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Calibrating your experiences

What if the experience is not working for me?  What if I need to talk something through with someone or I have a question?  Most of us have been there, you’re at an event and things just don’t seem to be going right. Perhaps you feel like you…

Fifty New Pound

The pink neon gave the synthetic flesh a slight glow, it was easily identifiable for those in the know and it made them nervous. β€œNext.” The queue for the club was abnormally large tonight, lots of corporate uniforms and a…

The Spirit of the Red Cliffs

When my grandmother was young there was a village three days walk from here, so the Keepers say. It was atop the red cliffs, by the sea of ice, by the dark forest where the sun never shines. From the…

The wait is over!

Alba is a LRP/LARP game by Carcosa Dreams. It is a combination of “Weekend” and “Festival” LARP systems, consisting of five smaller regional events in various parts of the country, followed by two large Festival events; a pattern which will…

Between Events – Foot and Mouth

Things have been a bit hectic at Carcosa Dreams HQ these last few weeks. Whilst finishing the website we’ve had two events in the last four weeks and now it’s the final push. In the meantime and before starting the…

Forsaken 8 bookings open

Forsaken β€œSeason Two” is the second act in the ongoing tale of the last of humanity doing everything they can to survive during a Biblical inspired apocalypse set in modern day Britain. Whilst some things have changed since season one…

T67 Day Tickets Available

Welcome to Tenement 67 We are pleased to announce that day tickets are now on sale for our Cyberpunk larp, Welcome to Tenement 67. Tenement 67 is a larp focusing on the struggles of the people who live, love and…

Game Design and Intent 2 – Your Story

One of the key mechanics in Alba will be the process of earning and using story tokens – we haven’t pinned down yet what they will be called, so that’s a placeholder name. The concept of these is that they…

Q&A

Something a little different for today. Last Friday we asked readers to submit some questions on the game and here are responses to three of those questions. Question 1: As stories will be currency, will there be any in game…

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…