Only of Larpies interest

[essentialsaltes]

For the poor people on my friends list who no doubt have had quite enough of this Larpies crap, I will restrict myself to posting Larpy-relevant material in comments to this thread. At least until the wrap-up post.

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Yup

[tragic-culture.livejournal.com]

I'm putting together an "odds this or that" will happen post. Top of the List: Odds they Comp. in 500 people. GOD, someone has to be taking a freakin' *bath* on this thing, don't they??

Re: Yup

[servingdonuts.livejournal.com]

Someone probably paid a lot of money for the flash website (they shouldn't have, but they probably did). The other websites were probably done by one of the promoters using Front Page or something, so that was free. The sites seem to be hosted on some almost-but-not-quite free provider.

Someone spent, what, twenty bucks on the video spot?

I guess air time next to the phone sex spots isn't cheap... maybe they didn't have to pay cash-up-front and will skip out on the invoice.

How much can it possibly cost to put down a deposit on the auditorium?

The CELEBS CELEBS that didn't cancel were probably the ones whose agents told them that it would be okay to burn an evening where they weren't doing anything anyway just to get the "exposure", plus dinner and cab fare.

The camera crew can just be told to go home before the thing starts.

They might get out of this whole thing with just washing their hands instead of taking a bath. You can tie up the loose ends in deadbeat collections and penny-ante lawsuits for years afterwards before anybody gets a dime.

Re: Yup

[essentialsaltes.livejournal.com]

I bet renting the club is a serious outlay. I also bet the almost-certainly-nonrefundable deposit is a huge chunk of the total price. Some of the other sites on the LA Conservancy mention their prices. The prices vary pretty wildly, but I bet they've put down at least $10K. In emails, I think Valenti has mentioned a total budget of around $35K.