JoyCon III!

A Weekend of Larps
May 2-4, 2025

Cost for playing in any one or all larps is $20. The fee (and any donations, gratefully accepted) will be used to pay for Alison's travel expenses.

REGISTRATION WILL OPEN IN JANUARY.  At that time, the link to the registration form will be sent to the JoyCon Groups.io list, as well as the Fête Fatale Groups.io list. Email Murder1 at fetefatale dot com for questions.

We are considering additional games depending on interest and turnout. Watch this space!

How Registration and Game Assignment Will Work

At the first JoyCon, we largely lucked into a great way to handle registration for a small event like this.

Ten days after registration opened, we had many more registrants than we had game slots to fill. Rather than letting the people who happened to register first get into all the games they wanted--and leaving later registrants with none--we distributed assignments so that 1) everyone got their first and/or second game, 2) everyone got into roughly the same number of games, while 3) not assigning people to games they had already played.

This may seem like a lot of work, just so we could feel like we were "being fair." But the REAL benefit of this approach became apparent the final few days before JoyCon, as we were notified by players who had to drop a game or even the entire weekend: we already KNEW who wanted to play the games we now had open spots for. We could simply contact those attendees and see if they were available/still wanted to play. Therefore, we're going to do much the same thing again, with registrants selecting games in order of preference. Hopefully we can use this to better refine our game assignment distribution? We're trying our best over here.

The Games:

Friday night, 8p to midnight (23 players)

Evermore

By Marc Blumberg and Chad Brinkley

In the cracks of the world, through which the forgotten dreams and forsaken places fall, the lunatics and outcasts have founded the last magical kingdom in the world - Evermore. It was once a place of limitless potential, but now the magic seeps away and the monsters prey openly on the unwary. Despite this decay, her majesty - the Queen of Rags - insists on holding the traditional Beltane festival. And so it is that the denizens of Evermore gather for a night of intrigue, romance, and murder in the realm’s 13th hour. A LARP inspired by the works of Neil Gaiman.

Saturday afternoon, 1-4p (21 players)

Brest or Bust

By Graham Arnold, Clare Gardner, and Sue Lee

It is 1912 and the race for the skies is well and truly on. Competitors for the Charles Royce Memorial Cup are invited to register their plane at reception at Royal Aero Club HQ at Muswell Manor near Leysdown on the Isle of Sheppey, on the 1st May 1912. Please pay particular attention to the rules for the race or face disqualification!

It’s Brest or Bust ladies and gentlemen, and may the best flyer win! This is Wacky Races meets Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines with added women.

NB: No dogs were harmed in the writing of this game.

Full blurb.

Saturday evening, 7p to midnight (29 players)

The Shadow Soiree

By Alison Joy Schafer and Gale Pollard

How high would you reach in the name of power, in the name of love, in the name of the world? …and how far would you be willing to fall in the name of those same pursuits? Don’t underestimate the things that you will do. The Shadow Soiree is a secrets and powers larp set in a late middle ages/renaissance fantasy world with inspirations taken from the *Witcher* among others.

Full blurb.

 

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