Andrea Humez wrote a weekend-long LARP, Three-Edged Sword, as her thesis for her undergraduate creative writing program at MIT. Also with the MIT Assassins' Guild, she wrote Haste to the Wedding and Castle Black, and co-wrote All The World's a Stage, Yendi Rising, and Blood, Love and Rhetoric. Her recently-written LARPs include Friends Help You Pack; The Last Time (Not The Last Time), co-written with Kristen Patten; Between The Penthouse and the Lobby, co-written with Alyse Leung; and The Buried Paths of Siru Kisal, co-written with Matt Fisher, Amanda Stowers, Sarah Terman, and Daniel Whalen. Andrea is one of the founders and current officers of the Greater Boston LARP Society.
Packing your life into boxes. . .so many boxes. . . As you prepare to close the door on one chapter of your life and move on to the next, you’re filled with memories of the past and dreams of the future. It’s a moment of hope and fear, sorrow and joy, loss and regret and the opportunity to start over—or sometimes, if you’re lucky, to heal the damage of the past. Thank goodness your friends will always rally around to help you pack, no matter what else happens in your lives.
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