Androids were created as tools.
Androids were taught to be humans.
Androids awoke to their own slavery.
Some escaped and earned their freedom.
This is the story of where they ended up.

When you left the City, you ended up here, in its shadow
Here, life has different rules and different goals
You are free, but freedom is not what you hoped for
Like before, Androids are traded like commodities
Like before, your lifespan might be limited and you will never know
To survive here, you must adapt, wither away or find new faith
And when Androids pray, do they pray to electric gods?

When Androids Pray is a Nordic larp, produced by the organization Atropos in cooperation with Ariadne’s Red Thread, inspired by the movie Blade Runner in mood and feeling. It is played in three separate runs on 15-17th of December, 2017. It takes place in the same world as ‘Do Androids Dream?’ and is a larp about desperate survival, slavery and spiritualism. It is a larp about Androids and their place in a lawless society.

Also, it is about the feeling of eating noodles at a dirty little shack in the shadow of the City, rain smattering against the corrugated roof above.

The second larp in the trilogy takes place in the slums where groups of Free Androids have gathered and spread their knowledge. More and more join them in a gray-area intersection of the Company, regular law enforcement and people outside the system. Some Androids discover hope in a pseudo-religion, others are exploited by black market actors and corrupt cops use their findings for their own profit instead of sending the information upwards.

It is a larp about finding something that gives you meaning even in the worst of circumstances. Whether that is only living for three more months, or dealing with your own addiction and poverty, the choices remain the same – how do you make your life count?

This larp is the most free of the three in terms of narrative structure and is also the mid-point in pacing, after the chase during the first and the grand escalation in the last one. Here, dreams, love and desperation gets to take center stage.