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Labor Day Weekend 2009 is

LARP THE FORCE WEEKEND!

We are still working on the lineup, but we can announce that we will be bringing at least Future's Hope, the All Jedi, All the Time game to the Chicago area on Saturday, September 5th, 2009. We hope to have another game the next day so that we will have both the light and the dark, the black and the white, the ying and yang of the Star Wars mystic sh*t mythos, all wrapped up in two action-packed days of LARPing over Labor Day Weekend this year.

WATCH THIS SPACE FOR MORE DETAILS COMING SOON!

Future Events:

British Invasion II: October 10th, 2009

The first one was sooo much fun that the Brits were already talking about 2009 on the way to the airport!

(They are mad, you know.)

Watch this space for further details later this summer.

Loose Talk and Idle Rumors:

Rumor 1: Will anyone else be bringing games to the Extended Chicago Metro Area this year? It seems so. Grab your light sabers, and may the Force be with you!

Rumor 2: Finally, there are those among you who, when we said that Meddling Kids was the last Whately we promised to do, conveniently missed the key word in that statement, "promised." You were convinced our addiction to sawdust and styrofoam beebles was such that we could never go more than a year without a fix. You were wrong. But then, when we took only a single year off before announcing Tomorrow Is Not Enough, you said, "See, we knew you couldn't stay away--we knew it wouldn't be the last Whately." Well, again, we never said it would be. We just said that we are no longer promising to run them every year. But those of you who are expecting us to jump right back off the wagon and do another one this year will be disappointed again. Like we said, there wasn't one in 2008, and there definitely will not be one in 2009 either.

But take heart: It is said that on the darkest of nights in foggy Inverness, when the streets are deserted and winds howl through the village hall towers like Big Al himself looking for a dame and a gin, if you listen very carefully you can hear the whispers of the beginnings of a Plan. It is said this plan is black. It is said this plan is cold. It is said this plan involves good souls driven mad by the horrific alien doom facing humanity, their screams drifting vainly into the depths of space. It is said that this plan involves slime. Lots and lots of slime. And the odd Winnebago. It is said this plan is called The Curse of Whately's Moonbase, and that missions will launch in 2010!

Watch this space for news. Rumor also has it that planning and construction crews are already forming, so if you are interested in helping out please shoot us a note here.

Recent Events:

Tapas de Larpas Tres

Thanks for coming, we had a blast!

This event occurred on Memorial Day weekend, May 23rd-24th, 2009

Third time's the charm!

Tapas de Larpas is now a two-day gathering of a few dedicated Larpers who come together for a day of small, experimental games, or at least that's what we keep telling ourselves. The basic idea is that if the games are short, then the worst that can happen if a game truly sucks is that you've blown an hour or so. But there's usually decent Chinese and a fair amount of port to be had which always helps.

Final game announcements are out and registration is now open! The docket includes Klingon Group Therapy!, Diamond Geezers, Time Travel Review Board and Fortunate the Man with None.

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