I did a LARP

I did a LARP! I was invited by lovely friend and international games narrative mainstay Books Schwartz to be part of a one-shot LARP, in the style of Wayfinder Adventures (a youth camp LARP experience on the east coast). All three of the coordinators for this LARP (including Books) were former instructors at Wayfinder, and I believe it's how most of them met. About 50 people participated, which was a lot of nerds to be running around in Griffith Park! The LARP we did was certainly in the play style of the youth camp as I understand, with similar 'mechanics', but the material was naturally skewed for an older audience. While the lore and story was completely bespoke for this LARP, I would say it landed firmly in the sort of 'urban fantasy' fiction space akin to World of Darkness — plenty of various supernatural forces (lycanthropes, fae, vampires, wizards, etc) contending with 'mortal' forces (shadowy agencies, hunters) and Unspeakable Powers (gods, demons, etc). It was luckily a very…