Events › Double Promicide LARP

Join us for our first Live Action Role Playing (LARP) event. Double Promicide is a freeform mystery LARP set at a high school dance. If you're not aware, a LARP is an immersive improvisational theatrical game - you'll get a character, but no lines, and interact with other characters "in character" for a few hours, telling a story together. If you do know what a LARP is, you’ve played a soapy romantic drama with supernatural mystery elements before, and this is one of those! You’ll choose a character who is enmeshed in a network of intrigue and drama and go to work breaking hearts, yearning for your straight best friend, exchanging favors for prom queen votes, and trying to keep your friends and loved ones safe from whatever is really going on here.

The game will be based on an unsolved mystery taking place at a high school. There's no reason to believe it was anything other than an isolated incident, so you, the role players, will act as if you are still at the prom with the usual prom concerns. Who will be crowned prom royalty? Will you ever get a dance with that special someone? Clues will naturally emerge over the course of the evening to help solve the mystery.

The game will run for four hours, from 1-5 pm, and include about a half hour of explanation, character selection, and introduction, two and a half hours of gameplay, and another hour of debrief at the end. Characters will be selected from a roster of onsite options, with no advanced preparation necessary.

Content warnings for this game include play-acted violence in a school setting; ritualism; adult language; references to cigarettes, drugs, and alcohol; grief; play-acted mind control; and references to emotional and mental health. Also, the game will very likely ask you to play your character having romantic feelings or attachments to other characters. Comfort and discomfort levels should be shared with the staff running the program so everyone can have an enjoyable time. Costuming is non-mandatory but encouraged. This game is recommended for adult participation only.

Library staff may take photos, videos, or audio recordings at our events. Please tell us if you do not wish to be photographed, video-recorded, or audio-recorded. We will always respect your requests!

An ASL (American Sign Language) interpreter or closed captioning can be provided for this program if requested at least seven (7) days in advance. For assistance, please contact your library or accessibility@aclibrary.org.