Denizens of Seattle - A NEW LIVE ACTION GAME
Bijhan
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So, admittedly, I'm only on this forum because a friend of mine told me this is where I could find like-minded individuals who would enjoy this as much as I do. But hopefully he was right.
I've invented a game a lot like Steve Jackson's "Killer" or Goucher's "Humans vs Zombies", but also very different from both. It requires you have a team of people, a home-made or store bought arsenal of weapons, an area you can make your home playing field, and a lot of free time.
MILITIAMEN - a live-action combat game you're always playing. I have a guide book that's a very brisk read, but the basics boil down like this: You get set up to play another team either on your turf or theirs, then you try and score as many points as possible either by accomplishing unique goals or killing the other side. Then you can also randomly encounter the other team in everyday life, and try and score points off them then (however there is a "safe word" that will take you out of the encounter just in case). Under the right circumstances, you can even take down a whole team and bring their career score to zero.
There's no company here, just a dude in his pajamas with too much spare time and not enough excitement.
Anyone want to play? Send me an email (bijhan [dot] reverend [at] gmail [dot] com) and I'll send you the word document game book.
PLAYERS IN SEATTLE: Register your teams with me for the Seattle game!
PLAYERS OUTSIDE OF SEATTLE: I encourage you to start your own games, even modify the rules, and keep me posted!
*whew* Now I really hope I don't get lambasted for this.
I've invented a game a lot like Steve Jackson's "Killer" or Goucher's "Humans vs Zombies", but also very different from both. It requires you have a team of people, a home-made or store bought arsenal of weapons, an area you can make your home playing field, and a lot of free time.
MILITIAMEN - a live-action combat game you're always playing. I have a guide book that's a very brisk read, but the basics boil down like this: You get set up to play another team either on your turf or theirs, then you try and score as many points as possible either by accomplishing unique goals or killing the other side. Then you can also randomly encounter the other team in everyday life, and try and score points off them then (however there is a "safe word" that will take you out of the encounter just in case). Under the right circumstances, you can even take down a whole team and bring their career score to zero.
There's no company here, just a dude in his pajamas with too much spare time and not enough excitement.
Anyone want to play? Send me an email (bijhan [dot] reverend [at] gmail [dot] com) and I'll send you the word document game book.
PLAYERS IN SEATTLE: Register your teams with me for the Seattle game!
PLAYERS OUTSIDE OF SEATTLE: I encourage you to start your own games, even modify the rules, and keep me posted!
*whew* Now I really hope I don't get lambasted for this.
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I remember being a kid in the late 80s and the cops getting called on us for playing Lazer Tag. God only knows how paranoid people are now.
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As an Iranian-American born and raised here, and having been jerked around by authority figures every day for the past seven years, I take every opportunity to thumb my nose at the police. If they want to try and mess with me for carrying around a neon-orange toy, I will gladly see them in court.
Yeah, like I said, inspired by those kinds of games. But not all of us go to college, or really know people who do. And some of us would like to use a whole city as a battlefield. Or at least parts of it all over the city. Like Camp Long!
Similar game happens in San Fran right now, and it's quickly spreading across the US it seems.
The one in SF is called Killer Assassin (or something like that) and when you apply to play, you give your name, number, atleast 3 places you can be reached physically (though no details are required), and a list of people you know with their mailing addresses and/or phone numbers.
When the contest starts, you get a yellow envelope giving you the skimmy on your "target" who you have to "kill" via watergun, waterballoon, whatever - as long as it is water (you can even make your own hidden watter-wrist gun, i've seen it done) and a list of specific objectives you need to accomplish before you "kill" them and a specific way in which you must "kill" them - like getting them in their sleep, or tricking them into giving you money first, or getting them to shake your hand, etc, etc.
The best part is - once you get your yellow envelope, that means some else has your envelope, as well...and you dont know when or where they're going to strike! Once you hit your opponent, you get their yellow envelope, and thus your next hit.
And oh, did I mention that the list of people you send are potential traitors? yep. Watch out for em. One of them will have their info given to the person woh wants to assassinate you, and usually they'll try to get their help in doing so.
I believe during the competition there will be a website up that will log who has been "assassinated." The user usually gets a pretty decent prize. I wanted to participate so bad....but its like a 3 week long event in SF :-(
Yeah, fucking with cops. Great idea. o_O
Let me know how that works out for you.
But my game is also pretty different. Instead of assassination, it's about small-squad combat and combined weapons tactics. Teams I'm helping form are going to range from two to seven people, but hopefully eventually larger. Not all of the team fights in each skirmish, but instead are chosen depending on the mission and the opponent. There will be escort missions, rescue missions, etc.
Yea man, it's pretty awesome. I want to try it in closed communities, like college campuses and whatnot....Its sounds just oh too fun. *giddy*
Pretty good so far. Seattle cops won't hit you unless you're black. I got lucky with some pale skin, so as long as I stay out of the sun the piggies don't know I'm a raghead. Racists are easy to predict and manipulate, so dealing with a cop is easy as hell if you know what you're doing.
This only happens if you choose to play hardcore. Watching two hardcore players have at each other in 1v1 combat should be entertaining.
Anyway, here's hoping the OP doesn't get arrested or anything.
there is a city full of people that don't want you to use it as a battlefield.
Furthermore you sound like a unbelievable douchebag.
Ya... wow.
I never asked for this!
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Point proven.
I used to live there. Very familiar.
There are bad seeds in every profession. Some of the nicest people I've met are cops. Lose the angry 16 year old attitude and piggy jokes. Hating cops doesn't make you edgy or cool. You sound just as intolerant as those people you're railing against.
Accidentally spraying down a bystander with a foreign liquid? That's a really great idea should it happen. Knowing your luck you're going to get some unbelievably paranoid citizen who's going to have you in cuffs and eating curb before you can blink.
I used to play things like this in the late 80s and early 90s. Fun then, I just wouldn't take the risks in this day and age. *shrug*
No one chooses their race. Every cop chose to be a cop.
Water pistols. As in "squirt squirt", maximum range of two feet, maximum dosage of a teaspoon. Even if you manage a spectacular miss, the worst you've done is given them a little mark on their shirt that will be gone in an hour. Why does everyone assume I'm trying to get me and all my friends arrested? I'm trying to have fun in a large and ever-changing field. I'm not interested in pissing anyone off. If you'd like me to explain the rules or want to join, please keep posting, but I'm no longer responding to flame-war material.
Could you be any more stereotypical?
Can someone move this to DnD or Critical Failures? It doesn't really belong in here anyway.
but more dangerous? I don't see how anything like this would fly over there in the "Americas."
as much as I hate to say it, the 'post 9/11' shit really ruined 80% of organized group activities over there.
group improv is always fun though... except when it isn't.
Facebook organised water fights got in the news here last week, after a girl sprayed a reveller then was punched to the ground by said reveller, who was also drunk
Hahaha I like how he is standing over her in some kind of victory pose
"Take that female of 1/4 my strength and 1/2 my weight. Man I am so tough, nobody will fuck with me"
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It does sound like a crazy over-reaction, but then in Britain parks may be a little different from other places. In London, at least, a lot of people go to the parks during the weekend, if sunny, to sit and drink alcohol with friends*. They might also play sport, but quite often it is just to chill out and have a few drinks with friends. So it isn't necessarily out of order to find drunken guys wandering around a park in the middle of the day. The park they were at is one of the most popular in London as well. So I would have thought that it would be prudent to be careful before spraying red juice on strangers on that basis alone.
That being said, getting punched to the ground is a crazy over-reaction and probably hard to predict if one is a woman and not used to getting into fist fights with men.
*This weirded me out a lot when I moved here, but now I do it myself!