Last updated June 28, 2002.
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This is the homepage of an episodic Changeling LARP that has been running as a series of mini-chronicles and connected one-shots since 1998. The last game was held Saturday, June 22, 2002 at Boston University. Whether there is ever another installment depends on general interest, including my own. If you feel like reading through it, the Site map / table of contents leads to a lot of background info and house rules, including conversions from tabletop for things like dark-kin and merfolk or various Merits and Flaws. Feedback for those especially is always appreciated; I'm especially interested in whether other Changeling storytellers find them useful.
In the meantime, here are brief summaries of the last couple of games. These could be fleshed out and get their own pages at some point. As for the last game, while I am not asking for "chrons," if you would care to send me at any time your version of events, I could at some point blow off dissertation work by trying to build everything into a coherent narrative.
Would this new Arrangement continue to keep Novanglia out of the civil war? Would the army of Dark-Kin massing to the north bring a more terrible war to the Kingdom of Apples? Would either of the new co-rulers of Novanglia go mad or missing before the next game?
The Asterlan/Sean sightings turned out to be real: Duke Sean was Asterlan's reincarnation, which he remembered when he went into the Dreaming on a personal quest over a year ago. He led Thom, a troll, and Leopold, a pooka, to an alcoholic homeless man who, it was later realized, was none other than the long-missing High King David, permanently Undone.
An eshu freedom fighter managed to get unofficial Novanglian aid in forcibly reforming the oppressive Duchy of Granite (NH). Granite is to become a part of Novanglia, with representatives on Parliament, but its own "Home Rule."
An attack from Queen Mab, meant to recover the renegade province of Novanglia, was imminent, until Mab's own bases were attacked by the forces of Eloise, Admiral of Nightmare, remembered in Novanglia as a carefree childling troll with pretensions of piratehood.
Chancellor Sir Daniel performed the become-a-fomorian ritual that Duke Nicholas did last year.
Thom the troll, a reluctant fae, performed his own ritual (provided by the dragon-sage Grimfang) that transferred his fae soul into a wand, which he then chose to pass on to David, who re-chrysalized as a troll with all of David's memories. Baroness Jacqueline stepped down in David's favor.
A full-scale nightmare invasion of Novanglia via a gate at the palace of the Wire Man (a strange chimera from the 1998 chronicle who later died mysteriously), led by Duke Nicholas the Betrayer himself (as a Fomorian of the Red Court), was foiled ultimately when Matthias Scroop, aided by Amadeus Crabtree, hooked up the silver ball found on Cape Cod into one of the Wire Man's machines that forced the gate closed. Unfortunately, in order to work it properly, Scroop had to become the new Wire Man.
During the battle that raged while the nockers got the machine working, Duke Asterlan was killed by Nicholas.
Archive of Midsummer 2000 background materials
