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usernamenumberSome of the GMs and players from Boston Between The Cracks are starting a new campaign that centers around the crew of an old space station, set in the Firefly/Serenity universe. Because some aspects of the game were dependent upon details of the character that owns the station, the GMs pre-cast that role and worked with the player to devise the character concept. Ok, fine, you've pried it out of me, that player is me, and feel really honored to have been asked. =:) So for the past month or so I've been involved in periodic sooper seekrit talks about the premise, character background, etc, and it looks like it's going to be a really neat game. It's set in the Firefly 'verse, but will have no involvement with the major canon characters.
They've also got a really neat system for NPCing (which they call "Guest PCing"), where NPCs will generally play one or two major, game specific, roles instead of the usual larger number of small roles. If I hadn't already been tapped as a PC, I would totally be doing that, and if, like me, you prefer to play characters someone else has written, this is a good place to do it.
Here is the official announcement email from the GMs, full of linky goodness.
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Freed from Alliance control by a new owner, Serendipity Station orbits lazily through the Lagrange points of the gas giant Zeus and its teraformed moons. The massive, aging frontier space station is officially a refueling and cargo transfer station for ships avoiding planetfall. But margins are slim, and the gray side of the law, closer than one might think. Can a private owner make a profit without breaking the law, where the Alliance itself has failed? The station is a last chance for stricken ships, and a haven for traders, both criminal and legitimate, who operate within that hairs breadth of profit and loss. Serendipity Station may be old, but she still possesses secrets, and has at least a few adventures left.
Serendipity Station is a theatre-style (no live combat), character-focused LARP campaign set in the universe of Joss Whedon?s Firefly television series and Serenity movie. Serendipity Station will run approximately 3 games per year, for two years (6 games total). Each game will be a full day, 8-12 hour event. Most (if not all) of the games will be held in Pepperell, MA. The first game is scheduled for April 10th, 2010.
There are two types of player characters (PCs) in Serendipity Station, to accommodate a variety of playing styles. The first are the crew PCs, who form the permanent crew of the station, and create their own characters, with input from the GMs, and play them continuously through the campaign, similar to the sort of PCs found in other campaign LARPs. The second are the guest PCs. These are the ?guest stars?, important characters who visit the station and cross paths with the crew PCs for a single adventure, and receive characters created by the GMs based on the player?s preferences, and tailored for a particular game?s plots. They are similar to the sorts of characters provided for players in a one-shot LARP.
To learn more, check out the Serendipity Station web site:
http://serendipitystation.org
If you have any questions, feel free to contact the GMs at:
gm.serendipitystation@gmail.com
If you are interested and want to be involved, join the Serendipity Station Google group:
http://groups.google.com/group/players-serendipitystation
The deadline for submitting crew character concepts is 11/22/09 (be sure to read the character section of the web site first). Players interested in playing guest PCs just need to join the Google group, we will be sending out a Game 1 signup notice at a later date.
Feel free to pass this email or the web link on to others who you think might be interested, but please do not post to groups or mailing lists without our permission (blog postings are fine).
Thanks,
The Serendipity Station GMs, Lisa, Andy, Lucas, Jeffo and Aaron
They've also got a really neat system for NPCing (which they call "Guest PCing"), where NPCs will generally play one or two major, game specific, roles instead of the usual larger number of small roles. If I hadn't already been tapped as a PC, I would totally be doing that, and if, like me, you prefer to play characters someone else has written, this is a good place to do it.
Here is the official announcement email from the GMs, full of linky goodness.
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Freed from Alliance control by a new owner, Serendipity Station orbits lazily through the Lagrange points of the gas giant Zeus and its teraformed moons. The massive, aging frontier space station is officially a refueling and cargo transfer station for ships avoiding planetfall. But margins are slim, and the gray side of the law, closer than one might think. Can a private owner make a profit without breaking the law, where the Alliance itself has failed? The station is a last chance for stricken ships, and a haven for traders, both criminal and legitimate, who operate within that hairs breadth of profit and loss. Serendipity Station may be old, but she still possesses secrets, and has at least a few adventures left.
Serendipity Station is a theatre-style (no live combat), character-focused LARP campaign set in the universe of Joss Whedon?s Firefly television series and Serenity movie. Serendipity Station will run approximately 3 games per year, for two years (6 games total). Each game will be a full day, 8-12 hour event. Most (if not all) of the games will be held in Pepperell, MA. The first game is scheduled for April 10th, 2010.
There are two types of player characters (PCs) in Serendipity Station, to accommodate a variety of playing styles. The first are the crew PCs, who form the permanent crew of the station, and create their own characters, with input from the GMs, and play them continuously through the campaign, similar to the sort of PCs found in other campaign LARPs. The second are the guest PCs. These are the ?guest stars?, important characters who visit the station and cross paths with the crew PCs for a single adventure, and receive characters created by the GMs based on the player?s preferences, and tailored for a particular game?s plots. They are similar to the sorts of characters provided for players in a one-shot LARP.
To learn more, check out the Serendipity Station web site:
http://serendipitystation.org
If you have any questions, feel free to contact the GMs at:
gm.serendipitystation@gmail.com
If you are interested and want to be involved, join the Serendipity Station Google group:
http://groups.google.com/group/players-serendipitystation
The deadline for submitting crew character concepts is 11/22/09 (be sure to read the character section of the web site first). Players interested in playing guest PCs just need to join the Google group, we will be sending out a Game 1 signup notice at a later date.
Feel free to pass this email or the web link on to others who you think might be interested, but please do not post to groups or mailing lists without our permission (blog postings are fine).
Thanks,
The Serendipity Station GMs, Lisa, Andy, Lucas, Jeffo and Aaron
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Date: 2009-10-25 06:07 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-10-25 07:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-26 02:10 am (UTC)Looking at official pages now....
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Date: 2009-10-26 04:44 am (UTC)Summary: Typo on front page
Repro:
Load http://serendipitystation.org/
Result:
environment is misspelled
Expected:
environment should be spelled correctly
Love,
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...who thinks this sounds awesome!
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Date: 2009-10-26 04:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-05 06:32 pm (UTC)Serendipity Station orbits lazily through the Lagrange points of the gas giant Zeus and its teraformed moons.
That makes _no_ sense.
A Lagrange point is a fixed orbit. It is 'between'[1] 2 astronomical bodies in a fixed orbit to each other. Some Lagrange points are stable (things fall towards them in nearby space, and do not escape), others are unstable (things at the point are stable, but things fall away). You do not, however, move from Lagrange point to Lagrange point in an 'orbit'. It requires significant acceleration to escape one point and move to another.
Being in a Lagrange point relative to the gas giant and its star makes sense. That is, however, probably outside the orbit of the moons.
Being in a Lagrange point relative to the gas giant and a single moon (presumably the largest, but that's not required) make sense.
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Sounds awesome, regardless. Do you have any idea what weekends the games will be? I can't commit to a crew, without some lead time.
[1] Well, with respect to the gravitational fields. 2 of the 5 Lagrange points are outside the orbital paths of both bodies, but that's hardly the point.