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Thursday, October 18, 2012

Sign up for Jeepform Day at MIT now!

I've been remiss in posting this one, doubly so because I'm tangentially involved with it. My apologies for the short notice. The deadline to sign up for this is tomorrow, Friday, October 19 at 11:59pm, and it's open to the wider LARP community.

From Matt "Halftime" Peairs via e-mail:

tl;dr: Go here <https://secure.journeysurveys.com/answer/426> to sign up for a day of weird and wonderful LARPs!

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Welcome to Jeepform Day at MIT!

Jeepform Day is a day-long event that will take place on Sunday, October
28. We'll be offering a number of LARPs by the Scandinavian LARPing
group Vi åker jeep (literally, "We go by Jeep"), as well as a couple
that were inspired by the Jeep style. How many games we run, and which
ones, will depend entirely on demand. This event is being organized by
Laura "Laura47" Boylan and Matt "Halftime" Peairs. The casting survey
can be found at https://secure.journeysurveys.com/answer/426.

*This app is due at 11:59pm on Friday, October 19.*

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Jeepform is a Nordic LARP style that encourages deep roleplaying and
collaborative storytelling. Jeepform games tend to follow a
predetermined structure and typically explore a particular real-world
theme or experience. They are often written to encourage player-level
catharsis, or to let emotions "bleed" from character to player or vice
versa. Many of the usual conventions from theatre-style LARPing do not
hold here. A character may have multiple players and a player may have
multiple characters. Gamespace is generally limited to a single room,
and people tend to keep few secrets from each other--on a player level,
at least. A player may play the same game multiple times, perhaps even
in the same role. It's pretty different. But we think you'll enjoy it.

For more about Jeepform, we suggest you start here
<http://jeepen.org/dict/>.

For a detailed list of the games we're offering, go here
<http://web.mit.edu/peairs/Public/jeep_games.html>.

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