{"id":576,"date":"2025-06-26T09:47:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T09:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studiospektar.hr\/cnb\/?p=576"},"modified":"2025-06-26T09:47:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T09:47:47","slug":"bizzaro-larp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studiospektar.hr\/cnb\/bizzaro-larp\/","title":{"rendered":"Bizzaro LARP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My LARPs are often experiments in the sense that I don\u2019t always know how something will actually work in play. This one was quite the experiment, and honestly, I was worried it might turn out super boring. It\u2019s easy when my LARPs have tons of tasks and tangled relationships\u2014but in this one, players only brought their own stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In <em>Bizzaro LARP<\/em>, each player could play a character from any other LARP they had ever played\u2014or were playing\u2014or create any kind of brand-new character. There were no limits on powers, weapons, species&#8230; anything.<br>The rules fit on less than a single A4 sheet of paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The basic premise: players suddenly find themselves in an unfamiliar, enclosed space (each arriving from their own situation\u2014some even believe they\u2019ve died) and a strange membrane prevents anyone from leaving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the photo, you can see a bunch of people who later became some of my closest friends\u2014but also some who eventually drifted away, even after a lot of shared LARPing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"532\" src=\"https:\/\/studiospektar.hr\/cnb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSCN1597-1024x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/studiospektar.hr\/cnb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSCN1597-1024x532.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/studiospektar.hr\/cnb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSCN1597-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/studiospektar.hr\/cnb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSCN1597-768x399.jpg 768w, https:\/\/studiospektar.hr\/cnb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSCN1597-1536x799.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/studiospektar.hr\/cnb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSCN1597-2048x1065.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Something kind of bizarre sticks out when I think back on it: the guy in the light green \u201ccostume\u201d\u2014who do you think he was playing? Wrong. Not a surgeon. He was playing Robin Hood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He asked me if I had a feather for his hat. I said no, but I\u2019d get him one.<br>So, I went to Lake Jarun, where I knew there were a lot of crows and often plenty of feathers under the trees. I figured I\u2019d paint one red and it would look great. But!<br>No feathers. No crows. Just one dead crow on the grass near the path.<br>And I thought: well, I promised him a feather, so I guess I\u2019ll take one. Turns out, pulling a feather out of a dead crow\u2019s wing isn\u2019t exactly a five-second job.<br>So there I was, tugging on this crow corpse, when a family with three kids walked by. The little girl asked her mom, \u201cMom, what\u2019s that man doing with the dead animal?\u201d<br>Mom: \u201cI don\u2019t know. Don\u2019t look, let\u2019s go.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, I got the feather. But he never used it.<br>The bow he made for himself was a 20 cm bent twig with a blue rubber band. And the rest of the costume\u2014you can see for yourself.<br>Sometimes the problem with bad costumes isn\u2019t money\u2014it\u2019s ultra laziness.<br>If you\u2019ve read my previous texts, you might notice I\u2019ve worn the same outfit three times already: once as a Greek warrior, once as an alien, and here again\u2014as an Alavite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/studiospektar.hr\/cnb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSCN1600-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-581\" style=\"width:319px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/studiospektar.hr\/cnb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSCN1600-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/studiospektar.hr\/cnb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSCN1600-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/studiospektar.hr\/cnb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSCN1600-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/studiospektar.hr\/cnb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSCN1600-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/studiospektar.hr\/cnb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSCN1600-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Not sure what was that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I honestly have no idea how most of the in-game conversations went\u2014I never even asked the others. But mine were good.<br>How does a conversation flow between a doctor of paraphysics from 1902 (Danijel \u0160triga) and a sports star (Zvonimir Bara\u0107) from the year 2301?<br>Or between a druid fairy (Ivana Dela\u010d) and a nurse (Anita Sakar)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If there\u2019s ever a sequel\u2014and it\u2019s not an impossible mission\u2014then I\u2019ll definitely include some tasks in the game. Tasks are a must.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My LARPs are often experiments in the sense that I don\u2019t always know how something will actually work in play. This one was quite the experiment, and honestly, I was worried it might turn out super boring. 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