The trip of a lifetime…
just hope you survive until wrap
Concept
The Oasis 2 is a one-shot LARP set in 1934, with players taking the roles of the cast, crew and associated “muscle” on possibly the highest budget moving picture made to date.
The game is inspired by movies set in and around the Golden Age of Hollywood, such as 1933’s King Kong, 2000’s Shadow of the Vampire and 1952’s Singin’ in the Rain, and also pulpy classics set in the 1930s such as 1999’s The Mummy and 1981’s Raiders of the Lost Ark.
In the style of Flying Lead: Nightmare, there is a possibility your character will not survive filming! There will be other opportunities to continue to play the game – but dying in a suitably climactic, cinematic way is a part of the experience!
The Sequel?
Using the “Nightmare Rules” we’ve created and used at other EYELarp games with a high body count, the LARP Award “Game of the Year” winning event took place, but in THIS reality, it was a totally normal film shoot, with all the normal trials and tribulations that involves.
If you played the first Oasis event and your character died – do not worry! This is an alternate reality where they are alive and well. Feel free to roleplay elements of it as a strange dream you had after too many oysters if you wish, but the events of the last game are not part of the narrative of this one.
It DIDN’T turn out that half the cast and crew were Immortal beings who had visited the mysterious island at some point in the previous 3000 years and been recruited into a family of murderous cultists.
The Oasis was a totally normal production, which though going horrendously over budget, was a smash hit at the 6th Academy Awards, winning Outstanding Production (also called “Best Picture”), Best Actor in the form of Clark Daytona in the role of Sergeant Albert Jones, and having not one but three actresses from the production shortlisted in the category of Best Actress. Lydia Keye, Florence Montgelas and Matilda Baptiste were all beaten by Katherine Hepburn, but rumours of an altercation at the afterparty between the four women have been circulating for months.
Many agree it was unfair of Ms. Keye to sub-in her stunt double for the fight.
Director B.B. Nelson is keen to keep the momentum going with a new production. Some of the same cast and crew have been offered contracts to return, others have already been picked up by other film crews in Hollywood and beyond.
This time, B.B. is keen to film something new… something not seen on film since the heyday of silent film… A Western!
He has secured the rights to shoot in a recently reopened set in Spain, which was closed for a decade after all productions were shut down during the Spanish coup d’etat of 1923 and following years of Military dictatorship under General Primo de Rivera.
The Second Spanish Republic is keen to be seen as a place of new ideas, new technologies and new money, and the cash injection from Summerisle Studios is very much welcomed by the fledgling socialist government.
All Cast, Filmcrew and Security are travelling to Grenada to make their way to the film set deep in the hills of Sierra Nevada, which has been a Western-style Ghost Town since a fateful night in 1923 when production suddenly stopped amidst an armed takeover…
We will be capping tickets at 40 players and 30 crew, and tickets will be available for the following four IC roles:
– 10x Cast – anything from the Starlet or the Grand Dame to the down-on-his-luck character actor desperately trying to revitalise his career
– 20x Filmcrew – barring Director and Cameraman and some head of department roles, everything else is up for grabs
– 10x Security – bruisers and enforcers hired to ensure the studio’s investment is protected without a hitch.
CLICK HERE TO READ THE DESIGN DOCUMENT
This contains the rules and character creation information
Upcoming Events
Basic Information
The event will run from 9th-11th August 2024.
Time in is 9pm Friday, with a mandatory safety brief at 8pm, and registration from 6.30pm. Feel free to arrive at any time after 10am on Friday.
The game will end at around 1pm on Sunday, with a debrief afterwards before we begin the packdown.
Player tickets are £100, with a £60 part payment to secure the ticket and the remaining £40 payable on the Friday of the event during registration. Tickets are available from www.eyelarp.com from the 1st of May at 7.30pm.
Meal tickets will be available for £30 in the month preceding the event from our sister site www.feastyoureyes.events
To find out more about The Oasis, please feel free to check out and comment in our Facebook group.
Background
As with all EYELarp games, at the start of each event players will be briefed on Site safety and basic EYElarp Rules
When does the game run?
The Oasis is a one-shot event, taking place on the 5th-7th August 2022
The event itself runs in the following hours:
9pm-1am Friday
10am-1am Saturday
10am-1pm Sunday
The hours in between are “off game” or “out of character” hours where you are expected to sleep!
Where is the game set?
You play the cast and filmcrew of a 1934 Hollywood film. The game exists within a bubble of fiction, where we play with historical ideas and themes, without having to adhere to historical authenticity exactly.
What’s the style of play?
Cinematic living and survival. Your aim is to survive the filming of an eccentric millionaire’s movie, on location in a mystical island.
Player FAQ
Crew FAQ