In July 2027, the larps that were the foundational stones of Atropos back in the day and took us onto the international stage, are making a return.
We are organizing Do Androids Dream, When Androids Pray and Where Androids Die as a trilogy, connected together and played in the same (but changing) set. It will be four days of larping with a day in between the first two and the last.
For many of those who know us today, they don’t know what the trilogy is about, so let us tell you.
It is inspired by Blade Runner and the future as imagined in the 80s, it is about humanity and what makes life worth fighting for. It is about hope in the darkness, about clinging to meaning even when you are nothing but a machine in the eyes of the world.
Androids in this world are not actually machines. They are human beings, their DNA altered to give them a short lifespan but be fully developed and skilled workers from the moment they are born. They are owned and controlled by humans who have built an ‘utopia’ on the backs of their labour. Now, Androids are growing the food, working the jobs and handling all services.
It is a story about how a group of Androids break free from their genetic programming, about how they find something to believe in. How the word spreads about their innate worth and value – and how the Company-run capitalist dystopia cannot tolerate a rebellion amidst it’s world-spanning labour monopoly.
It was run in 2017-2018 as three larps, each one built in two different giant blackboxes where we created a city. A living, breathing city with streets, buildings, underground clubs and a static subway, taking people from one place to another through a function of play.
For all those who believe in what we do today – we invite you to come see what we have learnt since, and to revisit our original projects.
Now, we are calling for a team to make this real. Back then, we relied on volunteers in a way we don’t do much anymore, but for this to become a reality we need it. It’s going to be a crazy project, we will be building the set for weeks, and we hope to make the whole process of creating it together a worthwhile one.
We want YOU to come join us for some intense weeks in June and July, starting around the 20th of June, to work alongside us and earn spots and tickets to the larps along with an experience of creating this together.
