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Arsenic & Lies

RPG system: LARP
Participants: 5-10 players

By

✏️Karolina Soltys

The Smoke (2018), Theatre Delicatessen, 2 Finsbury Avenue, London, United Kingdom

OrganizerLaura Wood

The Smoke (2019), Theatre Delicatessen, 2 Finsbury Avenue, London, United Kingdom

OrganizerKarolina Soltys

Mythic Consequences (2019), Naish Holiday Village, Christchurch, Dorset, United Kingdom

OrganizerLaura Wood

The Smoke (2022), Theatre Delicatessen, London, United Kingdom

OrganizerLorraine Kipling

A Gamers Gaming Getaway (2022), Blackwells Adventure Centre, Near Bromsgrove, B60 1PY, United Kingdom

OrganizerBen Gabel

Retford Moot B (2023), Retford Hotel, Retford, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

OrganizerKirstine Heald

Description

It is 31 Dec 1919 and the party at Weatherby Manor is in full swing. The guests exchange furtive whispers of intrigue, blackmail and forbidden love. At midnight, a glass of poisoned champagne shatters, dropped from a dying hand. The family has to find ­ – or frame – the killer before the police start looking too closely into their secrets.

But does the murder even matter in the scheme of things? How important is it compared to pursuing your clandestine affairs, extracting revenge on people who let you down during the War, arranging marriages of convenience or saving your beloved sisters from going to jail?

Arsenic and Lies is a 3 hour larp for 5-10 players inspired by Downton Abbey and Agatha Christie novels. Rather than being a classical whodunnit, it focuses on the emotions, relationships and secrets of the characters involved. The characters and relationships between them are created in the pre-game workshop, which makes the game replayable.

Played at

The Smoke (2018)
The Smoke (2019)
Mythic Consequences (2019)
Tallinn International Larp Festival (2020)
The Smoke (2022)
A Gamers Gaming Getaway (2022)
Retford Moot B (2023)

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