Sounds like a really bad day at work, right?

You’re perhaps less likely to have heard about LARP; an acronym for ‘live-action role-playing game’.

Rolling, the organisers of 97 Poets of Revachol, is a voluntary organisation based in Terezin, Czechia.

A photograph of two people in costume at a Disco Elysium LARP. Both are sitting cross-legged on the ground, with one holding a cup of coffee while the other strums a guitar wearing a pair of black wings.

The LARP was completely designed around the building.

Disco is renowned for the chorus of skills that talk to the protagonist as part of his internal monologue.

Poets has its own LARP take on this: The Unseen.

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I ended up with one of my top picks, Marie Pelletier, a Moraltintern Special Operative.

From the moment I put it on, other people treated me with a strained deference.

The LARP is structured with roughly a day of workshops and then two days of play.

A person sits on the floor of a hospital with an indoor tree inside it at a Disco Elysium LARP.

There was always something to do, and the experience was pretty all-consuming.

However, as Rolling says, “we must imagine Disco alive.

It is only dead if you let it die.”

A group of costumed performers at a Disco Elysium LARP.

A woman spray-paints a graffiti wall at a Disco Elysium LARP.

Two costumed performers at a Disco Elysium LARP. One is holding a replica gun with an orange bandana across his face. The other is holding a taxidermy on a wooden board.

A man and a woman dance and raise their arms at a Disco Elysium LARP.

A bird holds a sign in its feet that says “The End is near!” at  a Disco Elysium LARP.

A man holds an electronic device to their ear during a Disco Elysium LARP.