I examined a specific instance of a Live Action Role Playing (larp) event at Stanford. On Monday, May 23rd, a group of 8 members of Stanford Gaming Society (SGS) gathered in Lagunita Library to play the prewritten larp module All Saints' Eve by [Shifting Forest Storyworks].

I will refer to the artifact of this particular improvisational performance as "the incidence".

There are four types elements that compose the incidence:

• Aspects of the fictional universe of story as it was actually played out (ICAE)
• Aspects of the fictional universe of the story as was previously established by the module (ICB)
• Aspects of the real universe of the participants during and surrounding the incidence (OOCAE)
• Background social/cultural aspects of the real universe of the participants (OOCB)

These elements are the four combinations of the IC / OOC axis and the Background / Actual Events axis, hence the acronyms.

In this project, we will look at how these four elements interact to produce the incidence. In particular, we will look at how aspects of the OOCB contribute to implementation decisions (and accidents!) in the other three areas.

Describing the incidence

The Module-Supplied Backstory (ICB)

Description of Events (OOCAE and ICAE)

A look at different aspects of the incidence

[The Backstory]

[Genre Elements]

[The Participants]

[The Characters]

[IC Events]

[The Larp Format]

[The Module Alone]

References

[Overview]

[Highlights]

Glossary

Sources