How to Play This LARP

1. How to Play This LARP

2. Rules • The Mustache Rule • Cards • Abilities

3. The Mustache Rule (The Most Important Rule in the Game) • Anyone wearing a fake mustache, or wearing a name badge reading “Aleksander Dravo” is one of Dravo’s lookalikes, and looks exactly like him. • Your characters cannot tell these lookalikes apart, though you can. Do your best to ignore this OOC knowledge.

4. Playing CardsEveryone starts with four playing cards • If two players are in a conflict, they agree on what the outcome of the conflict will be. • Each choose one of the cards from their hand to play. Higher card wins the conflict. Players then give their opponent the card that they played. Aces are low. • If both players agree the conflict is a violent one, the loser chooses and discards a card from their hand as damage.

5. Abilities • “Interrogation” can be used to extract thoughts and memories from a subject. See the Interrogation presentation in the Interrogation chamber. • “Science” can be used to get from a GM new information about a specimen, if you take a sample to the Laboratory.

6. Background • Aleksander Dravo • Bavo Pasketti • Political Issues

7. Aleksander DravoThe Great Leader of Our Glorious Republic • Led the Glorious Revolution against the corrupt ruling class • Dravo’s power has become absolute • Dravo is scheduled to give a speech in a few hours presenting current Party beliefs on a number of political topics. • Dravo was recently found dead, in a highly embarassing manner.

8. Bavo Pasketti • Bavo Pasketti is a fictional resistance leader that is used in propaganda films. • Anything bad in the country if blamed on Pasketti. • Many government programs are undertaken in the name of catching and eliminating Pasketti.

9. Political Issues • Political Prisoner Wiktor Kosko • Collectivization of Farms • Science Restricted • Fiction and Acting Illegal • Love and Romance Illegal

10. Wiktor Kosko • A political theorist who aided Dravo’s rise to Power • Became critical of Dravo’s leadership after the Revolution • Now a political prisoner • Many want to see him freed

11. Collectivization of Farms • The Government is seizing control of family owned farms to centralize agriculture • Farm workers are going jobless • Food shortages throughout the country due to lesser production • But high level Party officials are making lots of money off the program

12. Science Restricted • Scientific pursuits are not allowed to produce findings that contradict party beliefs • Scientists oppose this, obviously • Some scientists have been “unmade” or executed for their studies

13. Fiction and Acting Illegal • Outside of official propaganda, any works of fiction are illegal • “Fiction may mislead or delude the working classes” • Some think fiction could be used to support the Party’s beliefs • Others want total freedom of speech, but even suggesting this is treason

14. Love, Sex and Romance Illegal • Love, romance and sex are outlawed. • All reproduction is to be carried out via artificial insemination. • Many wish to repeal this law, but Party superiors enjoy the control it gives them over society. • Many, many have illegal affairs behind the scenes. This means that the Party has blackmail material on nearly anyone.

15. LocationsFinding your way around the Ministry HQ • Basement Newsreel Filming Studio • Kitchen Kitchen and Mess Hall • Dining Room Assembly Hall • Living Room Main Offices • Main Bedroom Sleeping Quarters • Guest Bedroom Interrogation Chamber • Nursery Scientific Laboratory

16. Concluson • Any Further Questions? • The game begins with Renata reviewing the lookalikes and comparing them to a video of Aleksander Dravo’s last speech