thread: 2009-06-17 : Secrets
On 2009-06-17, Emily wrote:
Secrets as plans: that is so smart! The secrets are follow-ups to foreshadowing. Good, and tricky to pull off.
I played in a fantastic larp, in which everyone had 2 identities: a public, normal name that was on our name tag and a secret one which corresponded to one of the characters from Through the Looking Glass or Alice in Wonderland.
We knew a lot of things about the other Wonderland characters, but each of us only knew the normal name of just a couple others. That, along with excellent conflicts and resources to back them up, made for four fascinating hours of intrigue.
Looking at it this way, we were desperate to know what each other's plans were, knowing mattered, and the final reveal was dramatic and climactic because we had not known.
