Sunday, September 6, 2009

Machine Infernale

I wish I could find out more about this amazing infernal device posted to Flickr. It was a featured prop in a French LARP, but there doesn't seem to be anything available beyond that.



4 comments:

  1. Hi everyone.
    I'm one of the conceptor of this prop (from the French LARP association called Topik).
    We are very pleased to see our creation on your blog ;o)
    I can answered questions about this stuff if you have some ;o)

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  2. Can you tell us a little bit about how it was built and how it fit into the LARP plot?

    It's a wonderful piece of work and I'd love to see more of it.

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  3. Hi !
    For the front of the prop, it was built from many recovery stuff...
    A headboard for the "art nouveau" shape, an old cupboard, lamps, a beetle horn, old metalic switches, and, of course, metal, resin, wood, etc...
    In the backstage, there's a computer that control light and sound and even a coffee and smoke machine for the steam ;o)

    It was made for two LARP's games. One in the 20's (It was used as a revolutionnary mad's machine, that can produce earthquakes ! It was prepared with pyritechnical effects that can create the illusion that the machine explode, electric sparkles, stream's jet, etc...).
    The second one was a Steampunk larp's game, this machine take place in a complete decor that act has an hexagonal macanical and steam library... 3 wall was full of of books, 2 walls had lots of littles brass riveted doors, and one wall with the machine itself... Players can used the machine to ask for a particular document, and after using it, the document was "blowed out" by an radom brass door...

    You can watch the first used of the machine on this video (min 4'03) :
    http://video.google.fr/videoplay?docid=1533383009799539298&ei=EZ4KS4i0DpWz-AaPwqSnDg&hl=fr#

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