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Winter Event Schedule

Friday, February 6th, 2009

The Winter Event will be February 7 in the MUMPS lounge in the Medical Sciences building.

We have the venue from Noon.

The LARP, “Lostday in Limehouse”, which is set in the Unhallowed Metropolis setting starts at 7:00 sharp; be there earlier to get your character information before the rules explanation.

UnMet: Winter Event Game

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

The SLARPA Winter Event will feature an Unhallowed Metropolis LARP (http://www.newdarkage.net/), an exciting setting where the Zombie Apocalypse happened in 1905. It is a game of Neo-Victorian horror. For more details, see the forums.

Winter Event submissions

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Submissions for what the LARP will be for the Winter Event (which will be Feb 7) are due by Noon on November 19. See the forums for more information.

Pitch Day

Friday, October 10th, 2008

SLARPA is hosting a day to hear about the various games that are starting.

Nov. 9, 2pm at Dragon’s Den.

SLARPA is also interested in hearing ideas for games to be run at either our Winter Event (Feb 7) or SLARPcon (June 12-14). If you have any ideas, please get in contact with the executive.

Fall events

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

Upcoming Fall Events in the LARP community.

September 26:

SLARPA pubcrawl. Starts 7:00 at the Sutherland Bar. $5 members, $10 non-members.

October 4:

Firefly: Boomtown. 6:00 at the WDM. $10 advance, $12 at the door. Run by Wade and Deb.

October 5:

SLARPA fall social. 11:00 am at the Forestry Farm. Free.

2008/2009 Executive

Monday, August 11th, 2008

The executive has been set:

Andrew Postnikoff President
Todd Myrhe Vice President
Kyle Yaworski Treasurer
Anita Amyotte Secretary

Thank you to everyone who attended the meeting and offerred to help with the organization this year.

SLARPA AGM 2008

Friday, August 1st, 2008

It is that time of year, time to get on what SLARPA will be next year. We have set a time and place for the AGM:

Sunday August 10 2008.

2 PM.

Geology 255.

Please get in touch with us if you have any questions or issues that you think should be discussed at the meeting. The executive for next year will be set at this meeting, so if you are interested in serving be sure to be there.

Game Submissions Closed

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

The 4 games this year will be:

The Unveiling (Changeling the Lost) run by Andrew Postnikoff

The Market run by John Allison

Castle of Deadly Secrets run by Trent Rassmussen

The Methuselah Club run by Wade Lahoda

Check http://www.slarpa.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=878 more details on these games. Time slots will be decided soon.

Submit your LARP for SLARPcon ‘08

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Submissions for running a LARP at the 4th SLARPcon are underway. Submissions will take place until April 4th. Voting by SLARPA members will run from April 7th until April 30th and the games chosen will be announced on May 5th.

In addition to the voting the executives are going to weight the games based on the time slots requested, game type, game size and new storytellers. Preference may be given to games with Storytellers who have not run a game at a previous SLARPcon or to ones with a combination of new and old Storytellers.

You may submit your game over in the forums:

http://www.slarpa.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=878

New Secretary

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Carla had to step down from her position as Secretary of SLARPA. Spike Postnikoff will be taking over for the remainder of the year.