Gone Viral

RPG system: LARP Escape room
Participants: 12 players, in two groups of 6

By

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

Liz Cable

Otherworldly Consequences (2021), Online, United Kingdom

Sue Lee

Description

It is 2022 and the UK is in chaos. In this post-antibiotic society researchers worked in secret, unregulated by the EU and answering only to their profiteering paymasters, hoping to create the next wonder-drug; a cure-all for everything from the common cold to cancer. You are part of an expert team called in by what remains of the government to investigate a disease outbreak at a secret research facility in the depths of the Yorkshire Dales. Can you control the spread before it becomes a pandemic?

Content Warnings: None.

Presented by
Liz Cable (UK): Liz Cable ran the 7 year Dreamscape LRP Campaign and the 4 year Mirth – Forgotten Sorrows Campaign, and multiple live adaptations of TV series including Robin of Sherwood. She founded The Adventurers Guild alongside the LRP magazine The Adventurer. Her latest campaign setting was unusual for the game mechanics being written into the mores and traditions of society, almost eliminating the need for a GM. More recently she has written over thirty escape games, and would like to bring to The Smoke an experimental cross-over game combining the puzzles and problems solving of escape games with the characterisation and strong narrative of LRP.

Liz teaches Digital Narratives and Transmedia Production at Leeds Trinity University, and is working towards a PhD researching immersive games for learning.

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