I ran Maddie Hatter's Tea Party MiniLARP - a 2 hour piece of fluff with the opportunity to get all decked out in fun costumes and sit around drinking tea. We had a fun time, and I'll be continuing the LARP's plot through next year's, where instead of a Tea Party it will be a march to the Red Queen's castle. Below is a brief description of the main characters I had in this year's game, and pictures of the lovely people who played them.
Maddie Hatter: An idealist inventor of high-tech millinery, she announced that she was going to peacefully run as a political opponent of the Red Queen. At the first sign of trouble, though, she ran.
The White Rabbit: Although the White Rabbit was killed years and years ago, he still lives. The Red Queen had found him and saved his life by replacing his internal organs with clockwork parts. Now he's loyal to the Red Queen although being best friends with Maddie Hatter.
Robin Hood: A local insurgent against the violent Red Queen, he used to play pirates with peter Pan, and he's still stealing and causing mayhem (for the resistance, of course). And he might just have to take the resistance into his own hands.
Red Hunter: Red is the Daughter of the Queen's Huntsman, and after Hansel & Gretel's father, the Woodsman, killed her lover (a werewolf) she swore her allegiance to the Red Queen. She's determined to win the feud against the Woods family, even though she's got the hots for Hansel.
Hansel Woods: Hansel is the son of the Woodsman, and was recently poisoned by Grandmother Hunter (mother of the Huntsman) after doing her a good deed. He's trying to keep his sister, Gretel, and Red Hunter, from escalating the family feud.
Gretel Woods: Gretel is the daughter of the Woodsman and was recently poisoned by Grandmother Hunter (mother of the Huntsman) after doing her a good deed. She pledged to help the Red Queen if the Queen would help her crush the Hunter clan. The most important thing in the world is family.
Peter Pan: Peter was captured as a child and sold into slavery in the south before escaping and running away to a southern nation known as Neverland. There he accidentally discovered the Fountain of Youth and ran a rag-tag gang of jungle boys until he met Tinker Bella, a pretty weapons inventor, and decided to leave.
Tinker Bella: A product of a siren and a dying sailor, Tinker Bella is an inventor of magical weaponry. Her masterpiece is a freeze ray which uses the water from the Fountain of Youth, and she is in town to find a buyer. That could be anyone from the resistance, the Red Queen, or just someone with a grudge.
