All Hallows Warning - Must Read

[Sierra Katrian]

This is the obligatory All Hallows Warning.

To those of you who have attended an Underworld All Hallows event before, you know what I am about to say. To those attending their first All Hallows, please read carefully.

Halloween events at Underworld are some of the most intense LARP experiences you can have, EVERYONE has stories to tell about Halloween events they've PC'ed. We don't want to scare people into not attending because these events really are a ton of fun, but surviving All Hallows without a death is something to be proud of. Don't expect plot to scale monsters at this event. We will not pull our punches.

It was a Halloween event that the motto "RUN -- FIGHT -- HIDE" came from.

With that said, we might be cruel and heartless to your characters but we will always remember that you are paying customers who deserve fairness and respect on an out of game level. Though things may seem hopeless and miserable IG, you can usually run away from most encounters.

Please dress warm. We are not expecting sub-zero temperatures, but we recommend that you prepare for anything, including rain and snow.


Now the fun part: who's got stories of previous Halloween events to share?

[Andrei Katrares]

10 people huddled freezing in a tent while I slept on my shield and Marco sitting in the corner watching trees, exhausted. Eli and Phil the Beet Farmer snoring like bears, then being woken and told to shut up, before going back to snoring like bears. Decoy tent in camp proper has trap go off. NPC reads out trap description, narrates NPCs turning into pile of ash. Wake up next morning, collect loot and head back into town to find out a friend final'ed.

Hallows is one hell of a time.

[Sierra Katrian]

Hallows stories never get old. All of mine are from the other side of the game, which honestly, NPCs and Shapers have the best stories.

One of my top 10 favourite moments happened many years ago while I was playing a Banshee...but the players didn't know that. I was walking around town in the middle of the night, there is no one around until a couple of people walk by. Concerned, the one guy moves forward to see if I needed help. He though I was lonely spirit or just a very pale woman. His friend (it was Morgaine I think ) behind him was telling him to run, and get away, but he insisted on helping me, so he moved closer until he was only a few inches away from my face at which point I screamed with all that I had and sent him running. I have never been so giddy, it was so hard not to giggle with glee.

Luckily I suck at throwing packets so I never hit him with my Wale of Death.

[Rachel NPC]

Being left to die next to the porta potties. Good times.

[Promises]

The real test of endurance is whether you can survive the smell for your full count.

[Sierra Katrian]

Being left to die next to the porta potties. Good times.

You are a trooper. I would be rolling away asap. I don't even like fighting around there just in case I go down.

[Brennus]

all hallows, first game, quintus was a mage physician. arms and equipment? satchel, brown habit, energy elixir, borrowed dagger rep. i stood at town centre fire beside the towns most powerful pc's an undead hunting wilder paladin and the lord of Einher in jericho Grymskald. game started and npc camp emptied both of these seasoned warriors looked at the assembled townsfolk and shouted "run just run". i spent the next 4 hours crawling through half slush bog alone. anytime i got near another living thing it was killed by the undead. (i literally crawled over a fallen towns person after checking for a pulse).

end of weekend tally no deaths bleed count twice. still proud of that.

[MM/NPL Dustin]

My first hallows so far has been the only hallows I've been to. However, on the night I had a packet fly just by my head, missing me by less than a foot and hearing the banshee's death call, that's when I learned how serious the halloween event was. I know I was among the unlucky group of PC's that weekend to take their final death, but I wouldn't have had the event any other way.

Although, this year I like my chances better.

[Rachel NPC]

Being left to die next to the porta potties. Good times.

You are a trooper. I would be rolling away asap. I don't even like fighting around there just in case I go down.

In hindsight, that would've been a great idea!!

[Aminata Gomorrah]

Favourite moment ever comes from my first All Hallows ever.
Came to game late (like 1am) so had to immediately go into game upon arrival. I'm giddy with fear and still had to set up my stuff but oh well.
We're walking towards our campsite and of course town is dead because everyone is hiding from the walking death machines. We hear noises that definitely came straight from the pit of Hell (i.e. sense life calls and IG screaming) and run into the woods to hide (from the screaming. No Meta!!). Somehow a Hobling ends up with us, and we literally listen to people run past our hiding spot begging for their lives. (They are unsuccessful). After everything goes dead silent... He INSISTS on eating something wrapped on noisey, crinkly tin foil... And talking... We try to shut him up (me with quiet terror, Quintus with an actual threat to kill him himself) but we still end up attracting some Hell Hounds... They go to move on, but sense us ((I'm panicked trying not to meta about just giving away my hiding spot)) and he comes straight for us, so we ditch our studf and run. They catch the Hobling first.. and bring him to the Grym himself who is now in the woods with us. They also catch Quintus but I manage to keep away and hide while they play with their catches. The Grim eats the Hobling... And spares Quintus. I've never seen a man in heavy armour run so fast.