Firefly: Last Chance is finished - what next?
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Published on Wednesday, 16 March 2011 03:29
Firefly: Last Chance, which I co-organized with Deb F, is finally finished - the event was held, with some success, this past Saturday, March 12th, at the Art Gallery of Alberta in Edmonton. I don't have exact attendance numbers on me, but we were somewhere in the 80-90 range. Not too bad at all - more people than our first Firefly event, but fewer than our second. I'm pretty happy with how things went off, though it gets increasingly difficult writing one-shot characters who have been at a couple of different events - you don't feel you can just cut players free to make their own plot, but at the same time those characters are as much theirs as yours after a point, and you just don't feel you have the same authority to write material for them unilaterally. And, of course, old plot threads stack up pretty quickly and make a complicated mess, too. I think we reached a good point with Firefly: Last Chance, it certainly had a decent climax, but I also think it was a wise decision not to do any more in that continuity, though we haven't ruled out revisiting the 'verse sometime in the future with a new setting and characters.
If you want to know a bit more about Firefly: Last Chance, you might want to check out the link to Apocalypse Productions (should be over on your right somewhere if you're reading this from postmodernanachronism.com). No real event details or the like up at the moment though, but at least we actively kept the webpage updated this time 'round.
What am I doing next? Of course, I'm always taking suggestions, but for the short term at least I think I'm just going to crank out a couple of Houses of the Blooded events in my The World Has No Mercy continuity - in Edmonton on April 30th, then at FragCon in Regina and SLARPCon in Saskatoon. Producing those is more work than a monthly game, but in less frequent bursts, and certainly way less work than big event LARPs like Firefly or, on a smaller scale, Methuselah Club or my old Mithras Sextet Masquerade games. Give me a little bit of time to gather some energy for big events in the future.
Of course, I did say I was open to suggestions, too. ;)
