Team 1 Play Test Notes 3-21-2014

General

• Provide structure
• Provide simple rules

Music and Lights

• Possibly use music and possibly lighting to set mood

Language Issue (not everyone speaks the same language)

• Have a translator to explain what Wise One/Sage is saying
• Use nonverbal communication
• Use all senses to get them to engage with space – forest and fairy land

Character

• Important to Play someone you are not
• Create character and cast players
• Characters can have flaws
• player can change their parts
• To help with the language issue, players’ can create their characters by selecting costumes and props (we decided upon) rather than reading a description on a piece of paper. If they do not like what they select, put it back and select something else
• Put up pictures, players select pictures they want to use to define character

Safe Spaces and Time Outs

• Give them a way to opt out permanently or temporarily
• Create areas within story where people can go to have a time out; stand by Wise One/Sage or stand by Mayor
• Have a sitting area where they can observe and catch their breath and collect their thought

Warm Ups

• Do a warm up where no one is singled out.
• The Wise One/Sage can lead an exercise and everyone can follow, doing the same thing.
• Sad Happy warm up

Begin by walking around
Act sad
Say hello when sad
Act happy
Say hello when happy

Story

• normal social interaction
• Mask: villagers
• Remove mask: become fairies when enter fairy land
• In fairy land giant jigsaw puzzle broken up into pieces signifies the village is in trouble
• Fairies find the pieces and work together to put the puzzle together
• When the puzzle in complete, leave fairyland and go back to a healthy, well run village

For more information, see
Notes for Creating Larps