As Long As We Don’t Tell Anyone

By: Anneli Friedner

Unspoken – Relationships – Obstacles
Scenario format: Larp
Duration: 3-4 hours
Number of players: 2-20

How do you admit that you like someone? Especially if that someone is your teacher, your one night stand, or your gay best friend?

This is a game played in pairs about love stories that were perhaps never meant to be. It begins when one of you say that “we need to talk”. Then you play through a series of scenes and find out in the end if you ever did manage to have that talk. You choose two characters who try to figure out their relationship, even though there are many obstacles in the way. It is a game about the unsaid, the not right now, and not right here, and the as long as we don’t tell anyone.

The game is built around a series of scenes that limit your communication in different ways, and makes it even harder to say all those things you haven’t told each other. How do you talk about that awkward crush you have, when you suddenly get limited to body language or text messages only? What happens when you sit close to someone with a lot of things you want to say, not saying any of them because there’s no real room for it? A story about craving to talk, craving to act, but realising you have to behave and keep silent.

A simmering, low-key slice of life drama about bittersweet love.

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About the author
Anneli Friedner has been a larper since her early teenage years. She is passionate about larp, queer, feminism and sexuality. She works as a high school teacher, enjoys making workshops and writing about things that interests her.

Anneli has previously organised larps in Granlandskampanjen and been part of the organiser team behind Prolog. As Long as We Don’t Tell Anyone is her first blackbox scenario.