Consilience

System: LARP
Teilnehmer: 8 Spieler

Von

The Smoke (2022), Theatre Delicatessen, London, Vereinigtes Königreich

Martin Jones

Continuum (2022), John Foster Hall at the University of Leicester. Oadby, Leicester, Vereinigtes Königreich

Martin Jones

Retford Moot A (2022), Retford Hotel, Retford, Nottinghamshire, Vereinigtes Königreich

Martin Jones

Beschreibung

The neuropsychological technique Consilience has the potential to transform our understanding of the mind. It produces a state of transcendent empathy, and in some cases has provided astonishing cures for intractable mental illness. This is all the more remarkable given that we do not really understand how it works, only that it does.

Now an extraordinary find has been made: a collection of full sensory recordings that chronicle the Alpha Experiments, those during which Consilience was first “achieved”. You have volunteered to be part of a group to to re-experience these episodes and discover more about how this breakthrough came to be. This process is not without danger, but the project designers are doing all they can to prevent serious emotional harm.

By journeying into the minds of those who were there, the characters will learn more about themselves and unravel a fundamental mystery. Here was a scientific endeavor that culminated in a series of successful experiments and was published. It could and should have opened up an entirely new field of neurology. But nothing came of it. Why?

Consilience is an intense interpersonal LARP of experiencing other people’s memories and dealing with the consequences while trying to understand an extraordinary event that took place in the distant past. It includes adult themes, among them emotional trauma, infidelity, alienation, and failure.

Players will play a primary character of their preferred gender for most of the game. They will play a number of different male and female characters during short flashback scenes.

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