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Two Hours In London

RPG system: LARP
Participants: 11 players, Male characters: 6, Female characters: 5

Organized by

MIT Assassins' Guild

By

✏️Beth Baniszewski
✏️Laura Boylan

Intercon J (2010), Chelmsford, Massachusetts, United States

✏️Peter Litwack

Description

The year is 1862. The Industrial Revolution flourishes in Great Britain. Families who have farmed the land for generations flock to cities to work in mills and factories. In North American, the former colonies tear each other apart. The Queen Victoria remains in seclusion following the death of her husband and wears only black, yet all across the world, brave men continue to spread the glory of the British Empire. Victoria has been queen for twenty-five years, yet she is only forty-three. It's been two hundred fifty-seven years since the Treason of Guy Fawkes, twenty-eight years since slavery was banned in the British colonies, and two years since the publication of Great Expectations, and it will be thirty-three more until Oscar Wilde is forced from the theatre into a two year prison sentence. Even amid the hustle and bustle of presiding over burgeoning factory operations, funding expeditions to mysterious foreign lands, serving as officers in Her Majesty's armed forces, and maintaining luxurious houses, the London nobility still stops to celebrate joyous occasions, like an engagement. A lovely time is sure to be had by all at the garden party celebrating the betrothal of Emily Alexander and Algernon Rutherford.

[This game contains some sexual themes and content and parental discretion is advised.]

[If you would like to be cast as a character not of your listed gender, please contact the GMs.]

The year is 1862. The Industrial Revolution flourishes in Great Britain. Families who have farmed the land for generations flock to cities to work in mills and factories. In North American, the former colonies tear each other apart. The Queen Victoria remains in seclusion following the death of her husband and wears only black, yet all across the world, brave men continue to spread the glory of the British Empire.

Victoria has been queen for twenty-five years, yet she is only forty-three. It's been two hundred fifty-seven years since the Treason of Guy Fawkes, twenty-eight years since slavery was banned in the British colonies, and two years since the publication of Great Expectations, and it will be thirty-three more until Oscar Wilde is forced from the theatre into a two year prison sentence.

Even amid the hustle and bustle of presiding over burgeoning factory operations, funding expeditions to mysterious foreign lands, serving as officers in Her Majesty's armed forces, and maintaining luxurious houses, the London nobility still stops to celebrate joyous occasions, like an engagement. A lovely time is sure to be had friends, family, and servants alike at the garden party celebrating the betrothal of Emily Alexander and Algernon Rutherford. What could possibly go wrong?

[This game contains some sexual themes and content and parental discretion is advised.]

Played at

Intercon E (2005)
Intercon G (2007)
Intercon J (2010)


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