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Limbo
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Limbo was a larp where you played someone who had died and was caught between life and death in Limbo. A white being would come in occationally and offer the eight characters tickets to different places like the gates of heaven, or reincarnation. Other than that we were in a 25. squaremeters room with weird music in the background. Oh, and you could choose to either play a character or a future version of yourself.
Limbo was a larp I was afraid of entering. I felt that the idea of sitting alone in a room with seven other people, just talking, would be difficult to do for 2.5hours. No input from the outside would make us fall out of character, I thought.
My experiences however, was that the physical size of the room, the music, the intro and outro, and the white being together helped drive the larp forward in a wholly different way than I had expected. The other players, asking questions and starting conversations that made me ask other questions, and find other answers than I thought I would find.
I chose to play myself, something I realized after the larp had started was a decition I maybe should not have made. It was difficult and the feeling of spilling your innermost fears and feelings to people who were playing fictional characters on a larp was both hard and painful. On the other hand I learned a lot about myself and the way I view life/death/the afterlife. I entered the larp thinking I had all the answers, but by the end I realized that I had found a whole set of new ones. It was both interesting and painful to realise. At the same time I'm having a guilt/sorrow reaction because of the larp that I can't really shake. I think the reason why it hit me so hard was because I played myself. I don't know if I could have done it again, at least not on a larp where other people played characters.
It was one of the hardest things I've experienced ever, and I'm not done grieving yet, but I would not have missed it for the world.
I posted this on "terningkast på forum" Marthe, so get your ass over there and post as well! :)
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Limbo was a larp where you played someone who had died and was caught between life and death in Limbo. A white being would come in occationally and offer the eight characters tickets to different places like the gates of heaven, or reincarnation. Other than that we were in a 25. squaremeters room with weird music in the background. Oh, and you could choose to either play a character or a future version of yourself.
Limbo was a larp I was afraid of entering. I felt that the idea of sitting alone in a room with seven other people, just talking, would be difficult to do for 2.5hours. No input from the outside would make us fall out of character, I thought.
My experiences however, was that the physical size of the room, the music, the intro and outro, and the white being together helped drive the larp forward in a wholly different way than I had expected. The other players, asking questions and starting conversations that made me ask other questions, and find other answers than I thought I would find.
I chose to play myself, something I realized after the larp had started was a decition I maybe should not have made. It was difficult and the feeling of spilling your innermost fears and feelings to people who were playing fictional characters on a larp was both hard and painful. On the other hand I learned a lot about myself and the way I view life/death/the afterlife. I entered the larp thinking I had all the answers, but by the end I realized that I had found a whole set of new ones. It was both interesting and painful to realise. At the same time I'm having a guilt/sorrow reaction because of the larp that I can't really shake. I think the reason why it hit me so hard was because I played myself. I don't know if I could have done it again, at least not on a larp where other people played characters.
It was one of the hardest things I've experienced ever, and I'm not done grieving yet, but I would not have missed it for the world.
I posted this on "terningkast på forum" Marthe, so get your ass over there and post as well! :)
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