Hi! So, I've not really touched this website for years. It's fallen into disrepair and it would be irresponsible of me to pretend I'll ever have time to work on it again.

So, I'm going to mothball the site/set it to read-only. I've disabled the login links because they stopped working any I don't remember enough about how the site works to figure out how to fix them.

If any thing *really* needs updating (deadnaming-level stuff), let me know and I'll go in on the backend and make changes.

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LARP
Epitaphs
Date
@ 9 a.m.
Convention

Intercon N

Location
Radisson Hotel, Chelmsford, MA, USA
Notes

Run at Intercon N

Description

by Katherine (Kath) Bryant and Erika (Eeeeka) Emrick

One passed in a fever, One was burned in a mine, One was killed in a brawl, One died in a jail, One fell from a bridge toiling for children and wife- All, all are sleeping, sleeping, sleeping on the hill.

The people of Spoon River a century ago were no different than anyone else, in their lives or their deaths. When they died, they took with them unfinished business and lifetime regrets, secrets and sorrows, lies, half-truths, and mistaken beliefs. But still they rest quietly in the cemetery on the hill.

But now, with a new reservoir about to flood the town, the cemetery must be moved. A secret uncovered about one of the town’s leading citizens wakes the ghosts of Spoon River, bringing them together one last time to discover the truth of what happened -- to him and to themselves.

How will they be remembered? And who gets to decide?

This game is based on Edgar Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology. Knowledge of the poems is not required, as there may be some changes to make the game work (and we’d actually prefer that players not go re-read the poems, since they do give away some characters’ secrets!). The characters are from the early 1900s in small-town Illinois.

This is a roleplay-heavy, mechanics-almost-nonexistent game focused on the interactions between the characters. Sensitive topics include (past) rape, abortion, and murder.