Author(s):	Elizabeth Bartley, Stephen Tihor, Joshua Kronengold, Lisa Padel, Julian Lighton
Game EMail:	ghostfu AT yahoogroups DOT com
GM(s):	Elizabeth "Beth" Bartley    ebartley AT pobox DOT com Joshua Kronengold    mneme AT io DOT com Julian Lighton    jl8e AT fragment DOT com Lisa Padol    drcpunk AT labcats DOT org Stephen "Stephen Tihor" Tihor    stihor AT nyc DOT rr DOT com
Organization:	Straightjackets Optional
Home Page:	http://larp.tihor.com/ghostfu
Male Players:	Min: 2 / Max: 2
Female Players:	Min: 1 / Max: 4
Neutral Players:	Min: 5 / Max: 16
Total Players:	Min: 8 / Max: 22

Twelve years ago the great Kung Fu tournament was just starting when the participants were murdered. Some contestants went to the Afterlife, but others found themselves with unfinished business. In the best tradition of Hong Kong movies, the contestants now return to finish the tournament.

You want to move on, but important questions remain unanswered:

• Who has the mightiest Kung Fu?
• Who will win the tournament?
• Who will marry the ghost bride and give her a burial place?
• How can you help your living relatives?
• How can one avenge a father after someone poisoned his killer?
• Who killed you, anyway?

Bartley, Elizabeth

Beth Bartley was cheerfully grabbed for the Straightjackets Optional team a few 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), two runs 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.)

Kronengold, Joshua

Joshua Kronengold has been regularly playing in Theatre Style larps since 1992 (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. Maybe soon.

Lighton, Julian

Julian is an occasional LARPer who has been on the design team for Shadowfist (the CCG of Hong Kong action movies) since 2001.

For some inexplicable reason, he found himself drafted into writing this game.

Padol, Lisa

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.

Tihor, Stephen

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 and recent DEXCONs. He also helped run games at various Worldcons.

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 and assisting with a Girl Genius project.