No Easy Way Out - Horror/Suspense Digital LARP

RPG system: LARP Zoom
Participants: 1 GM, 5 players

By

Summer Larpin' Was it Larp at first sight? (2021), Online, United States

David Ellis

Description

Night has fallen over your family’s ancient home. The Patriarch of your lineage has passed. And with him, the last connection between you and your family’s “Golden age” is severed. The funeral has come and gone not long ago, and so, you and your closest family have returned to the ancient estate one evening to prepare for the will reading and time of mourning. A storm breaks out, and the wiring on the bridge up the mountain breaks, leaving you all stranded. But you have a bigger problem.

Your grandmother, god bless her, is dead in the grand foyer: in blood around her is written, “I only need one.” A crumpled piece of paper falls out of her mouth as you check to see if she can be revived. It says, “find the hidden book.” And here you are, surrounded by your closest relatives, and there’s strength in numbers.

But no one can hurt you quite like family.

And anyone who dies leaves more in the will for the rest of you. That’s just how the Patriarch wrote it.

And there’s something else here. It’s already killed your Grandmother and The Butler has not responded to your summons. You know this thing is hunting you. And you remember The Cousin at the funeral you didn’t know. The Cousin whose features you cannot recall. The Cousin whose presence reminded you of rotten meat.

Will you work with each other to survive? Will you sell each other out at the first opportunity? Will you all die or escape, or will you find a way to face The Cousin that haunts the Estate? Every run is different, with countless possible outcomes and ways to face the threat that looms in every moment on the Estate. A game that goes one way the first time could look completely differently the next.

Each run is a 2 to 3 hour long experience

Participant communications
Communication is performed via Zoom call, with moves delivered to the GM through individual PMs. The game is played through 5-minute rounds of negotiation, during which the moves are submitted in secret, the results of which are declared at the end of the round.
Content warnings
Murder! Violence! Discussion of Traumatic Familial Backstory! LGBTQA+ Themes! Discussion of racism and classism! Player Versus Player conflict! Being hunted by a vicious monster! Discussion of blood and violence!

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