{"id":22,"date":"2020-09-21T18:27:38","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T18:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daemon.narrators.eu\/live\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2026-03-31T10:28:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T10:28:25","slug":"is-this-for-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/daemon.narrators.eu\/live\/is-this-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this for me?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Is this for me?<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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This experience is for you if you like the\u00a0 following<\/strong><\/h2>

The core vision for this larp is experiencing how it is to play two parts of the same character with someone else and be in symbiosis with them. Together, you are a whole human being. This also means that it is physically impossible to be more than two meters away from each other at all times during the larp. There is no exception from this offgame, so be aware that you sign up with someone where you feel comfortable that you will need the same amount of breaks. If one party needs a nap – the other one will have to be out of the game as well. Energy level is an important calibration topic when choosing a partner.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

In the fiction, separation will bring you both excruciating pain. The specific distance in practice is something we will try out in the workshops.\u00a0<\/span>How to be aware of each other at all times is also something we will practice in the workshops before the larp.<\/span><\/p>

You will play characters that have or are trying to come to terms with the fact that they have been lied to for all their life, but many are still unsure of how they want to shape their life after the church<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

The characters are former Magisterium people, experimental theologists (physicists in our world), witches, nobility, nomads, soldiers, students at the university, politicians, natural philosophers and the like. The characters more or less know each other before the game starts – some only superficially.<\/span><\/p>

You have in common a great curiosity about what this state of things will mean for you personally and how the view possibilities of understanding have and will affect your understanding of your Daemon. Scientific experiments might help you learn more about your connection to your Daemon and thereby – the world.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Playstyle and pacing<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The playstyle will be Nordic in origin and focus on “Play to lift”. More about this in the workshops.
There will be options for short off-game calibrations during scenes, but there will be no off-game comments in in-game areas and no longer off-game conversations outside off-game areas.\u00a0The GM will be playing a character in the larp to visualize some of the mechanics and manage the some events in the beginning of the larp.\u00a0<\/span>

Daemon is what I call a “Frontloaded” larp. There are a lot of complicated relations in the character backgrounds as well as a dramatic intro scene to start off the larp. <\/span><\/p>

The character sheets are 5-8 pre-written pages. They contain all relations, back-stories and what you need to know about your character. No co-creation is expected regarding the basis of the characters and relations but there are open questions of things to think about and something your might discuss with your partner. The only thing expected is calibration with co-players in the workshops and deciding how you want to play it.
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Frontloading also\u00a0<\/span>means that there are more planned events in the beginning of the larp as well as a high intensity beginning of the game. Later, most of the time will be free play, but there are some collective activities that all characters will participate in: Meals and scientific experiments are the most prominent of those. So please bring all the extra activities and ideas into the larp that you would like.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

We will start the larp together in a collective scene and t<\/span>hen we do directly into a three course dinner designed around “Dinner Warfare”. You can read more about that concept here:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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That means that pacing wise, we are jumping right into the core of the larp instead of walking around and saying “hello” for ages. The three acts are between four an six hours, all designed for high intensity with breaks in between.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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River Rafting Design<\/h2>

If you want to read more about the pacing itself, you can see an illustration in the article by Katrine Wind on page 34 in the 2025 Knutepunkt book Anatomy of Larp Thoughts: a breathing corpus:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Playing an engaging victim<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\u00a0Another core concept of the larp is practising the skill of “Playing an engaging victim”. We will lift each others’ play – especially when we are playing oppression play. An example could be to not demand that scientific experiments should be voluntary and make it too hard for the scientists to actually do transgressive experiments. You can read more about the concept here:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Examples of what you can do at the larp<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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