[LARP] A "Nothing can go wrong, go wrong, go wrong" idea

[roseembolism]

Seriously, the scariest idea for a LARP  I've ever heard of  was just casually mentioned by a person on a rpg list, as a three-day long game in planning.

"Call of Cthulhu combined with the Stanford Prison Experiment." 

Is it just me?  Or is anyone else reacting to combining those two terms with images of big flashing red alarm lights?

Comments

[devonapple.livejournal.com]

That'll be an absolute hoot. Come on. The Stanford Experiment lasted six days -- this would only be six hours! Nothing could go wrong.

Where is this going to be again? I need to get some mirrored shades.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

"Because of death. Because all you of Earth are idiots!"

[mithriltabby]

Making it long enough for the psychological effects to set in would be considerably dull compared to a regular LARP. Now, you could have the LARP take place along with games that the prisoners and guards play to while away the time spent in prison, and have some fun with the resonances between them...

[britgeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

I know of a Cthulhu Live! group that were contemplating something like this, a few years ago - but it was based off the CIA experiments with psychoactive drugs on unwitting subjects. There was much discussion about how to hide projectors and speakers and such in order to simulate hallucinations for the players, without clueing them in ahead of time, and if it would be safe to do a 48-hour always-game-on event, in which one group of players completely controlled the environment of the other, etc.

I don't know if the game ever happened, but I almost hope it *didn't* as it did sound a bit... much...

BUSTED. MISTER.

[racerxmachina.livejournal.com]

Leave me out of it. Like, way, way, out of it. Like, don't use our home's electricity to power your computer to write it. Like, if it gets put on at a con I attend, I would sooner smoke a yard of BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP, upside down, covered in chili oil, while Team Volare BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPs BEEEEEEEEEEEEEP on rollerskates, meanwhile a clown car full of BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP BEEEEEEEEEPs the BEEEEEEEEEEEEEP, setting the room on fire and activating the sprinkler extinguishers for the whole hotel, but BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP won't matter because I'll be in the hospital for a severe case of BEEEEEEEEEEEEEP and won't be around to be a witness when the cops break your LARP up.