To create a larp that evokes the subtle creeping unease of an isolated community who have secrets from one another and the outside world. To generate, for the players, a sense of old practice and tradition born out of a pre-christian beliefs, that is “other” to the modern world. To create a community that lives and breathes in a consistent and coherent manner, with interesting relations between its members, and to introduce to this outsiders who are potential complications to the locals. To enable the players to create, through their characters, a story that shares the core aesthetic and themes of the English Folk Horror genre.

 

The players should be:

Prepared to be unnerved
Comfortable with dark themes and strong emotional content

Happy to live modestly whilst at the larp

Able to stomach a twenty minute ship crossing

Aware that this larp is heavily opaque and full of mystery

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The characters will be:

Residents of the community in the main

Up to their neck in bad things done for good reasons

A few will be outsiders to the community

Potential victims to one another

Living together in family units

 

The characters will:

Live out their lives in the community as party of island families and societies

Deal with the complications brought by outsiders

Celebrate an important island festival

Fail to hide their family secrets

Have friction amongst themselves based on their family/position/misdeeds

 

The event will be run with:

A “play to generate game” attitude

An emphasis on player agency

Minimal transparency

Safeguarding and inclusion embedded at its core

No play on real world discrimination

Organiser generated plot

 

The game is not:

An action game

Wholly Nordic

Massively gory

A creature feature