Literature Live is a monthly LARP/interactive book club where you join a cast of characters for live action role play, hosted in partnership with NZLARPS. Costumes encouraged! 

This month's game: The Bell

You wake up with your memories fracturing around you. You're going somewhere, and there's something wrong, and you know these people are here with you, or maybe you only think they are. All you really know for sure is that you can hear this Bell.

This is a science fiction suspense live roleplaying game inspired by The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky), Five-Twelfths of Heaven (Melissa Scott), Vacuum Flowers (Michael Swanwick) and the works of Cordwainer Smith. The Bell is intended to be an emotionally intense game that pushes moral dilemmas. (It isn’t recommended for novice roleplayers.)

The premise of The Bell is that the players are the crew and passengers of a space ship called The Soul which is travelling to a planet called Castilia and experiencing technical problems. People are normally put to sleep for the journey, with the crew waking for short periods from time to time to make repairs that the ship cannot handle by itself. In this case, the ship is damaged with problems with critical systems. The players wake as amnesiacs with only partial memories about who they are and why they are there.

Theme: Memory and Identity, Sci-Fi Mystery, Suspense, Unknown Reality, Isolation and Moral Dilemmas

Location: Tūranga, Ngā Purapura / Activity Room, Hapori | Community, Level 1

Ages: 16 years +

Free