Live-action role play can make an ordinary life extraordinary for a couple of hours or days but reintegration is not always easy
in Sweden, with a submarine simulator standing in for a spaceship, which explored “cultural and personal conflict in the shadow of the destruction of the 12 colonies of mankind”. Conscience was in Tabernas, Spain – spaghetti western country.
“If you’re a big Aragorn fan, you can easily find a way to make a rustic mercenary living in the woods,” he says of the Lord of the Rings character, “and we have all the D and D species that everyone knows and loves. We have a database where we keep track of the players and snippets of their backstory that we can feed into the plot.
But there’s a tension when Larpers return from their extraordinary life to their ordinary life. The person might feel only partly present, or emotional, or depressed. It’s known in Larp terminology as “bleed”.Photograph: Eleanor Webber/The Scy’kadia Team “Some people, after they deal with the bleed, they change their relationships, they change jobs, they change the way they think about things and react to people,” Van Laer says. He uses the example of “Theresa”, an Austrian web developer.
“At the beginning it’s an overflowing river of emotion, so resistance is futile, as nerds will say. Then I try to embed myself in what my daily life is,” he says. “I focus on work. It helps me to punch a speedball at the gym, because the physical exercise and repetitive sound makes me come back. And I play music, which is my form of meditation. Usually after a week, it goes back to being a pleasant memory.
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