Haunted House 2013 & why i'm not in charge.

[Kaine Chandler]

Hello all,

I am taking this moment to remind everyone that we as a gaming community have an obligation to the BGC to put on their annual Haunted House in exchange for our hefty hefty discount on rent during the winter.

I know Halloween is a long way away and no one wants to think about this, but its important for us to spend some time over the summer raising money and making plans.

That said, I want to say that I WILL NOT be running the Haunted House again this year. I will be taking classes, and would really like to be able to take some time in the fall to go see my family, including its newest member who I have only seen pics of so far.

This doesn't mean I don't want to be involved or help out, just that I don't want to be the PIC. So:

I will be spearheading fundraising efforts to get us to our financial goal of a 1500$ budget for the HH.

I will help coordinate with the BGC folks.

I will be happy to help whoever does run the HH with my past experiences so they are not left trying to start from scratch the way I was. This can include emails and phone numbers to the ppl you'll need to contact, suggestions on timing of events, what positions you'll be looking to have filled and some suggestions on how to fill them, etc.

So, hopefully someone will step up and take on the job this year. Without the HH, we have no BGC.

Thank you,
Kaine

[Sammy]

hello if you need help let me know iv worked for halloween stores before! halloween is my christmas i would love to help out and be a part of it!so let me know!!

[Kaine Chandler]

I'm sure that the person in charge, who is not me, will appreciate that.

[Emelian Fantana]

Who is the person in charge? If no one has stepped up yet, I would love to help spearhead this and get the ball rolling and traction gained. Most of you know my email address by now. ~ Joe

[Kaine Chandler]

Joe! no one has stepped up yet, its all yours and many thanks.

[Wolf]

Same as last year whoever needs my construction services/discounts I plan on being fully involved.

[Emelian Fantana]

So at game Kaine officially past the torch onto me for the haunted house. I am brainstorming for a theme and want to know what you think with the following theme; post apocalyptic pandemic. The idea would be scenes with radiation burns, plague marks, broken down equipment, ect.

As for helpers, if you think you can help in any way please email me at ragabashenator (at) gmail.com

What we need are creative directors, builders, actors, and auxiliary hands. Please let me know of a good time/place for people to get together in person. I highly doubt that my house in Issaquah will be the best place for the large part of those who game.

I eagerly await your replies

[Athena Fire-in-Snow]

First off, THANK YOU for stepping up to take on this very large and thankless job!

On the idea of a theme, I'd like to see some open brainstorming and a selection of ideas presented before we start making a choice. I know this group can pull off almost anything, but I guess I was hoping for something with a wider range of costuming and scare options. Not that I have any great ideas off the top of my head...

[AST Tai]

Hmm I LOVED the theme last year, I had made a suggestion that was passed up on in favor of the awesomeness of Gavins, I was thinking something along the lines of Clue? The detective can take you to the door and gets brutally murdered and the butler leads you through the WHO-DUN-IT house, only to turn on you in the last room or something?

[Emelian Fantana]

Fair enough. I was just putting up an option. Thank you guys for showing interest in helping make this year as awesome (or more awesome) than years past.

[Athena Fire-in-Snow]

What about a Zoo of Horrors, where part way through the exhibits get loose and the zookeeper tries to get everyone out safely?

Or some sort of Horror Movie Monster Mashup, taking our previous fairy tale idea and doing it with horror movie standards instead?

[Nate]

A long standing rule from the B&GC, no, absolutely none, scenes showing animal abuse. A similar idea for a scene last year was squashed because of it.

[Falling Rock/Lei Feng]

Might not be plausible given the venue and resources, but how about an industrial accident scene? Working in a factory is the most dangerous working situation I've ever been in. There's potential for punctured safety masks, people trapped under scaffolding, chemical spills, and so on. Just musing at this point.

[Kaine Chandler]

I have removed the announcement feature from this thread, since Joe is now in charge. I'm sure there will be more announcements to keep everyone in the loop

[Athena Fire-in-Snow]

Hey, we were brainstorming theme ideas at the prop shop today...These are the ones I remember (there were almost certainly others, if someone else could post the ones I miss?)

• Classic Haunted House -- just like it sounds!
• Haunted Hospital of Horrors -- nasty medical horrors and the ghosts that arise from them...
• Grim Fairy Tales -- go back to the heart of the tales, with all the original grim and gruesome bits on full display...

Julianna

[Katie Hester]

I really like the Haunted Hospital and the Grim Fairy Tales ideas!

[Lily Esther Allen]

How about either the industrial complex mentioned above or possibly a medical complex with the following idea

Starting off with a tour guide who thanks everyone for coming on a tour of the industrial/medical complex etc & as soon as the elevator doors are closed an loud 'explosion' is heard following with screams. Some flashing hazard lights come on & the tour guide rushes everyone through as the non-elevator exit(you know those rules of don't use an elevator during an exacuation) on the otherside. And the first scenes they come to are people hurt in the distaster, fresh blood, dismemberment, moans & screams, trapped under who knows what fallen debris etc. Then at some point the tour guide, who has been getting more & more freaked out by it all, totally flips & 'escapes' behind a door that locks right behind him, leaving the group, for just a moment mind you, in the moaning hazardlit dimness of danger. Then out pops the next 'guide', in full bloody hazmat gear, mask and everything wanting to know what they are doing there and proceeds to take them to the exit. On the way more scenes but this time with hazardous materials issues, perhaps immediate mutations have occured, even more horrific damage scenes with evil green glowy fluid, people going crazy in the panic, tight spaces etc etc. Pehaps even at one point another person in full hazmat gear comes in and argues with the 'guide' stating they are contaminated and must be quarantined or worse, and around them they see body bags, that are moving... and of course they eventually escape down the stairs.



(This is Jennifer, who did the brains dinner last year & the monster mother eating her babies in the nursery the year before. Hard to post cause I have had issues with this website for many months now & cannot seem to fix it.)

[AST Tai]

Can we get all the ideas pasted into a poll and get them voted on or something?

[Sarah]

The way that I remember it is that we offer our selection up to the B&GC and they choose which one they like.

[Athena Fire-in-Snow]

Sarah is correct; however, we might put up a vote and then present the top three vote-winners as the options for the B&GC. That would be my suggestion, anyhow...