TagCon 2024

The game team presented in support of A Life on the Edge Game 5 at TagCon 2024 this weekend.

Here we outlined rule changes we expect to come before Game 5, soliciting ideas on how to implement them in a way that would work well for our style of LARP. We got some really good feedback on this to work with.

Speaking of feedback, we did a post-event survey for participants in Game 4. The results formed a large chunk of our presentation. As it was the first time we've done a survey we learned some lessons in the doing, but the output was still useful despite the small number of responses.

The slides from the presentation are here.

Dropzone 2024

We are pleased to announce that Game 5 of A Life on the Edge will feature at Dropzone 2024 (24/5 - 27/5 2024), in the Saturday afternoon and evening slot. Yes that's right folks we're expanding to a longer format.

See booking for Dropzone 2024 here and general information about Extraction Point on the UKLTA Facebook group.

Game 4 - Waterfall

Waterfall

The Operators again returned to the Cybar to work deals and make some Eddies.

While there had been a big showdown with Maelstrom at the end of Game #3 after the Militech hardware auction didn't go WarCrimes' way everybody was back on their feet and ready for action.

Linears and Events of note

• Shady dealings
• Anton arranged a meeting between Orphan and the info broker Shades who might know more about how to get at Deutsche Allgemeine Distributed.
• Guilt trip
• A Nomad, Mary Goodheart, arrived at the Cybar asking if the operators knew of anybody that could investigate the bombing of their encampment. She had quite distressing pictures of the devastation.
• The Operators weren't very forthcoming and Goodheart began speaking to a group of Faceless that were also present.
• After Goodheart left with the Faceless the Operators came to the conclusion this might be related to the missile launch caused by them in the Militech raid in Game #2.
• Lost property
• A devotee of The Inquisition arrived at the Cybar asking for the return of a copy of their Holy Book 'At One with Body and Soul' which they believe the Operators have taken. The Operators denied any knowledge.
• Assault on Precinct 2077
• Adam tasked the players with extracting one of Scars Alice's Corporate informants, Derek Wiseman from Corporate Police custody. He is valuable to her and has access to information related to Project Waterfall.
• There was an intense gunfight with the deadlock being broken by Rusty and Spectrum engaging the guards with their new Cyber-enhanced strength, hand-to-hand. Carnage ensued.
• Along with Derek, a Maelstrom lieutenant, 'Stacks Wylde' was in the cells and he ended up dead.
• Once extracted, Derek explained that the information he was trying to exfiltrate was contained in the data banks of a new, terrifying, generation of bodyguard Drones he'd been working on at Arasaka. This is Project Waterfall. More Drones have been produced than are on the books and these are being siphoned off for sale on the black market. He provided the Operators with a means to track the Drones and hopefully recover the evidence.
• Plausible deniability
• Anton offered up another simple paying job doing a courier run for Petrochem.
• The Operators smartly avoided the opposing team sent to intercept the document case and delivered in double-quick time.
• Drones
• Unfortunately the Project Waterfall Assassin drones Derek spoke of tracked activity in the area to the Cybar and they arrived looking for him. Terrible things of Titanium, Composite and wielding monofilament blades. Perhaps they tracked the Operators on the Petrochem job, as normally Adam's Null Field keeps automated things away.
• Chaos ensued with many Operators seriously injured. Some played dead and some fled.