Speak Through Me

The realization came to you in bits and pieces.  You lost a few minutes here, an hour there.  Framed pictures moved from one room of the house to the other.  You found fragmented, scrawled notes you don’t remember writing.  Your friends reported that you were acting strange, but you don’t remember seeing them at all.  Slowly, you’ve figured it out: you’re being possessed by someone or something.  You can’t talk to it directly, but someone has come to help you communicate.  It’s time to figure out what it wants. 

Speak Through Me is a two-hour freeform LARP about mediated spirit possession.  It explores power imbalances and hierarchies, communication, and the act of (mis/re)interpretation.  One player plays The Medium and The Spirit who has possessed them, while the other plays The Mediator who has come to interpret the utterances of The Spirit.  The Medium, Spirit, and Mediator must work together to solve the problem and reach a satisfying conclusion for all parties.

Submitted to Golden Cobra 2021.