Daniel Abraham
GM for: Divus Ex: Gaslamp Gods, Girl Genius: Agatha Heterodyne and The Perfect Construct
Beth Baniszewski
GM for: Two Hours in London
Beth has been LARPing for six years now, and this is her seventh Intercon. At Intercon F she was a GM for Crisis at Castle Candy. At Intercon E she was a GM for Two Hours in London and Megaman: Apocalypse. She has also run several games with the MIT Assassins' Guild. Her favorite character motivation is hunting kittens.
Elizabeth "Beth" Bartley
GM for: Hot Tub o' Magic (Bathes II) (dry)
Beth Bartley was cheerfully grabbed for the Straightjackets Optional team a couple years ago. Previous LARPs GM'd include Mad Scientists II (with Stephen Tihor and Joshua Kronengold), the second and third runs of Jamais Vue (with Stephen Tihor, Joshua Kronengold, and Lisa Padol), two runs of Hot Tub I / Day at the Bathes/Night at the Races (with Stephen Tihor, Joshua Kronengold, and Lisa Padol), one previous run of Hot Tub II / Hot Tub o' Magic (with Stephen Tihor, Joshua Kronengold, and Lisa Padol), and one run of Colonel T. Rawhide's Circus of the Spectacular (with Joshua Kronengold and Lisa Padol.)
Daniel Bates
GM for: Contracts, Two Hours in London
Kate Beaman-Martinez
GM for: Backstage Ink
Kayte Bellusci
GM for: Divus Ex: Gaslamp Gods
No Bio
Andrew Benson
GM for: Deadfellas
Chad "Laurion" Bergeron
GM for: Girl Genius: Agatha Heterodyne and The Perfect Construct, PRAWN 3: Brassy's Fish
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Cameron Betts
GM for: Orgia ad Domus Lomaximus
Marc "Jokeboy" Blumberg
GM for: Intrigue in the Clouds, Intercon.gz
Another Intercon, another bio.
Laura "Laura47" Boylan
GM for: Two Hours in London
Laura47 says that's not what your mom said last night.
Laura has been playing LARPs since THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND and writing them since 2003. Previous offerings include "Sandman: Gods and Secrets", "The Flight of the Dauntless" and "Ascent of the Shadows". She is a student at MIT and will definitely graduate eventually, she swears. Her major is Comparative Media Studies, which she loves even more than LARPing.
Alex Bradley
Puppet Master
GM for: On the Rails, Rising Phoenix Party, Intercon.gz
The party of the first part, Alexander Bradley, hereafter known as "The Guy", stands accused of five (5) counts of conspiracy to perpetrate a convention upon the public (see MA vs. Intercon #C-F), and a further fifteen (15) counts of staging interactive theatricals at the aforesaid conventions (see additional case dockets for Intercon #C-F and Intercon #Z, et al).
The party of the second part, New England Interactive Literature, hereafter known as "Neil", states inducement of The Guy into the above acts tantamount to willful corruption, and claims exemption from penalty under the Uniform LARP Protection Act, sec. 4, paragraph III, regarding duly recognized larp-promulgating organizations.
The following transcript is submitted as evidence of Neil's exculpatory claims regarding The Guy:
Neil: Hey, guy, want to help run Intercon?In summary judgement, we find The Guy exempted from prosecution for his unlicensed acts of wanton recklessness and endangerment to the public good. [11/3/06]The Guy: Yeah, ok.
Neil: How about running a game or two?
The Guy: Sure.
Nine months later, you'd think I would have gotten around to some of those pithy comments. Or possibly some real biographic content. I should probably write some soon. [10/10/06]
Well, the website's up. Intercon G's a long way away, and we're deep in the throes of F right now. Pithy comments later. [1/28/06]
Bizarro Kreg Segall
Me am write good larp.
Anna "T'Pau" Bradley
Queen of all she surveys.
Creature of air myself I knew her;
Though I have wings I can't pursue her.
Her wings are white and shining feather
My wings are dark and gleaming leather
--Wings, Lyrics and melody ©1997 by Catherine Faber
Janet Brennan
GM for: Strands of the Mind, Unhallowed University, Intercon.gz
| "Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad." |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table |
Shaughn Bryant
GM for: Unhallowed University
I entered with the greatest diligence into the search of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life; but the latter soon obtained my undivided attention. Wealth was an inferior object; but what glory would attend the discovery, if I could banish disease from the human frame, and render man invulnerable to any but a violent death!
Christopher "Chris" Buck
GM for: Intercon.gz
Chris Buck, better known to strangers as "hey, you can't do that!" or, alternately, "not on my watch, you don't!" doesn't watch TV as much as he did as a child. The TV, for its part, watches Chris just as much. Spooky, huh?
Nat "Pudding" Budin
Co-coordinator of Ops
GM for: Ops!, Fire on High, 10 Bad LARPs: the B-Sides, Intercon.gz
Ever since FDR said "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself," Nat has been phobiaphobic.
David "Prince0DC" Clarkson
Hotel Liaison, Usurped Con-Chair, Unseated LARPA Prez, Retired Vampire
Carlos Coral
GM for: L'Enfer, C'est Les Autres
Renee Cyr
Con Suite Mistress
Renee was living a nice quiet suburban existence when she was kidnapped by a wild band of LARPers. Well, okay, maybe life was kind of boring. And, well, they didn't exactly kidnap her....
No matter the details, it's a little more than three years later and she's not only gained a four-figure-a-year LARPing habit, but she's been sucked into Intercon so thoroughly that she thinks feeding 200-plus rampaging LARPers is fun. Somehow we've managed to keep her thinking this, even after running the Con Suite last year.
If you see her start moving towards phones or an outside door please find a way to distract and stop her -- we're not quite sure how well set her delusions are and can't risk her seeking help before Intercon G is over. Thank you for your cooperation.
Vito "Simple Wordsmith" D'Agosta
GM for: Fire on High
Simple Wordsmith is the mundane sort of gamer-geek librarian who writes LARPs like Fire on High.
Kirt "Loki" Dankmyer
GM for: Marlowe 2020
I do not exist in a rational sense.
http://xiombarg.livejournal.com/
Jeff "The Vortex of Chaos" Diewald
Bid Committee
GM for: Collision Imminent!
SWML (Single Weird Male LARPer), ISO SWFL into plotting, planning and intense roleplaying. Celebrating
twentieth year as LARP writer, into things like heinous murders (e.g.
Sex, Drugs and Rock &
Roll,
The Idol Hands of
Death), LARP cons (e.g. con-chair
Intercon the Thirteenth), ancient
horrors (e.g.
The Stigmata of Thomas
Enfield), dumpster diving (e.g.
Dustpan: the LARP),
long spacewalks (e.g.
Across the Sea of Stars), and much, much more. Come join me on another leisurely cruise in
Collision Imminent!, or afterwards for a sip of fine port. Thank you for flying
Imagineerium™!
Jennifer "Lady J" Eastman-Lawrence
Lover of Liaisons
I am so excited, my first Bio! I'm too excited for words, literally...I will put something else in later.
Okay so later meant the last minute. Lady J is an elusive creature who lives out in the western part of Massachusetts, notably and newly in West Springfield. When not LARPing, she can be seen singing Karaoke, table top gaming, chauffeuring her children to various activities, singing in the Rock Band, "Sheer Panic," and every once in a while, pursuing her love of theater. She is a low level, horribly underpaid, administrator at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, where the students love her, even though the state doesn't.
Dean Edgell
GM for: Intrigue in the Clouds
Dean has written and run a number of LARPs, including The Prince's Diamond Jubilee, Intrigue in the Clouds, and Intrigue Beneath the Waves which have been offered at Intercons past. Dean is grateful for the friends who have helped him to run these games, and for the players who have been kind when they speak about them.
James Edward-Hewitt
GM for: Intercon.gz
Jen Ender
GM for: The Dance and the Dawn
Jen can not believe she's doing this with a baby. Hence, she may or may not be a figment of your imagination. A good test for reality is to feed the person in question chocolate.
Matthew Ender
GM for: The Dance and the Dawn
Once upon a time there was a clever GM... who sometimes chose coolness over wisdom. One day, he was entertaining his infant daughter, as well as the idea of running this cool LARP called The Dance and the Dawn . . .
Mikhail "Otsp I I I" Favorov
GM for: Smallgreens
Misha Favorov is from Orlando, Florida.
Misha Favorov travels a long way for LARPs.
Introduced to LARP by Cthulhu Live, Misha is a fairly new GM. Beyond a small-scale Cthulhu game written for friends, Smallgreens was his first serious LARP project. It ran first at Intercon MA earlier this year, where it achieved the highest runtime score in the Small Games compitition. The feedback from it was good enough that he decided to run it again at Intercon G, after some extra touch-ups and tunings.
And really, that's where we are now.
Anandi "Anandi" Gandolfi
GM for: Mahabarata, Garwyn's Tavern
Anandi started gaming at the tender age of 6 in her father's college D&D game.
It was 13 years later when she discovered the wonders of larping, primarily as
an outlet for her love of costuming, and another 12 years before she discovered
the highly satisfying activity of writing games.
She makes her living now by making costumes and clothing for others, and gets her joy from making other people happy, whether it is with a fun game or a pretty dress.
Though she is still relatively new at writing games, with two one-shots (Asylum and Mahabharata) and a multi-city chronicle in the works, creating worlds of wonder, passion, joy, and pain has become a passion that shows little sign of being satisfied.
Sami Genstein
GM for: The Dance and the Dawn
Sami Genstein isn't completely sure how she ended up on this list.
Susan "nikin" Giusto
Bio from Beyond: Susan M. Giusto, nikin, The Intercon Muse
GM for: Deadfellas, Collision Imminent!
Susan M. Giusto
~ nikin ~The Intercon Muse
I'm not from this planet. I am small, furry, different --- nikin!
I am a creative fool... or foolishly creative some say. I dabble in the dark arts, martial arts, and culinary tarts. My first published work was at age twelve. It was a poem about the balance between reality and fantasy involving the Chimera animal from Greek mythology.
As a result of this diverse imaginative bend in my personality, I have also been role playing for about as long. Theater, costuming and LARPs, oh my!
This year I am hooking up with another gaming genius as well as the the usual TNT gang. Andy Kirschbaum and I are either insanely proud or most likely just insane to bring you Deadfellas - Da Mob Down Below... bwah ha ha.
My usual little gang of TNT sevants is up to its usual no good in bringing back Collision Imminent! for all LARPers to enjoy this year.
I also provide artistic support for Intercon. I cook a great Pasta Fagiolo, love dark chocolate, need a job and am always in want of someone cute to date.
I am the Intercon Muse; I inspire, I energize and I cause a bit of creative chaotic mischief when needed.
Susan Grau
GM for: Intercon.gz
Greer "Dragon" Hauptman
GM for: 10 Bad LARPs: the B-Sides
Greer Hauptman has no thoughts on yaoi.
David Kapell
GM for: On the Rails
Philip Kelley
GM for: Intercon.gz, The Other Other* All-Batman Game
I play in larps, and when I can I help organize, run, and occasionally write larps. But you probably already had that figured out.
Andrew Kirschbaum
GM for: Deadfellas
When the going gets weird, the weird go professional.
And so it was 14 years ago, when (as a mere babe in his mother's arms), Andy Kirschbaum opened up 3 Trolls Games & Puzzles. It was either shortly before, or shortly after, that Andy played in his first LARP. The legends differ on the details.
Andy has written, co-written, run, or helped run over a dozen one-shot LARPS and three LARP Campaigns.
Somehow, it all seemed like a good idea at the time.
Arnis "Arnis" Kletnieks
GM for: Girl Genius: Agatha Heterodyne and The Perfect Construct
Where he started, how long ago, and through how many games - these all mean nothing. In the end, what matters is that he thought it seemed like a good idea at the time...
Rebecca Kletnieks
Who's Becky?
See that small, sparkly, redheaded blur on the dance floor?
No, not that, one, the other one.
No, the other one. The one with cat hair on her costume, and tear streaks from spending her last three games bawling her head off. Don't worry, she likes it that way.
Yeah, that's her. She's been here for a while, though this is the first time anyone's managed to pin her down long enough to get her on Concom. You should say hi, if you can get her to stop dancing long enough.
Joshua Kronengold
GM for: Hot Tub o' Magic (Bathes II) (dry)
Joshua Kronengold has been regularly playing in Theatre Style larps for 12 years (starting with full weekend LARPs like Recon +10 at Dexcon 2, and _It was better in Real Life_ at Arisia, and later attending a largish number of Intercons), running them (at Dexcon and at Columbia University) for 3-4 years, and writing them for (ignoring his 10 year old, still in development, full weekend larp project) two years.
He playtested Interactivities Ink's The Final Voyage of the Mary Celeste and the never published Miscatonic Archaeological Expedition and Colonel T. Rawhide's Circus of the Spectacular.
Starting in 2004, he co-wrote the "submit your own character" game "Mad Scientists, out of the Straitjacket" with Stephen Tihor and Lisa Padol, co-wrote the second "out of the Straitjacket" game (with the same team minus Lisa and adding Elizabeth Bartley), edited and rewrote Jamais Vue for its second run, and co-wrote (with Lisa Padol, Stephen Tihor, and Elizabeth Bartley) the two hour "relax-a-larp" A Day at the Races, a Day at the Baths (run at Dexcon).
One of these days, he'll finish Dark of the Moon, his perennially in development full weekend game.
Hank Kuhfeldt
GM for: The Awful Truth, Flew the Coop
Tim "Teem" Lasko
GM for Collision Imminent!, Ocelot, ConChair Unslain, NEIL Board Member
GM for: Collision Imminent!
I am no one of consequence this time. Thank you for flying Imagineerium. (Actually, I am giving support to the Con Suite Mistress. You should all give her kudos and hugs.)
Sue "Queenortart" Lee
GM for: Railways and Respectability, SPQR
Frock Queen - Hear me roar.
Bess "Bess" Libby
GM for: The Wreckers
Bess has participated in several Intercons as a player and a gm. She was a coauthor of Return to Watership Down. She likes long walks on the beach and ballroom dance, and can touch her nose with her tongue.
David Lichtenstein
GM for: At the End of the Day
Peter Litwack
GM for: Two Hours in London
Ben Llewellyn
GM for: At the End of the Day
Ben Llewellyn (At the End of the Day) has been LARPing for fifteen years and writing LARPs for nearly that long. He is presently writing a full-weekend murdery mystery game set in the fashion industry, entitled Milan Rouge, and he strongly hopes that the sewing geeks of the gaming world will sign up once a venue is set. To those who don't care one whit about playing a character from the fashion industry, he offers you the roles of detectives, reporters, mafiosi . . . .
Eileen Malony
GM for: Intrigue in the Clouds
Michael "Michael, the Chaotic" McAfee
NEIL Treasurer
Michael McAfee has been active in LARPing since the late 1980s. He has played in, written, and run dozens of LARPS, and is also active in other areas of Boston fandom. He served as chair of Intercon C, and has since served as Treasurer of NEIL.
Andrew McNeill
GM for: Smallgreens
Mr. McNeill travels with Mr. Favorov, for whom he serves as a personal chef.
Tony Mitton
GM for: SPQR, Railways and Respectability
Anyone got a great weekend-long LARPs they fancy running in the UK in early 2010 and sometime between 2013 and 2019? I'm doing some advance scheduling. (And, yes, we do have games lined up for the other years. Want to come over and play them?)
Shelly "Evil Twin" Mohnkern
GM for: World's End
Shelly Mohnkern
GM, World's End
Official Chick Gone Bad
Shelly was introduced to LARP by being beaten repeatedly with plumbing supplies. In other words, her entrance to the LARP universe was through Dagorhir, a live combat battlegame, just a year or so after that game was founded. She has not looked back since then.
Shelly has written for several campaigns, including The Alternate Realities Campaign (ARC), 1948: Signals, 1936: Horror, and XPI. She has also written some stand-alone works with her husband, Scott, such as Ogun's Birthday Party and The End of Sacred Months. She has threatened to write a game based solely on Bloodhound Gang lyrics, but so far the medication is working. Current projects include Drink Deep III (Febuary16-18, 2007), the Threads of Damocles Campaign (2007) and The Gede Fete (Coming soon!).
Shelly is a founding member of Chicks Gone Bad, a consortium of women dedicated to living life to the fullest, and coming up with fun ideas for Intercon parties. When not neck-deep in LARP, she can often be found somewhere near the dance floor in the vicinity of her Evil Twin.
Adam Nakama
GM for: Call Batman! Call Superman! Call ANYONE!, Elanthia
Despite this being his first Intercon, Adam somehow ended up GMing two games. Much too busy to get any real work done, he spends most of his time writing, dancing, and staying abreast of the research on interactive literature and real-world game design, for which he plans on attending graduate school somewhere.
Aaron Newman
GM for: Contracts
Alex Newman
Drew Novick
GM for: Intercon.gz, Intrigue in the Clouds
Keri Ogorzalek
GM for: Contracts
Gamer.
GM.
Geek.
Girl.
Gordon Olmstead-Dean
GM for: "Now Spit!"
Lisa Padol
GM for: Hot Tub o' Magic (Bathes II) (dry)
Lisa Padol has been playing in larps since 1988, starting with the full weekend game, Double Exposure. She has been running and writing larps since 2000 (ignoring Dark of the Moon, a 10-years-old, still-in-development, full-weekend larp project).
She helped run the playtest of the never published Miskatonic Archaeological Expedition (with Joshua Kronengold, Batya and Alex Wittenburg, Merav Hoffman, Jon Lennox, and Eugene Reynolds), and assisted in a run of Appalachian Wedding (with Ben Llewellyn and Joshua Kronengold). Stephen Tihor recruited her for the Straightjackets Optional team, where she helped run add write Mad Scientists I (with Stephen Tihor and Joshua Kronengold, and with extra help from Erik Hanson and Matthew Stevens), and helped run and write Jamais Vue (with Stephen Tihor and Erik Hanson, with help from Matthew Stephens for the first run, and with Stephen Tihor, Joshua Kronengold, and Elizabeth Bartley for the second run) and Day at the Bathes/Night at the Races (with Stephen Tihor, Elizabeth Bartley, and Joshua Kronengold). She has also helped run Colonel T. Rawhide's Circus of the Spectacular.
Current projects include future games in the Jamais Vue and hot tub series, and Dark of the Moon.
Moira "Moira" Parham
GM for: Intercon.gz
Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time...
Joy Perkinson
GM for: Two Hours in London
Greg Pettigrew
GM for: Unhallowed University
As Minister of Propaganda and Enlightenment of Ballyhoo Industries, it is my job, no, my priveledge of bestowing upon you my many illustrious years of experience, knowledge, wisdom, and expertise in both Euphemism and Acronym. WWJD? HDWIWD.
Josh "blee" Rachlin
Convetion Operation Specialist
GM for: Ops!, PRAWN 3: Brassy's Fish
blee is one member of Team No Pants, authors of the winning game in the 2006 Iron GM Competition. blee has not let this go to his head. Signed photographs of blee can be ordered for a modest shipping and handling fee of $75 at the Ops desk. For a slightly higher but still extremely affordable $250, blee will pretend he knows who you are and has forgotten your name at some point during the dance. Finally, for a surprisingly cheap $2500, blee will endorse* your LARP in public**.
*Quality of endorsements is not guaranteed. Endorsements may include or entirely consist of such statements as "What? Sure, I've heard of that LARP," or "My god would you please leave me alone!"
**"Public" here refers to anywhere blee is not by himself. This might be the middle of the con suite, or it might be the men's room of a restaurant in Arkansas seven months after the con. Basically, it means wherever we can get blee to listen to us.***
***blee's Publicity Team would like to apologize for the previous statement. blee is a generous, wonderful human being who genuinely cares about the state of modern LARP. And the author of the previous statement has been fired. Or possibly killed. We're not sure.
Trey Reilly
GM for: Divus Ex: Gaslamp Gods
Trey Reilly found a D&D boxed set sitting in her mother’s closet when she was 12. It was all downhill from there. When she got to college, she entered her first long-term campaign, ran her first Call of Cthulhu game, and got introduced to LARPs and gaming conventions.
She started attending every convention she could find--sometimes two or three cons a month. Then, while at a convention in New Jersey, she committed the ultimate sin: volunteerism. She accepted a staff position on DexCon '94, and thus was lost to the normal world forever. She co-founded Wild Gazebo Productions in 2000, and that company ran a series of LARPs and gaming conventions on the East Coast for five years.
She works for GAMA in her day job, and helps to coordinate the GAMA Trade Show and the Origins International Game Expo. This makes her the happiest gal in the world.
Trey can usually be found playing or running Call of Cthulhu, Mage, Changeling, Divus Ex, Nobilis, Settlers of Catan, or Claydonia. She’s been known to GM on no notice at all if you bring her coffee.
R. Eric "Eric the Darker" Reuss
GM for: Girl Genius: Agatha Heterodyne and The Perfect Construct
Eric used to LARP far more frequently, but has settled down into a once-a-year-at-Intercon kind of simmer for the past half-decade or so. Why he jumped in to help GM a morning game is anyone's guess, but he's quite looking forward to it.
Alison Rider Hill
GM for: Railways and Respectability
One of the Brits, magnetically pulled across the Pond by the attraction of games and more games!
Enjoyed 'F' enough to come back for 'G'.
Should I be tempted to try an American accent, please be kind.
Amber Robitaille
GM for: Strands of the Mind
Insert very clever, complicatedly witty remarks about being a thirty year old vixen who enjoys dressing up in funny clothes, possibly wielding weapons made of foam and kite rod if the situation calls for it, and pretending to be other people in her free time >here<.
Don "Uncle Don" Ross
GM for: Intercon.gz, Collision Imminent!
Born Donato Rozinski of poor immigrant parents, "Uncle Don" was a well-known face along Delancy Street in the seventies, pushing his rust-colored pushcart labeled 'Please Recycle' between 1st and 17th. After his cart was run over by a Mighty Mammoth on a Crosstown Run, he retired to the country to write his memoirs, and has only returned to the public eye because the Anniversary committee asked him to give a presentation at the rededication of General Anna's statue.
He would like to thank both NEIL and LARPA for the grant which will allow him to finally publish his dissertation on the Junk Metal economy.
Tom "Blue Gargantua" Russell
GM for: Intercon.gz
"This monster film is one most exciting giant monster films ever in My opinion! The story is excellent! The Gargantuas are cool looking. I love it when they roar and run. The fights between the two monsters and the army is really good. The special effects are outstanding in My opinion. The acting by the film's human stars are also good. The music is great by Akira Ifukube! I really love this monsters film for many reasons and its arguably the best ever! If you love Godzilla, Gamera, and other giant monster film I strongly recommend that you do what I did and buy War of the Gargantuas today!"
Vincent Salzillo
GM for: Backstage Ink
Colin "Dog" Sandel
GM for: L'Enfer, C'est Les Autres, Contracts
Of a GM and Puppye
a expofitional pome
A-hailing from the rolling hills of lovely Mar-y-land
A year has fully passed since he to Chelmsford has a-gone
But now he has returned apace, exactly as he planned
And Dog is very happy to be at this Intercon.
The third of three this Intercon where Dog some games has run
Of which Between a Roc, a tale of fantasy, was first
The latter year was Contracts, where a sordid tale was spun
With elves and humans, all for whom mad power was a thirst.
A lesser man might flinch at running games another year
Or tire of spinning tales or even simply cease to care
But Dog is not a lesser man, he hasn't any fear
He spins another tale this year, whose name starts with L'Enfer.
One brand new game, a tale of fear that has not yet been play'd
Another run of Contracts, 'cuz we like to raise the bar
Now Dog will march to Chelmsford with due happiness display'd
For this year's Intercon will be the awesomest so far!
Victoria "Rosina" Sapko
GM for: The Dance and the Dawn
I'm just the babysitter. I've never larped before. How did I get into this?
Alison Schafer
GM for: Elanthia
Kreg Segall
GM for: Orgia ad Domus Lomaximus, Intercon.gz
Does my biography have the Buddha-nature?
Christopher "Cristovau" Shannon
GM for: The Wreckers
Chris Shannon, as the son of an English teacher and a romance novelist, should be much more grammatically correct than he's been. This marks his fourth Intercon as a player and his first plunge into GM-ing a larp.
Joshua "Sheena" Sheena
GM for: Fire on High, The Trial, Elanthia
Josh is fairly new to the LARP scene and fairly newer to the GM/Writers scene. However, after being a member of the team that won the IronGM competition at Dexcon (No Pants LARP), He feels that he wants to start writing and running more games. He also feels that writing about himself in the third person can get very confusing.
Andrew "AJ" Smith
GM for: Railways and Respectability, SPQR, Intrigue in the Clouds
AJ didn't intend to write this bio in the 3rd person. He also didn't intend to run 3 games this year. Nevertheless, he does intend that his 9th Intercon be as fun as the previous eight.
Anita Szostak
Art Director, Flyers, Ads, Buttons, T-Shirts & Program Book Art Elements
I would like to thank Susan for her wonderful "Muse" guidance as she always give me each year doing this
job. A very special thank you to Barry for volunteering to typeset the program booklet. Doing the program
is a big job and this year I only have to worry about the art for it which makes my life so much easier.
Barry, you are the best!
As for the GMs, thank you to all those bringing games where we can use our Brassy's gowns again. It might not work for Brassy's Fish but I'm sure the real question of that game is what kind of aquatic creature will the Jackalope become?
Barry Tannenbaum
Intercon Webmaster. Program Editor
GM for: Collision Imminent!
After running the Intercon Website for the past 4 conventions, Barry volunteered to handle the program booklet this year too. To quote the David Byrne or the Talking Heads, "MY GOD!...WHAT HAVE I DONE?"
Thanks to Anita and Susan in advance, without whom I'm sure I'd be bald.
Stephen "Stephen Tihor" Tihor
GM for: Hot Tub o' Magic (Bathes II) (dry)
Stephen has been around for a while.
He has been playing in LARPs since the days of the first Arabian Nights game. He was part of the team writing and GMing such games as Cocobanana (at an ancient Intercon) and RSVP (at DEXCON 1) and some smaller projects run at Columbia University Games Club events.
>His name can also be found in other games—from SPI board games to the old West End Games Star Wars to the recent Marvel Universe Super Hero Role Playing Game. In his free time, he amuses himself with fine art photography, computer security work for the US Economy, a Nero game, and other such diversions. He also owns a small piece of a record.
Current projects include the Jamais Vue series of amnesia games, inspired by the kick ass time he had assisting the first run of Tabula Rasa, and the Bathes series of hot tub games—cause hanging in the pool while gaming really does mellow out power politics.
Miki Tracey
GM for: World's End
Miki has GM'd for such greats as Mike Young, XPI, Gordon Olmstead-Dean and John Kammer at several Intercons. She comes originally from XPI where she is actually an award winning storyline arc writer (that and 4 bucks will get you a coffee). She has written for several campaigns, including XPI, 1948-Signals, and Threads down in the Mid-Atlantic and is pleased to finally drop a "new" well, a "slightly used" game anyway, on the unsuspecting Bostonians.
Nicole Vega
GM for: Unhallowed University
“If you knew, if you could even dream of what may be done, of what one or two men have done in this quiet world of ours, your very soul would shudder and faint within you. What you have heard from me has been but the merest husk and outer covering of true science – that science that means death, and that which is more awful than death, to those who gain it.”
– Arthur Machen, “The Innmost Light”
As Ballyhoo Secretary of Rapid Exothermic Events, allow me to welcome you to the world of Unhallowed Metropolis.
Karl Wagner
GM for: Garwyn's Tavern
Will Wagner
GM for: Garwyn's Tavern, Deadfellas, Mahabarata
Will has been so busy planning his upcoming campaign game that he neglected to write an updated bio this year.
Garwyn's Tavern was the first game he ever wrote for public consumption and with a few tweaks, it was time to roll the game back out.
Mark "Justin du Coeur" Waks
Mark "Justin" Waks
GM for: Girl Genius: Agatha Heterodyne and The Perfect Construct
Professor Mark Waks prefers to be known as "Justin" in public. Nothing you need to concern yourself with -- it's between him and a few old Constructs that didn't leave on the best of terms. Founder of the Department of Interactive and Meddlesome Literature at TPU (an interdisciplinary group between the departments of Drama and Creative History), he is proud of his record of having the sixth fewest student fatalities among TPU's faculty last year.
Conor Walsh
GM for: Unhallowed University
Vance Walsh
GM for: Strands of the Mind
A Bio eh? Fine, we shall see what I can muster up while writing this LARP and toss in here.
1: I am a RPG junkie. I work for a MMORPG company, I game twice a week, run a Werewolf LARP once a month out in the woods for the full weekend I play video games in what little spare weeknight time I have
2: I both LARP and Boffer-LARP. They are very much the same, and very much different in a myriad of ways. I enjoy both and do not enjoy one over the other. People that try to say one is better should just think back to a time when it wasn't possible to either.
3: I enjoy chocolate and computers. One is a great GM bribe, the other hopefully will keep me well organized for this game.
4: I am a Sherlock Holmes Addict(tm). I am looking forward to this game for more reasons that I was the Firefly LARP last year. Firstly I am enjoying writing for a smaller group and B the genre is so much different than my norm. I hope in The End Janet and Amber enjoy what we have all worked on together.
Last but not least I am looking forward to running at Intercon again, feel free to toss me emails about the game whenever you like. I shall do my best to reply to them all:)
-Vance
Susan "Dybbuk" Weiner
GM for: Fire on High, 10 Bad LARPs: the B-Sides
From the wilds of Somerville comes a dangerous creature, the wiley and elusive dybbuk. Known for such terrifying games as 10 Bad LARPs she stands poised to wreak havoc in its sequel and in the as yet unknown Fire on High.
Avonelle Wing
GM for: Backstage Ink
Eric Wirtanen
GM for: Intercon.gz
(Insert biography here.)
Chris Woo
GM for: Call Batman! Call Superman! Call ANYONE!
Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. But it rocks absolutely, too. Nuff' said.
Mike Young
GM for: PRAWN 3: Brassy's Fish, Intercon.gz
Mike would prefer that you read his Wikipedia entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Young_%28game_designer%29