymateoftheMonth,orhadthecastof it was his 7th, then realised which integer follows “5”). In addition to helping run “House,” Anita also created the Babylon5trytohireherasadominatrix.Shehasnoidea He’s here as part of the Brit-“ish” [4 Brits + 1 American] art for this con with Susan Guisto. As well, Anita is what this crazy little thing called LARP is all about, and contingent that’s running “The House on the Hill” on Don Walsh Friday night. He lives in dread of the day when someone designing the program booklet, that is if all the GMs wondersoccasionallyhowshewounduphere.Sheisalso The Reality Tango says that s/he’s “running AJ’s game” in a GM bio. submit their bios. no fun to talk to, and not at all cute. And she absolutely It’sbeentoolongsinceI’vegoneoutandrunaLARPofmy never ever dances. own creation, nearly three years now. Since I’ve entered Don’t say we didn’t warn you. Eric Smith Barry Tannenbaum theworldofLARPS,I’vethrilledtoplayingandrunning.I Heimdall’s Children startedinNERO,andsoonafter,wasinvolvedintheirPlot Intercon-D WebMaster Committee for several years. I’ve run several of their EricSmith’sfirstLARPwas“Shakespeare’sLostPlay”ata Barry started gaming many years ago with a weekend events and stories, and this led to my own games, David Simkins Balticonsometimeinthelate1980s.Hetriedafewmore LARP. That was such fun, he helped write the next one inspired by ideas that my friends would bring me. Since Asylum andthenproposedtohiswife,thelovelyChristine,atthe wherehegottoplayaColumbiandrugkingpinandwatch that time, I’ve run three full campaigns (each at least a David managed to finagle his way into a Dungeons and “LARP Murder Mystery Weekend.” After more years of someone kill off a college professor he’d particularly couple of years long), and helped my partner in crime DragonsgameataNewYear’sEvepartywhenhewasfive LARP, Eric rashly decided to try his hand at writing and disliked. NEVER piss off the GM. Janet with hers on several occasions. Now, I’m itching to years old (beingthe child of the hostdidn’thurt),andhe runninggames.Hisfirstwas“Feted’Auvergne,”partofthe get back to it, and the idea of giving Intercon something has been playing, running, writing and designing games now defunct Mersienne Medieval Fantasy campaign. This Having worked out those issues, he took off a few years, new,combinedwithtestingmyselfrunningforagroupof eversince.Whennotplayinggames,hedrivesaroundthe was followed by “It Sucks To Be You,” “Heimdall’s until he was convinced to attend Intercon B. It was all people unknown to me is a challenge I can pass up. So I stateofWisconsinlookingforcountychildwelfareagencies Children” (Viking World of Darkness) and “Drink Deeper,” downhill from there. Now he’s once again writing LARPs hope you don’t pass up this one. After all, who knows inneedofassistance.Heismasochisticallylookingforward a full weekend write your own character LARP. His latest withTNTProductionsandisenjoyinghislongestrunning where it may lead… to returning to graduate school this fall after eight years work is the “1948: Signals” campaign game running in role in Intercon Webmaster: The LARP. It’s not just a job. in the work world. the DC metropolitan area. It’s an Error 404: Page Not Found. 29 Susan “Empress” Weiner Brian Williams City Council of Hound’s Teeth House on the Hill CONVENTION RULES Susanisoneofthosepeoplewhoputsoffwritingherbio Brian is part of the team running “House on the Hill.” As until the last minute in the hopes that she will think of lead author, he wants to know how come he’s ended up something to say that doesn’t involve purple elephants lastonthelistofGMsonthewebsite!Inordertocounter The Most Important Rule of All: Have a good time! Have a great time! Have a grand time! Just have fun! (oh, crap). Well, having failed that, she will attempt to this possibility in the future, he is considering changing say something that will distinguish her from the rest of his surname to Aardvark. Do Unto Others: Treat other convention attendees and Radisson guests in a generally civilized the generic geeks. Except that that’s what all the rest of fashion. Abusive, insulting, intimidating, bothersome, or outwardly illegal behavior will not be tolerated. Brian has been attending the New England Intercon for themaretryingtodotoo.Maybeinsteadshe’lljustbabble more years than he cares to remember, usually in the Do Not Freak the Mundanes: Remember there are non convention-going guests staying at the Radisson. All major like a chicken. company of his partner-in-crime, AJ Smith. This year, game activity should take place in the conference area, not the hotel area, although quiet game activity may occur inside evenmoreBritsarebeingbroughtover(SueLeeandMike player rooms (not in the halls) during the day. The hotel area should be specifically considered quiet space after 10pm, and Snowden) in an attempt to confuse the natives, plus one no game activity should take place there after that time. Conor Walsh native (Anita Szostak) in an attempt to confuse the Brits. Smoking in Hotel and Convention Area: Per the Board of Health, smoking is not allowed in any public area of the Three Nations, ConSuite Cook For recognition purposes, Brian (as opposed to AJ) is the hotel. If you wish to smoke, please go to a designated public smoking area (outside). The hotel has a limited number of Conorisnotableforthreethings-hispenchantfortie-dye one with the glasses and the beard, only AJ sometimes designatedsmokingovernightrooms.Checkwiththehotelregistrationclerkwhenyouarrivetoinquireifasmokingroom clothing,hissmall-but-strangecollectionofhatsandhis wears glasses and Brian doesn’t have a beard any more. is available. inexorable sense of humor which tends to take over any Neither is to be confused with Mike, who has glasses Weapons Policy: ThestaffofInterconDrecognizesthatyoumayneedaweaponaspartofagameorcostume.However, game he writes. He is a journeyman gamer but doing and a beard... everything he can to fix that, and will some day write a weapons are not to be used outside of the game space. This includes toy weapons, “boffers,” or anything that is liable to serious game. Really. tripothers.Pleaseusecommonsensewhenchoosingaweaponforyourgame.Perhotelpolicy,anyknifeofanykindisnot Eric Wirtanen allowed. The School for Young Women Specializing in PleasenotethatthefollowingweaponsareconsideredillegalinMassachusettsandshouldnotbeusedordisplayedatthe Jeannie “On Crack Woman” Whited the Arts of Grace and Maidenly Submission convention: blackjacks, billy clubs, any sort of double-edged knives (symmetrical cross-section, even if one side is dull), Csh’taa Eric urges all who are reading this to change their names nunchucks, and shuriken (throwing stars). If a guest is observed with any type of weapon, the hotel may notify the police. Jeannie has run and written enough games that she has to Eric(k) or Erika, in anticipation of the day when all Staying at the Radisson Inn: Each hotel room should have no more than four occupants. Sleeping in public areas of started to forget them. Or maybe it's because she’s on those with the name Eric(k)/Erika shall rise up and take the hotel or in the convention areas is forbidden by the hotel management. crack. Or something. Her credits include “City of Light,” overthe world.Don’tbe leftout. Join now beforeit’s too Be Nice to the Site: You may only tape something to the walls if you use light masking tape or architect’s tape, which “Mariner,”“Future’sHope,”and“Hairball,”nottomention late. (While supplies last.) being a player assistant for the “ARC” (Alternate Realities willleavenoresidueandwillnotdamagethepaint.Theconventionhasalimitedamountoftapeavailablewhichitcanloan Inotherinformation,Ericisresponsibleforsuchgamesas to games as needed. Campaign). Someday, she will wake up from the years- “Timelines,” “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: B-Ark,” longdazeshe’sbeenin,andwonder(alongwitheveryone andthisone.Someoneelseisresponsibleformisspelling Alcohol Policy: By hotel rules, no alcohol is permitted in the function space. else)whatissogreataboutthoseparrotslippersanyway? Wirtanen on the web page. Intercon D Operations Staff: Please report to Ops Staff or the Con Chair any incident in which a member of the In the meantime, she has been spiraling into the deepest pitsofinsanitybytheenormouslyvastselectionofwhite convention ignores the rules of the convention stated above. Intercon D reserves the right to revoke, without refund, the paintsamplesatHomeDepot.Andifshedoesn’tremember membership of anyone for any just cause. An Ops Staff member can always be found at the Ops desk during regular yourname,don’tworry–sheprobablydoesn’tremember Mike Young Operations hours. If the hotel observes a guest violating any of the above rules, the hotel reserves the right to have that her own. She also apologizes for Suzanne’s penchant for Lost in the Stacks, guest removed from the property without refund. writing her bios in French. Humans vs. Monsters: Cow Day! Intercon D is not responsible for any lost or stolen property. 30 31 join the con committee! game bids now being accepted!