Imaginary Consequences, November 19–22, 2015, Naish Holiday Village, Christchurch, Dorset
Burning Orchid |
Set in 1932 at the party celebrating the wrap of location filming for a
Hollywood movie. Burning Orchid is an immense blockbuster, detailing
the
passionate heart of a claustrophobic forbidden love story set in the jungle
villages of Guatemala against a background of a country riven by political
turmoil. And that’s not just the movie! Glamorous cast, intense emotions, a
steamy situation, secrets past and present – who knows what might happen, but
fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night. |
| Author(s): | Ben Allen, Nickey Barnard, Martin Jones, Heidi Kaye and Alison Rider Hill | ||||
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| Game EMail: | heidi DOT kaye AT blueyonder DOT co DOT uk | ||||
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| Lead GM: | Heidi Kaye | ||||
| Organization: | Peaky Games | ||||
| Information for Players: | Character sheets and background will be about 6 pages long. 1930s costuming
suitable for an evening event is encouraged for atmosphere.
The theme is intensely emotional, centering on romance. It is not suitable for under-18s. Players need to be willing to play characters in romantic situations and with various sexualities, as all characters have romance. The game deals with adult themes like illegitimacy, and sexual orientation. Character backgrounds may include references to murder, war trauma, romantic liaisons with disastrous consequences (e.g unwanted children or miscarriage) and prostitution. One of the characters is a Catholic priest. |
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| Home Page: | http://uk-freeforms.wikidot.com/Burning-Orchid | ||||
| Male Players: | Min: 5 / Max: 5 | ||||
| Female Players: | Min: 5 / Max: 5 | ||||
| Neutral Players: | Min: 0 / Max: 0 | ||||
| Total Players: | Min: 10 / Max: 10 |
Jones, Martin
A not-so-closet gamer ever since your early youth, you discovered 'freeforms' about a decade ago. You have since been involved in writing Best of the Wurst, Veterans Day, Lists of Avalon, The Deliverance, Small World and Burning Orchid.
Having successfully infiltrated a satellite construction facility your plans for subverting the orbital mind control device and using it to 'liberate' the world are one step closer.
For some reason currently unclear to you, you have recently taken to referring to yourself in the 2nd person.
Quotes: "Angst! - We Need More Angst!"
Kaye, Heidi
Generally found on the sofa with a laptop into the wee hours, you are addicted to
freeforms and board gaming. Having started on a whim as a last-minute player in
Home of the Bold at Convulsion in 1992, your obsession has grown and grown.
Beginning by playing freeforms at cons and the occasional game of Settlers of
Catan at home, you swiftly moved on to writing, running and playing freeforms at
every opportunity and owning a large collection of board games, playing them both
in real life and online. As Comfy Chair of Peaky Games, you conduct an annual
Spanish Inquisition as to who’s working on which freeforms to prepare them for
publication, in your mania to spread your passion for freeforming to the whole
world.
Your abilities are: existing on little sleep, writing your cats into your games and carrying a big stick.
Your Heart Ability (usable by your True Love) is multi-tasking.
Your goals are: find the six-fingered man who killed your father, the one-armed man who killed your brother's wife and the woman in white who escaped from the asylum. And maybe find some romance on the way....