The St Mary's Staff Meeting

RPG system: LARP Zoom
Participants: 1 GM, 2-4 players

By

Summer Larpin' Was it Larp at first sight? (2021), Online, United States

Ray Hodson

Description

It’s never quiet at St. Mary’s Institute of Historical Research but life has slowed down to a gentle hum. And it is that time again. Max has to submit the plans for the next mission to Dr Bairstow. Unfortunately everyone and their goat (Max told Markham to return the goat to R&D) has given her a suggestion. With great trepidation she calls a staff meeting to work out where they should go and what they should do.

A 1 hour larp for 4 players about historians who investigate major historical events in contemporary time (for god’s sake don’t call it time travel), tea, explosions and complaints from the Tech, Wardrobe and R&D departments.

Lovingly based on The Chronicles of St. Mary’s novels and short stories by Jodi Taylor who I have borrowed these unintentional disaster-magnets from. You will get the best out of this game if you have read at least the first three books.

During the game you will spend your time discussing (arguing) about when in history you want to visit and drinking a lot of tea. All of the characters have canonical favourite places in history they want to visit but you should not feel constrained by this!

Dramatis Thingummy
*Madeleine Maxwell: Prefers Max. Historian. Chief Training Officer, Chief Operations Officer, Director at various times. Engaging, impatient, self-deprecating, with a murky past and a precarious future
*Tim Peterson: Max’s loyal best friend. Historian, Chief Training Officer, Chief Operations Officer, Deputy Director at various times
*Markham: Second in command of the security section. Hides his light under a bushel. Suspiciously well read. Small, grubby and disaster-prone. Reputedly indestructible - which is just as well.
*David Sands: Historian and teller of really bad knock knock jokes.

Participant communications
Gmail and with a very brief questionnaire. Reading will be no more than 2 pages A4 typed with very short character sheets.
Content warnings
The characters all have quite difficult back stories and see difficult historical events happen in the novels . I don’t anticipate any of this coming up but it is worth pointing out.

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