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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Wasteland: Update

THE WASTELAND
November 7-8, 2009
Waynes World of Paintball, Ocala, FL

$40 pre-registration / $50 walk-in

Registration now open at
http://mindgame-productions.com/store/index.php

Download the Wasteland Survival Guide at
http://mindgame-productions.com/nuke/files/WastelandSurvivalGuide.pdf

The Wasteland is an engaging alternate reality event based on the FallOut computer games, most specifically FallOut3 by Bethesda Softworks. The setting is a section of the "capitol wasteland", an area around the ruins of Washington DC, two hundred years after a devastating nuclear war.

The Wasteland's world is not quite our own. It is an alternate reality which diverged from ours at some point after the second World War. The base concept for the setting is the World of Tomorrow as imagined in the Golden Age of Science Fiction. This means that before the Great War, the world was more or less what the people of the 1940s and 1950s thought things would be like in 2077. The most important event in the setting was the Great War which happened on October 23, 2077. It lasted a mere two hours, but was unbelievably destructive and changed the world for centuries to come.

Our game begins in the Capitol Wasteland of 2278. The wastelands dangerous and hostile, inhabited by savage wasteland raiders and feared slavers. The tough and violent supermutants are a threat near many ruined areas and the wastelands are also home to the radition ravaged ghouls and even less friendly life forms. The Brotherhood of Steel and the Enclave are two organizations with advanced pre and post-war technology, looking to save ancient knowledge or bring the wasteland under their leadership. The ruthless mercenaries of Talon Company and the bravery of proud Wastelanders may be encountered in ones travels between settlements struggling to survive in the radioactive ruins.

Within the wasteland, fame, fortune and relics of ancient technology await! Welcome to the Capitol Wastes!


Factions and Uniforms
(Download the Players Pack for more information!)

Mindgame Productions wants to create a unique atmosphere and dynamic for The Wasteland. Ensure you and your teammates are in the correct uniform. Several factions have a maximum capacity of players. Be sure you register and pay in advance to secure your place in a specific faction. Day of play walk-ins who are in the wrong uniform or hope to join a faction that is at capacity will be given directions to the nearest surplus store, Wal-Mart or Goodwill so you can obtain items for a Wastelander uniform. SMALLER FACTIONS - REGISTER IN ADVANCE and follow our uniform guidelines. More suggestions for dressing for The Wasteland are included later in the Survival Guide.

Brotherhood of Steel
A high-tech order of wasteland knights, its headquarters is the Citadel, built into and beneath the ruins of the Pentagon in what used to be Washington, DC. It is one of the most important and influential factions in the Capital Wasteland. Their focus is to recover and safeguard pre-war knowledge and technology. The Capital Wasteland brothers have also dedicated themselves to combating the super mutant plague in the Capital Wastes. Faction limited to approximately 25 players!
Uniform – Multicam. If "power armor" is built, it should be silver/steel in color and may have any color uniform underneath provided at least 50% of body is covered by armor.

Talon Company
Talon Company is a mercenary organization active in the Capital Wasteland. Even as far as mercenaries go, these men and women are vicious. They are known to take mercenary contracts with few moral compunctions about who they are hired to kill. Faction limited to approximately 25 players!
Uniform – Black

Wastelanders
These are the ragged survivors living within the Wastelands. Some Wastelanders are fundamentally good folk, if a bit hardened by the realities of the Capital Wastes. Some manage to survive by dirt farming, trade or their wits alone. Others form informal militias to help defend their villages and homesteads, others may hire themselves out as guards for travelling merchants or simply wander the wastes in search of fortune.
Uniforms – Wasteland Punk, Mixed Civilian and Paramilitary. No full uniforms! Punk it out!

Raiders
A particularly anti-social classes of Wastelanders, Raiders have formed gangs who pillage, plunder, murder, or otherwise ruin the day of anyone unfortunate enough to not be one of them. Raiders tend to organize into loose confederations of gangs in the post-apocalyptic wasteland and are a constant problem, because it's much easier for them to just shoot people for their money, food, and other valuables than to earn a living. Raiders typically prey upon travelers and very small towns. To identify themselves, most raider gangs have adopted some sort of recognition feature such as a colored strip of cloth as an arm or headband. Others may all wear hockey masks, color their hair blue or have some other identifiable feature differentiating them from regular Wastelanders.
Uniforms – Wasteland Punk, Mixed Civilian and Paramilitary. No full uniforms! Punk it out! If you and your buddies plan to run a gang of raiders, decide on your own recognition item.

Slavers
Slavery is a lucrative business in the Wasteland. Although many larger pockets of civilization have outlawed slavery, smaller dictators allow the purchase and sale of human beings. Slavers do not discriminate between people based upon their race or ideology--anyone who can be easily cowed into submission, captured, and fitted with a slave collar is perfectly acceptable "meat" for them to use. They are generally identified by the savage face-paint of their Slaver gang. Faction limited to approximately 25 players!
Uniform – Face-Paint, Wasteland Punk, Mixed Civilian and Paramilitary. No full uniforms! Punk it out!

Enclave
The Enclave is a militaristic, right-wing organization, directly descended from the pre-War United States government and military industrial complex that claims to still have authority over the ravaged country. It is composed mostly of the descendants of government officials and military officers. The Enclave takes pride in being one of the last bastions of pure strain humanity left, aside from the unopened Vaults. They generally consider most people born outside the Enclave to be mutants fit only for eradication. Faction limited to approximatey 25 players!
Uniform - MARPAT. If "power armor" is built, it should be black in color and may have any color uniform underneath provided at least 50% of body is covered by armor.

Event Sponsored By


Airsoft Extreme
www.airsoftextreme.com


Airsoft Unlimited
www.airsoft-unlimited.net


Dark Threads
www.darkthreads.com


EastWest Synthesis


Palco Sports
www.palcosports.com


Respawn Airsoft
www.respawnairsoft.com

Registration now open at
http://mindgame-productions.com/store/index.php

Download the Wasteland Survival Guide at
http://mindgame-productions.com/nuke/files/WastelandSurvivalGuide.pdf

Monday, September 28, 2009

Can you survive the Wasteland?


THE WASTELAND
November 7-8
Waynes World of Paintball, Ocala, FL

The Wasteland is an engaging alternate reality event based on the FallOut computer games, most specifically FallOut3 by Bethesda Softworks. The setting is a section of the "capitol wasteland", an area around the ruins of Washington DC, two hundred years after a devastating nuclear war.

The Fallout world is not quite our own. It is an alternate reality which diverged from ours at some point after the second World War. The base concept for the setting is the World of Tomorrow as imagined in the Golden Age of Science Fiction. This means that before the Great War, the Fallout world was more or less what the people of the 1940s and 1950s thought things would be like in 2077. The most important event in the Fallout setting was the Great War which happened on October 23, 2077. It lasted a mere two hours, but was unbelievably destructive and changed the world for centuries to come.

Our game begins in the Capitol Wasteland of 2278. The wastelands dangerous and hostile, inhabited by savage wasteland raiders and feared slavers. The tough and violent supermutants are a threat near many ruined areas and the wastelands are also home to the radition ravaged ghouls and even less friendly life forms. The Brotherhood of Steel and the Enclave are two organizations with advanced pre and post-war technology, looking to save ancient knowledge or bring the wasteland under their leadership. The ruthless mercenaries of Talon Company and the bravery of proud Wastelanders may be encountered in ones travels between settlements struggling to survive in the radioactive ruins.

Within the wasteland, fame, fortune and relics of ancient technology await! Welcome to the Capitol Wastes!

Registration at http://mindgame-productions.com/store/
Survival Guide at http://mindgame-productions.com/nuke/files/WastelandSurvivalGuide.pdf
Basic Event Rules at http://mindgame-productions.com/nuke/files/BasicEventRules2009.pdf
Much More Info at http://mindgame-productions.com/nuke/

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

This weekend: Zombie Hunt in PA, Deep Umbra in FL

Two exciting events happening this Saturday, Sept. 26:

Zombie Hunt IV - How will you survive?
Camp Allegheny, 100 Camp Allegheny Drive, Stoystown, PA
Site opens at 2 pm. $5 admission. Overnight tent camping is allowed. We will be there vending our stuff, and fighting for our lives. We will have at least one cool prize to give away. More info - http://www.darkthreads.com/events.html

Deep Umbra - Wish I could be in two places at once, because this is gonna be cool, too; part one of a three-part series planned.
Waynes World of Paintball, Ocala, FL
$35 Advance Registration / $40 Walk-On
Register now at http://mindgame-productions.com/store/index.php
Download Players Pack at http://mindgame-productions.com/nuke/files/DeepUmbraPlayersPack.pdf
Visit the forums at Mindgame Productions for the complete Deep Umbra back story.

Also - Mark your calendars for November 7th as MGP presents... The Wasteland!

Sunday, September 13, 2009

The Next Zombie Hunt is On!


Madness & Chaos…

Where: Camp Allegheny
When: September 26th
Cost: $5

Time:
Arrive: 2pm
Game on: 4pm
Dinner: 6pm
Game on: 7pm
Game off: 12am

This will be a late day/night game and we are renting one of the cabins for the night as well if you would like to stay and if that fills up you may also bring a tent. Bio BBs will be provided for all players so there is no need to worry about that. DarkThreads will be selling some guns and other equipment on site in case anyone needs anything. They will also be running some raffles for players.

This game will make use of spring powered (no electric) airsoft guns. If you do not own any, they can be purchased cheaply at Walmart and other sports retailers (10USD). There will be a limited number available for loan if they are needed. Speak up if you're interested :D

For more details about the rules, player classes, &etc. please feel free to contact us!

Upcoming MGP Airsoft Events:

Eclipse: Deep Umbra
September 26th, 2009
Waynes World of Paintball, Ocala, FL
$35 Advance Registration / $40 Walk-On

Register now at http://mindgame-productions.com/store/index.php
Download Players Pack at http://mindgame-productions.com/nuke/files/DeepUmbraPlayersPack.pdf

Join us on September 26th for the first of what is projected to be a three-part game series. The United States has been devasted by an attack crippling the power and communications infrastructure. In the months of hunger, riots and chaos that follow... sections of the former United States fragment into successionist regimes, while the military and government struggle for control of what few shreds of America remain. Deep Umbra is the first of the Eclipse event trilogy, a three part mil-sim campaign in the ravaged remains of America projected to span Florida, Virginia and Georgia. Choose your side... choose what you will fight for when the lights go out.

Visit the Deep Umbra Forums at www.mindgame-productions.com for the full backstory on the Deep Umbra series.

Eclipse Scenario One : Deep Umbra

The Governor of Florida remains loyal to the President. He has National Guard and State Troopers working to restore order within Florida and distribute the limited food and water resources.

An airman from McDill AFB manages to steal a MK87 SADM, man-portable nuclear device, from the SOCOM arsenal, presumably with the intent to sell the device to New America. A Department of Energy Nuclear Emergency Support Team (NEST) is sent by the CivGov to recover the device before it crosses into New America or can be recovered by MilGov forces.

While the governor is loyal to the CivGov, a sizable portion of the Florida population in central and north Florida are sympathetic to the ideals of New America and its hardline stance of America for Americans and a rejection of immigrants and foreigners as having weakened the country to the point of its present collapse.

MilGov and CivGov forces mobilize in central Florida, drawing in around the suspected location of the stolen SADM. National Guard and security forces contracted by the governor move to block MivGov personnel from impeding the NEST personnel recovering the device. Without warning, troops from New America cross into Florida to "protect the liberty" of Americans wishing to join the New American Confederation. The speed at which the New American troops are travelling leaves little doubt that they want to recover the SADM for their own military.

Teams:

MultiCam - MilGov Troops
ACU - National Guard (CivGov)
Tan/Coyote - State Troopers (CivGov)
Black - Local Law Enforcement (CivGov)
Olive Drab - Nuclear Emergency Support Team (CivGov)
Woodland/MARPAT - New America
Civilian - Floridians

Register now at http://mindgame-productions.com/store/index.php
Download Players Pack at http://mindgame-productions.com/nuke/files/DeepUmbraPlayersPack.pdf

Event Sponsored By


Airsoft Carolina
www.airsoftcarolina.com


Airsoft Extreme
www.airsoftextreme.com


Dark Threads
www.darkthreads.com


Palco Sports
www.palcosports.com


Respawn Airsoft
www.respawnairsoft.com

Mark your calendars for November 7th as MGP presents... The Wasteland!


Friday, September 11, 2009

Sale! Clearance/discontinued items, priced to move!

Just making some room for new inventory, and there are a couple of items that are being discontinued by the manufacturer...

Say goodbye to the TRU-SPEC Digital Combat uniform, as you know it:

These items are being discontinued, but we still have some sizes in stock, and we are offering them up at a very special price, so take advantage of the opportunity while supplies last.

Digital Urban Combat Shirt & Pants

No, Digital Urban pattern is not going away, just this particularly style of uniform, so if you like the cut of the Digital Combat uniform, stock up while you can. A discount still applies for those of you who are members of the US Space Marines (USSMC). Contact sales@darkthreads.com for more info.


Of course, you can still get the TRU-SPEC Tactical Response Uniform (TRU) in Digital Urban and many other patterns from darkthreads.com.

Clearance item, priced to move:

M.O.C. Woodland BDU pants



And at $15.99, who can't use an extra pair of woodland BDUs? These are crisp, clean, brand-spankin' new woodlands, not your second-hand castoffs.

Stay tuned, because I'm cleaning out the warehouse to make room for new stuff, and I'll be posting more great deals in the coming weeks.

If you have any questions, please contact sales@darkthreads.com





In other news:

I just updated the darkthreads.com Web site with a bunch of new products in the clothing and covers categories, so please stop by and check it out.

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

DragonCon



We're heading down to Atlanta this week for DragonCon! This not so much a business trip for us as it is a vacation. We're just going to hang out with friends, show off our costuming skills, and indulge in Southern cuisine. Perhaps we will also check out Airsoft Atlanta. I expect that we are going to have a really good time!
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