Larp And Captivity Topics

[Deleted member 28403]

So, today I was on a LARP (Live Action Role-Play) called Love Is Blue, that lasted about 1 hour (plus another of briefing and debriefing). And that was quite interesting. just sharing this out here, in hopes of finding some opinions.

It was a really interesting LARP, basically having the theme being captivity, starting with the 6 characters waking up chained to walls in a white room. One of them with a gun next to him, while others having one bullet each. We each had our backstories. And there was no gamemaster, just a recording to follow us through, basically a scenario of us being kidnapped by someone, and it was said that one of the six of us in the room was that person. And our goal was to just survive, 4 of us were to be killed using electricity in random order. I got a character with quite a tough backstory. I built up about 70% of the backstory :p Just to get a fitting character. Basically a guy that goes from house to house trying to sell bibles, no family, without a father, and whose mother died during birth. Also the character killed his wife a few months after she got brain cancer, as her personality detoriated into a completely different person. Suffocating her with a pillow in sleep. And then one day he was kidnapped, and then we all wake up in the room. I don't know much of others characters. One was some kind of a priest or a monk, one had no memory of anything (actually was the evil gamemaster from the recording), and then there was the person that died first (absolutely no info on her character), and a wierd disfunctional couple.

Any opinions on this type of situations, and how they look in real life, to those who have such awful experiences of actual captivity and torture...?

And what would you do in that kind of a situation, to those who havent? For example, I killed myself (in character), when the sign that I was the next to die from electricity showed up. And before that I mostly tried to get into the character of a guy with enough other shitty stuff that this wasnt quite near the top of the list of worst things to happen.

Also, any opinions in LARP in general? And LARPs of trauma situations as a way of recovery?

 

[anonymous]

Any opinions on this type of situations, and how they look in real life, to those who have such awful experiences of actual captivity and torture...?

What are your reasons for wanting to know this? So you can make a better game to play out of someone else's trauma?

 

[Deleted member 28403]

So you can make a better game to play out of someone e...

Hardly, I suck at writing stuff like that. So nope, that is not even in the slightest my goal. I am just asking generally, as I myself don't really have much of captivity experience and this got me curious about the topic. I'm sorry if I made you feel endangered with that question.

 

[Friday]

And what would you do in that kind of a situation, to those who havent?

No one can know that, until they've actually been in it. And then? You almost never do what you think you would do.

 

[Go Hungry]

Well I can't say much of anything about organized torture, the way you're describing it. I think that it's just a silly game and should be treated as such. Ham it up, overact, just have fun. Though one thing I have heard of, is that animals (and that's people too) tend to whimper or whine when in great fear for their life. So.. umm.. There you go.

On the other hand, I used to do a lot of larping back when I was younger, though that was off the boffer sort. Everybody comes up with their fantasy-world (think elves and demons and knights) character and they beat each other with padded weapons. I was quite the devil with a sabre, if I remember correctly. It was a lot of fun, until I had a falling out with one of the other guys. Then I decided that the best kind of apology was just to stay away. In retrospect, probably for the best. I've known some people who got way way WAAAAAY too deep into that sort of escapism.. This one guy, the Traveler... His name was Steve, but he never went by it. He was straight out obsessed with his character, walked around with a fencing blade inside his trenchcoat, that sort of thing. I wonder what ever happened to him?

Anyways, so there's all that.

 

[Ronin]

Opinions? It pisses me off.

Mostly because for many people it's very real concern. And because those people don't get taken seriously when they don't meet someone else's criteria of what X situation is like... when it never even is that.

But don't mind me, I'm happily calling out roleplayers around me if I feel like bothering, before walking away.

I'm happy you're socializing with people and considering things & limits of gaming though. So kudos to you on learning stuff and thoughtfulness & having fun. ;)