I played TRANSMISSION

TRANSMISSION is an online larp designed and run by Chloe Mashiter. I think there's two tickets left for the current run, both in the late night run on Thursday. It's set during the Great Storm of 1987. You're a group of 30-somethings, all old university friends, all getting back together for a reunion in a country house in Norfolk. Then the power goes out. You're isolated, in the dark, no way to contact anyone else. And then the TV turns itself on. And there's Teletext on the screen. And then things start to get weird... Wait, actually I should explain Teletext. Teletext was like the internet, but on your TV, with really blocky graphics, and you couldn't respond, just read it. Looks something like this: Wow this screenshot looks very creepy now I've just finished playing this game.So, like I say, it's an online larp. It's played over Zoom, although in the fiction you're all in the same room as each other. It's structured in the format I find familiar from chamber larp. It starts with…

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