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A boffer [[LARP]] set [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future|<s>twenty minutes</s>two years in the future]], in a small New Hampshire town [[After the End]]. The apocalypse happened because a fringe group of New Age cultists wanted to [[Here There Were Dragons|bring magic back to the world]] -- and [[Gone Horribly Right|unfortunately, they succeeded]]. Now magic works again -- and the world is overrun with zombies, plagues, ghosts, several types of nasty aliens, brain-eating viruses, evil clowns, giant radioactive cockroaches with guns, and benevolent dictators pretending to be Aztec gods. Also velociraptors. Most of these, in some way, serve or come from godlike beings called Entities, none of which want good things for humanity.
The only thing standing between these Entities and humankind is a [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]] - namely, the player characters and their allies. Using alien space-time twisting magic, the ghostly power of the underworld, death rays, and baseball bats (not to mention [[The Power of Friendship]], the players have managed to buy earth time for four years now. With the threats growing ever greater, how much longer can they keep it up?
''[[Endgame]]'' began in 2006 and appears to have ended with an epic [[Grand Finale]] in 2013, judging from blogposts like [https://fairescape.wordpress.com/tag/endgame/ this one]. That doesn't necessarily mean it's over -- apparently [https://plus.google.com/communities/103573530747124882050 groups all over] have been inspired by the original LARP and are continuing the world.
Not to be confused with the 1920s murder-mystery LARP of the [http://larpfactorybookproject.blogspot.com/2013/10/endgame.html same name].
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* [[Acting for Two]]: The players took turns being hordes of NPCs for the PCs to kill.
* [[Action Girl]]: Darwin, Angela, Eve...
* [[Aliens Are Bastards]]: Earth's been invaded by something like a half dozen different alien races, and while some of them are pretty chill (the Caramahz are a notable exception), a lot of them just want to colonize our planet, use us as slave labor, destroy our brains and go joy riding in our bodies, dissect us [[For Science!]], or just eat us.
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*** I suppose the fact that a Kudzu is a plant preserves the "pacifist" label. Kind of like the vegetarianism of apocalyptic alien hunting.
**** In fact, it was pointed out by Ingve that she can shoot Kudzu because it's considered the harvest.
* [[Badass Preacher]]: The mayor of the town, who is [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Dr. Slashblight. Not a lot of doctors get to wear a silver PVC trenchcoat while doing their rounds.
* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Connor, sort of a modern day wandering monk, wears a long black duster and fights with a staff.
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* [[Berserk Button]]: Do not take the radio away from the players. You wouldn't like them when they're angry.
* [[Big Bad]]: Mashala, Salismandt, Chalithac, etc. The players typically spend each campaign year more or less focusing their ongoing efforts on a primary villain, and defeating him/her/it/them at the finale - if only temporarily.
* [[Big Creepy
* [[Bizarro Universe]]: The town got kicked into an alternate timeline where many characters had made different choices at critical times; the end result was that Temple wasn't the shining beacon of hope it used to be, but an outpost of brutal alien sellouts dominating the surrounding locals. The situation was immediately dubbed "Bizarro Temple."
* [[Black Magician Girl]]: Karen.
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* [[Chef of Iron]]: Joy Mc Masters.
* [[Combat Medic]]: Doc Sue, Beirut, Z'denko, Helen, Aeron, Marc, Nicole, Slashblight...pretty much the whole med staff, actually.
* [[The Conscience]]: A few people serve in this capacity, including Darius, Winterborne, Preacher (the town's resident [[Badass Preacher]]), and others.▼
* [[Conspiracy Theorist]]: TJ.
* [[Creepy Child]]: Spence, Stitch.
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* [[Energy Weapon]]: It's good to be an Artificer. See also: [[Lightning Gun]]!
* [[The Eternal Churchill]]: Every single boss fight has plenty of rousing speeches to go 'round, so this fits.
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]: Pretty much any Artificer character fits this trope.
** [[Science Hero]] is also pretty applicable to every single Artificer in town.
* [[Genius Bruiser]]: Robbie. He's a biology teacher! He's a supersoldier! He's BOTH!
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Some of the decisions in the Haven plotline were made thoughts along the lines of, "we are seeing a story through," and "in a story, we need to let him be redeemed," and other such things.
* [[Gentleman and
* [[Government Agency of Fiction]]: Project Chimera. See also [[Government Conspiracy]].
* [[Girls
* [[Grand Finale]]: Mentioned in various "well, it's over" blogposts made by former players.
* [[Granola Girl]]: Sunshine.
* [[Heroic Spirit]]: Basically the definition of Resolve right here.
* [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel]]: This game is basically one giant oil gusher of Nightmare Fuel, usually with a good dose of [[Body Horror]] thrown in.
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** Players once ran to try to interrupt an evil ritual, and arrived too late to find the sacrificial victim with yards of his intestines pulled out his body and strung up into the tree branches. The players had to reach into the intestine-pile (which was made of stuffed sausage casings and fake blood) to retrieve the ritual scroll to determine what happened. One player, who works as an EMT, described the scene as highly accurate.
** Early on in the game, some people (a doctor, an emt, a tavernkeep, a bio teacher) went to a nearby town to mercy-kill the residents to prevent them from incurably becoming ghouls due to cannibalism. Not only were there real OOC nightmares, but there was real OOC throwing up afterwards. For several of the folks who went, that was a character defining experience.
* [[How Dare You Die
* [[Improvised Weapon]]: With firearms hard to acquire after the invasion, baseball bats, steel rebar from broken buildings and other unusual candidates for weaponry were all survivors typically had left to fall back on. But, despite the abnormal nature of these items, they work really, really well at killing Invaders.
* [[Imported Alien Phlebotinum]]: Basically how Artificing works.
* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: Related to [[Improvised Weapon]] above, Buddy characters specifically are allowed to use any weapon as long as it looks improvised - leading to some fairly hilarious signature weapon styles. Gilligan and Gord and their hockey sticks, Micah and her kayak paddle, Adam and his stop sign shield...
* [[Journey to
* [[Kick the Dog]]: At one point, the Spectral Accord kidnapped Sgt. Cross, the town's moral support/comic relief/cavalry. When the players found him, he was tied to a chair, covered in bruises, in his skivvies, in a room that was (for real) about 45 degrees Fahrenheit. He was unable to recite more than his name, rank, and serial number. The rescue party went berserk.
* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: All of Ninja Squad.
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* [[The Power of Friendship]]: How Buddy skills work.
* [[Puppeteer Parasite]]: The Malish.
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Samson pretty much has a doctorate in this.▼
* [[Redheaded Hero]]: Fox, Karen.
* [[Religious Bruiser]]: Winterborne.
** Anyone seen him charge up Frigid Waves? That'll put the fear of God into ya.
* [[Robe and Wizard Hat]]: Peregrine wears the modern equivalent: broad-brimmed leather hat and duster.
* [[Schizo
* [[Sealed Evil in
* [[Sickly Green Glow]]: Chalithac, the Entity of Radiation, had this going on in spades.
* [[Small Girl, Big Gun]]: Meg.
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* [[Space Base]]: Toma's moon base. Considering it was equipped with a a [[Wave Motion Gun|mass driver]], it also doubles as a [[Kill Sat]].
* [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien]]: The Do Sha Kaa.
* [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]: When it started in 2006, the game was set in 2008.
▲* [[The Conscience]]: A few people serve in this capacity, including Darius, Winterborne, Preacher (the town's resident [[Badass Preacher]]), and others.
▲* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Samson pretty much has a doctorate in this.
* [[The Underworld]]: Basically what it says on the tin.
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Ian, Samson.
* [[Win One for
* [[Woman in White]]: The Lady of the Haven.
* [[Wrench Wench]]: Aeron.
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