ZombieLARP: Thirty Minutes to Midnight
Details
Date: September 11th 2010, 5.30pm-Midnight
Venue: Camp Sladdin, Clevedon, Auckland
Cost: $15.00 nzLARPS members, $20.00 non-members. Pay at the door, cash only.
Event timetable
Light refreshments will be provided.
If you do not bring a torch, you will not be allowed to play!
Map
Camp Sladdin is located on a Manukau City reserve at the northern end of Clevedon Village and is a 20 minute drive east from Papakura City and the Southern Motorway. Players will be required to bring torches, as the LARP will stretch into the night, ending around midnight.
Costuming
Human Player Characters
Each player will be required to create a human character for when it’s their turn to do the run. They will need to supply their own costume, appropriate to their character’s chosen class. This can be anything from casual street clothes, to goth-gear, to a military uniform. For a full breakdown of costuming requirements for each character, see the Human Classes page. Players will also need to bring watches or cellphones so they can keep track of the time on their run – thirty minutes will go by really fast!
Zombies
When players are not playing as human characters, they will be playing as zombies, directed by out not-so-friendly EnyoGeni technicians. Each player needs to supply their own zombie costume, which can be as basic as some old clothes that are torn and/or bloodstained. If you don’t have any old clothing that you can ‘zombify’, don’t worry – regular clothes will be fine too. We will be providing basic makeup on the night for generic zombies.
The Story So Far…
EnyoGeni (pronounced en-EYE-oh-jen-ee) was incorporated in 1980 as MagnaPharm Biotechnology and changed its name to ‘EnyoGeni’ in 1994. It was initially focused in researching and developing immune system suppressants. In the early 1990s, a team of scientists who had joined the team made some remarkable breakthroughs in the field of cancer treatments. They discovered they could specifically target cancerous cells and shut down the blood supply to those cells; effectively providing a treatment for most types of cancer.
Today, EnyoGeni is a leader in cancer treatment research, and as high profile contracts with many governments and corporations around the world.
You, for some reason or another, found yourself signing your life away to EnyoGeni. The advertisement on their website had asked for test subjects for some groundbreaking medical research and had promised large rewards, but claimed they could not reveal exactly what you would be testing due to ‘intellectual property’ reasons. For one reason or another, you found yourself signing up anyway.
Within a couple of weeks you were picked up from your home by a black unmarked van with tinted windows and were driven to an EnyoGeni secure facility to begin the testing.
You have been undergoing various physiological and psychological stress tests for the past several days. The technician who is overseeing your progress is pleased with the results so far, and says that you are now ready for ‘field testing’. You have no idea what they mean, but he assures you that this phase of the testing is nearly complete and that the field test will be quite short.
The next day, you are told to collect your personal effects, dress in civilian clothes and are taken to another EnyoGeni facility in a remote location. The briefing for the field test is to begin soon. The other test subjects in the room with you look a little nervous…
So should you.
