TomasHVM
Swordsman
A game in the park
For this game you need 4-6 players, sunglasses, a nice park to play in, and sunshine. The game may take 10-20 minutes.
One player is the stranger.
The others are a group of friends.
The friends must find some nice and normal names for themselves before the game start. You will all wear sunglasses, throughout the whole game! Try to be social and kind under your chosen name. You have been friends since childhood, and know eachother intimately. If any player say something about your past, then it is true. He/she will know, so trust them. You start the game by reminiscencing about your past, building characters as you go. Have fun making up relationships and mutual memories!
The stranger will use his/her real name, and try to be him/herself in the game (maybe a special version, but do not invent things about yourself). You have no sunglasses! You will sit down close to the friends, but not together with them. Move closer during the first phase of the game, to come within listening distance of the friends. If you hear something interesting, you may go over and talk to them. When you do, a conflict will ensue. Your goal is to make friends with some or all of them, so be nice and positive. And be persistent! You need friends!
The conflict
Conflict will surface when the stranger impose him/herself on the nice outing of the friends. The goal of the friends are to make this stranger go away, or to be quiet, so they can continue reminiscencing. And they will be quite rude about it. No violence is allowed, of course, but you may poke the stranger in any verbal way you will. And you may be both loud and licentious!
The end
The end come in one of two ways:
- The stranger may end it by starting to cry (real tears, nothing less). Then the game ends immidiately. The stranger may also end the game by walking off. If the stranger walk off the game ends the very second he/she steps out of the park. Either way: the game ends with the friends as winners!
- A friend may end the game by removing his/her sunglasses, and giving the stranger his/her name (the invented one). If this occur the friend may invite the stranger to sit down with the group, or leave the group and sit down with the stranger another place in the park. Either way: the game ends with the stranger as the sole winner.
The hug
This is only a game, but the stranger may still feel a bit sore afterwards, so each and every player is responsible for giving him/her a nice, long hug after the game. The hug is mandatory!
Go game!
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This game was brought to you by the Norwegian gamesmith Tomas HV Mørkrid. It is posted here for you to peruse and play. Any comments will be welcome! Actual play reports even more so!
If you have any thoughts about how this may be published and sold in Sweden, please tell. Or if you think it inconceivable that games such as this may be bought by Swedes, please tell me.
Thanks for reading!
For this game you need 4-6 players, sunglasses, a nice park to play in, and sunshine. The game may take 10-20 minutes.
One player is the stranger.
The others are a group of friends.
The friends must find some nice and normal names for themselves before the game start. You will all wear sunglasses, throughout the whole game! Try to be social and kind under your chosen name. You have been friends since childhood, and know eachother intimately. If any player say something about your past, then it is true. He/she will know, so trust them. You start the game by reminiscencing about your past, building characters as you go. Have fun making up relationships and mutual memories!
The stranger will use his/her real name, and try to be him/herself in the game (maybe a special version, but do not invent things about yourself). You have no sunglasses! You will sit down close to the friends, but not together with them. Move closer during the first phase of the game, to come within listening distance of the friends. If you hear something interesting, you may go over and talk to them. When you do, a conflict will ensue. Your goal is to make friends with some or all of them, so be nice and positive. And be persistent! You need friends!
The conflict
Conflict will surface when the stranger impose him/herself on the nice outing of the friends. The goal of the friends are to make this stranger go away, or to be quiet, so they can continue reminiscencing. And they will be quite rude about it. No violence is allowed, of course, but you may poke the stranger in any verbal way you will. And you may be both loud and licentious!
The end
The end come in one of two ways:
- The stranger may end it by starting to cry (real tears, nothing less). Then the game ends immidiately. The stranger may also end the game by walking off. If the stranger walk off the game ends the very second he/she steps out of the park. Either way: the game ends with the friends as winners!
- A friend may end the game by removing his/her sunglasses, and giving the stranger his/her name (the invented one). If this occur the friend may invite the stranger to sit down with the group, or leave the group and sit down with the stranger another place in the park. Either way: the game ends with the stranger as the sole winner.
The hug
This is only a game, but the stranger may still feel a bit sore afterwards, so each and every player is responsible for giving him/her a nice, long hug after the game. The hug is mandatory!
Go game!
___________________________________
This game was brought to you by the Norwegian gamesmith Tomas HV Mørkrid. It is posted here for you to peruse and play. Any comments will be welcome! Actual play reports even more so!
If you have any thoughts about how this may be published and sold in Sweden, please tell. Or if you think it inconceivable that games such as this may be bought by Swedes, please tell me.
Thanks for reading!