Information & Schedule

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Creative Input

After Casting is announced, we'll send a preliminary copy of your character sheet and contact you for information about your individual characters.  You'll get a chance to choose a name, submit a few paragraphs of back-story/more in-depth personality, select roles in some previous films, and more.  We'll then compile this for public distribution in the open-secrets area of the game.  This information will be due to us by July 10th, and published on July 14th.  

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Preplay

For On Location, you’ll need to do some preplay – some thinking about your character, and some contact and communication with the other players, in advance of the larp itself. This needn’t take up a lot of time – but we do need everyone to do at least the minimum amount. This way, when play starts, your characters will all know everything they ought to know about each other, and there’ll be a rich shared background of material that you can all draw upon.

What if I’m busy and don’t really have time for preplay?

It really is just a few hours that’s required, spread over a period of several weeks – you can put in just ten or fifteen minutes at a time. And we will be here to help, in any way that you need.  If you really  have no time but want to play, the Creative Team can get involved, and there *may* be an opportunity Friday before the game for some last minute meetups.

What’s it going to involve?

There are two minimum components:

• Deciding some details about your character, such as their name, and other ‘public’ facts that everyone would know about them.

• Contacting the players of the other characters with whom you have defined relationships, and making sure that you’re both happy with how the relationship will work.
  (We'll have three *opt-in* ways you can do this using FB Messenger/Discord messaging, Email, and Virtual Discord meet-ups.)

And then this, which is optional, for those of you who are keen to invent stuff:

• Contributing to the filmography – a list of previous films which characters in the group might have been involved with, and the stories that might have arisen around them.

Timetable

Note that you can start on any of these tasks sooner than this if you like, and take longer on them if you like.  If you contact another player early, and they don’t respond to you right away, please don’t chase them for it: we will make sure that everyone responds by the time indicated here.