elizabeth_oswald

The Great Mystery Game (of LitRPG Con)

Added 2025-07-22 19:13:10 +0000 UTC

So, fun thing about LitRPG Con, there was almost no information about it except for when, where, and who until approximately two weeks before the event. No idea what kinds of events would be held, or if we were all just going to be milling about, asking each other what we'd read and if we wrote anything.

Then, two weeks before, we get a Mysterious email with a link to a form which basically asks what kinds of games we like, and when we might be available to play a game like that.

And that's it. No indication of exactly what game we might be playing, or with whom, just a furthering of the mystery. My husband refused to fill it out, on the general principle that he couldn't prepare for something so vague. I, being slightly more adventurous, just shrugged and ran with it.

A few days later I get an email saying, "At 2 PM on Friday, be at table 2." That's it. Am I in a spy novel now? It's so exciting! What are my code words? I draw the line at smuggling anything in any of my bodily cavities.

So, on Friday, I wait at Table 2 with bated breath. And a group of people formed, each of us looking around nervously, willing to exchange basic information, but wondering What Is To Come... And a very nice volunteer came over and played Qwixx with us (a fun, fast dice game). I won once, lost terribly once, and did all right the third time, and then we all returned to our boring, bland lives.

So this is an image of a moment when my life could have gone many different ways. A brief foray into Mystery, a setup for murder, or...a game with strangers. Probably all for the best that we went with option 3.