Hey folks -

I wanted to take a minute and say "Thank You" to all of our players and staff,
for completing the 5-year arc of The Isles - Asylum.

As with all things, we (collectively) have had our share of ups and downs.
I think the "ups" outnumber the "downs" for most folks.

Some of the comments at the closing (which I apologize for it being so long),
I thought were very insightful to our game and our players.

We have / had an amazing number of people say that they were either brand-new to
LARPing when the join us, or that they had given up on LARPing and were talked
into trying out The Isles - with no real intent to stick with it.

But, 5 years later - here you all are.

The comments about how the game has challenged you, how it helped you find new
friends, and how in many cases it has resparked that creative, fun desire within
you made me feel like it was all worth it.

Honestly, I had a great time (mostly !) heading things up.
I could never ask for a better group of people to help make it happen -
and in many ways I have become better friends with them that I was before.

I look forward to next year, when I will be out there "on your side".
I will be staying on with Isles -2 as thier General Manager, so you'll still be
able to contact me as a fallback for almost anything to do with the game.

Until January when (hopefully) most of us will meet to create new characters -
or until we next meet at a Bardic Night or some other event -

To all my friends within The Isles,
I wish you all a relaxing, and enjoyable Fall & Holiday season.

-Chris

Chris,

Isles has been so memorable & enjoyable for me, and your efforts helped that to happen. I look forward with fighting WITH you as opposed to fighting against you....

Chris...

It was great to finally be a part of the event, and it was fun even if it was only my first "Boffer LARP" to get a chance to help be able to give the players what they so deserved... an epic ending to a 5 year run.

I hope that the PCs enjoyed their adventure as much as I did being able to be a part of their story.

To you Chris... I salute you. Thank you for your assistance in helping me to quickly adjust to your LARP format, and making me feel so welcome.

I look forward to fighting along side you in the future.

Jo Jo

One note of appreciation. One of the reasons I've drifted away from other LARPs is an inability to fail. Some GM's treat the event like it's for nothing like their own enjoyment or some cathartic experience where if the ending isn't the one they've scripted, then they'll bring out the clue-by-4 to force the ending they've envisioned. Hearing that the abberent story arc was due to a failure from earlier on in the campaign completely impressed me. Here is a game where, not only are you allowed to fail, but those failures come back in vivid technicolor and manifest in an epic battle that ultimately give you a sense of real triumph.

Kudo's to Plot, NPC and PC alike for helping to make the story so compelling. It's been a wild ride. You all truely suck less! ;o)

O'wa T'ru B'yam (Eric)

"Oh, what a rube I am." I'd never known anything but his first name.

While Andy may make things "interesting", I ensure to make things lethal... (if I am ever within sight armed with a boffer of any kind: don't run, no sense dying tired.)

*Salute*
It was an honor to serve under you boss.


Oh great ... I <may> be able to out-think Andy,
but there is no freakin' way I am gonna outrun (or outfight) Adam ...

-Chris

Short and Sweet:

Thanks Chris, looking forward to having back on 'our' side!

Chris,

Thank you for the years of entertainment. I can only hope to repay you by entertaining you and the rest of the players at least half as well as you have for the past five years. The quality you and the rest of the plot team put into the first campaign serve as inspiration for me.

~Laura

What James (Kazimir) said goes for me as well. The Isles: Asylum was a truly remarkable piece of art. Thank you Chris.