Mental health, dissociation |
| Designer: Melina Cunelius (FI) |
| Number of participants: 8 |
| Duration: 3 hours |
| Genre/style: Nordic, freeform |
| The presenter feels that this larp IS suitable for young people aged 16+ |
About the larp
Larp about hearing voices. Normal people with normal lives are interrupted by sudden appearence of voices, but try to live out their lives. Half play Characters, the others their Voices, and in the end, they try to live along, but things don’t always work out.
Content Warnings: Mental health problems, hearing voices.
Presented by
Melina Cunelius (FI): A disabled larp writer, making larps about mental illnesses and disability, drawing inspiration from my own experiences with serious mental illnesses and trauma. She has also worked on inclusivity instructions for larp and has talked about mental health and larp.
Parameters
| Communication style | Lots of speech |
| Movement style | Walking |
| Tone | Intense |
| Characters | Players build their characters around a predesigned skeleton or archetype |
| Narrative control | Players have some influence over story, but there is basically a script or structure that they’re within |
| Transparency | Fully transparent – players will, or at least can, know absolutely everything in advance |
| Representation level | The fictional space is pretty similar to the play space |
| Play culture | Players are individually trying to achieve goals, such that not all can succeed |
The Smoke 