On the Moulin Noir






The first one is really just a cool photo of redecorated school buses while the second one more closely resembles what I imagine "the garden" at Moulin Noir looks like.
Rusted but painted and covered in flowering vines, etc. There are definitely swings and lanterns hanging from the axles!

On Hooch and the Trailjacks (by Jim)

Hooch's gang ride on ATVs and 3- and 4-wheel vehicles. They congregate under an old picnic pavilion that's now called 'the Garage'. Each 'cuz has their own hammock stung in the rafters over their bike, with position closer to the center indicating rough hierarchy within the gang. You're responsible for your own bike at all times, including being able to right it and fix it if you get in a jam out on the Trail.

There's 14 riders in the gang (called the Trailjacks) right now, with half a dozen or so named so far:

NOTE: All the gang members are late teens/early 20s, none certainly older than 25, most look younger than they probably are due to poor nutrition and disease. Hooch is likely somewhere in the 18-21 range.

Jackabacka (who, from the actual play reports, is doomed).
Baby  is a similarly-to-Hooch ambiguously-sexed late teen who has the job description "Reminds Hooch of Home".  She's the sister of Spice, one of October's ladies.
Tinker is a clearly male kid, tall and rangy with huge hands, who is the idiot savant of working on the gangs' bikes. He speaks in a fast-talking, slang-laden local accent so thick he's barely understandable, and is generally always working on bikes whenever he's not actually out riding.
Stinky is an obvious boy of maybe 15 or 16, and is the least trusted member of the gang because he's the newest, having just 'Run the Course' a month or so ago.
T-Bone(?) is the best  in the group at finding stuff, she's a squat, thick, girl in her early 20s. She also works as Hooch's translator.
Bullet is another ambiguously-sexed kid, a little older, average height and skinny, called that because of 'his' funny-shaped head, probably early 20s, who is a native of the area.

The gang is outfitted in scrounged logging and mining gear, lots of flannel, demin, canvas coveralls, stuff like that. They all wear mining helmets with the lamps attached to see in the dark, instead of using headlights on their ATVs. They're armed mostly with hatchets, sledges, and other mining and logging equipment. Maybe one or two shotguns and a couple of poorly-maintained, scrounged hunting rifles. Hooch himself carries around a well-made carbon-steel hatchet that has been sharpened religiously over the years and has had its rubber grip replaced with a duct-tape facsimile.

We also established that someone had tried to Run the Course last time along with Stinky, but flipped their bike and was left to to die under it overnight.

(Run the Course: If you want to be a Trailjack, you need to bring your own ATV, which you then use to Run the Course, a nasty obstacle course the gang sets up with help from some of the 'Holders. If you can run it in under the time that Hooch sets, you're in. If you can't do it fast enough, you ain't. If you flip your bike or hurt yourself, you have to keep gong and no one's allowed to help you until you get yourself off the Course., no exceptions. The Hold treats these Runs as entertainment.

The Trailjacks seem to refer to Miss O's place as the 'Moolinor', and all of them call Barbecue 'Big B' and Burroughs 'Crazy B'.

My good friend Nathan Hook, an avid LARPer, has proposed to add at least two other dimensions onto the GNS model:

* Immersionism - to sensuously "immerse" oneself in a fictional world
* Attentionism - to get attention in real life via the game in a manner superfluous to the game world (i.e., "I'm trying to sleep with the GM," "I want to get to know him better.")

Questions I've caught before they exit your mouths:

How is immersionism different from Character/World Simulationism or the like?

Immersionism, from what I understand, centers on not only on the experience of psychologically embodying the character (character simulationism) or feeling part of a rich and exacting game world (world simulationism), but both simultaneously.  You've got to look like an elf, be surrounded by things that confirm you're an elf, and psychologically "be" the elf.  360-degree immersion is expected, and players' experiences are ruined when it is not fulfilled to some tangible degree.

How is attentionism any different from the meta-game intentionality inherent in the other GNS models?  I mean, aren't we all clamoring for a bit of attention?

This leads me back to the conversation above, in which motivations in the interpersonal sphere prove more than those relating to the game.  For those familiar with GNS theory, not only do characters automatically assume "Pawn Stance" in this mode, but these hapless pawns are then used to fulfill the extra-game objectives.

Here's an example:

Player1 (playing AW, obviously): So, we can have sex in this game?
Player2 (the target of Player1's affections): Yes...?
Player1: My character begins to affectionately touch your character.
Player2: Um... ew?

And so on. Unfortunately, this motivation does exist, and certain games (e.g., White Wolf, Amber, IAWA) tend to acknowledge it better than others, ergo accommodating it can be considered part of one's game objectives.

Thoughts?