LARP

ZenkaiLARP is played using the Nexus game system. An informational meeting will be held early on Friday of the convention about game mechanics, and the LARP staff will always help show you how to play! Check your schedule for meeting times. If you have any other questions, feel free to contact us. You can also join our Facebook group, where we’ll have information, and updates leading up to the game!

Pre-Register

We would like to proclaim our pre-reg is officially OPEN from now until January 15th at Midnight! However, we need you to read the following about how to submit your character choices as well as to understand our rules on these options.

This year we are announcing that in addition to anime, manga, and most video game characters, we will be allowing characters from a specific themed category – kids and teens 16 and under!

(16 and under in proven canonical time, where they are that age for the majority of the show/series/movie/book/game/etc. If they are a non-human species that ages differently, so long as they are approximately that equivalent age. If we are questioning their age, we will ask for proof you can provide of their age.)

To pre-register your character, email the following to zkklarp@gmail.com: 

1) Your real, full name
2) What name you want to be called
3) Your pronouns
4) Your top three character choices, and the series they are from, in the order, 1 to 3, of who you would like to play,
5) How much you would like us to mess with your character on a 1-5 scale, 1 being very little and 5 being LOL all the messing with. [Messing with meaning there might be game or character changing surprises, connections, or otherwise you want to be at the GMs mercy :)]

If one of your character choices is a theme character, your other two choices must be an anime or video game character if we cannot accept your category theme character. We will always contact you if we cannot accept your theme character and give you another chance to think of one before we accept your choice 2 or 3!

Please remember, we GMs are only Human. We will do everything we can to accept a character but there are limitations, based on the character and how they will scale to the system or plot, as well as limitations of our time if none of us have watched/read/etc what this character comes from. We only have so much time and cannot devote time to reading an entire book, playing an entire game, watching an entire TV series, etc, and we like to know the characters in order to provide you with the best LARP experience.

TEASER 1:

(An upbeat peppy voice reads a radio ad -)

Goooooood morning kids and kids at heart, are you ready for the summer? I know what you’re thinking, I hate summer, it’s hot and there are bugs. Well we can’t fix that but we can give you so much fun you won’t care!

Picture a beautiful lakeside camp where you can hike, canoe, make new friends and have the time of your life. Now imagine no more, it’s Camp Karmatates! A camp for champions and also other children. Camp Karmatates has the endorsement of some of the leading lights in business and politics, and that always means quality.

This year we even have what we’re generously describing as a documentary crew here to observe the greatness. Our new camp director’s assistant has been on sight for months without power or heat to make sure we are prepared for you. Camp Karmatates, challenge your summer!

TEASER 2:

Counselor: Alright kids! Ready to hop on the bus and get to your amazing summer at Camp Karmatates?

Kid 1: Hell yeah! You know what I heard? I heard that camp Karmatates is built on an ancient demon city and that the cabins are arranged in such a way that a ritual will summon the demon king back to the world to grant you a wish. And that the friendship bracelets are actually part of the ritual.

Counselor: what? No. Quite an active imagination, but Ive been working there for a while and even went as a kid and I can promise you no demons. Though if you like arts and crafts…

Kid 2 (interrupting): Nah, that’s not it. Camp Karmatates is actually a secret testing and training facility for space soldiers. All the swimming courses are designed to simulate other planets to train you to fight the evil Zorpean empire. It’s why I packed a jacket for when I get to pilot my mech into space.

Counselor: What on earth are you talking about?

Kid 1: My big brother told me the woodland animals sometimes snatch campers and take them to play high stakes games of politics in the animal kingdom.

Counselor: Animal Kingdom?

Kid 2: I heard the counselors burned a man to death there, and now his spirit seeks revenge on campers the one place they can’t be defended, IN THEIR DREAMS!

Counselor: That’s Nightmare on Elm Street. That’s not even the slasher movie set in a summer camp, why would you pick that one? (He pauses to compose himself.) Listen, you seem to think there’s some world ending threat waiting for you and there’s not. If you keep looking for something like that you’re going to miss what’s great about our camp. Instead of fighting dragons or becoming the ultimate hero, why don’t you guys try focusing on earning merit badges, making friends, and getting a partner for the big dance.

There’s no big secret I’m not telling you, just the promise of a truly memorable summer, and maybe if you’ve got so much energy you can leave the camp a little bit nicer than you found it. Am I crazy for thinking that sounds like so much fun?

Kid 1: I heard there’s robots

Counselor: No it’s the children who are wrong. (Turns to audience) Literally they are wrong, I’m telling you as a GM there is no dark secret under our camp, There is no JJ Abrams puzzle box in this teaser. Heck it might actually be a good year to play a more mundane or slice of life character you’ve been eyeing. Though of course Camp Karmatates can find something for everyone who comes.

Kid 2: Who are you talking to?