Hi everybody, welcome to the Newsletter of Victory, where I talk to you about where I’m at in developing this larp. Email was by far everyone’s preferred method of contact, so we’ll stick to this until the event is firmed up and a FB page and/or discord server become necessary. I will probably not email y’all more than every couple of months tops, as I fiddle with stuff.

What can you do to help:
Keep sharing the interest survey! Every time someone fills it out I make this face :D!!!!
https://forms.gle/Csexw4HarzW6RQ6W6

What I’m doing:
I’ve got the bones of the larp down, including the changes to be made, so I’m putting that on hold in favor of figuring out logistics. The college I work at just started its Spring semester so searching for sites has become a self-soothing exercise between looking at my inbox and hyperventilating.

Organizing???
So yes I have many spreadsheets and so forth which make my brain happy, and have taken Ericka up on her generous offer to let me flail at her about nonsense on airbnb. I’m also talking with our own Stan Stanley about maybe forming an LLC about it – between the two of us we’ve had kind offers from wonderful experienced larprunners for advice on how to do that, and some tips and good practices for Running A Thingier Sort Of Thing, professionally-speaking.

Where Larp Happen?
Right now I’m looking at locations in and around New York, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania, but if anyone gets wind of a good site for a Space Party, slip the details my way. (Special thanks to Ericka, Tegan, and Jasper for tossing things at me already!)

Based on initial poking around, we are looking at one of two options: The first is a room-and-board situation where we rent out a big house for a weekend and sleep/eat/larp together in a more communal sort of way, which would be a higher price point and put the number of players at around 25. The second is that I find a cool location to hold the larp and try to get us a room block at a nearby hotel, in which case the number of players could go up to 35 or 40. The larp ticket price would be lower, but food and lodging would be more in your hands. I am relatively certain that dinner will be included in the two nights of the larp, and am prepared to roll with any combination of dietary desires and needs, or with folks bringing in their own food. The logistics of that go into a box marked “later.” 

There is a universe in which I do both, and we get a house cool enough to sleep some folks and hold the larp, but near enough to a hotel that we other folks could stay off site. As options firm up, I’ll hit y’all with follow up questions.

First extremely serious question: would you go to the middle of absolutely nowhere Iowa to larp in a house shaped like a pyramid?

But also: When Larp Happen?
I am trying to avoid major holidays in order to keep costs down, and the start/end of college terms. Right now I’m assuming mid-to-late April or November 2024. If anyone has a screaming objection to either, let me know.

Things I am committed to having:
Staff: two additional facilitators, and one safety person, at minimum. I’m also keeping an eye on budgeting for staff to help set up / take down and cook if needed.

Photography: I reached out to Matt Norris, whose team worked on Project Ascension, and he continues to be incredible – it should be within the budget to hire him for this event! The conversation so far has been more than I could have hoped for, so look forward to looking good and having some great pics to prove it.

Okay, that’s it for now!
<3 Abby