Pop!

System: LARP
Deltagare: 5-11 spelare

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✏️	Alex Roberts
	Jon Cole

Beskrivning

The warm hum of a CRT monitor is drowned out by the scream of a dial-up modem. As Internet access becomes ubiquitous, people with obscure sexual interests are beginning to find one another in anonymous forums. A cursor floats over a hyperlink to ‘looner-landing private forums 18+ only.’

POP! is a live-action game about online communities. Specifically, it’s about an online community of people who love and fetishize latex balloons.

On one bulletin board service, a group of people connect over their common sexual interest in balloons. Who are the people behind the keyboard? What nascent community do they form, and how does it change when they meet in person for the first time?

Players will immerse into the warm, soothing atmosphere of a nostalgic Internet via private messenger, forum posts, and chat rooms. At the end of play, the characters will meet for for the first time at an in-person meet-up event, which might be a joyful revelation or an awkward trainwreck. While this game is about a very specific community, the themes of finding belonging are universal.

The majority of the larp is spent in a world of text based interaction, represented by large pieces of paper throughout the playspace. It has a retro ’net surfin’ feeling—players are formless, disembodied, but connected to other people in strange and exciting ways. Towards the end, characters will make contact in the real world at a meetup event, which might be stilted and awkward, or sweet and joyful.


Content Warnings
Characters may talk about sexual experiences and feelings, or flirt via instant messenger. No balloons will be present and none of the characters will have sex in game. This larp is intended to be a safe and non-judgmental space for balloon fetishists and non-fetishists alike. We do not tolerate any shaming of risk-aware consensual sexual practices.

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