Nordic Larp

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  • Europa Brinner!

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    Europa brinner! (Europe burns!) is a larp campaign that takes place in Sweden before and during World War II, with espionage, betrayal and treason as main elements. The larps will be as realistic as possible, with some elements of fiction.

    The first installment is called 1938 – Pyrande glöd (Smoldering Glow)

    The Organizers are:

    Emma Feldmanis – Main organizer and campaign writer
    Marie Schöld – Intrigue organizer
    Svend Lindblom – Intrigue and security organizer.
    Europe burns is produced in collaboration with SIT (Svedala Interactive Theatre and Role Association)

    Where: The larps is held in the amazing 1800s Director villa in Brunnsparken, Ronneby and it continues for one evening.
    When: April 20, 2013.
    Cost: 150 SEK (approximately 18 Euro or 24 USD).
    Language: The game will be played in Swedish.

    Read more on the website:
    http://sit-lajv.se/Flagrantis/

  • Life is Cheap

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    Life is Cheap is a Norwegian larp set in the Firefly-universe.

    On a secret location each year, there is held an auction. This auction deals not in food, spice, spacecrafts, or weapons. No… This auction deals in live flesh… Do you need to restock your bordel? Or maybe you are a wealthy mine owner who intends to stay wealthy by buying cheap labor. Perhaps you need someone to fight in your arena, or you are looking for a translator. Or maybe you just get a kick out of these event. The verse is a wretched hive of scum and villainy after all. Or perhaps you are on the wrong side of the bars? Maybe you were adrift in space and were picked up by some “helpful” people. Or you were taken from your home by force? Or maybe, just maybe, you want to be here as a slave? Who knows…

    Where: Fjøløy Fort at Rennesøy right outside Stavanger, Norway.
    When: June 28-30, 2013
    Cost: 200/300 NOK (approximately 27/40 Euro or 35/52 USD), the lower price is if you pay before April 15th.
    Language: The game will be played in mixed languages, Norwegian and English are both okay.

    Watch a teaser for the larp here:

    Read more about and sign up for the larp on the website:
    http://lifeischeap.no/

  • Mad About the Boy, Swedish Run

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    After runs in Norway, the Netherlands and USA time has come to run Mad About the Boy in Sweden. The organisers had this to say:

    In a world were all men have died reproduction is totally dependent on sperm banks. The government in the Nordic countries have decided to start an insemination program. To choose the future parents the have created a Parent Selection Program. It is during these tests that the larp is played. On the second day the last man on earth runs in to the site and everything changes.

    The game is played twice in a week, once with an all female cast, and one with mixed gender. Both of them during the last week of June.

    Where: Outside of Västerås, Sweden
    When: June 24th-27th 2013 – Mixed gender run, open to people of all genders who want to play women. June 27th-30th 2013 – All-female runm open to people who identify as women.
    Cost: The participation fee is 1200 SEK. There is a concessional price of 900 SEK for students, freelancers and unemployed people.
    Language: The larp will be played in English.
    Sign-up opens: March 15th 2013 at 16.00.

    More info on the homepage:
    http://mad-about-the-boy-larp.blogspot.no/

    Discuss upcoming larps in the Nordic Larp Forum:
    http://nordiclarp.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=16

    Read about the larp and previous runs on the Nordic Larp Wiki:
    http://nordiclarp.org/wiki/Mad_About_the_Boy

  • Krigshjärta Campaign Trailer

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    Krigshjärta (Heart of War) is a Swedish low fantasy larp campaign centered around a large scale conflict. Though it is combat heavy, it’s quite different from American style combat heavy fantasy larps. Check out their campaign trailer here:

    Read more on their website (in Swedish):
    http://krigshjarta.com/

  • Lindängens Riksinternat

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    Lindängens Riksinternat (State boarding school of Lindängen) is a Swedish larp set at a boarding school. The inspiration for the larp comes partly from the book Ondskan by Jan Guillou, of which also has been made film, and partly from the intensely hierarchical bullying structures that have been reported in Swedish media to figure at these boarding schools.

    The organisers has this to say about the larp:

    We strive to make a larp based on this hazing and its structures, on the friendship one can still find in such a situation, and how easily good people can find themselves being part of and reinforcing an oppressive system.

    Before the larp, we will run a weekend with mandatory workshops, where we create characters, groups, classroom hierarchies and other relations.

    Content of the larp:

    • Bullying and victimisation
    • Lessons and school life
    • Unspoken rules with inconsistent punishment
    • Larping 24 hours per day
    • Emotional play with noticeable consequences
    • Role- and relationship-building in workshops

    Where: Olsängsgåden, Blekinge, south of Sweden
    When: October 16-20, 2013
    Cost: Not finalised, but less than 1000 SEK (120 Euro or 160 USD)
    Language: The larp will be played in Swedish

    Read more on the larp website:
    http://lindangen.wordpress.com/

  • Swedish Harry Potter Larp Yggdrasil

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    Yggdrasil is a Swedish larp set in the universe of Harry Potter. The organisers has this to say:

    The larp is set at the Nordic magic school Yggdrasil. During four days you will experience a magic world built on strong sense of belonging but also with threats and excitement where it’s tough to know who is friend or foe.

    It’s a fantasy larp with neither very high or low demands on the players. It’s set in a school environment with possibilities for university level magic studies.

    We’ve held one larp in the same campaign world before, in November 2012 which was very successful and now we’re trying again.

    Where: Near Stockholm, Sweden. Participants will be transported from Stockholm by bus.
    When: June 13-16, 2013
    Cost: 500-700 SEK (approximately 60-85 Euro or 80-110 USD), not set yet. Price includes transport to and from the venue from Stockholm, food and lodging.
    Language: The game will be played in Swedish

    Read more about the larp on the website:
    http://yggdrasillajv.webs.com/

    You can also check out their Facebook group:
    http://www.facebook.com/groups/yggdrasillajv/

  • Just a Little Lovin’ 2013 in Denmark, Sign Up Open

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    Sign up for Just a Little Lovin’ 5-10th of August in Denmark has now opened. This is a game for 60 people about the early years of the AIDS epidemic. It will be played in English. This is the third year in row that the game is being held, with previous runs in Norway and Sweden.

    The organizers describe the game as such:

    A LARP ABOUT FRIENDSHIP, DESIRE AND THE FEAR OF DEATH

    1982: It was the summer AIDS came to New York City
    Two group of friends from New York City celebrate the 4th of July in upstate New York. The 1970s have been a decade of women’s liberation, youth rebellion, anti-war protests and sexual promiscuity. This changed America forever, but the early 1980s is also a time of a resurging conservative movement which President Ronald Reagan is the sunny face of. Gay men are migrating to New York to become part of the vibrant and hedonistic scene in Greenwitch Village. Unbeknownst to everyone however the HIV virus has started spreading in the city. An article in the New York Times last summer described a mysterious “gay cancer”, but it’s cause remains still unknown.

    During the larp we play three 4th of July partys of 1982, 1983 and 1984. Every morning after breakfast there is an act break where we find out what has happened with the characters and their relationships the following year before the next act starts one year later. When the game starts neither the players nor the characters know who will become infected by the virus, but the lives of all the characters will be deeply effected by the epidemic. Our goal for the game is that all the characters will have friendships that are important to them, experience a little bit of lovin’ at the summer parties and feel the fear of death as people around them start to become infected.

    Read more and sign up here:
    http://just-a-little-lovin.blogspot.com/

    Discuss this and other coming larps in the Nordic Larp Forum:
    Upcoming Larps – Nordic Larp Forum

  • The Price of the Bride (Brudpris)

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    The Price of the Bride is nordic style larp organized in Sweden 9-12 May:

    Brudpris

    Brudpris is a larp in Swedish that focuses on honor culture and patriarchal structures in a world inspired by swedish 19th century village life. The people of Mo believe that women possess a dangerous but necessary force – the force of life. But for the force to be life giving and not destructive for the Mo, it must be quelled and contained. As a man that is your purpose in life, to control that force, and to give a holy promise to do so by taking responsibility for a woman. To fail is to not have any honor and putting your whole people in danger.

    With Brudpris we want to explore a fictive honor system that feels real. We are looking for tight, close culture oriented play. The game will be in Swedish, but we welcome Swedish speaking participants from other contries as well.

    Dates:
    9 – 12 may

    Price:
    900 SEK full price / 600 SEK students/unemployed

    Place:
    Moriaberg, Stockholm, Sweden

    Website (in Swedish):
    http://brudpris.wordpress.com

  • The Monitor Celestra

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    The Monitor Celestra is a nordic Larp inspired by the science fiction tv-series Battlestar Galactica.

    It will be played on three occasions in Gothenburg, Sweden during March 1-3, March 8-10 and March 15-17. The game run on March 8-10 will be in English aimed at international players and there is an option for a fourth game on March 22-24 if the other three games become full.

    The location of the game is the old Swedish destroyer Småland which will be dressed up as BSG-style spaceship with the help of set dressing, props and technical aids.

    The game will be pay and play, the organizers providing costumes and props that are not readily available for players such as uniforms. This means there are different price points for different characters, based on how costly the visual props are for that character class.

    Here is a video introduction from the production team:

    Read more and sign up at the games website:
    http://www.celestra-larp.com/

    For updates on the development of the game, check out their devblog:
    http://devblog.celestra-larp.com/

    You can also keep up to date with the larp on Facebook:
    http://www.facebook.com/monitorcelestra