Photographer Karel Křemel

4th Prague Larpweekend

The setting of Moon is very similar to the Firefly series – a space western. Mankind has already left Earth and now they colonize other planets, often terraformed, they live as farmers with packs of cows. Sometimes there are some adventures with their energetic guns in their hands. The space is controlled by the Alliance and opposite the Independents. Moon, where this larp is taking place, stands somewhere between these two forces and it has its own worries and problems. The players' characters are more or less friends with the local governor and they meet in his office, where they are trying to solve both their personal and colony's problems. I liked this game very much and I'm hoping that I'll play it someday.

There was another game that took plase simultaneously with Moon: Šotčín (Imptown). This larp is more of a comedy, the whole game is meeting of the town council of these silly little creatures. During this meeting they must find the answers to all their problems, for example what to put on the official menu. And what else could we expect from political parties called for example the Party of Independent Cleptomanias, the Public Scientists or the Fighters for Goulash with Bread.

The Disreputable Company would be best described as a detective indoor larp. Every player in this game is member of some Philadelphia city gang. This gang has been in trouble for some time, problems with money, police, management and now they have a rat in their midst. One of the problems this rat caused was a total fiasco of a money transport ambush, the gang even lost one member there. One of the gang members lent his home to today's meeting, where the gang must decide what to do.

The last larp I photographed was School. To be accurate, it was about two classes of the fifth year on the elementary school. This means the time of first love, first cigarettes and class rivalry. Nice and mean teachers, Math, Czech, PE – you run into all of this. There are no dull pupils there, every one of them is a little extreme, someone with his impudence, someone with dreaminess or sycophantly. All in all, it was a lot of fun for the players, farther they were from this age, the more fun it was.

Other years: 3rd Prague LARP weekend