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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Infobox larp run<br />
|name=Mare Incognitum<br />
|image=Mare.png<br />
|image_alt=Black text on a white background saying Mare Incognitum<br />
|date={{start date|2014|11|28}}<br />
|location=HMS Småland, Göteborg, Sweden<br />
|duration=10 hours<br />
|website={{URL|iäiä.se}}<br />
|organizers=[[Berättelsefrämjandet]]<br />
|designers={{plainlist|* [[Olle Nyman]]<br />
* [[Sara Pertmann]]<br />
* [[Sebastian Utbult]]<br />
* [[Andreas Sjöberg]]}}<br />
|budget=~{{currency|5800|EUR}}<br />
|participation_fee={{Currency|30|EUR}}-{{Currency|90|EUR}} (depending on income)<br />
|participants={{plainlist|* Run 1: 26<br />
* Run 2: 26<br />
* Run 3: 26}}<br />
|techniques={{plainlist|*[[Game Master|Diegetic Game Mastering]]<br />
* [[Honor system]]<br />
* [[Slow take-off]]<br />
* [[Slow landing]]<br />
* [[Soundtrack]]<br />
* [[Pre-written characters]]<br />
* [[Shadows]]<br />
* [[Narrative voice-over]]<br />
* [[Playing to lose]]<br />
* [[Safewords]]<br />
* [[Pre-larp workshop]]}}<br />
|last_larp=[[Terra Incognita]]<br />
}}<br />
'''Mare Incognitum''' was a lovecraftian mythos horror larp set in Norway in 1951, and played on board the destroyer '''HMS Småland'''. The larp had 26 pre-written characters from different groups. Three games were run over the course of a weekend, and had participants from Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Estonia, Spain, the US and the UK. The game was organized by [[Berättelsefrämjandet]], and had some ten NPCs and crew.[[File:Mare_run2.jpg|360px|thumb|Photo by Jonas Aronsson|none]]<br />
==Setting and Themes==<br />
Horror and mystery in a Lovecraft Mythos setting, in 1951.<br />
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==Summary==<br />
The different groups of players had all boarded the freighter M/S Lyckan to sail to Narvik, in order to get home after spending time in Kirkenes. An anthropological expedition to Kirkenes had brought along a strange statuette found in a burial mound, which slowly corrupted the crew on board. As the ship got stuck in the ice and a severe storm blew in, the passengers found themselves trapped aboard a dark ship as horror crept out of the shadows.<br />
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==Techniques==<br />
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*[[Game Master|Diegetic Game Mastering]]<br />
*[[Honor system]]<br />
*[[Slow take-off]]<br />
*[[Slow landing]]<br />
*[[Soundtrack]]<br />
*[[Pre-written characters]]<br />
*[[Shadows]]<br />
*[[Narrative voice-over]]<br />
*[[Playing to lose]]<br />
*[[Safewords]]<br />
*[[Pre-larp workshop]]<br />
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During the game, the diegetic radio room also doubled as a [[Meta room]], in which organizers played out meta scenes over the radio and generally "spooked" the players when they were alone. <br />
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==Documentation==<br />
===Photo Documentation===<br />
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*[https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.309156332621109&type=1 Pictures from the second run], taken by [[Nino Hynninen]].<br />
*[https://www.facebook.com/yonazarith/media_set?set=a.10152576129364506.1073741862.590469505&type=3&uploaded=136 Pictures from before, during and after all three runs], taken by [[Jonas Aronsson]].<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{URL|1=iäiä.se}}<br />
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[[Category:Larps]]<br />
[[Category:Larp runs]]<br />
[[Category:Larp runs in Sweden]]<br />
[[Category:2014 larp runs]]</div>>Johannes Axner