The Rider on the Pale Horse

System: LARP
Deltagare: 13 spelare

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_First you'll let the black gae by Then you'll let the brown I'll come by on a milk-white steed You'll pull me to the ground_ ("Tam-Lin", Child ballad #39C)

Tonight's the night of Halloween, and these three things are true---Faeries exist, they walk in our world, and every seven years on this night they give the best among their number in tithe to Hell. The Faerie Court is met to choose the sacrifice. Will it be you?

How much will you sacrifice to save the ones you love?

"The Rider on the Pale Horse" is a thirteen-player, four-hour LARP of pansexuality, betrayal, and bargains loosely inspired by the Promethean Age books by Elizabeth Bear and other stories of the Fae. **Players must be 18 years of age or older.**

Pansexuality: Some characters are definitely pansexual. If you aren't comfortable roleplaying love/lust plots with partners of a variety of genders, in game and out of game, please take that into consideration in your app choice. (If you do app and you tell us so in the casting questionnaire, we'll try to accommodate you, but we make no promises.) More generally, the fae are very alien and sex does not have the same connotations (social or metaphysical) as for humans. It may mechanic or symbolize something else, which is not necessarily restricted by gender or desire.

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Once upon a time, before history began, people spread across Europe and settled it. They dreamed the Faeries and the Faeries came with them, and they lived together, never peacefully, because the Faeries reflected their dreamers and the dreamers were hardly peaceful, but well enough. They were led by a King, whose name was Oberon or in later accounts Arthur, who was a just and fair king under the laws of their people.

Came travelers from foreign lands, telling a story of a message unheard and a final sacrifice. Telling a story of Good and Evil, Heaven and a place called Hell. And the people dreamed these too, dreamed them at war, dreamed Hell and Faerie on alternate Sundays, until eventually Hell won and the one now called Arthur fell. It is said that he was the Faeries' first sacrifice.

For the price of Hell's victory was that the Faeries would pay a tithe, the best of their number, in sacrifice to Hell, every seven years (or seven times seven years if the sacrifice went willing). And Hell will accept none less than the best of Faerie.

Some among the Fae said that in Faerie's hour of deepest need, Arthur would return to them from Hell, and lead them to victory against it. And Arthur's widow, the Faerie Queen, said nothing, but built her web and bade her time, waiting for events in the human world to alter the balance of power.

Now come others, telling a story of engines and glass, fire and steel. Telling a story of power over the natural world, and the will to wield it and shape it. Telling a story in which neither Faerie nor Heaven nor Hell exist. They claim that their story describes the true nature of the world, as claimed all who came before them, but they have powers that none before have had.

Is this the wedge the Faerie Queen is looking for? Or the end of everything she has worked to maintain?

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