Minnesota roleplay collective
This Friday night, Canadian game designer David Leaman is in the Twin Cities and will be running one of his games. (Probably Did I Fall Asleep) If you’re interested, you can email him at dave@howweplay.com for details.
(This is a private event not associated with Larp House, although several Larp House folks will be participating.)
Click here to support Remember Shana and Support Krystal organized by Julia Sisson
To all my good friends in the Minneapolis Larp Community,
We have all used the wonderful space at EMERGE to better enjoy our games. Well, recently a co-worker’s family has been struck by tragedy. Her sister was lost to violence and her teenage cousin was horribly assaulted. This tragedy has left behind three children and a devastated family that must now find a way to rebuild their lives.
Krystal, my co-worker, is a wonderful strong woman who helps young adults find jobs and stay in school. Most of the people she helps are just a few years older than her cousin who was so viciously hurt. Krystal’s desk isn’t far from where we gather, and we have probably all swiped pens from her workspace.
I know money can’t solve everything, but it does make life easier when things are at their most challenging and terrible. If you have the capacity to give to the GoFundMe campaign, support Krystal and remember her sister Shana, I would be so grateful.
At our next game The Line on Sunday, July 29, free-will donations will go to assist Krystal and her family.
Katherine Shane
Harassment/Safety Committee
We have tabulated the ballots of our July 2018 election. Please congratulate our new Larp House officers!
Creative director:
Larry Lade
Education committee:
Tayler Stokes
Wendy Gorman
Harassment committee:
Margo Gray
Pip Lorimer
Katherine Shane
We’re looking forward to an exciting year of larp in the Twin Cities!
You’re all high-school phonomancers at the biggest dance of the year. During the dance you’ll be able to hang with your friends, pick arguments with your frenemies, and moon over your crush—just like any other high school dance. But when your music is playing, you’re empowered by it and become the most powerful being on the dance floor and maybe the entire gymnasium! At the end of the night, one of you will be elected Dance Monarch and enact a powerful ritual that can permanently change the world.
Some of you are here to dance, some of you are here to hang out with friends, and some of you are here because you have nothing better to do. All of you are here because music is magic.
A is together with B and is making out with C who is in love with D who has an affair with E who rejected F who’s hitting on everybody. A lot of people live like that. Sometimes everybody’s happy, and other times it doesn’t really work out that well. What emotions, conflicts and weird situations may arise in a group of friends with somewhat loose sexual relations crisscrossing the social sphere? And how did it turn out that way?
The waiting room is bland and antiseptic. You have made unimaginable sacrifices to get here. Through that door is a chance at a better life—one away from war, death, and horror. But between you and the door are a dozen fellow refugees with their own agendas, and an immigration officer eager to send you straight back to hell.
Documentation for ATHENA’S CHOSEN, a live-action game about women in ancient Greece seeking empowerment through the favor of Greek goddesses.
Organized by TLS and Kathy Shane
Photography by TLS and Jon Cole
Twelve players, Minneapolis, Minnesota in May 2018
You are between 4 and 7 feet in length, possess a head, mantle, eight locomotive limbs and two manipulative tentacles arranged symmetrically around your central axis. You respire through osmotic absorption of oxygen suspended in liquid hydrogen dioxide. You are, in short, a space squid.
The evolutionary advantage your species enjoys is that while engaged in mating behaviors using your two tentacles, your ganglia meld with those of your partners, combining your intellect and skills, but also your attitudes and biases. Which is critically important today, because your deep space colonization vessel has broken down! If you can keep the ship habitable, restart the engines, and plot a new course you should be able survive to settle on a planet. If you hope to survive, you will have to work together!
WHAT: SPACE SQUIDS, a parlor larp playtest for 6 – 24 players (the more the merrier!).
Designed by Kevin McIntyre and Jon Cole
Organized by Jon Cole, Kevin McIntyre, and Kathy Shane
WHEN: Saturday, June 30th from 2pm to 6pm
Documentation for WINTERHORN, a live action game about how governments degrade and destroy activist groups
Organized by Larry Lade and Katherine Shane
Photography by l.p.lade
Seven players, Minneapolis, Minnesota in April 2018
The novices are locked in the holiest of holy in Athena’s temple. This final night you will be tested and tempted by the gods themselves. Will you have the faith to turn your back forever on family, love, and desire to become an Exalted Virgin Priestess and finally have true power in the world of men? Or will you listen to the sweet temptations of wild Dionysus, the god of ritual madness and fertility, and leave with his free but shunned cultists. Maybe you will reject the gods and return to your beloved but intensely patriarchal Ancient Arcadian Greece outside the temple walls. Your virginity, your soul, the patronymic name that your father branded into your very skin – you might lose them all tonight.
This larp uses physical space to direct players rather than time-bound act structures – as you walk into the different gods’ areas, their essence will influence your character.
All characters identify as female, players of all genders (or none) are equally welcome.
WHAT: ATHENA’S CHOSEN, a parlor larp for 8 – 16 players (the more the merrier!).
Designed by Susanne Vejdemo and Anna-Karin Linder.
Organized by TLS, Katherine Shane.
WHEN: Saturday, May 12th from 2pm to 6pm