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This is Northeast LARP News, a site for LARP-related event announcements in the Northeast United States. (Which I define roughly and arbitrarily as anything within a day's surface travel of Boston.)

We're interested in new LARP campaigns and existing games doing special events, LARP conventions, LARP workshops, LARP book readings, or anything else happening in New England, New York, and the Mid-Atlantic states that might be of interest to LARPers.

If you're running something like this or just hearing about it yourself, please e-mail it to me at nelarpnews@gmail.com!

A Feast of Ice and Fire with Pandemonium

Not a LARP, but maybe of interest to LARPers. From Pandemonium Books and Games via e-mail:

Join us for the Feast of Ice & Fire at the Tavern in the Square, on Friday, Sept. 28th at 7pm. This will be a six course meal. Cost is $50, plus beverages.

The menu will include:

• Sister's Stew
  
• Crusty White Bread (for the table throughout the meal)
  
• Onions in Gravy
  
• Sweetcorn Fritters
  
• Wild Board
  
• Wintercakes
  

Our goal is to provide a culinary tour of the Seven Kingdoms. Chelsea Monroe-Cassel and Sariann Lehrer, authors of the cookbook A Feast of Ice & Fire, will be on hand to answer any questions and sign copies of the book. Copies of the book are available on our website and in our store right around the corner from the tavern! As part of the arrangement with Tavern In The Square, we must submit a final head count no later than Sept. 14th in order for this event to go forward. They need to order special ingredients. To sign up, please email Tyler at general@pandemoniumbooks.com

Click through to the Pandemonium event page for links to pictures of some of the menu items.

The recipes used in this meal hail from the cookbook written by the authors of The Inn at the Crossroads, a blog of recipes recreating dishes from the A Song of Ice and Fire books by George R. R. Martin. The blog features among other things some of the most gorgeous food photography I've ever seen on a cooking blog. Highly recommended, but only if you want to be hungry.

Edit 2012-09-08 14:54: Per a question on Reddit (hi Reddit!), the Pandemonium event page confirms this is at the Tavern in the Square in Central Square (730 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA), just around the corner from Pandemonium itself.

Time Bubble sign-ups are open!

Sign-ups for Time Bubble (previously), the RPI fall LARP weekend, are now open! Looks like another good weekend of games. FairEscape has reviews of the games up here.

Mad About the Boy sign-ups close Saturday!

Sign-ups for Mad About the Boy (previously: here, here, video) close on Saturday, September 8. Twitter informs me that they have seven open spots left, so if you've been torn about signing up, now's the time!

SLAW sign-ups open tomorrow!

General public sign-ups for SLAW at WPI (previously: here, here) open tomorrow, Friday, September 7, at 7p. At least one of the smaller games is nearly full from student and GM sign-ups alone, so expect things to go fast. It looks like they've got a really good schedule of games up, so it should be a good time.

Once Upon a Time in Tombstone @RPI

From FairEscape/Lime Shirt LARPing via e-mail:

Finally, the news you've all been waiting for. Lime Shirt LARPing is proud to present the UK Freeforms weekend-long "Once Upon a Time in Tombstone", a game set in the Wild West of legend. Gamble with Doc Holliday, serve law and order with Wyatt Earp, and shoot against Annie Oakley. The game is running October 26-28th at RPI's Sage Labs. The fee is, as always, $25. This time, you have the option of either paying the full $25 up front, or paying $15 now and $10 at the game. You can find the signup form at TinyUrl.com/TombstoneLARP . If you have any questions about the game, let me know at limeshirtlarping@gmail.com . Thanks, and I'll see y'all on the trail.

From discussion over e-mail, the game is definitely looking for outside players -- "those huge weekend long games tend not to fill, and the more players the better." It sounds like a fun time!

SLAW Schedule is Up!

The game schedule for SLAW, the WPI SFS LARP weekend, is now live! Looks like they've got a lot of well-reviewed games running.

Reliable sources inform me that this is a great time to sign up for the event. Game sign-ups open for current WPI students in a week, on Friday, August 31 at 7PM, and for the general public in two weeks, on Friday, September 7 at 7PM. Game sign-ups are first-come, first-served, so you don't want to be still busy signing up for the con when that game you want fills.

They're also still looking for games! Information about how to bid is on the site.

(h/t FairEscape)