Salon du Larp House: Glamourous Night playtest

Wizards, humans, magical creatures, 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 shifting auras 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 15-25 players. It is an abstract and musical experience exploring the themes of temptation and choice. This event is a playtest for an unfinished 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

Sunday September 1st, 2019, from 1:30 to 6 pm

Background

This is an alpha playtest of a larp. Glamourous Night isn’t finished, and this will be one of the first times it is played. There might be big holes missing or rough patches in play. If this larp sounds interesting to you even though it may not be a coherent start to finish narrative experience, we will be very glad to have you join us!
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25 July 2019

Documentation for Sarabande

two people embrace as third person in foreground burns a paper document

whiteboard diagram of a number of small stick figures > a single large stick figure next to a guillotine — the logic of revolution

three people in light costumes — The aristocrat, the philosopher, and the lover discuss

two people dancing while a third watches — The lover and the adventurer dance as the aristocrat looks on

person standing on chair holding piece of paper — The philosopher at a high point

person reading from paper as two others watch — The soldier reads revolutionary propaganda as the adventurer and revolutionary look on

man reading newspaper — The revolutionary looks through the news of the world

two people in headed discussion over green drinks — The lover and the aristocrat discuss

person holding rolled map discussing with two others — The lover, the adventurer, and the aristocrat

person with rolled map standing over kneeling person in veil

handwritten document titled MANIFESTO, burned letter, and bowl of water with floating candles — Revolutionary manifesto

paper with hand written symbols including heart and cage

two people dancing — The adventurer dances with the aristocrat

two people toasting with green drinks — The revolutionary toasts the philosopher

handwritten symbols involving boot and dollar signs

three people discussing over a map — The adventurers map

a cartographic map of region of Germany with heart drawn on it — In foreign lands, people are happier

prop newspaper with handwritten story about poverty — Distressing news of the world

pocketwatch on table with electric candles and candles in bowl of water — The philosopher's watch

handwritten rant about CHANGES NOTHING — The philosopher's rant

intoxicated person holding green drink and embracing another person — The lover helps the drunken philosopher

person reading speech with fist in the air as another watches — The soldier takes up the cause while the worker watches cynically

two people sitting together under a parasol — The worker and the lover share a moment

Documentation for Sarabande, a live-action game about truth, love, freedom and beauty, set in 1890s Paris

14-Juillet 🇫🇷 2019
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Seven players + a facilitator

17 July 2019

Documentation for Gone

Content warning should include: may involve actual crying

Documentation for Gone, a role-playing scenario about loss, grief, and family

30 June 2019
Four players + a facilitator
Minneapolis

9 July 2019

Elections!

It’s time for summer elections! We need volunteers to nominate themselves for all offices. Larp House members, check your inbox for details!

30 June 2019

Local designers featured in The Guardian

Larp House members and local larp designers Kelley Vanda and Jon Cole have been prominently mentioned in this article in The Guardian about women designing games about reproductive rights.

The female game designers fighting back on abortion rights

Through video games, live-action role-playing games and interactive documentaries, developers are challenging the conversation around reproductive rights

www.theguardian.com

You can get a PDF of The Abortionists here.

29 June 201929 June 2019

Meg vlogs about Larp House

Meg talks about her first time larping at our recent Larp House Presents: The Hirelings!

17 June 2019

Documentation for The Hirelings

10 people in light costumes spoofing fantasy genre

The Hirelings, a live-action spoof of fantasy role-playing games

9 June 2019
Minneapolis

Ten players

13 June 201913 June 2019

Larp House Presents: Sarabande

At the Moulin Rouge: The Dance, a painting by Toulouse-Lautrec

In a small café in Montmartre, a group of people meet day after day at the turn of the 19th century—all entangled in issues of love, beauty, freedom and truth. With their individual rules, conflicts, fears, assumptions and commitments, they play through the same routines again and again. It is as if their lives are frozen in one atonal unstable harmony seeking redemption, but unable to find peace. Day after day they live out these issues through their art, trying desperately to break free or to find that one true love. Day after day goes past, and for each day another passed chance.

But tomorrow… tomorrow will be different…

The participants will play the twelve persons who attend this café day after day and meet again and again. Throughout the scenario, they will be given the possibility to either play out their conflicts in a series of scenes or to play out their internal tensions in small musical and bodily intermezzos. Together we will create these twelve fates and live them out through the use of body, emotion, music and art rather than talking about it. We play with our bodies rather than our heads.

What

Sarabande, a musical roleplaying scenario for eight to twelve players. (Plus on est de fous, plus on rit!)

When

Sunday, 14 July 2019 from 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm.

Where

EMERGE Community Development in North Minneapolis

Directions

Free parking on site. Metro Transit lines 5, 14, 30, and 32 stop nearby.

Registration

If you are interested in playing, fill out our Sarabande sign-up form. by Sunday, 5 July 11:59 pm. This larp will run as long as we have a minimum player count by this deadline, so please register by or before July 5th if possible!

We are requesting a pay-what-you want goodwill donation ($5 to $10 suggested) to support the work of EMERGE in appreciation for the use of their space. No one will be turned away if they are unable to make a donation.

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7 June 2019

Larp House Presents: Gone

Lise suffers from dementia and is slowly disappearing from the world, while her family watches. Unable to do anything. Soon she will be gone.

Up until now the family has managed to push old conflicts aside and pull together in taking the best possible care of Lise. But the disease is wearing on them and everybody is nearing their breaking point.

Gone is about being a relative to a person suffering from dementia—not about having dementia yourself. The scenario follows her husband and three adult children the last year before she is admitted to a nursing home. It is also about loss as you watch the one you love disappear day by day, as well as finding yourself and rediscovering your family within the tragedy.

What

Gone, a serious roleplaying scenario about family, grief, and loss for four players

Best Scenario, Fastaval 2018
Best Presentation, Fastaval 2018
The Audience Award, Fastaval 2018

When

Sunday, 30 June 2019 from 12:30 pm to 4:30 pm

Where

Minneapolis Central Library at 300 Nicollet Mall

Directions

Paid parking is available; we encourage a car pool or transit!

Registration

There is no cost for admission to this event.

If you are interested in playing, fill out our Gone sign-up form. before Sunday, 23 June 11:59 pm. This larp will run as long as we have four players by June 23, so please register by or before then if possible!

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3 June 20193 June 2019

Documentation for The Homeowners Association

Four people with exaggerated body language

You catches a glimpse into We's personal life

It was surprisingly sweet and emotional, despite being callously funny at the beginning. —Jon Cole

Documentation for The Homeowners Association

22 May 2019
Minneapolis
4 players + facilitator