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Larp House at Convergence: POP!

Join us at Convergence on July 2nd, 2026

Get Connected!

The warm hum of a CRT monitor is drowned out by the scream of a dial-up modem. As Internet access becomes ubiquitous, people with obscure sexual interests are beginning to find one another in anonymous forums. A cursor floats over a hyperlink to looner-landing private forums 18+ only.

On one bulletin board service, a group of people connect over their common sexual interest in balloons. Who are the people behind the keyboard? What nascent community do they form, and how does it change when they meet in person for the first time?

What

POP! is a live-action game about online communities. Specifically, it’s about an online community of people who love and fetishize latex balloons.

Players will immerse into the warm, soothing atmosphere of a nostalgic Internet via private messenger, forum posts, and chat rooms. At the end of play, the characters will meet for for the first time at an in-person meet-up event, which might be a joyful revelation or an awkward trainwreck. While this game is about a very specific community, the themes of finding belonging are universal.

Players: 8 to 12 players
Duration: 3 hours

Designed by Alex Roberts
Organized by Jon Cole and Michelle Hofeldt

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Larp House Presents: Cruising for Sex in a Burning Building

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Join us on August 9th, 2026

Gay 80's Leather Bar Live Roleplaying. August 9th, Minneapolis. www.Larphouse.org

“I walked in there and I was absolutely terrified because everyone was in leather, head to toe. And I was the only one who was wearing Levis and a regular shirt. []…I was terrified, visually, at what I was seeing, excited at the same time–tremendously excited…”
–Ellis Chan, recalling The Brig

Cruising for Sex in a Burning Building is a larp about intimacy and community connection through kink, set in the underground gay men’s Leather scene in the 1980s under the shadow of the AIDS epidemic.

When your most-familiar forms of sexual expression have become dangerous, alienating, unfamiliar can you learn to share your heart’s deepest fears and desires? At this bar the music’s pulsing beat and the burning heat of other men’s bodies call to you. Beautiful boy, when the clock strikes midnight are you going hard or going home?

In this larp players use a variety of embodied meta-techniques to stand in for BDSM play, reaching for the sensations and emotions their characters do. Play is an emotional mix of discovery and anxiety as characters decide how to re-enter BDSM and whether to forsake the exchange of body fluids.

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Larp House Presents: The Language of Bones

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 Join us on February 7, 2026

The Language of Bones by July Pilowsky

Iluvenen was once a dark and nameless wilderness ruled by monsters. Then the noble heroes of the West came in their chariots, slew the monsters, and raised from the wilderness a great nation.

That is the story told in Iluvenen. The monster-kin, descended from the children of humans and monsters, are an inconvenient reminder of what the story fails to explain.

The Language of Bones is a game played in pairs. One person plays a monster-kin raising a monster from their grave with the power of dance, and the other plays their long-dead ancestor. Throughout gameplay, the monster-kin are able to speak, but the monsters cannot, because the language of bones is dance. This is a game about genocide, legacy, erasure, reclamation, and the complex fractures between ancestors and descendants.

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Fables and Flames Event: Good Society

Good Society: A Jane Austen Larp. An elegant lady with dark skin in a yellow dress turns to look at a Regency ball where many people are dancing.

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Join us at Fables and Flames on Friday November 21st, 2025

 

“There is no place where finding one’s position in society is quite so difficult as one’s home. When we were young our futures seemed so clear and crisp, like a fresh autumn morning. But now it turns out that in family, duty, and the heart, little proceeds as expected.”

The year is 1810. The place, the country town of Habershire, but three days ride from London. The sun blossoms as the last of spring ends, and those who seasoned in London return. As old friends and rivals gather again in the same place, a new tension pervades our town. The balance of this town is changing, and duty, position, and family will change with it. Now is the time to act upon your dreams, obligations and desires before you find the town has shifted without you.

What

Good Society is a Regency live action roleplaying game by the creators of the award-winning Good Society RPG. This game inspired by Jane Austen’s literary works is set in a country town full of family tension, unspoken romantic longing, and possible impropriety. It features characters of all ages, and revolves around familial pressure, scandal, and class.

You might enjoy this game if you are a fan of Jane Austen, literary romance, or period dramas. The setting is within a historical and literature tradition, but no prior knowledge of Austen’s works is necessary to play. Like all Larp House events, this is intended to be accessible to first time roleplayers.

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Final Playtest: Cruising for Sex in a Burning Building

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Join us on December 6, 2025

“I walked in there and I was absolutely terrified because everyone was in leather, head to toe. And I was the only one who was wearing Levis and a regular shirt. []…I was terrified, visually, at what I was seeing, excited at the same time–tremendously excited…”
–Ellis Chan on July 19 1996, recalling The Brig

Cruising for Sex in a Burning Building is a larp about intimacy and community connection through kink, set in the underground gay men’s leather scene in the 1980s under the shadow of the AIDS epidemic. Continue reading “Final Playtest: Cruising for Sex in a Burning Building”

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Salon du Larp House: Cruising for Sex in a Burning Building

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Join us on September 20, 2025

“I walked in there and I was absolutely terrified because everyone was in leather, head to toe. And I was the only one who was wearing Levis and a regular shirt. []…I was terrified, visually, at what I was seeing, excited at the same time–tremendously excited…”
–Ellis Chan on July 19 1996, recalling The Brig

Cruising for Sex in a Burning Building is a larp about intimacy and community connection through kink, set in the underground gay men’s leather scene in the 1980s under the shadow of the AIDS epidemic. Continue reading “Salon du Larp House: Cruising for Sex in a Burning Building”

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Salon du Larp House: Echo Caprese in The Silver Moon Directive

Echo Caprese in The Silver Moon Directive

Join us on July 12, 2025
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In the latest adventure in the Echo Caprese series, our intrepid detective is once again on the case against a shadowy corporate entity, tangled deep in the web when they are accidentally delivered the wrong datachip. It’s Act IV of V when Echo needs to use their hacked credentials to get the prototype out of the cybervault, but before that, they must make a stop at a district office to get the correct form. You work at or are otherwise present at this district office, and you have to make sure Echo Caprese gets that form. Otherwise how will the Player ever finish the game?

Echo Caprese is a comedy larp about the constraints of video game logic and the preposterous world of FMV adventure games. Continue reading “Salon du Larp House: Echo Caprese in The Silver Moon Directive”

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Larp House Presents: Good Society

Good Society: A Jane Austen Larp. An elegant lady with dark skin in a yellow dress turns to look at a Regency ball where many people are dancing.

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Join us on Saturday May 3rd, 2025

 

“There is no place where finding one’s position in society is quite so difficult as one’s home. When we were young our futures seemed so clear and crisp, like a fresh autumn morning. But now it turns out that in family, duty, and the heart, little proceeds as expected.”

The year is 1810. The place, the country town of Habershire, but three days ride from London. The sun blossoms as the last of spring ends, and those who seasoned in London return. As old friends and rivals gather again in the same place, a new tension pervades our town. The balance of this town is changing, and duty, position, and family will change with it. Now is the time to act upon your dreams, obligations and desires before you find the town has shifted without you.

What

Good Society is a Regency larp by the creators of the award-winning Good Society RPG. This game inspired by Jane Austen’s literary works is set in a country town full of family tension, unspoken romantic longing, and possible impropriety. It features characters of all ages, and revolves around familial pressure, scandal, and class.

You might enjoy this game if you are a fan of Jane Austen, literary romance, or period dramas. The setting is within a historical and literature tradition, but no prior knowledge of Austen’s works is necessary to play. Continue reading “Larp House Presents: Good Society”

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Larp House Presents: Strictly Between Us

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Join us on November 4th, 2023

 

Strictly Between Us is for roleplayers who want to move and dancers who want to tell stories. It blends the expression of partner dance with the emotional storytelling of larp. Strictly explores the dynamics of a relationship either coming together or falling apart, by playing with the physical and emotional connection between two people.

The game eases players into character with dance exercises exploring emotion through movement. Over three sets of scenes, players will work through their feelings about their dance partner, before getting to show off in the community jam where they will put their sentiments in motion for an audience.

So put on your dance shoes, learn about the blues community, listen to some incredible music, and dance your heart out!

What

A live action game that is also a beginner blues dance workshop.

Duration: 4 hours. 2 hours workshop and dance instruction, then 2 hours play

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