Minnesota roleplay collective
Documentation for The Line, a live-action science fiction scenario about refugee crisis, designed by Jason Morningstar.
Organized by Wayne Flenniken and TLS.
Photography by l.p.lade.
Twelve players, Minneapolis, Minnesota in July 2018
Video documentation
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Documentation for Space Squids, a light-hearted live-action game about space, puzzle solving, and polyamory.
7 players
Designed and organized by Kevin McIntyre and Jon Cole
June 2018
Minneapolis, Minnesota
While each individual phonomancer has their own favorite genres of music they’re into, phonomancers band together in “covens” of others who relate to music in a similar way.
Continue reading “The Phonomantic Covens of Robert Johnson Memorial High School”
You’re all high-school phonomancers at the biggest dance of the year. During the dance you’ll be able to hang with your friends, pick arguments with your frenemies, and moon over your crush—just like any other high school dance. But when your music is playing, you’re empowered by it and become the most powerful being on the dance floor and maybe the entire gymnasium! At the end of the night, one of you will be elected Dance Monarch and enact a powerful ritual that can permanently change the world.
Some of you are here to dance, some of you are here to hang out with friends, and some of you are here because you have nothing better to do. All of you are here because music is magic.
A is together with B and is making out with C who is in love with D who has an affair with E who rejected F who’s hitting on everybody. A lot of people live like that. Sometimes everybody’s happy, and other times it doesn’t really work out that well. What emotions, conflicts and weird situations may arise in a group of friends with somewhat loose sexual relations crisscrossing the social sphere? And how did it turn out that way?
The waiting room is bland and antiseptic. You have made unimaginable sacrifices to get here. Through that door is a chance at a better life—one away from war, death, and horror. But between you and the door are a dozen fellow refugees with their own agendas, and an immigration officer eager to send you straight back to hell.
Documentation for ATHENA’S CHOSEN, a live-action game about women in ancient Greece seeking empowerment through the favor of Greek goddesses.
Organized by TLS and Kathy Shane
Photography by TLS and Jon Cole
Twelve players, Minneapolis, Minnesota in May 2018
Documentation for WINTERHORN, a live action game about how governments degrade and destroy activist groups
Organized by Larry Lade and Katherine Shane
Photography by l.p.lade
Seven players, Minneapolis, Minnesota in April 2018