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Documentation for A Crow Funeral on Twin Cities PBS
Larp House has been featured in this PBS documentary anthology! We are local TV famous! Check it out!
A Crows Funeral by Tim Hutchings
Facilitated by Tom Fendt
Seven players
Salon du Larp House: Glamourous Night – second playtest!
Wizards, humans, magical animals, and faeries attend a mundane community’s summer solstice festival. Magic is in the air, voices are stilled, and dreams can come true at a cost. Tonight a journey between realms will grant attendees terrifying mystical power to pursue their desires. How far will you go to get what you want? When you are all-powerful, what is actually important to you?
What
Glamourous Night is a larp about faerie magic and wizards’ hubris for 15 to 25 players. It is an abstract and musical experience exploring the themes of mind control and healing from trauma. This event is a playtest for a larp designed by Jon Cole.
In Glamourous Night, players use two movement techniques to perform ensorcelling magic as their characters. Characters will experience joyful exploration and tempting darkness as they share, subjugate, and are subjugated.
When
Saturday January 11th, 2019, from 1 to 6 pm
Background
This is one of the final playtests of Glamourous Night, a nearly finished larp that should deliver a fairly polished experience. The organizer would like to gather your feedback after play for about 30 minutes.
Details on the larp
Setting and Situation
This larp is set in a medieval European world where magic and myth is reality. On the summer solstice a mundane community holds their annual celebration. This year, a mysterious covenant of wizards invited the community invited the villagers to celebrate in a mystically significant river valley. Elders say that the valley has strange auras that shift between magical and faerie. This solstice, human emotion and excitement have drawn faeries through the ancient mists, seeking playmates and playthings.
Play Style
Glamourous Night represents magical interactions with two movement techniques, so that magic in this world is a full body experience. Instead of a flick of wand and saying a Latin word, magic in this larp involves improvising body movement under specific constraints. The two techniques are simple to learn and the ‘rules’ of how to move make it easy to use and improvise spells. The workshop will be about 2 hours.
This game uses music to inspire the story and there will be a soundtrack for each scene and act of the game. Movement is the most important way to communicate in this larp. Characters can talk to one another but they cannot resolve their conflict by speech alone. Play will be about 2 hours.
You might like this larp if:
- You want to play with temptation, power, and revenge.
- You like having unique, unusual experiences that you can tell your friends about later.
- You have personal interest in fairy tales, rituals, mind control, or the power of music.
- You are interested in the games White Death, Ribbon Drive, Sarabande, My Jam, Before and After Silence.
- You enjoy other activities that have “rules” for improvised movement such as contact improv, interplay, or blues dancing.
- You are a fan of Ars Magica, the setting for this larp.
Where
3009 27th Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55406
Paid street parking nearby, or free if you’re willing to walk a couple of blocks.
Metro Transit Blue Line, 7, & 21 stops nearby.
Tickets
Get a ticket by filling out the Glamourous Night registration form. Unlike some of our other events, these tickets are first come first served. Once you have a ticket you don’t need to do anything else besides show up to play!
On the day of the event we request a pay-what-you-want goodwill cash donation ($5-$10 suggested) to pay for our use of the space. No one will be turned away if they do not make a donation. Continue reading “Salon du Larp House: Glamourous Night – second playtest!”
Documentation for Eye in the Sky
4 October 2019
Eden Prairie, Minnesota, USA
Five players
Designed by Malcolm Campbell
Organized by Malcolm Campbell, Josh Krehbiel, and Jon Cole
Photography by Malcolm Campbell
Larp House Presents: A Crow Funeral (PBS edition)
This special run of the game is a exhibition game that will be filmed by Twin Cities PBS as part of a segment they are doing on Larp House. All participants must consent to being filmed and interviewed.
A fellow crow has died and we will gather to mourn their passing, but more importantly to understand why they died. Not in a metaphysical way, but in a practical way – what killed this creature and how can we ensure it won’t kill us as well? We are crows and this is the crow way.
What
A Crow Funeral, a live-action game about arguments, empathy, and corvids for 2 or more players
Designed by Tim Hutchings
Organized by Katherine Shane and Tom Fendt
When
1 October 2019, from 5:30 pm to 9:00 pm (including interviews)
Where
A private residence in Richfield, Minnesota. Details will be provided to participants.
Registration
If you are interested in playing, please fill out our A Crow Funeral registration form ASAP. We’ll let you know if you are in the larp as soon as we can.
We probably only need a few players for this. Continue reading “Larp House Presents: A Crow Funeral (PBS edition)”
Documentation for Slayer Cake at Be-Con
15 September 2019
Be-Con
Rosemont, Illinois
23 players
Designed by Kat Jones and Evan Torner
Organized by Larry Lade, Kathy Shane, Cat Stuntebeck, and Jon Cole
Photography by Cat Stuntebeck (and Jack Phillips)
Costume pieces sacrificed to the gods of metal:
2 boots, 1 belt Continue reading “Documentation for Slayer Cake at Be-Con”
Documentation for Be-Con 2019
A weekend-long larp convention in the Chicago area
Rosemont, Illinois
13-15 September 2019
Glamourous Night
Designed by Jon Cole
Organized by Jon Cole and Cat Stuntebeck
16 players
Pop!
Designed by Alex Roberts
Organized by Jon Cole
11 players

Will That Be All?
Designed by Graham Walmsley
Organized by Larry Lade
8 players + facilitator
All Options
Designed and organized by Jon Cole
3 players
Slayer Cake
coming tomorrow!
Larp House Presents: Eye in the Sky
A British-led intelligence operation close to the border of Pakistan is using an American drone for overwatch. Players are military, legal and political decision makers for either the British or American team. The optional 7th player is an unexpected observer from the Pakistan embassy. How will they all cope when the mission changes and their rules of engagement are no longer clear?
The premise
The larp is an exploration of the morality and effectiveness of using drones as a weapon of war. Different characters will have different ethical concerns about when and how to use drone weapons, and those will be tested as events unfold.
The leaders of a joint British-American intelligence operation are sitting in a room in a secure location in England, remotely directing the operation by issuing orders to British agents on the ground, local military units, or the American drone on overwatch.
Eye in the Sky will premiere at The Smoke 2020. This North American sneak preview is only at Larp House!
A larp for 6-7 players, 4 hours long (including debrief)
Designed by Malcolm Campbell
Organized by Malcolm Campbell, Josh Krehbiel, and Jon Cole
When & where
7 pm to 11 pm, Friday October 4th 2019
Hosted in private home near 78th and Dell Rd in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. (Exact address will be shared with ticket-holders.)
Plentiful free parking on site. We’ll be organizing a ride share to help get people out there.
Sign-up
Get a ticket by filling out the Eye in the Sky registration form. Unlike some of our other events, these free tickets are first-come first-served. Once you have a ticket you don’t need to do anything else besides show up to play! Continue reading “Larp House Presents: Eye in the Sky”
Meg vlogs about Glamourous Night
Meg and Laura vlog about their experience with our Glamourous Night playtest!
Documentation for Glamourous Night
Documentation for Glamourous Night, a playtest of a live-action game about hubris, temptation, and choice.
Designed and organized by Jon Cole
1 September 2019
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Nine players + a facilitator
Video music courtesy Bensound.com