Omløp

A sensory science fiction larp played in a sauna.

We are in The Future and The Skinn Library is one of the most well known public institutions in the world. Almost everyone uses their services. In The Future people can experience the world through a variety of bodies by borrowing bodies from The Skinn Library. A person’s memory and personality is stored on a chip that can be moved from one body to another.

Omløp is about a group of librarians who work at a local branch of The Skinn Library who have received a batch of returned bodies from borrowers. Today they are inhabiting these bodies to cleanse and ready them for new borrowers.

The larp will have a workshop where we go through how we will play the larp and create characters together. We then move to a sauna where the larp itself will be played. This larp will not focus on conflict or relationship drama but on bodily sensations, physical memories and collegiality.

By Frida Sofie Jansen, Grethe Sofie Bulterud Strand and Tor Kjetil Edland 

Image by Astrid Solgaard

Benediction

This larp is about a group of medieval nuns who are told that in five days their abbey will be blessed with a visit from a travelling priest and miracle worker. The priest is making his way through the plague-ridden countryside to deliver a sermon. As they anticipate his benediction, the nuns ruminate on their feelings about themselves, the others, God, and the arrival of the vagabond priest, which has awakened in them unprecedented fears and desires. The larp features some nonverbal play, ritual repetition, and crazy dream sequences.

Content warnings: blasphemy, graphic language, sexual subtext

Designed by Laura op de Beke, Una Hamilton Helle, Sille Storihle, and OddHelge Gravalid.

Getting Hitched

It’s the day of the big party before Jessica finally marries Kevin! The girl squad relax in the sauna before hitting the town. What dirty secrets will be revealed before the night is over? 

This is a light hearted comedy with a lot of girly drama and dirty secrets. Characters and relations are workshopped before the larp. There are elements of randomness in character creation and during the play, which is open-ended. Friendships might be broken, guests might be uninvited, the wedding may be called off, or maybe the team comes out of the sauna with bonds stronger than before. '

All characters are cis female regardless of the player’s gender; towels are compulsory.

By Dominika Kovacova (she/her)

Reaching Out

Reaching out is a poetic, vulnerable and non-verbal larp aimed to explore the fragile nature of making connections and the fear of being left behind. Players will be blindfolded throughout the larp and will connect with others through touch.

By Nina Runa Essendrop

The Slavic Hangover

Only a few more days until the wedding between a human programmer and a water spirit. During the wedding prep, both families and friends will meet for the first time and it remains to be seen whether they will get along. The tension between the destructive, progress-driven humans and the elemental spirits of nature does not bode well.

This larp is about the relationship between man and nature, and about finding a compromise between the old and the new.

Matthew Birchowsky (he/him) and Feliks "Veni" Przybyła (he/they)

Quest Takers

Welcome to the fantasy inn! Your party is waiting. Together you will go on adventures, slay fearsome enemies, collect loot and experience, and on your return you'll be able to boast about your victories... unless of course you return defeated. It's all part of the adventurer's life: epic highs and crippling lows.

Quest Takers features non-verbal slow motion battle scenes, fireside storytelling, quest planning, and a levelling mechanic. And at the end of the larp, you will be seasoned a veteran who gets to decide how to end your personal story.

By Tina Heebøll Arbjørn & Jesper Heebøll Arbjørn

The Heat Is On

A fantasy city is plagued by turf wars between rival monstrous crime gangs. Their leaders gather together, in the steamy sauna to settle their differences once and for all. Will you rise to the top of the pile, when the heat is on?

The Heat Is On is a sauna larp that hovers between gritty and absurd.

By Mo Holkar (he/him), promo image drawn by Nadine Oestreich