Intercon Mid-Atlantic Hotel Deadline! PDF Print E-mail
Written by Gordon Olmstead-Dean   
Tuesday, 16 October 2007 03:49
IMA has pushed to 96 reg. Our normal reg is about 100, and we were at 106 last year. So...help us go over the top for an even bigger year in this year's bigger function space!!! As you probably know, Intercon Mid-Atlantic is just a little over a month away. That's why you are getting this reminder to make your hotel reservation, if you haven't already. TODAY, October 16, 2007, is the final day the IMA room block will be available. On Wednesday, October 17, 2007, any remaining rooms in the Intercon block will be released to the public. To make reservations, please call the Atlantic Sands Hotel at 1-800-422-0600, and be sure to mention Intercon. IMA room rates are $80/night single/double, $95/night triple, and $110/night quad, plus 8% tax. THE HOTEL IS FULL. THE ONLY ROOMS REMAINING AVAILABLE ARE IN THE INTERCON ROOM BLOCK. For more about the great games, follow the jump or go to http://ima.larpaweb.net There are other hotels nearby, but if you don't get your room today you WON'T be in the main hotel, and unlike in previous years, there are no rooms for us to pull out of our ass for people. To make reservations, please call the Atlantic Sands Hotel at 1-800-422-0600, and be sure to mention Intercon. IMA room rates are $80/night single/double, $95/night triple, and $110/night quad, plus 8% tax. There is a two (2) night minimum stay on weekends. All reservations must be guaranteed by providing a one night's room + tax deposit by cash, check, or major credit card. Reservations may be canceled at least 72 hours prior to arrival date; however, a $25 administrative fee will be charged for all cancellations. Any reservations canceled within 72 hours of the arrival date will result in forfeiture of the full deposit amount. If you have any questions about the hotel, please feel free to contact me! NOW TAKE A LOOK AT THE GREAT GAMES WE HAVE AT INTERCON MID-ATLANTIC Please pass this along to anyone you know who may be interested in the Convention! Login and check out the site: FRIDAY In the Jungle - Friday 8pm by Susan Weiner, John D'Agosta Here's the underside. Some people are crazy. Some saw things they couldn't take. Some did things they couldn't take. Some are dreamers that walked out on the world, and some are poor people the world walked out on. A high-character, low-plot storytelling game that takes place around a hobo campfire. Mayday - Friday 9pm by Mike Young and Ghost Writer, presented by Andrew Zorowitz of Foam Brain Productions Are you a traitor to the Glorious Communist Revolution? Find out now. This minigame, originally written to be part of Nightmare Before St. Patrick's Day, runs fine as a standalone game. Tripping the Flip Wire - Friday 8pm by Eric Johnson A number of friends and acquaintances end up at the same restaurant one night; an evening of talking and drinking ensues. An experiment in Realism, this event contains no conventional plots or pacing controls. Drinking excessively will be simulated by drinking with a modicum of moderation. SATURDAY The F.A.R.M Presents the Trial of the Big Bad Wolf, to Be Immediately Followed By His Execution, In Honor of Our 1st Anniversary - Saturday 9am by Nat Budin, Josh Rachlin, Josh Sheena, Sage Shepperd The Free Animals' Republic of MacDonald Presents the Trial of the Big Bad Wolf, to Be Immediately Followed By His Execution, In Honor of Our First Anniversary. One year ago, Old MacDonald's farm animals rose up against him, threw off the chains of agricultural oppression, and founded the overtly fascist Free Animals' Republic of MacDonald. Today, on the first anniversary of that glorious revolution, the F.A.R.M. is holding a gala ball in celebration, culminating in the trial of a most notorious criminal. A Serpent of Ash - Saturday 9am by J. Tuomas Harviainen, presented by Eric Johnson This Exhibition LARP for the LARPA Small Games Contest is one we are particularly proud to host - A larp about the dark side of religion: What happens when former cult members meet again? What has been left unsaid? A discourse-oriented game for 6-12 players that has been run at major conventions in Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Italy and the United Kingdom. ACTIVITY - Geocaching - Adventure, Treasure, AND Fresh Air - Saturday 9am by Kit Wellner Not a game but a fun Intercon Activity - Geocaching - using billion-dollar government satellites to find tubs of Tupperware in the woods. A brief overview, a pleasant walk around the hotel area, and some swag! You know you're curious ...... Wolfpack - Saturday 9am by Moira Parham An all wolf game of dominance and survival, loosely inspired by the world of Bill Willingham's Fables (Wolves). Isla Perdida - Saturday 1pm (PLAYERS OUT OF PROJECT DIANA MIGHT LIKE ISLA PERDIDA) by Jerry "Bear" Wellner Isla Perdida is a Cthulhu Live game set on an uncharted island. Players will be the survivors of a plane crash into the nearby ocean who have managed to drag themselves to the mysterious nearby shore. Dark jungles and darker mysteries await those who have already survived a tragedy at sea. Happily Ever After - Saturday 1pm by Moira Parham and Shelly Mohnkern Set in Bill Willingham's "Fables" universe, this is the story of Fairy Tale characters living in modern New York City, trying to win back their conquered Homelands, while keeping their existence in the "mundane" world a secret. Come celebrate Remembrance Day! The Prearranged Pitfall: An Interactive Theatre Story - Saturday 1pm by Hank Kuhfeldt King Snapdragon's Holdings have been slowly merging with that of another Lord, causing tension which has led to war. There has been a truce made and the two courts will come together to negotiate. Love, lust, deception and plotting will occur; and then there's the entire war to discuss! The Raggedy Edge - Firefly/Serenity - Saturday 7pm by James Spahn The Raggedy Edge is a Firefly/Serenity rules-lite LARP that has a browncoated drifters, triad ciminals and Alliance special agents playing a dangerous game of cat and mouse in a lawless space-station on the edge of deadly Reaver space... Requiem TTG - Friday 8pm and Saturday 7pm by Michael Gray, Larry Wile, Rod O'Malley, Gabriel Balmes Come! Play Vampire with us! We don't suck! The Bard of Avalon - Saturday 7pm by Cynthia Wakefield "The Bard of Avalon" consists of approximately twenty of Shakespeare's tragedies and comedies, playing themselves out simultaneously for the amusement of the adolescent Bard among the nobles and servants of the Faerie Courts. Grimmer Tales: Arabian Nights - Saturday 7pm by Will Wagner The second in the Grimm Tales series, this takes place in the Middle East of the modern day... The characters from the Arabian Nights Tales clash with the modern world. Majestic – A Cthulhu Live Event - Saturday 7pm by Greg Agostini, Matt Start, Mark Shireman Join PST Productions for "Majestic " and discover the origins of the entity know as Majestic-12. For more then an alien space ship was found in that New Mexico desert… SUNDAY An Un-Conventional Odyssey - Sunday 10am by Kirt Dankmyer, Jon Lemich Your car has broken down. While you're trying to get to the convention you were headed toward, you keep encountering people of varying degrees of uselessness... This is a "Horde" game: Either you'll be playing one of the people in the car, or you'll play several entertainingly "useless" characters... One Life - Sunday 10am by Anandi Gandolfi There are times in all lives that stand out. Events that bring a smile to out face or a tear to our eye. These nare the moments that define us. That make us truly human.n One Life is a Theater style game focussed on the exploration of the human condition, And the flawed nperfection that is the Human soul. And They Were As Gods - Sunday 9am by Carol Young, Dan Kolligan, Andrew Zorowitz and the Foam Brain Staff As members of Old Mimi's cult, you've worked long and hard to bring about the end - and now your plans are finally nearing fruition.
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