All The Best Freaks (Party Edition)

You're invited to the wake to end all wakes. Let's show Antonia out with the party she deserves! All the best freaks are invited. This larp takes place at a kink party in a modern fantasy world.

Long Description

You’re invited to the wake to end all wakes. Let’s show Antonia out with the party she deserves! All the best freaks are invited. The Village by the Sea is too big to be a small town, but too small to be a real city. In those sorts of places, there are always people who just don’t fit in. If it’s the right sort of place, the ones that don’t fit in take care of each other. The Manor on the Hill was like that. It didn’t matter whether you were queer, half-fae, a leather daddy, or a were-coyote, you were welcome. If you didn’t fit in and respected everyone else, you belonged there. Antonia made sure of it. Every Saturday night, something was happening at the Manor. Sometimes it was a kink party. Sometimes it was a movie marathon. Sometimes it was just a bunch of people smoking pot and playing Magic the Gathering.

That all ended years ago. Now Antonia is dead. But we’re going to remember her the way she would have wanted: with one hell of a party! (Maybe literally if the demons stop by).

This larp takes place at a kink party in a modern fantasy world.

Sex and kink related activities that may occur during this larp include sensation play, impact play, and bondage, and (simulated) sex. There will be mechanics for negotiating kink and intimacy and for simulating kink acts. The default assumption in all negotiations is that play will be done only in simulation, using Ars Amandi (touch on hands and arms). Depending on the comfort of all players, we may allow the option to negotiate up to other contact or (possibly) unsimulated ‘light to moderate’ kink play. This is not a no-touch game. There will be no non-simulated sex in this game. Players will have the opportunity (using player surveys) to specify which activities they are comfortable with taking place during the larp (simulated or unsimulated), both involving them and between others in the game space.

You do NOT need to be willing to engage in any of these activities, either in-character or out-of-character, to play this game. However, you do need to be ok with simulated kink activities happening between other characters in the game space. All players are expected to wear street legal clothing during this game. Some kink and sex related items are canonically present in the game space and some specific kink acts cannot be vetoed as in-character activities (although no individual character is required to engage with them). All activities can be vetoed as non-simulated acts. Room dividers will be used to subdivide the space and to shield view of play from the door of the room

As part of remembering Antonia, players will participate in magic-induced memory flashback scenes.

Most characters in this game are player-choice gender. There are a small number of gendered characters. Gender will be asked about on the casting questionnaire for these characters. All characters are queer and polyamorous. There will be mechanics for negotiating kink and intimacy and for simulating acts that you do not wish to portray. These mechanics involve hand contact at the minimum. There will be a workshop at the beginning to teach the Ars Amandi simulation mechanic and to practice negotiating boundaries.

Content warnings Present during game: Mourning a close friend, mourning a lover, relationships ending, pot use (in flashback scenes only) Present only in backstory but likely to be discussed during game: Domestic violence, emotional abuse, queer kid being kicked out of their home, extended illness, chronic pain, drug abuse, fantasy racism, fantasy colonialism, alcohol and pot use There is additional NSFW content. See here for NSFW content details.

Mechanics There will be mechanics for negotiating kink and intimacy and for simulating kink acts. These mechanics involve hand contact at the minimum, with the option to negotiate up to other contact or (possibly) unsimulated kink play. There will be a short workshop at the beginning around negotiating boundaries. There will also be flashback memory scenes that are created collaboratively during game from simple prompts. In these scenes Antonia will be played by various players. There is also a wish-fulfillment mechanic for sparking desired scenes. For more details, see documentation here.

Player Communications Players will receive a casting survey shortly after the end of the sign-up window. They will receive a full character sheet by around a month before the con. Host character sheets are 8-12 pages. Guest character sheets are 3-5 pages. Both will also receive a few pages of background material and mechanics.

Buckets

Hosts: The core group that used to host the parties. Expect many strong connections, interpersonal drama, and hosting responsibilities. Kink play opportunities still exist, but are less of a focus of the game.

Guests: Party regulars that weren't the core group. Expect interpersonal connections and to have known Antonia, but to be less tightly integrated. More focus on kink play opportunities and reconnecting, less on interpersonal drama and no host responsibilities.

Dungeon Monitor: An aromantic, asexual host character who is there to hang out and help keep their friends safe. They are very deeply connected and have interpersonal drama, and hosting responsibilities like the other host characters. There will also be a GM acting as safety monitor, but this character will be monitoring the in character safety.

Note For players familiar with previous runs of this larp, please note this run has been revised for Intercon X.