Dangerous Liaisons

RPG system: LARP
Participants: 10-12 players

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Description

Dangerous Liaisons is a game where the characters engage in seduction as a means to gain status and power. Inspired by the famous novel and play, it stages a group of decadent elites in pre-revolutionary France, playing a game of courtship and seduction, where power is measured to their capacity to engage in the game. As the events of the Revolution unfolds, can they grow past their superficiality and egotism to adjust to changing times, or will they just follow the path of downfall?

Dangerous Liaisons invites the participants to play a game based on flirtation and seduction. All actions in this regard are coded by meta-techniques and practised in workshops, so that anyone regardless of their own communication skill can fully engage in the seduction game. The game techniques applied to accept light contact that will be exclusively limited to hands, arms, shoulders and light hugs. It does not contain any explicit sexual content.

Content Warnings: Play on seduction and in-game flirting

Presented by
Muriel Algayres: Muriel Algayres is a French larp designer living in Denmark. Her interests reside in historically-inspired larp and character-centered games focusing on melodrama and interpersonal narratives. She also studies larp from a media criticism perspective, with a focus on emotional safety, cultural diversity and gender roles and representations.

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