2020 - Demon - Liz O'Brien

Applicant Name:
Liz O'Brien
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Introduction and Background:

Hello everyone.  I have been a part of One World by Night since 2003.  In that time, I have played in a dozen or more different games in half as many states, and all the major venues: Werewolf, Vampire, Mage, Changeling, and Demon the Fallen.  Watching the Org grow and change over the course of almost 2 decades has been an interesting experience, which I am sure many can attest too; and I am glad to have been able to be even a small part of it.

Administrative Experience:

I have been a storyteller for 3 different Werewolf games during that time, and my most recent Storytelling experience comes in the form of Venue: ST for the Gary: Shattered Souls Demon the Fallen Chronicle.  I served as a Subcoord for the Werewolf Venue for two years in the mid-2000s and then Changing Breeds Coordinator for a year following that.  As far as more general experience goes, I have had practice working with genre packets, censuses, and databases. 
In regard to the Demon venue in particular, in partnership with Gary’s HST Lee Helding, I helped put together many LARP Translation packets for our Demon Chronicle.

Personal Statement:

I think that I would be a good fit for the position of Demon Coordinator because I have a lot of experience with at least some aspects of the genre, Demon the Fallen specifically.  And I have no problems reaching out to those with MORE experience when it comes to the genres that I am less familiar with.  My personal view on the “role” of a Coordinator is that it would be my job to organize, support, and facilitate interactions between individuals and groups within the larger structure of One World by Night.  I feel that a lighter touch is at least, not harmful to a genre, and at the very least it is what I as a player and storyteller prefer.

Goals:

My goal as Demon Coordinator would be to gather a strong team of people who can work together to ensure that each of the different aspects of this large overarching genre can be managed and represented.  That way there would be different “go to” people for Vampire Infernalism, or Nephandic Mages, and of course the Fallen genre itself.  Each of these different venues have different needs, expectations, and (more often than not) source material; and I think that it is vital that those differences be respected.

Over the next two years I would like to look at updating genre packets where nessesary, continuing to expand and revise the “Laws of the Abyss” packet for D:tF so that there are more LARP conversions available, and otherwise stick to organization and management.  My goal is not to run “national plot” that pressures individual games, storytellers, and/or players; but rather to support those individuals and groups so that they can develop the stories that best fit them.