Conquest of Mythodea with the Grand Expedition 2012

Hi all,

If you’re still considering heading to Germany in August to attend Conquest of Mythodea, you should consider signing up with The Grand Expedition.

The leader has gotten in touch with me and has already proven to be an incredibly helpful resource. They’re an established group of high-quality roleplayers who have their priorities in the right places (in my opinion).

You can read about them here: thegreatexpedition.org/?page_id=86

Their Facebook page from last year is here: facebook.com/pages/The-UK-G … 9411259220

They go to both Mythodea and Drachonfest, making it a 2 week larping bonanza - but you don’t have to attend both games.

If you join with them, you have access to their tents/facilities so you’ve got your IC accommodation sorted for the game. The cost is split between players, so it’s hard to say right now what that would likely be cheaper (and easier) than hiring your own tent in Germany.

At Mythodea, they have been a part of the Water Camp, but they might be doing something different this year.

I’ve been volunteered as the NZ Rep for the Grand Expedition so I’m happy to answer any questions you may have. There’s already an Australian contingent and they’re really trying to make this a lively international community of larpers - so they’re very keen to have us kiwis on board.

Exciting!

Hey Jackie, have you done any costing on this? For the lot that is. Just for my interests sake.

In the process of doing that now.

We’re planning on flying Auckland > Frankfurt. We have a friend who lives an hour and a half from Frankfurt airport so we’ll be visiting him, then I’ll be finding a way to get to the game which is a five hour drive from his place.

A quick squiz at flights to Frankfurt show a range starting at $2,300 return. I don’t know what airport is closest to the game.

Mythodea is a fully functioning town, with IC money and vendors and food and drink. Though I’m sure it’s cheaper to bring your own food. From the sound if it the IC money you earn in game is used in the town (and then the IC money is exchanged for OOC money at the end - you can also buy IC money with OOC money).

This picture set shows the size of the town (near the bottom).

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From what I hear, Mythodea’s perks are that it’s HUGE, and that the town is awesome and that it’s great for the more social RP. But the plot can also be hard to get into - something that the Grand Ex is looking at working on with the organisers.

Drachfest’s perks seem to be that the combat is much better. :smiley: It’s PVP as well as PVE, where as Mythodea is more about fighting NPCs.

I’ve had time to sort out how my year is unfolding and this idea is really looking good right now. If there is a NZ group being put together to for this I’d like to sign up.

:smiley:

This link should take you to the group’s forum: thegreatexpedition.org/forum … hp?act=idx

And this one should take you to their Facebook group: facebook.com/groups/180441265372729/

Go ahead and introduce yourself on the Facebook group to get started. Then, send your char concept to Rick, for approval.

He’s got a German contact who can buy tix for us in Germany - we pay her over PayPal - but you’d want to get your ticket purchasec by the end of Feb to get it for the current rate of 95 Euros.

This will bring up the current rules, in English: live-adventure.de/ConQuest_e … V51_en.pdf

You’ll note that you are allowed to bring in a character you’ve played in any other larp. In order to help you convert that character to their system you get 1 ex for every 2 full days of play with that character.

I’ll PM you an idea as I think I know a way our characters could be tied that should work with just about any char-concept of yours.

lol really?

I have a sith lord that has been to over 60 days of larp :smiley: browses rules

Yeah, really.

The GMs trust that if you have a super maxed-out character you’ll have the roleplay ability/costuming skills/real life skills to able to convincingly portray said character.

Those that can’t, don’t often get much attention from other players. :slight_smile:

[quote=“amphigori”]Yeah, really.

The GMs trust that if you have a super maxed-out character you’ll have the roleplay ability/costuming skills/real life skills to able to convincingly portray said character.

Those that can’t, don’t often get much attention from other players. :slight_smile:[/quote]

Thats very cool - and a great way of doing it. I hope you guys have fun!

If you need more information, you can take a look at http://www.live-adventure.de/ConQuest_english/informationen.php
or visit the conquest forum part http://www.forum.live-adventure.de/viewforum.php?f=39

If you are interested to see more pictures from the last event: http://taurusiuvavi.at/Foto/Conquest_2011/index.html

Hi Kalim!

Thanks for those! :slight_smile:

A little over 18 hours till Jackie and I board a plane to Germany! Mythodea here we come :slight_smile:

Totally, awesomely, YAY !!!

Wishing both of you the best possible time, and hoping you soak up the vibe and bring us back some Eurolarp insights :slight_smile:

Kia kaha !

Thanks Mike! We’ll be meeting up with Gene, Prema and Walter!

Happy days!

I’m sure we’ll have lots to report back on. See you all next month! :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

Was in a larp shop today and here a familiar accent, dude from Hamilton, told him about Mythodea and Nzlarps, was a little weird

The World is truly a small place! And there are New Zealander’s everywhere!

I realised that I have yet to post up about our experience at these Larps, and should do so.

It was an absolutely incredible experience first and foremost because of the sheer scale. Walter, Gene and I went to both Drachefest and Conquest of Mythodea which had 5000 and 8000 players respectively.

Drachenfest was great because it was Player vs Player which we have yet to see much of in NZ. There were several camps that had been formed to fight for Dragons to see who would reign for that year. Each camp had a fortified gate as their entrance which could be attacked using seige weapons. Outisde these gates was a huge field where massive battles were held. The size of it was amazing. The camps were like tent cities. We were fighting for the Golden Dragon and our camp had a lovely gathering area including a tavern and a hospital.

There was also a central town where there were things like guilds, food court, fighting arena, IC dating agency (so going to join up to this next year) and traders. In order to get to the town (and therefore food and showers) we had to pass by the Orc gate looming on the hill. On that note, the Orcs at Drachenfest were truely terrifyly awesome. Most of them take the attitude of reenacting the Uruk-Hai (is that how you spell it?) from LOTR. Not only is their level of kit amazing, but they are fearsome on the battlefield.

One of the highlights of the trip was seeing how they do healing. They really get into the roleplaying of it and every healer carries fake blood and healing tools (often larpsafe) to perform minor surgery on the battlefield. The patients also get very involved in screaming in pain. Very very cool. I absolutely love being a battlefield healer.

While the language barrier was a factor, being part of a group of foreigners helped and the people were so helpful. The avatar of the Golden Dragon delivered his speeches first in german then again in english for our benefit.

Mythodea has a very different feel but was still awesome. They too had a town that you could interact with (Jackie I think got the most out of this, getting involved with thievery). I had this awesome moment where I was coming back from a camp late at night and decided to go into the casino and was told it was closed because "absolutley nothing was taking place out the back, in about five minutes: wink wink nudge nudge so I headed out the back and it soon filled up and a man was announcing something in German that was apparently hilarious. A lovely girl translated for me that I “was not about witness an illegal cock fight”. Sure enough soon a couple of ‘Cocks’ (men dressed as roosters) came on an began to fight. Hilarious stuff.

Another awesome moment was being part of a ritual to save the world, where we had to sacrifice ourselves to imbue a weapon that would bring down a big baddy. It was just cool being involved as well as being an awesome roleplaying moment having to say goodbye to friends and loved ones and slitting our throats. after this we were lead to a tent and told to close our eyes and unfortunately were then talked at in German (one of the sucky things about the language barrier) by some elder godlike person. Then we were brought back on the condition we completed some tasks for her.

One of the other highlights were all the traders selling everything you can imagine. I managed to buy two hats (one of them the most beautiful pointy witchs hat), a cloak pin, a waterskin (beautifully crafted from leather engraved with a horse), a larpsafe ‘wooden’ quarterstaff, a bandlier of bandages, and a sword (€40 on a last day bargain table). Especially at mythodea there was pretty much everything imaginable made larpsafe including a lantern (very expensive and sold out by the time I found them). There were weapon galore of all different varieties and the craftsman ship was truely wonderful.

All in all it was an awesome trip. The people in the expedition were wonderful and we now have larping friends from all over the world. I’m sure I’ve missed out so much, but I might post bits up if I think of them.