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Giffy
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My cousin runs Baxters catering. They do spitroasts and other types of food too.
Their website doesn't seem to be working, but they cater from 25-hundreds (numbers wise) and have a variety of budget ranges too. |
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Giffy
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Tetrajak
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Perhaps a more fitting name would be Doppleganger? Dopplcon for short? Hydra just doesn't seem to have the same ring and connotations that Chimera does.
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Adrexia
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| Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Tetrajak wrote: | | Perhaps a more fitting name would be Doppleganger? Dopplcon for short? Hydra just doesn't seem to have the same ring and connotations that Chimera does. |
What connotations does Chimera have that I'm missing? |
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IdiotSavant
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| Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 8:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Adrexia wrote: | | What connotations does Chimera have that I'm missing? |
Its been running for three years and therefore has a reputation?
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Anna K
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 1:13 am Post subject: |
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| Adrexia wrote: | | What connotations does Chimera have that I'm missing? |
I picked the name Chimera because I thought it sounded cool. And I had the vague logic that a larp convention is sort of like a Chimera because it's, like, one thing made up of a whole bunch of DIFFERENT things. That's...about it.
(Also nobody liked my favourite idea for a name for the larpcon, which was LarpernomiCon)
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Tetrajak
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 7:41 am Post subject: |
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| Anna K wrote: | | Adrexia wrote: | | What connotations does Chimera have that I'm missing? |
I picked the name Chimera because I thought it sounded cool. And I had the vague logic that a larp convention is sort of like a Chimera because it's, like, one thing made up of a whole bunch of DIFFERENT things. That's...about it. |
One beast, many heads. One larper, many characters? That's the general idea people seemed to be tossing around at the post-kapcon drinks. It's also the reason Hydra and Cerberus were the names most suggested on the night (one beast, many heads). While a Doppleganger may have one head, it can appear and act as many other things (in most modern fantasy that I'm aware of). Thus the suggestion.
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Stephanie
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 10:18 am Post subject: |
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I still like Cerberus better but, you know, organisers get naming rights and that's not me.  |
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Anna K
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 1:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Tetrajak wrote: | | One beast, many heads. One larper, many characters? That's the general idea people seemed to be tossing around at the post-kapcon drinks. |
That's all you guys, I'm not that clever  I just liked the sound of Chimera. The original discussion thread for naming Chimera still exists, you can have a look.
| Tetrajak wrote: | | It's also the reason Hydra and Cerberus were the names most suggested on the night |
Actually the reason I suggested Hydra was because mythologically speaking, it was a sibling to Chimera. Going by Adrexia's posts, she suggested Cerberus as springboarding from that idea of mythological family.
| Stephanie wrote: | | I still like Cerberus better but, you know, organisers get naming rights and that's not me. |
I really like Cerberus too. When the NZ larp scene get so big we need a third larp con, we'll call it Cerberus 
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AhGoodTheSea
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| Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 12:01 am Post subject: |
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| Tetrajak wrote: | | One beast, many heads. One larper, many characters? That's the general idea people seemed to be tossing around at the post-kapcon drinks. It's also the reason Hydra and Cerberus were the names most suggested on the night (one beast, many heads). While a Doppleganger may have one head, it can appear and act as many other things (in most modern fantasy that I'm aware of). Thus the suggestion. |
All valid points but one important question remains: Tetrajak, what on *earth* were you doing awake and arguing about this at 7.41 on a SATURDAY MORNING? 
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Tetrajak
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| Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 8:26 am Post subject: |
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| AhGoodTheSea wrote: | | All valid points but one important question remains: Tetrajak, what on *earth* were you doing awake and arguing about this at 7.41 on a SATURDAY MORNING? |
Off topic: Cyberpunk larp props don't paint themselves, and other people wont paint them for me, so I spent most of Saturday painting them myself until heading off to the Amanda Palmer concert. It has been a very busy and long Saturday, but oh, it was worth it. So much progress!
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Adrexia
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| Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Anna K wrote: |
(Also nobody liked my favourite idea for a name for the larpcon, which was LarpernomiCon) |
That's an awesome name.  |
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Adrexia
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| Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Anna K wrote: |
Actually the reason I suggested Hydra was because mythologically speaking, it was a sibling to Chimera. Going by Adrexia's posts, she suggested Cerberus as springboarding from that idea of mythological family. |
Yep. The fact that the siblings also have the multi-headed beast gene is just a happy coincidence.
| Stephanie wrote: | | I still like Cerberus better but, you know, organisers get naming rights and that's not me. |
I like Cerberus better too, but Hydra seems to have a life of it's own now.
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icehawk
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| Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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| IdiotSavant wrote: | | Luke wrote: | T...
2. biannual large scale LARP including Kapcon, or
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Hydra is attempting to address this, since we want to have a flagship larp. But its certainly not the only way to get such games. As noted above, one concern is whether there is a big enough writing pool to produce 3 such games a year (KapCon, Chimera, and Hydra). We may be about to get an answer to that.
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In previous years there has not been a lack of people willing to write a "flagship" LARP for Kapcon. Quite the opposite - it's been seen as the plum venue for those wanting to write a LARP. It's been rare (unique?) for there to competition to write the LARP such that someone got upset over not being selected as the Kapcon LARP writing-team, but still I'm sure you'll find plenty of people keen to write The Big One for Hydra and Kapcon.
Assuming that Wgtn can support 2 big LARPs a year. I think it can. But we will have to see whether Hydra's net impact is to steal players away from Kapcon or increase overall interest. |
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Highwayman
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| Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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Assuming that Wgtn can support 2 big LARPs a year. I think it can. But we will have to see whether Hydra's net impact is to steal players away from Kapcon or increase overall interest. |
It's possible that it'll do both.
It might be that the KapCon LARP becomes the LARP that draws non-LARPers into more frequent LARPing.
(Which would require that more veteran LARPers voluntarily step aside from the the KapCon LARP if there is overflow, which could theoretically happen).
Cheers
Grant
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