Freeform LARP: Miss Maypole and the Christmas Pudding Affair

Miss Maypole and the Christmas Pudding Affair is a mostly light-hearted game for 14 players, vaguely inspired by authors such Agatha Christie and Dorothy L Sayers, and a lot of Sunday night detective programmes on the television.

• Number of players: 14, we allow for four extras to join the game. If you are among the four last attendees to join the event, assume you are playing an extra.
• Setting: A Christmas Eve party at an English country house in 1933
• System: Freeform LARP (live-action role-playing). There are no dice and no character stats. You will act out the character in person. No previous experience required.
• Where: Club Voltaire upstairs on the second floor.
• When: December 7. You can arrive from 6pm (when the venue opens). We play from 7pm to 10pm.
• How much: Chip in 2€ for the room rent on the event night (PayPal or cash).

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It's December 24th 1933 and tonight is the traditional Christmas Eve party which has been hosted by the Asquith-Jones family of Cerne Abbas, Dorset for at least three generations. It’s a vitally important event for the family as it is the one occasion every year that the Asquith-Jones use to demonstrate how much taste, sophistication and most importantly money they have in comparison to the St John-Smythe family. Plus they get to show the St John-Smythe family how to throw a party before the St John-Smythe's New Year's Eve party.

So far everything hasn’t proceeded exactly as planned. The radio forecast predicted heavy snow and so everyone arrived a day early and had to stay overnight, instead of arriving today. It has thrown Cook into a complete whirl. The heavy snow fell as predicted overnight and it now appears that everyone will need to stay for Christmas as well and this news has thrown the rest of the staff into chaos.

Worse than this however is the fact that Theodore St John-Smythe the head of the family had the audacity to be found dead this -morning. It’s all very inconvenient.

Ho Ho Ho - Remember tis the season to be jolly …

Join the Asquith-Jones, the St John-Smythes and their friends for Christmas Eve and ensure this is a party that will go down in history.