by Kris@WLP » Mon May 05, 2008 9:01 pm
We're going to have a ton of entertainment old and new, but I feel I should mention a possible history lesson for the younger fans... Project: A-Ko will be one of the options available for viewing at this year's party.
And I might have mentioned this year's door prize game: Let's Make a Deal or No Deal.
Here's how that will work.
There will be twenty briefcases... well, envelopes, actually, because I can't afford to buy twenty damn briefcases for a one-shot party game.
The cases will contain certificates for (or prizes for): a small postcard, a large postcard, an older issue of Bootleg, a newer issue of Bootleg, a WLP badge, a COG CD (used), a COG DVD (used), a sampler DVD (not used because nobody wanted it)...
let's see, that's how many, eight down twelve to go? Well three more prizes will be commissions from WLP artists- DarkZel and two others yet to be confirmed.
Nine prizes left- how about a copy of G.A.H. #2, one of only sixty of the fanzines ever printed, from back in our 1999 early history?
Eight prizes left- Let's put some WLP gift certificates in there- $5, $10, $15, $25, $50, $75, and $100.
One prize left... and I'm going to go into WLP's file copies and assemble a One of Everything grand prize... one of every single comic issue WLP has ever published, a prize worth not less than $250.00.
So far, sounds a bit like Howie Mandel's show, right? Well, here come the twists.
First, rather than have one person go at a time- we are NOT going to spend ten hours giving shit out, right?- we're going to have ten people pick one envelope each at the same time.
Then, rather than have a presenter and a banker, we're going to have a Monty Hall- me. I'm going to try to buy or trade back those envelopes, thusly:
First, I make a standing offer for any of the envelopes- any of the remaining players can take the offer, hand in their envelope, and take the offer.
After this is done, I pick a player and ask them to open one of the envelopes not chosen at the start. After that, I may offer that player any one of the following options, depending on circumstances:
* Swap their unopened envelope for the one they just opened;
* Swap their envelope for some other player's envelope;
* Swap their envelope for whatever's behind the screen (an unlisted prize); or
* Swap their envelope for Box #1, Box #2, or Box #3. (Because we won't have room for three big stage doors.)
Afterwards, the player's prize is revealed; if they give me their envelope, that is opened and revealed to everyone.
Of course, I may make this a bit more flexible (trans. change the rules on the fly) if circumstances warrant, but you get the idea.
So- how does that sound to y'all?