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]

I like live action if there is a good GM. When I used to live in NYC, we had a VM game with 30+ people; it was awesome! We used the whole city as our playground. Mostly the pier, washington square park, and river side park. What was cool about Riverside was that they had an old concrete ampletheatre that we used like a great hall for all the clans to commerce. Ahh, the good old days... this was about 8 years ago *sigh* I tried to get in a game down here in Florida about two years back, but the people were lame and really lacked imagination... mostly power gamers not intelligent enough to really power game. :( I'm not a power gamer myself, but I don't mind power gamers if their characters are more than just stats. The game I've played most is D&D, it's the system I know most about(unfortunately, because I know the system so well, I never get to play because everyone wants me to be the DM) I've never played Requiem; Tell me what that is about:D
Jenna;)

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

Requiem is like Masquerade, but much darker. It still takes place in the World of Darkness. There's similar clans and factions of vampires, but with the added element of covens. Really awesome game. I reccommend it. It comes in a red book instead of Masquerade's blue book, I think.

[spankingfemme.livejournal.com]

Thanks :) I'll check it out
Jenna;)