Highlights from yesterdayās LARP
So every year I help organize and run an alien invasion LARP, and this year was probably our best one yet?Ā Not to brag but we seriously killed it.Ā This year the aliens were attempting to remove humans from the planet to build a colony, or barring that stop them from developing deep space travel by any means necessary.Ā Here are some of my favorite things that happened:
Team America had a shrine to Captain America on their table.
Team Alien picked a fight with Team France after France shot at them ONCE, completely destroyed them.
Team Japan got a hold of alien tech and were making knock offs to sell on the black market, so everyone else thought they had tech but if they tried to use it it failed.
Team Brazil decided to relocate to the moon at one point.Ā They also made all their politicians into Super Soldiers.
TEAM INDIA BUILT GIANT SPIDER ROBOTS AT SOME POINT AND YET NEVER THOUGHT TO USE THEM AGAINST THE ALIENS???
THEY ALSO INVENTED CLEAN ENERGY AND SOME OTHER SHIT AND LIKE MADE SO MUCH MONEY.
Team Alien created a bioweapon to use on the humans at the same time the Corporation Teams created one to use on the aliens: a standoff ensued.
In the last two hours of the game the aliens were like āfuck it our plan isnāt working, letās just bodyswap some motherfuckers.ā and then proceeded to abduct and bodyswap like half of the human players.
Body swapping required a series of high challenge dice rolls to pull off, which resulted in a lot of people being handed dice, being asked to roll, and then being told ādonāt worry about it.ā
The Alien Team tried to write this dice rolling off as scanning for a plague, which resulted in the entire human team freaking out about Space Herpes.
MOTHERFUCKERS BODYSWAPPED SO MANY PEOPLE THEY FORGOT WHO THEY BODYSWAPPED AND HAD TO START ASKING PEOPLE āHEY DID WE⦠DO THE THING?Ā TO YOU?ā
Team France literally had the launch codes to blow up the alien ship on the last turn and then their President got bodyswapped on his way to launch them AND THIS WAS A COINCIDENCE THE ALIENS HAD NO IDEA.
The CEO of one of the Corporation teams got bodyswapped and then had to reveal that he was actually a clone and had been assassinated in game four times.Ā His real body had been jettisoned into space.
TEAM AMERICA FOR SOME REASON THOUGHT THEY HAD BROUGHT ABOUT WORLD PEACE AND WERE BLISSFULLY UNAWARE THAT BRAZIL WAS BUILDING A DRILL THAT COULD FUCKING CRACK OPEN THE PLANET THEY WERE SO SAD TO LEARN EVERYONE HAD LIED TO THEM.
Somebody slipped Team Alien a transmission that got redacted to the point that all it was was the word āmeā and a phone number.Ā They called it once, hung up, and never figured out who it belonged to.
ONE OF THE CORPORATIONS LEAKED THE ALIEN TRANSMISSION FREQUENCY AND SO THERE WAS A LINE TO TALK TO THE ALIENS THAT WAS SO LONG WE HAD TO MAKE A SECOND ALIEN HQ OUTSIDE THE BUILDING SO WE COULD GET THROUGH MORE PEOPLE FASTER.
The game ended literally just when France had created a successful scanner to detect bodyswaps and had imprisoned a couple of the swapped players inside the UN and were interrogating them but it just dissolved into āI KNOW YOUāRE A CLONE.āĀ āNO.āĀ āMY SCANNER SAYS SO.āĀ āNO?ā
Humanity descended into chaos, aliens waited out WW3 and took over.
Brazilian Parliament survived on the moon for some reason, but then got abducted and bodyswapped.