The Golden Cobra Challenge is a yearly LARP writing competition. Here is more info about games I wrote for it.
Stardust to Stardust
Players: 3-8 | Runtime: 2-3 hours | Intensity: 3-5/5
This was my entry for the Golden Cobra Challenge 2023.
Stardust to Stardust is a LARP about death, grief, and possession by parasitic deities, in a weird sci-fi setting. Leave your shifting hive mind behind. The first death has severed you from your community, and only the second death remains. Or does it? Come to the Oasis and decide whether to accept a strange blessing.
Memory Palace
Players: 6-33 | Runtime: 4 hours | Intensity: 2-3/5
This was my entry for the Golden Cobra Challenge 2022.
The Monarch of Memories is holding a ball.
All of the monarchs attend.
None can remember, no, nothing at all,
Before the last ball reached its end.
Ten years of alliances, and enemies at war,
At last in the same jeweled palace.
Ten years of memories that bond and that mar
Love and friendship, hatred and malice.
A chance to change, make amends, and become someone new.
Leave behind your past woes and mistakes,
As the Monarch of Memories remembers for you,
Lest your histories repeat in your wakes.
Confront your past selves, monarchs, and choose your domains,
So the cycle continues for new ten year reigns.
Memory Palace is a dreamy fantasy LARP about identity and memory designed to be played in a proximity-based video chat platform like Gather.town where you can build interactive 2D environments and, most importantly, embed Google Docs into specific locations.
An in-person version of the game was run at Be-Con 2023. https://2023.beconlarp.com/events/5478-memory-palace
#BossBabe
Players: 4-7 PCs 4+ NPCs | Runtime: 3 hours | Intensity: 3-4/5
This was my entry for the Golden Cobra Challenge 2021.
#BossBabe is a game about multi-level marketing (MLM), and specifically how MLM companies prey on women’s hopes and fears and push them to be horrible to each other and their friends and families. It’s also about how MLM companies often operate like cults. This is before even getting into the financial impact of MLMs on the people who buy into them. Essentially, #BossBabe is about the road to hell being paved with good intentions… well, aside from the intentions of the people at the very top of the pyramid.
The game is played over Discord, with a combination of video chats and text chats, using Discord’s roles, permissions and different types of channels to simulate video calls, livestreams, social media, and group chats.
Right now, this game is still in playtesting.
The Confluence
Up until very recently, you thought you were a normal person. Then something changed inside you. Something woke up. Now you’re different, stronger, able to do impossible things, know impossible knowledge. You don’t know why, though. All you do know for sure, is that one day shortly after these discoveries, you felt powerfully drawn to somewhere in your world. You traveled there, only to find a window in the fabric of reality. Something felt so, so familiar about this place, about these circumstances. You approached the window, and through it you saw others like you, but could not reach them physically, only through your voice. That is where you stand now, drawn to the confluence of universes. Maybe now you’ll finally have some answers.
The Confluence is an American Freeform game where you play lonely gods that have recently regained their memories of what they are. They meet at a confluence of worlds that only occurs once every 100 years. As memories come to the surface, they realize that they have a terrible choice to make. This is a game about memory, love, loneliness, guilt, immortality, and making difficult decisions.
This was my entry for the Golden Cobra Challenge 2020. It’s a four page LARP intended to be played online, and uses a shared online deck of cards and has mechanics for players editing each other’s character sheets.
Content warning: death/murder, existential horror, relationship problems, character to character antagonism, player generated content