Apropos of Nothing

“Oh Ali, I will never again wish to go to the moon!”

“Never say never again, Faqib. You will always be made a liar by such absolutes. The wisest know that minds only grow when they change.”

– Faqib and Ali Go to the Moon

The Inevitable Post

So, as per the last post, common sense and government recommendations have swung towards the thing we didn’t want to do. We’ve had a number of people come to the conclusion that for their own safety, they’d rather stay away. This in…

The Raven in the Room

Okay, so, COVID-19, formerly the Novel Coronavirus. We’ve got an event next week, and future events coming up, so we thought it’s worth letting you know where we’re at. We’re not planning on cancelling events at this stage, unless sensible…

Dawn

A sneak peek at some of the things happening in a week and a bit. Dawn breaks over the Summerlands, and the Reckoning begins. It’s annual, is Reckoning. It comes shortly after the snows are banished for another year and…

The Woad Less Travelled

In spring we pick the bluebells that grow deep in the woods. Over the summer they dry, and are ground into dust. In the autumn we fetch the wet clay from the banks near the river, and it is worked…

Alba 1 Feedback Open

CD. It’s been two weeks since the Giants started to sing again. It’s been a fortnight since the people of Alba met up at the request of the Keepers, and said they would do so again. It’s been a couple…

Ask Alba Anything

So, the content treadmill has been churning for a bit now, and while we’re putting together the Alba website, preparing for T67 next week, and recovering from the chaos of <gestures to the world in general>, lets turn this around…

“A Pleasure Just To Be Nominated”

The LARP Awards are somewhat controversial, but it would be churlish not to appreciate that our players think highly enough of our events that we’re nominated five times for different things in their recently published list. So thank you all…

Mechanics

So, we’ve gone over the themes a bit, and our intents going in, and we’ve told some abstract tales about a world you don’t know yet. More of all of that, but let’s get some basic reality stuff down, so…

Lucan of Brennan

And so it came to pass that Lucan of Brennan came to the village, and behind them walked a Keeper.