May 30, 2018
Where am I?
KNIGHTMARE LIVE IS BACK AT NINE WORLDS GEEKFEST THIS YEAR!!!
AAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHH!
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Where am I?
KNIGHTMARE LIVE IS BACK AT NINE WORLDS GEEKFEST THIS YEAR!!!
AAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHH!
No YOU'RE seeing Knightmare Live for the fourth time. We're on a quest for Lobster Vodka and the Knickers of Misery!
Ooooh, nasty.
Treguard: “It was the first room! It was supposed to be an anagram!” Lord Fear “Yeah, I tore up all the anagrams, put in a Fright Knight. I’m feeling a bit killy.” Spent yesterday evening at Knightmare Live, aka THE GREATEST THING IN THE ENTIRE WORLD AND THE TRIBUTE MY CHILDHOOD DESERVED. Okay, so, if you’re my age, and grew up in Britain, and your parents let you watch CITV, a formative part of your childhood was watching the Lawful Neutral at best good guys send blindfolded children to their horrible CGI deaths for such crimes as poor spelling and not knowing left from right.* It was like an RPG, on the tellybox, with then-cutting-edge*** special effects. Mention it and people will shout things like “YOU’RE IN A ROOM!” and “sidestep to your left!” and “enter, stranger!” and “spellcasting!” We all really, really wanted to be on it. Even more than we wanted to be on the Crystal Maze. I told people I was going to Knightmare Live and they all went “what, like, ‘sidestep to your left’? OH MY GOD.” And now some absolute heroes have resurrected it as a stage show. My face hurt from laughing. It’s just the perfect amount of affection, acknowledgement of the early-nineties crapness, and crashing headfirst through the fourth wall. (”This isn’t FunHouse! We’re not gonna put you in a ball pool and give you some Scalextric!”) Treguard and Lord Fear have this perfect frenemies Aziraphale-and-Crowley kind of dynamic. We were on a noble quest for enlightenment and Wagon Wheels! We killed five dungeoneers! One of them turned evil and got a cheat code spell from Lord Fear and still died! This dude was in the audience. He is our hero. *Frankly, I think it’s responsible for the popularity of the entire Saw franchise. It awakened an appetite for seeing random strangers dismembered for minor infractions, and got cancelled** before it could be sated. **You were upset by Farscape, Firefly and SGU? Were you young and innocent when Knightmare got cancelled? WERE YOU? *** HAHAHAHA pun intended oh god who else was seriously traumatised by the Corridor of Blades?
Whee! Knightmare Live again! This time, looks like I get to see Lilith! I am excited :D
Knightmare Live is re-launching this year with a new show format and we need your help. Hello, I'm Paul Flannery, the creative director behind Knightmare Live. I also get to play Treguard, which is both great fun and a bit of an honour. Having produced the show for three years (now in its fourth) and with the set and props in dire need of an upgrade, I thought it might be a good opportunity to change the format and bring things closer to the original TV series. In short; Multiple Dungeoneers! Until now there has only ever been one player per show but, with an updated Helmet design and a change of show structure, we'll be able to have several players attempting the same quest. How long will each player last? Who knows? Which room is coming next? No idea. Rest assured though, one false move and it's "Oooh Nasty" ... just like Knightmare!
For anyone who likes Knightmare Live, this looks like one to back.
So, I had a very good time at Nine Worlds, the best convention in the world, which seems to get better every year. For those not in the know Nine Worlds Geekfest is a London convention that set out...
I had a very good time. You can totes go read about it over on the proper blog, along with looking at awesome cosplay photos - both of me and others!
OH MY GOODNESS, KNIGHTMARE LIVE WAS THE BEST THING EVER. THE GUY PLAYING LORD FEAR WAS JUST PERFECT AMD HE LOVED knittedace KNITTED RAINBOW DALEK. SO SO HAPPY.
I have a happy thought that keeps occurring to me lately: Lord Fear from Knightmare Live - when I gave him his Lord Fear t-shirt, he bounced on the spot, then held up and yelled at the rest of the audience "WHERE ARE YOUR TRIBUTES?"
This makes me smile a lot.