Elmwood Chronicles – The last summer
14.05.26
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17.05.26
A larp about drama, happy summer romance, passions, conflicts, inequality and hopes, inspired by drama series like “Downton Abbey” and “Upstairs, Downstairs”. The story is set in an English manor house right before the start of World War I. As upstairs characters you are enjoying your time in diverse social activities. You stroll in the gardens with your flirt, enjoy a lavish dinner with your family or a game of cards with a friend. While you are trying to find a way to solve your financial issues or avoid a scandal, you are heavily relying on the assistance of your true servants. As a servant you have a possibility to play in a house with conditions remarkably close to those of 1910. However, your work is almost always about people and relationships and should add to your play rather than take away from it. This means physical tasks are never performed alone. The family and guests require lots of personal wardrobe assistance giving you a chance to talk and gossip. We will have some off-game staff and catering, so playing a maid doesn’t mean cooking meals, but rather having the possibility of boiling a tea kettle on the wood stove and preparing platters of cookies for the afternoon tea. Playing a servant will give you the possibility to spread gossip and influence the story. You will tend to the members of the family and guests, performing tasks and chores that are meaningful to you and add to your play. The event will take place in the manor house Gutshaus Belitz. The house was used as a filming location for the German reality serie “Abenteuer 1900 – Leben im Gutshaus” and was set back to perfectly fit the 1910s conditions. Although Gutshaus Belitz looks and feels like a manor house from the 1910s, there are some modern amenities at the location. There are electricity outlets (but not in most bedrooms), showers and toilets. The player accommodation will be according to the status of their character, with upstairs character players staying in more luxurious upstairs rooms, whereas most players of the downstairs characters will stay downstairs in smaller and less comfortable bedrooms.
East Wyrwood Shire, late July. Perhaps the most beautiful time of the year for lavish parties and happiness in love. At the Elmwood Estate of the Wentworth family, the widowed Cecil Wentworth celebrates his engagement to the love of his youth, the also widowed Gladys Jennings. A weekend full of dancing and joie de vivre is about to begin.
But while the family, guests and house staff prepare for the joyous celebration, a Shadow is gathering over the country – the impending outbreak of the Great War. The year is 1914 and this is the last summer of an era that people will soon only remember as a fading dream.
Orga: Larplabor
Plot
Fights
Riddles
Magic
Comfort
Basic Information
Setting: 1910s/WW1
Rule System: DKWDDK
Minimum Age: 18
