Saga and Calam

Last weekend brought us the next episode of the Saga larp. This is a larp set in a medieval arabic world. They manage to get the mix in fighting and role-play perfect so that people who don't want to fight find their pleasure in the role-play and vice versa :-).
Although it snowed, hailed and rained it was an excellent larp. It made me forget that I missed out on the first Maelstrom of the year.
If you like a larp with mystery, eastern influence and great food then look for Saga.

It's now also more than a month that we started promoting Calam and the feedback is still very positive. Interest is growing and the subscriptions have started. Although we still need to clarify some rules we are getting close to the completely finished website.
First costumes are looking good and the first potential partners are responding well.

So here are some links:

• Saga: saga.oneiros.be
  
• Calam: www.calam.eu
  

Picture of the month

Here's a new picture of the month.
I took this one at Manticore XV.

I rather like this one as I shot it without a flash in a room only illuminated by candlelight.


Here's a link to the page of all the pictures I took at Manticore XV: http://larp-gallery.eu/main.php?g2_itemId=3156

Great weekend

Last weekend brought us Manticore XV: Thanatos. It was a stressfull event to organise but only due to the fact that we only had access to the buildings at Friday noon (normally we have access on Thursday evening). But luckily the crew was used to working under stress and in the end the stress was almost non existant.
According to the feedback we're getting it was considered even better as Manticore XIV (which was considered one of the best, if not the best). This of course makes the team very proud and in fact the Great Storyteller (Vince) has already started on the script of Manticore XVI.

With Manticore XV we also started the promo of my new larp: Calam. Calam is a new kind of larp in Belgium (as far as I know at least). It has no 'on paper skills' that can be used during the game. Everything is via roleplay (besides some small exceptions). First feedback of the site (www.calam.eu) is very positive, so I do hope we'll get a lot of participants.

Later this week I'll post some pictures of Manticore XV that I took

News and a teaser

Manticore XV is very nearby, only 2 weeks to go.
The crew is really anxious for this one and we see the same amongst our players. They are more active on the forum (manticore.oneiros.be/forum) and they are holding their own IC get togethers.

But Manticore is at this moment not my only larp I'm working at. There is of course Banapsis (2009) and a new one that will remain nameless for at least a week or so :-)
But I would like to give you a small insight in what it's about with this small teaser

It was early in the morning that Jorge got out of his tent. Still in his smallclothes he walked up to a nearby tree and let nature have it's flow. When that was done he looked at his surroundings and smiled. He saw the metal boys of that king, knights they call themselves, keep a good watch at what he and the rest of his clan were doing. Well, they were in for a surprise once the others would arrive.
Holding his amulet in his right hand he thanked the spirit of his greatfather for the opportunity that was given to him. Soon he might get his revenge, yes soon.

Manticore XV: Thanatos

Well, 12 days after my last post complaining that we still need alot of people for upcoming Manticore the counter is now at 89 participants. So that's way much better than the 60 we had in the beginning of January.
But it's still 21 less than we had in November last year.
Of course 53 of those 89 still need to pay so I hope they'll do that :-)

Anyway, if we will have less than 110 it'll have proven my point to the board of Oneiros: making membership mandatory in order to allow people to participate is a bad thing! Why am I sure that this will be the reason we might not get enough people? Almost every Manticore (especially since Manticore 11) has been getting more and more positive feedback. Each event resulted in more participants than the event before. Our last event was considered by alot of participants as 'the best ever' (and this was with rain all weekend, mud, cold, ...). So normally I would expect at least as much participants as last event.

But we'll just have to see, won't we? It could also be that my logic is completely flawed :-) and that people will gladly pay 10 euro's extra for the mandatory membership that gives them absolutely NOTHING extra, besides being allowed to participate in our event.

In any case the crew is really anxious to make Manticore XV another fantasic episode. I've reviewed the scenario last friday and it looks great to me. So if you're reading this and you haven't subscribed yet to Manticore XV do so now. Even the extra 10euro that Oneiros wants from you will make it worth.

I'll see you in Mythandir

Picture of the month (or week)

Following the trend of Sam and Vince I'll try to post at least each month a larp picture.

To start out I'll give you a picture I took at Poort XXIV larp in september 2005.

Let me know what you think of it.



Here's a link to the full album of pictures I took at this larp: http://larp-gallery.eu/main.php?g2_itemId=118

Happy new year

I may have been quiet of late, but I've been busy. :-)
In this new year I'll be having some surprises in Larp land. At his moment I'm working very hard on a new mass-larp concept and there is of course Manticore.
Manticore 15 is just around the corner on 15-17th of February 2008. I personally hope that the new Oneiros rule (only members are allowed to participate) will not mean less participants. At this moment with just a little more than 1 month to go we only have 60 participants while Manticore 14 had around 110 participants. In any case we will keep on working to have a larp without Time-stop moments to note battle-damage (which is a pretty unique concept in Flanders as far as I know) and to keep a rather high visual realism standard.

In the meantime I hope we will have some time to improve our briefing movie clips.

Talking about movie clips, below is a teaser of another Lord of the Rings fanfilm: The Hunt For Gollum. It tells the story of the hunt of Aragorn for Gollum. The teaser looks and sounds very promising.