This is Storyteller Supply’s flagship larp, which has been run dozens of time online and in person.

Chariot Larp is a sci-fi adventure. Choose from one of many eras in the future—launching the project in the 1960s, living on a generational ship, and founding an Endeavor on Proxima b. Players explore and develop relationships through crises in this four-hour experience.

Not your typical country house party.

Your host has invited a rather eccentric mix of guests – some potential matches – and chief among them, the oft gossiped-about Mx. Byron. In this three-session freeform digital live action role playing (larp) experience, you and your fellow esteemed party guests are invited to explore the true nature of Byron’s works in a Regency Era setting.

Will you summon a supernatural muse, uncover a sinister plot, or simply focus on matchmaking? Pursue Hellfire or happiness in this immersive event.

You’ll collaborate on character creation, defining your character’s place in this society and its underbelly. This game is very character-driven.

March 1, 1911

Dear Diary:

At great risk to myself and my host, I have been invited to a country manor to bring a bit of life to a house party. I am asked to use my particular predictive talents. I am to arrive as a mysterious stranger. In truth, it isn’t money or prestige that lures me, but the rumored presence of one Mx. Byron…words so sensual. I glimpsed Mx. Byron in their Club once, and have thought of them ever since. So clear in my mind is the way Byron described a sunset. What supernatural lure compels me to worship them?

I must have answers, and I know my divination tools will reveal the truth about them.

~Nora Mary Carrington

This experience runs for four hours. Players are given custom characters based upon a survey. Includes up to eight players.

Hellfire FAQ:

What is the Regency Era and what years does it encompass?

The Regency refers to a short amount of time (9 years) during which King George IV ruled in place of his father, King George III. It followed the Georgian Era and preceded the Victorian Era. It’s popularly associated with Jane Austen and Lord Byron, literary figures who significantly influence this larp.

What’s the name mean?

Hellfire refers to Hellfire clubs, which were distinctly illegal in England at the time. Happiness refers to the potential matchmaking legacy of Jane Austen novels – the less cynical, more ideal parts of society that fans of the era enjoy.

What are the costume requirements? This takes place in England – do I need to do an accent if I am not English?

You are welcome to adapt an English accent (if you do not have one anyway), choose to play a character who isn’t English, or play an English character but use your own accent. We want you to be comfortable.

What equipment do I need to run this game?

A computer with a camera, microphone, and internet connection.

What role does the Occult play in this game? How is it freeform?

Plot details are secret, but the occult appears in conjunction with the Hellfire club and its surrounding lore. Additionally, most runs happen concurrently and affect each other – so continuity is important to how the occult functions in the game. No two adventures are the same.

The GM has some ideas that she’ll throw at you, and a grab back of tricks – but ultimately this is character driven, which is why the one-on-one character development is so important.

How do marginalized people find a place in this story? How do you handle the mistreatment of marginalized people in the past?

People (and characters) of all genders and sexualities are welcome in this game.

Additionally, the matchmaking component is a part of the game, but it’s entirely opt-in, so if you do not want to be involved in that plot, you won’t be. “Mx.” is a gender-neutral way to address anyone (like Mrs. or Mr.) and we encourage its use.

Regency England was full of isms, especially racism and sexism, as well as discrimination against English. People with physical disabilities and those who were neuroatypical were not readily accepted. Classism was very much a part of daily life. So much for romanticizing it, right?

We are going to do away with most of these isms and phobias. Matches of all genders may be made; we accept LGBTQIA+ individuals, those with illnesses and disabilities, etc.

This game will not explore:

• Contemporary life or political issues (allegories are fine)

• Rape or sexual assault

• Domestic violence

This game will explore:

• Gender roles

• Expectations of station

• Questioning of early spiritualism through the lens of science and/or Christianity

• Danger and death, including opt-in character death

You may encounter themes of:

• Bullying

• Verbal abuse (this theme requires consent to play)

That said: marginalized individuals may wish to play for empowering and emancipatory experiences. This is certainly permitted. Players should construct this with the GM during character design.

You are very welcome to challenge these roles. If you would rather not heavily explore them, please let us know during character creation and we will cast you appropriately.

There is no antisemitism in this game. Religious discussion should stick to the focus of the story, as some characters may feel that it is against their beliefs to interfere or interact with the beyond.

No player is to treat any other player or character differently due to physical characteristics, including but not limited to color of skin. On a related note: please remember that physical characteristics do not determine or define gender. Everyone will provide their IRL and character pronouns.
How important is historical accuracy?

Not extremely. We’ll have a full document with facts about the Regency Era, but this game is ‘Regency-ish,’ and the story is the most important element.

How does the digital experience work in an era with no computers?

In the Regency Era, touching was sparse – and in the case of the division between men and women, very rarely permitted. Think of the physical divide we experience due to the digital format as a representation of the physical distance demanded by the conventions of the era.

Everyone has a true self, hiding behind the surface mask they show. What do you really look like? Find out in this faefolk digital larp.

An awakening of magical powers creates a surge of dealmaking activities that affect mortal and immortal worlds. Play an iconic faefolk intertwined with history, unpack a trope like the tooth fairy, or be a mortal caught in the dream-web of these beings.

We all have a specialty. When some people look at me, they see a bare-breasted symbol of defiant liberty wrapped in a tattered flag. Others see a quiet dawn framed under a silvery moon, igniting a less passive tomorrow.

In short: I create revolutions.

What do you do?

Maud Gonne, Leanan Sidhe

When I was young, people told me I had fae blood. I tended to bargain with a distinct diplomacy. I wanted to dawdle in the woods. I consumed an inordinate amount of sweet dairy.

Some of the people who told me this seemed so analytical: adults who refused to believe in Santa Claus or even leprechauns.

They told me those stories anyway: the leprechauns are watching you, they said. (Apparently that was their job until it was Christmas time, when the elves took over.)

What they didn’t understand is that the leprechauns weren’t monitoring me. They were serving me.

I have come of age now—not in the mortal way, where people say that to mean a woman is old enough to be traded into marriage, rut within the ungodly confines they place on her, and produce a child. For the fae folk, it means I am wise enough.

We discover things about ourselves that we always knew. We want to share our gifts with the world, but in this political climate, we can’t stop hiding ourselves. There isn’t that luxury—but we have our own brand of usefulness.

We all have our own brand of otherworldliness. I’m a leanan sidhe, and I’ve inspired and influenced much of the top talent you know today—sometimes in entertainment, otherwise politically. There’s always a price for that inspiration. Sometimes the artist pays, but sometimes the cost is passed on.

I used to be known as Maud Gonne, social spitfire of the Easter Rising in Ireland and muse for one W. B. Yeats.

Yeats was interesting: he had a pull on me, the way I do with many mortals. I still search for him in my dreams. And dreams go somewhere, don’t they?

What do you dream?

We come to know our truth in the dream world, which is where we meet today.

What is your truth?

Faefolk Digital Larp Structure

This larp is a digital larp (see more about how that works here, including important safety information) and it unfolds in three acts. Your quest: Survive—and find your truth.

Emergence: Players appear in the dream world with their masks. You are unable to physically touch one another, but communication is possible, if not always clear. You are given a path to make deals to further your goals and empower yourself if you choose, but deals only work when you set aside your mask and reveal your true nature.

Dealmaking: in this phase, you may negotiate with the fae monarch and others to achieve your goals—or to help or harm others.

Dreaming: Before leaving the dream world, you have the opportunity to leave behind dreams for others, be they those present, or mortals or immortals on other planes.

This is a continuity larp, and the dreams you leave behind will influence other sessions and game worlds.

Prop and Costume Requirement

This larp requires a single prop: a mask. This doesn’t have to be an expensive or extravagant item, and alternative takes on “masks” are quite welcome. Face paint representing a mask is also encouraged, so long as you can remove it when needed. A mask can even include a digital filter or add-on when this game is played digitally. We encourage creativity.

Your costume is up to you. Appropriative costumes and makeup are forbidden. Blackface or any other unnatural toned skin darkening will result in an immediate ban from all TGI events.

We want you to be comfortable.

Be prepared to wear your mask for most of the session.

Character Selection

This larp has several pre-cast characters. You can still create your own; but we encourage you to select a trope, creature, or figure from lore, pop culture, or history and put it into play. No copyrighted characters are permitted.

Most of these roles are gender neutral, and you are welcome to play them to suit your real life gender, a gender identity you are exploring, and/or your own preferences.

One participant per run will portray a fae monarch. This ticket enables that participant to portray fae royalty. The monarch receives a scripted guideline regarding how they may conduct deals with the others. The storyteller/GM character remains Maud Gonne; though influential, she is not the leader: that person is the monarch.

One participant per run will portray the Sandbeing. This is an antagonistic role; this character has brought all of us to the foggy land of dreams. You should be comfortable playing an antagonist and driving massive plot if you select this ticket.

Characters range from grim to lighthearted, and we’ll match you with a character to help you explore truth as you see fit.

All characters, mortal or fae, receive a true name, secret, domain/talent, and a goal, making this larp somewhat structured.

You may bring a returning character from another Storyteller Supply digital larp.

Credits

Dealmakers and Dreamers: A Faefolk Digital Larp is created by Tara M. Clapper and The Geek Initiative. Characters are written by Michele Mountain (with “Sock Fairy” concept by Maury Brown, used with permission) and Tara M. Clapper. Art by A. Wayne. Administrative support and creative feedback by Shayna Cook.

This dark adventure is inspired by larps that twist tropes and folklore, such as Hanging Lantern’s Real Royalty, Peculiar Crossroads’ Armistice Arcane, and the High Level Games Con feature larp Pandaemonium, helmed by Sinking Ship Creations.

Welcome to Sanctuary Avalon.

United by a mighty queen, the Isle of Britain has reached a new stability. Leaders from around the world have recognized the spiritual sanctuary on Avalon as a place for femmes to go, at any stage of life, to experience spiritual growth, self-discovery, and to enhance leadership skills. It is said that Queen Guinevere herself may even attend spiritual training in Avalon soon.

Beyond myths and superstitions about mists and ancient, secret power, Avalon draws femmes from around the world, even places its queen has never heard of. Some are sent, others are called. Femmes train in groups of 5–7 with a leader before they are sent back out into the world.

This larp is for femmes wishing to explore their own potential, spirituality, identity, and empowerment in a private digital environment focused on emotional safety. Participants must be 18 years of age or older to play.

Players may assume the role of Queen Guinevere or the Lady of the Lake if desired, and the GM will take another character.

The island of Saurendipity is full of dinosaurs. Will you escape, or do you prefer to remain among the dinos in the wild?

Complete your objective in this digital live action role playing game run over Zoom for your group. Portray a rich host, a dinosaur trainer, a famous musician, and more (characters are pre-written). You may set this larp in any decade!

Fixing Fairy Tales is a Collaborative Online Storytelling Experience

Fairy tales need fixing. But when these surprisingly connected characters help themselves and each other during a summit in a nearby enchanted fae forest, will they fix the larger problems we all face in La Voilette? Join the live action story.

There is an insidious force in society that we often choose to ignore instead of name. It’s been called many things, but it’s often symbolized by the absence of a need: access to food or medicine, or a devastating climate and a need for a stable home. 

Content warning: poverty, ugliness of society, self-harm, bullying, exclusion due to gender and/or sexuality, reference to abuse and escaping or avoiding abusive situations, colonization [as a force portrayed as wrong], patriarchy and patriarchal trauma

Can You Cure Corruption in La Voilette?

While King Francois of La Voilette pursues expansion of his kingdom at the expense of people across rivers and seas, his designs both influence and reflect what is creeping and wrong among La Voilette and its denizens. The Spinning Crones warned King Francois about it: so great grows this ill that it will manifest and seep into objects lost and found. Crowns, necklaces, mirrors, coins distributed widely among the people, and other symbols of status or excess. Then, it will infect even the most mundane but meaningful objects.\

The Little Match Girl has no home, nor a warm place to sleep in La Voilette. She knows there’s a comforting vision she isn’t seeing. Her society tells her about it all the time, and being always on the streets selling matches, she hears it every day: if you think positively and work hard enough, you can envision what you need and attain it. This could lead to any end, but she realizes, as the cold takes sensation from her fingertips, that her cold hands had dropped the matches she was carrying hours ago.

A mile away in La Voilette, a farm hand on an errand picks up matches he finds on the ground. It is one of the few found treasures he can give to a suffering child known as the Ugly Duckling. He brings them back and finds the Ugly Duckling near a pond by a stable, observing swans take flight.

The Ugly Duckling accepts the matches. Later that evening, they wave their hand over a match, eyes empty, match after match. It doesn’t hurt, but it should. No one sees the beauty of the child they called “The Ugly Duckling.” They know there are some secrets–secrets about their lineage and their place in the world. They access the castle library, reading books about religion, spirituality, and self-improvement. And yet, their reflection does not change.

At long last, the Ugly Duckling sees shades of themself in the sitting monarch, and they decide to hold up their treasured mirror to the people below so they can see who is really ugly, but the mirror is gone.

King Francois of La Voilette, however, has stolen the mirror, and he hangs it up on his wall, addressing it and imbuing it with magic he stole from his wife’s dying wishes. “Mirror, mirror, on the wall…” To his dismay, there are two people of envy, and they must be dealt with to ensure everyone likes him the most and follows his vision for an expansive empire. One, he finds, is his own unrecognized child, the unnamed Ugly Duckling; the other, he sees, is a youthful but strange young man–Talion, Sleeping Beauty. 

Everyone makes fun of Talion for being different. He calls himself and other boys pretty. He doesn’t like parties. Though he sometimes participates in sport and enjoys riding the workhorse in the nearby meadow, Talion most prefers spending his time with the Spinning Crones, and has mastered the art of spinning intent into yarn.

One day, he pricks his finger on the spindle and falls into a deep sleep. His fae folk friends bring a beautiful princess to wake him with a kiss, and yet, he slumbers. Where is the man who will both desire to kiss him–and find a way to win his permission before doing so? 

The fae folk quest to obtain a beautiful, fresh rose. It is undying. The fae folk place the rose next to Talion’s bed while he sleeps, hoping the energy of the rose will inspire and awaken him. 

Elsewhere, a woman named Beauty dreams of this same blooming flower. Beauty must embark on a quest to find this rose herself, lest she go through a fated trial of abuse and imprisonment at the hands of a Beast in exchange for her father’s life. Should Beast get the flower first, she will remain unfree, even in spirit. Should Beauty succeed, she will be free, and while she never wishes to see Beast, perhaps he can find another way to express himself besides heaping his own pain onto others. 

Will the movement and restoration of these shared objects make things right for the people who need help most, or must these individuals also create lasting change in the monarchy of La Voilette–and if so, how? When the fae folk ask these characters to meet at a summit in their forest, what will happen?

Game Designer and Writer Note Regarding Euro-Centricity and Game Inspiration

Because this collaborative story setting is largely an examination of Western society and facets of oppression it perpetuates, I have focused on, mixed, and varied fairy tales from Europe. My vision is through the lens of my own identity (disabled cis white heterosexual Irish-American woman), as well as the fairy-tale related media I have absorbed throughout my life (Disney, Once Upon a Time, various analog and digital games). This is about exploring and examining oppressive undercurrents in an oppressive society, and the myth that personal achievement, regardless of who you are, will create success for you in a place like the United States.

The initial exclusion of fairy tales originating from outside of Europe is intentional; this experience is intended to examine and potentially dismantle oppressive systems within/versus the offending and dominant culture of origin. Should you wish to play a character originating from another culture, you are more than welcome to do so. I do not feel comfortable dismantling, displacing, or appropriating global tales for critique, but characters from these tales are especially welcome to exist in La Voilette and dismantle oppressive systems. 

This game is inspired by Mixed Up Mother Goose, a Sierra On-Line DOS game about fixing stories by returning people and items to their rightful places, and the various settings published and developed for feminine horror role playing game Bluebeard’s Bride, including my own original settings.

Practical Details

This collaborative storytelling experience will occur on Zoom in a facilitated format. Your facilitator will portray Titania, your fae host who has domain over the forest. Under her enchantment, no one can harm you here. This is a freeform guided storytelling adventure in which your decisions shape the outcome of your individual character’s story and your collective story: realistic, tragic, fantastical, freeing, or flawed.

Character Choice

You may choose a character from any known fairy tale. Please see the designer’s note before committing to this story. You will receive a custom character with a one-page character sheet and ties based upon a character survey you will fill out.

You may choose to interact with other specific players. You will be given the option for preferred character ties with another player.

The first run of this story will impact the second run, as the entire story of Fixing Fairy Tales takes place in La Voilette.

When to Play Fixing Fairy Tales

Reference

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