1. Fill out a casting questionnaire so we know what role to give you. Once you are cast you will receive a copy of your character via email.
2. Make some costuming, appropriate to your character.
3. Review the following files, and print them out to take with you to the game:
• Information about the game setting.
• Information about relevant history.
• Information about Christianity in 1632.
• Publicly known information about characters in the game.
• A description of the game systems being used.
• A description of the combat system being used.
4. We ask players for $5 per person, to cover food and props, which you should bring with you to the game.
5. Players must show up on time. Other players' enjoyment may be adversely affected if you are late or absent; and you will likely find your character at a disadvantage if you arrive late. The game will be taking place at 2:00 PM sharp at Alden Memorial Hall (as soon as Sunday Mass is out). Alden Hall is building number 2 on the 3D campus map or the 2D campus map. Alden Memorial Hall is the church at the North-West corner of West Street and Institute Road in Worcester, Massachusetts. (Try to arrive a little earlier.)
6. If you learn that you would not be able to attend after all, please inform the GMs as soon as possible.

Inspiration

• The Decameron, by Giovanni Boccaccio.
• The Father Brown Mysteries, by G.K. Chesterton.
• The Man in the Iron Mask, by Alexandre Dumas.
• The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco.
• The Cadfael Mysteries, by Ellis Peters.
• The Remington Steele TV show.
• The Rose of Versailles, Japanese manga/anime by Riyoko Ikeda.

Electronic References

• A timeline of the past 50 years before 1632.
• See some artwork from the period.
• Learn more about The Catholic Church. This does not constitute an endorsement of the Catholic Church by the game authors. However, we would like to thank the Catholic Church for giving us almost 2000 years of interesting history, and some interesting architecture.
• See other pages about the monastery.

          The second run was on Sunday, November 1st, 1998 (All-Saint's Day), from Noon til 5:00 PM, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. There were 43 new players, 2 NPCs playing playing two roles between them, and 5 GMs.

          The third run was on Saturday, July 31st, 1999 (the feast of Saint Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order), from Noon til 6:00 PM, at Brandeis, in Massachusetts. There were 31 new players, 2 NPCs playing four roles between them, and 4 GMs.

          The fourth run was on Saturday, August 14th 1999 (the feast celebrating the Assumption of the Virgin Mary into Heaven), from 2:00 PM until 8:00 PM in Hagerstown Maryland. There were 21 new players, 2 NPCs playing three roles between them, and 2 GMs.

          The fifth run was on Sunday, Febrary 3rd, 2002 (the feast celebrating Candelmas -- the presentation of the infant Christ to the temple), from Noon til 7:00 PM, at Brandeis, in Massachusetts. There were 35 new players, 5 NPCs playing seven roles between them, and 4 GMs.

          The sixth run was on Saturday, April 13rd, 2002 (the feast in honor of saint-martyr Pope Martin I), from 11:00 AM til 5:00 PM, in Delaware. There were 25 new players playing twenty-seven roles between them, 6 NPCs playing nine roles between them, and 2 GMs.

          The seventh run was on Sunday, October 24th, 2004 (the feast in honor of Saint Jude), from 1:30 PM til 8:00 PM, at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts. There were 38 new players playing forty roles between them, 2 NPCs playing three roles between them, and 4 GMs.

          So far, the game has been run for 234 LARPers.

Other links that you may wish to review

• See pages about Guy Fawkes Day, another 17th century European LARP by the same authors.
• See pages about Deep South by Daylight; another LARP by the same authors.
• See GRAPE; a pen and paper roleplaying game by Scott David Gray.

This game is a Subterranean Homesick Games production.