What is BeMad?

Changelings refer to themselves as "the Lost", and with good cause: they are kidnapped by godlike beings, taken to an alien realm, and held prisoner. Many escape only to find that they have been replaced by a faerie simulacrum (often called a "Fetch") and that they have not been missed at all. Others discover that time passed differently in Arcadia than in the mortal world, and they are either too old or too young to resume their normal lives. Those who can often do attempt to pick up where they left off before they were taken, with varying degress of success, while others try to build new human lives elsewhere.

However even under the best possible circumstances, the Lost are no longer fully human; they have become part of both worlds and while they are still human enough to make sense of human things, they have been changed just enough to skew their perceptions. Many embrace their new existences, compensating for the loss of their mortal lives by immersing themselves in changeling society. Most find that they have come to appreciate humanity in a new way, finding beauty in the most mundane or painful of experiences, aching for things they did not appreciate before their capture.

The theme of BeMad is the need to re-find your identity. Each of the characters had a traumatic experience at the moment of their kidnapping, and having returned home, their lives are not how they left it. It's about trying to find your identity, and either re-gain your old life, or create a new one. All the while dealing with the changes you have gone though. You have magic now. How do you cope with that? You're lost in the woods, far away from any trail you could ever hope to find. How do you find your way out of the darkness?

How Do I Get Involved?

BeMad is played once a month, and usually falls on the 1st Saturday of the month. We always have pre-generated characters (NPCs) that you can play if you'd like to get a feel for it, or you can make your own character. We do have deadlines each month as to when new characters can be approved to play in the next game (please check the calendar).

We play ALL OVER the Portland Metro area, from Vancouver to Hillsboro to Gresham to Tualatin. When the weather is nice, we play outdoors in pubic parks. Some of our favorites are Washington Park and Mt. Tabor park in Portland, as well as Eagle Creek Overlook (outside of town about a half-hour away). Octobers, we have the fortune of Fright Effects opening their Haunted House to us. November-March/April we play in houses, on the Portland State University Campus, and other indoor venues.