By: Susanne Vejdemo & Staffan Fladvad
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Love – Fury – Family
Scenario format: Semi-larp
Duration: 3 hours
Number of players: 4+
In mythic Greece, Orestes and his lover Pylades hide in a ruin outside Mycenae. At sunrise they plan to break into the city to kill Orestes’ mother and step-father to avenge Agamemnon, a father he has never met. Between scenes where the two young warriors wrestle with the morality of this, we play memories and backstory. No character is player-specific, and is instead represented by a specific prop. Characters may be accepted, offered, and refused at any point.
The triumph and tragedy of Orestes and his family has been told and retold for more than 2500 years.
Trigger warnings: Greek tragedy-typical: violence, sexism, murders, human sacrifice, deaths of children.
Expect: angsting over love and ethics, morally gray characters who all believe they are acting out of love, all the drama, opt-in to murderous ending, truly horrific (canon-compliant) backstory, players can veto topics, railroaded scenes, switch characters each scene, dramatic impro heavy, loosely scripted short scenes, partly fated play with room for player agency, many long names (sorry).
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About the authors
Susanne Vejdemo is a New York based Swedish larp writer and producer. She (co-)creates larps focused on interpersonal relationships and/or activism, like Suffragette!, Fight Like a Girl, So Mom I Made this Sex Tape, A Midsummer night’s dream, Athena’s Chosen, Expdiplomacy, and Bad Omens. Read more about Susanne.
Staffan Fladvad is a game designer and psychologist. He has previously made Cabaret, Shards, and It’s a Man’s World, and been part of the organising team of Last Will and Knutpunkt. He’s passionate about games that explore the darker, and lesser understood, sides of humanity and about experimental gameplay.
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