Don't Let THIS Happen to You, LARP'ers!

[fenderlove]

Okay, I just sat through the most idiotic segment of Unsolved Mysteries evah. "Vampire Games: Ghoulish Fun or Sinister Trap for Impressionable Children?" Apparently, everyone who is involved in LARP must be some kind of sick freak monkey who wants to rape children and kill small fluffy creatures. Whoa. I totally didn't know that. I've got a lot of stuff to do in that case! Kidding. It's these asshole crazy people who make all LARP'ers look like, well, crazy people. They ruin the game for everyone! Let's have a look at the three cases that were discussed in this episode of Unsolved Mysteries which involved the "dark drama" of Vampire: The Masquerade! These cases were flanked by video footage of an actual V:tM LARP. I gotta say, the Bard games and players are soooo much cooler than those kids. ^_~



First Case:
In 1996, a happy-go-lucky cheerleader in Rochester, NY got swept up in online vampires games, eventually meeting Brooker Malte who ran a vampire chatroom called "The Black Rose Nightclub." Malte "kidnapped" the girl and deserted the air force to be with her. She was found in 1997 still with Brooker, whom she was living with as his sister in Illinois. He faced kidnapping charges and "carnal knowledge" with a minor.

Second Case:
John Christopher Bush is charged with 30 counts of rape, unlawful carnal knowledge, and crimes against nature after luring impressionable junior high girls to believe that he was a "very powerful vampire."

Third Case:
In Murray, Kentucky, five teens, led by sixteen year old Rod Ferrell, killed a fellow group member's parents. Heather Windorff, daughter of the murdered couple, gave the age-old cop-out of "I didn't know what was going to happen!" and sold out the other four group members. She escaped all charges, but her four friends were all found guilty on two counts of first degree murder. Rod Ferrell, instigator of the group, organized Vampire: the Masquerade games in an abandoned building known as "The Vampire Hotel." He and his four friends proclaimed that V:tM was a "birthright" not a game, eventually scaring off casual and less insane gamers.

Comments

[spankingfemme.livejournal.com]

Wow... That's just as bad as that really bad movie Mazes and Monsters put out to scare parents whose kids played D&D. People want something to blame; they find it hard to believe that people act out of their own free will verses it had to be the game! Ahh! So ridiculous! :I They live under the concept that if they don't understand it, it must be a bad thing. *sigh* Just interested, do you play? I haven't in a couple years due to a hectic life schedule, but I used to play all the time.
Jenna;)

[drachekatze.livejournal.com]

See, these things have nothing to do with the fact that these people game, and everything to do with the fact that they are mentally unbalanced. Merf.

[commievampire.livejournal.com]

My brain hurts!!

[sistercuervo.livejournal.com]

Semi-related to the same subject. have you ever seen that documentary about the 3-4 boys *goths in a very small hillbilly burg* who were railroaded into death row with no proof whatsoever other than they were *weird*. I think the title is Murders in Robin Hood Lane, but not sure of the exact title. it was absolutely chilling to think that kids could be stuck in prison for no other reason than they liked heavy metal and wore black nail polish.

Oh My.

[autumnrose27.livejournal.com]

My hubby used to play D&D (stop laughing!) and I used to play Vampire, The Masquerade... again stop laughing! :)
Somehow we have stayed sane and not killed anyone...