Minnesota roleplay collective
While each individual phonomancer has their own favorite genres of music they’re into, phonomancers band together in “covens” of others who relate to music in a similar way.
Continue reading “The Phonomantic Covens of Robert Johnson Memorial High School”
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.
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
Larp House Presents: QUILTBAG LARP
The University would like to invite all queer, questioning, intersex, lesbian, transgender, bisexual, asexual and gay students, faculty and community members to join the University Queer Life support group. This will be a safe, affirming and confidential peer led monthly support group for all local members of the queer community.
A parlor larp about the lives and identities of 8 regular people through the lens of their monthly support group.
WHAT: QUILTBAG, a playtest of a parlor larp for 6-8 players Continue reading “Larp House Presents: QUILTBAG”
Larp House Presents: Potluck Larp
Everyone loves a potluck!
This winter, we are hosting a larp that is more than the sum of it’s parts. Using the framework Play With Intent we will build a larp and then play it in one evening. Let’s design the game in order to play it, including while we are playing it! And yes, we’ll also share food in a potluck fashion.
WHAT:
Play With Intent, a freeform larp for 4-6 players + casual social potluck
Designed by Matthijs Holter and Emily Care Boss
Organized by Kathy Shane and Jon Cole
WHEN:Friday, January 19th from 6:00 pm to 10:30 pm
Documentation for Deep Love by Jason Morningstar, a larp about love between friends and scientists on a bathysphere expedition.
Organized by Arnold Cassell for Larp House, with assistance from Jon Cole.
Photos by Arnold Cassell.
4 players, Richfield MN in June 2017.
Larp House Presents: DEEP LOVE
A freeform larp for 4 players
Written by Jason Morningstar, organized by Arnold Cassell and Jon Cole
WHEN:7:30 pm — 10:30 pm on this Saturday, June 3rd
Nonsuch Island, Bermuda 1934 –You’ve come to this paradise to drop a two and a half ton iron ball off the side of a shop and lower it almost a kilometer into the abyss.
You’ve come to crawl inside that iron ball and go down with it, to what there is to see down there.
You’ve come with three other brilliant adventurers, friends and lovers, and you’ll all get a chance to descend and risk your lives in exchange for seeing things no human being has ever seen.
And maybe. in the inky darkness and cold silence, you’ll find a measure of happiness and fulfillment.
Documentation for Strange Gravity by Jay Treat, a sci-fi larp about about one starship and the vibrant personalities on board.
Organized by Jon Cole for Larp House.
Photos by Kelley Vanda, Jon Cole, and Emily M.
Played in Saint Paul in March 2017 for 7 players.