Nordic Scene

Albión was a mixture of the legend of Robin Hood and the fantasy of Shakespeare written and played in the Adventurous Romanticistic style in a Finnish forest in September. It was the fifth game of that style, directed by Katri Lassila and Tuomas Hakkarainen with help of Laura Kalli.
The main idea was to get the players run in the forest, use bows and swords and enjoy the feeling of the childhood plays. Still the story was written as interesting as possible,
taking inspiration apart from Robin Hood also from Alan Moore’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Gaiman’s Sandman, steampunk in general and the Legends of King Arthur. The theatrical playing style was inspired by adventure films and novels, the players watched in advance The Adventures of Robin Hood starred by Errol Flynn from the year 1938.

Main plot in short:
The evil queen Albiónia had murdered and seized the throne from her sister Amanda and had ruled the Albión (situated in a soft spot shifting in times in the Sherwood Forest) for three hundred years, three times more than the natural cycle of the Forest Folk was.
Amanda had sent her seven children to the different times and places to save them, but an old prediction told that after three hundred years of evil rule, on the Midsummer Night’s eve, the “Seven Flowers” would get together again and the queen would fall.

In London 1939 the war had just started, the world was in chaos and nobody except the Society knew, that the queen sitting on the throne of England wasn’t really the Queen Victoria but a human-like machine, put there by the Enemies of the Empire, the horrible secret society led by doctor James Moriarty.
The evil queen Albiónia had come to the year 1936 and wanted to conquer the world by making an alliance with Hitler. The Society had to act. The professor had designed a time machine, a wonderful instrument that brang the members back in time to help Vilja, the princess in exile to defeat her evil aunt.
At the same time the legend of Robin Hood was to be saved, as in the world where the Society left from, she had died in her youth in the hands of the evil sheriff (yes, they both were really women, the history books haven’t been accurate.)

What happened then? Did the characters succeed? Despite some bad luck and difficult situations (as Sir Remington shooting Robin by accident in a battle) the evil queen was killed and sacrificed and the world saved. And everything ended in some fireworks as all the good adventure movies do.

The adventures will continue most probably in the summer 2009 and will welcome all the foreign friends to join in too!

The Adventurous Romanticism (article from the Solmubook 2008):
http://docs.google.com/View?docID=dgv58wsc_5fp265vgj&revision=_latest

Sir Remington meets an old friend:
http://docs.google.com/View?docID=df7kc8fv_38jvj539cn&revision=_latest

The Secret Document:
http://docs.google.com/View?docID=df7kc8fv_407cfwhsgt&revision=_latest

The pictures of the game:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lassila.katri/Albion_InCharacter#
http://picasaweb.google.com/lassila.katri/Albion_OffCharacter#

Yours - in romance and adventure,

Katri