Mutiny on the Asp

RPG system: LARP
Participants: 6-14 players

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Description

The wind is high, the sailors’ blood is up, and the captain has set a course – away from the biggest prize the Asp will ever have the chance to plunder! The captain is certain that the Spanish treasure galleon will be too well guarded for the Asp to survive and many agree with the experienced sailor’s judgement, but no one signs onto a pirate vessel to shy away from bloody risk in the face of tremendous riches, and what was once a united crew now finds itself on the brink of mutiny.

Mutiny on the Asp follows the crew of a pirate ship as it builds itself up from nothing and then tears itself apart. We’ll shape character outlines into a daring crew by charting their relationships through their early triumphs and failures in a series of theatre-style scenes with the rest of the players as spectators. Then cracks will appear and rumblings of mutiny will begin to take hold as the whole crew must fight for their desire to risk their lives on the biggest prize they’ve ever seen, or live to plunder another day.

Content Warnings: Conflict, likelihood of raised voices.

Costume (optional): No requirements, but absolutely no objection to people turning up in costume – tricorns are fun to wear!

Presented by
Joanna Piancastelli: Joanna has larped all over the world, on ships and in castles, in hotel rooms and pub basements. She wrote Unheroes, which has been played dozens of times across three continents, and ran Dawnstone and Marked: A School for Heroes in the UK. Her larps mix open, collaborative play styles with big-label genres to bring accessible fun to first timers and old hands alike.

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