2009 Events
The world of Ascendancy is changing, the portals have all but closed, and those that are open are occupied by armies and rigid controls on who is allowed through, some such as Salem are currently totally out of bounds, travel will take time, real time, characters be that NPC or PC's can no longer easily dart about the world solving everyone's problems. Continents will become more isolated and more involved in their own internal conflicts, and a arms race will develop which will see the rise of new technologies, and fights to prevent industrialisation.
The 2009 Ascendancy season will consist of 4 core events.
Running alongside these will several smaller events for Groups of 5 or more players, these will be run in and around the North Midlands and in and around the South West.
The Aims
To create a lower level of plot than last year, world shattering plot will be a mere undercurrent and have no impact on events, also to create plot more accessible to new players, that does not involve knowledge of back stories and existing characters, many new characters to interact with will gradually be introduced.
Also we would like to organise plot geared towards players and groups they belong to, this needs the players involved to provide feedback and information to refs.
A greater depth of plot will be created around single continents. Players are encouraged to form groups, temporary alliances, create new characters for the different continents if they wish, and involve others from there region.
Continue with the mix of formats, while Ascendancy is primarily a LARP system, the game will also continue in the form of table top battles, skirmishes, sea battles and Strategy, Group PBEMs, even table top role-play all these are designed to enhance the world, involve others and bring the world to life so between Larp events things do not remain static.
The Rise of the Machine will be a theme for next year, this will be arms race between continents and factions that will see the growth of the Steam Punk feel about Ascendancy.
Core Events
These will be weekend events of pure live role-play.
Group Events
Aimed at groups of 5 or more players these can take many forms be it one day linear, two day linear, pub meets for one evening, 1 day role-play followed or preceded by a one day table top battle, the groups can discuss what and when they want a event and the local refs will hopefully be able to accommodate your wishes.
In the North Midlands events will be coordinated ref AndyL, most probably run at Shinning Cliff.
In the South West events will be coordinated by refs Graham(Grum) and JeffW, who will be looking at locations in the new year.
Overall coordination of events will be by head ref AndyL who will be ensuring that things remain consistent, linked and the underlying story continues.
Just because your from the North Midlands does not stop you going to events the South West or visa versa, and events coordinated by Grum/Jeff may still attended AndyL and visa versa.
Page last updated on 31/1/09
