Trashy Daytime Soap Opera LARP (in development)

[quote=“Steve Shipway”]I like the idea of occasional climactic music as a signal that you have 1 minute/30sec/whatever to end in a cliffhanger, followed by a 5-min ‘advert break’ during which you can move to a new location, change costume, plan OOC with other players, etc. Although every 10mins is too frequently, how about every 30mins or hourly (like a normal soap length in fact)

Various rooms is a good idea, although one big room with different corners (with appropriate scenery) would probably work better as we’d all know what was going on everywhere else.[/quote]

Change of costume? Pah. You haven’t watched enough Days of Our Lives (in which New Year’s Eve 1999 took, I believe, THREE WEEKS of daily hour-long episodes).
In the current plotline one evening’s conversation between Marlena and John has taking a week, and they’re still saying the same thing.

so true. i used to only catch an episode every holidays- and it would be like you hadn’t missed anything. people repeat things over and over again- to everyone. i think thats a key acting tip. whenever yiou meet someone, tell them the exact same story you told everyone else already. you can never repeat yourself too much in a soap.

We could have some fun with that:

“Hi, could you tell me-”
“Yes! Behold my WOE! I am the daughter of a policeman being held captive by the Belgian mafia for the crimes his identical twin brother committed. If only I could be by his side, but alas, my psychic baby daughter tells me she forsees great trouble if I do. My husband is trying to sell our daughter to the local priest for exorcism but I know that the priest is actually my mother’s long lost nephew’s uncle, looking to steal the family estate. And in the midst of this, my true love is can never be revealed, except when I think I’m alone and I talk to myself!”
"-tell me where the bathroom is?"

That’s it, you’re SO getting a character with a tragic past.

This sounds like immense amounts of fun for everyone involved! Another important plot device they always use are ghosts. Douse anyone in baby powder, and instantly they are the ghost of their former character

Has anyone mentioned the Unknown Relative shtick yet?

You know, where two of the characters are related and don’t know it. Alternatively, one of the characters does know it and gets a chance for a big reveal when the other has a Rare Blood Type and Urgently Needs a Transplant Or He Will Die.

That shtick.

Has this died?

Because, if it has, I might be able tohelp reanimate it. I had a think as I was falling asleep for the last few days, and I have a framework that seems workable for a game based on this. It uses a set of 10 half-predefined characters (IE, key points defined, but you can fill in extra stuff) and four locations in corners of a single room, with only one ‘active’ . I can write up stuff but have no time to run a game. It would also need a fair amount of props for the four sets, so maybe run in someone’s house or similar. Anyone still interested?

Steve

He has brain clusters!

I would like to play this but unfortunately, after winning $245,000 in Lotto, my wife ran of with the money and my best friend. That would be okay, except now the IRD want me to pay tax on the money so I’m spending a lot of time in court. I should be fine though, because my lawyer is sleeping with the judge.

Should all be sorted by next week…